Participants display their works during a calligraphy contest to celebrate the new year in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)

Residents and rescuers look at destroyed shanty houses after a landslide in a mining area in Pantukan town in Compostela Valley on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. (Reuters)

Orphans from Malawi, whose parents died of AIDS, perform a Buddhist dance called the Guanyin of Thousand Hands during a cultural exchange program in Hong Kong. (Reuters)

Hana Abbas Lazim, 11, grieves at the hospital for her slain father, who was killed in a bomb attack in Sadr City eastern of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)

A Guarani Indian child looks on as Indians are evicted by police from the Plaza Uruguay square in Asuncion, Paraguay. Asuncion

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez kisses the hand of Miss World 2011 Ivian Sarcos of Venezuela after their meeting at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, January 4, 2012. (Reuters)

Smoke and ash billows from Mount Etna by the Sicilian town of Zafferana, near Catania. The eruption of the Mount Etna volcano lasted a few hours and was the first in 2012. (AP)

Toyota's driver Giniel De Villiers, from South Africa, and co-driver Dirk Von Zitzewitz, from Germany, try to push their car after it went off the road during the fifth stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Chilecito and Fiambala in Argentina. (AP)