PICTURES

TransAsia Airways GE235 with 58 passengers and crew crashed shortly after take-off in Taipei.

Two solid days of heavy snow have been too much for even the ski resorts in the Pyrenees.

The US government has taken a tentative step towards allowing commercial development of the moon.

A table-topped mountain that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is attracting tourists.

The second major snow storm in less than a week pummels Chicago, Detroit and Boston.

Hindus celebrate Thaipusam, a religious celebration dedicated to Lord Murugan, the god of war.

Shell strikes third floor apartment in nine-storey building in Yenakieve.

Revellers preparing to mark the first full day of the Venice Carnival awoke to a flooded city.

Thomas and Vincent Seris with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) must avoid UV light.

Bodies of alleged Islamic State fighters lie in the rubble of destroyed town Kobani.

About 75 inmates have been killed since 2013, including three who were brutally beheaded.

Thick ice coats the beards of competitors during a speed skating event on a frozen lake in Austria.

Thai civilians track down human traffickers on one of Asia's busiest smuggling routes.

Looking for a cool wedding venue? They don't come much cooler than a church made of ice.

Beautiful photos of people and animals in the snow in Belfast.

Civilians in many parts of Syria live under the constant fear of government sniper fire.

Getty Images photographer John Moore returns to Liberia as life begins to get back to normal.

Two Israeli soldiers are killed in a Hezbollah strike on an army convoy near the Lebanese border.

Photos of Kobani show entire blocks levelled after Kurdish fighters liberated the town from Isis.

UN aid agency says a lack of funding has forced it to suspend payments to Palestinians for repairs.

A powerful blizzard struck Boston and New England, but spared New York City residents.

Syrian and Turkish Kurds flock to the streets to celebrate liberation of Kobani from IS militants.

Lone individuals made their way across quiet city streets in the aftermath of 'Snowpocalypse'.

Auschwitz survivors revisit the Nazi death camp to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Swans spend winter at a lake that never freezes over, in Russia's Altai region.

Unmarried Hindu women in Nepal are fasting for a month in the hope they will find a good husband.

Hundreds of women carry heavy bales of goods between the Spanish enclave of Melilla and Morocco.

January 27 will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Yadegar Asisi's circular image 100m wide and 30m high of Dresden after the Allied air raids