Week in Pictures
The Week in Pictures: Jan. 23 - 30
A piece of the border wall falls, a surfer in front of Mount Fuji, a new hospital to treat coronavirus patients and more.
Firefighters work at the scene of the helicopter crash where Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 26, 2020.
The other people who died in the crash were Ara Zobayan, 49, the pilot; Christina Mauser, 38, an assistant basketball coach at Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy; John Altobelli, 56, the head baseball coach at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California; his wife, Keri Altobelli, 46; their daughter Alyssa Altobelli, 13; Payton Chester, 13, who played on the academy's basketball teams; and her mother, Sarah Chester, 45.
Commuters with protective face masks wait to board a canal boat at Pratunam Pier in Bangkok on Jan. 30.
The outbreak of the new coronavirus was declared a global public health emergency on Thursday by the World Health Organization.
A construction crew works on a fallen section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall that landed on trees on the Mexican side of the border in Mexicali, on Jan. 29. The newly installed panels fell over in high winds from Calexico, California, on Wednesday.
A girl tries to chase away locusts from her family's farm in Katitika village, Kenya, on Jan. 24.
Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region.
President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Jan. 27.
The White House released its long-promised Middle East peace plan Tuesday that, if implemented, would create a conditional path to statehood for Palestinians while recognizing Israeli sovereignty over a significant portion of the West Bank.
Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift masks while waiting to check into a flight at Capital Airport in Beijing on Jan. 30.
Nearly 99 percent of the 7,874 coronavirus diagnoses have been limited to China. As of Wednesday, the virus had sickened more than 7,700 people and killed 170.
A man walks past a mural by artists Muck Rock and Mr79lts of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna in Los Angeles on Jan. 27.