TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: Jan. 9 – Jan. 16, 2015

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Jan. 11, 2015. A Syrian man carries wood for a fire in the rebel-held city of Douma. Syria’s recent stretch of icy weather has taken a toll on people living in cities like rebel-held Douma, but but it has also stymied violence.





Jan. 11, 2015. More than 1.5 million people take part in a march to support freedom of expression and protest against terrorism in the French capital after terror attacks that left 17 people dead.





Jan. 12, 2015. The Ohio State Buckeyes football team squares off against the Ohio State University Marching Band, pre-game, National Championship game at the Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX.





Jan. 12, 2015. Nissan prepares to introduce the new Titan pickup truck at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Mich.





Jan. 13, 2015. Mourners gather for the burial ceremony in Jerusalem for the four victims who were killed by terrorists in a Paris kosher grocery store siege.





Jan. 14, 2015. President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. after a day trip to Cedar Falls, Iowa to deliver a speech on increasing access to affordable high-speed broadband.





Jan. 12, 2015. A worker stacks bricks on his head at a brick factory in Lalitpur, Nepal.





Jan. 11, 2015. The Ara Yevi samba school performs on a float showcasing Pope Francis during carnival in Gualeguaychu, Argentina.





Jan. 12, 2015. Musicians play during a ceremony to remember those killed and buried in the mass grave in Titanyen, Haiti, during a service for the 5-year anniversary of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed 316,000 people.





Jan. 12, 2015. Roger Federer of Switzerland plays tennis with Lleyton Hewitt of Australia between speedboats on Sydney Harbour ahead of their Fast 4 Exhibition match in Sydney.

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Jan. 12, 2015. An Iraqi Shi'ite fighter fires his weapon during fighting with Islamic State militants at Al-Nibai, north of Baghdad.





Jan. 12, 2015. Indonesian officers move the flight data recorder of the AirAsia flight QZ8501 that went down with 162 passengers into a suitable protective transportation case in the town of Pangkalan Bun in Indonesia after it was retrieved from the Java Sea.





Jan. 15, 2015. Newly-released Afghan prisoners leave a prison in Jalalabad. Over thirty prisoners, including seven women, were released following a decree issued by President Ashraf Ghani to observe the Prophet Mohammad's birthday.





Jan. 15, 2015. Pallbearers carry the casket of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Bernard Verlhac, known as Tignous, decorated by friends and colleagues of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, at the city hall of Montreuil, outside east of Paris.





Jan. 11, 2015. A man takes his evening bath in a pond at O-Treng village at the outskirt of Phnom Penh.





Jan. 12, 2015. Chinese winter swimming enthusiasts warm up before swimming in the half-frozen Houhai lake with a water temperature around 36 fahrenheit in Beijing.





Jan. 12, 2015. Riders compete during 2015 Dakar Rally stage 8 between Uyuni, Bolivia and Iquique, Chile. The Uyuni salt flat is the largest in the world, located in Bolivia near the crest of the Andes, 12,000 ft. above sea level.





Jan. 11, 2015. A poster for the i24 news channel is seen in Paris as more than 1.5 million people took the streets to march in support freedom of expression and protest against terrorism in the French capital after terror attacks that left 17 people dead.





Jan. 15, 2015. A flock of sheep walk in the haze in a Beijing suburb in China.





Jan. 14, 2015. Tommy Caldwell completing the historic free climb to the top of El Capitan's Dawn Wall, a 3,000-foot sheer granite face in Yosemite National Park, Calif.