The most important events of the last week in photos. Stay informed. Indian soldiers stand at a parade on Republic Day in New Delhi. People in traditional Dutch clothes are skating on the frozen canal in the town of Hindeloopen, Netherlands. Indus is in a trance during a pilgrimage to Batu Caves during Thaipusam Hindu Festival in Kuala Lumpur. Women fight with a soldier during a protest outside the building of the National Congress in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The guard takes the wounded man during a riot in a prison "Uribana" in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Balloons flying in the sky at the 35th International Week of aeronautics in Chateau-d'Oex, Switzerland. People are looking for things after surviving a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The ferry sails past drowned the truck that ran over people standing on the dock in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya. Farm workers are trying to catch one of the 15 000 crocodiles that escaped during a flood near Musina, South Africa. Teachers came to protest against austerity measures in Lisbon, Portugal.  View of Los Angeles against the San Gabriel Mountains.
Hindus perform ritual ablutions before the pilgrimage to Batu Caves during Thaipusam Hindu Festival in Kuala Lumpur.