Jan. 16, 2013. A smog-shrouded view of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Pollution levels reached 20 times the international standard and settled over Beijing for days.
Jan. 15, 2013. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, introduces “graph search” at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The new service lets users search their social connections in far more detail than before.
Jan. 17, 2013. Soldiers from Togo arrive at Bamako-Sénou International Airport in Mali. They were brought to help French and Malian government forces fight jihadist insurgents in control of the north of the country.
Jan. 15, 2013. Hindu devotees bathe in the holy river waters during the Maha Kumbh Mela, which was expected to be the largest human gathering in history.
Jan. 17, 2013. People wade through a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, where 11 people have died as a result of flooding.
Jan. 17, 2013. A line of 787 jets parked nose-to-tail at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. Federal officials grounded Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners until the risk of possible battery fires is addressed.