January 5, 2023

Pope Francis leads a funeral mass of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Members of the church attend the funeral mass for late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Benedict died at 95 on Dec. 31 in the monastery on the Vatican grounds where he had spent nearly all of his decade in retirement. 

Participants take part in the annual New Year calligraphy contest at Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo, Japan.

A woman transports the coffin containing her dead son, a soldier who was killed in fighting with Russians, in a boat near Staryi-Saltiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Jan. 4, 2023.

Staff members speak next to several body bags at a funeral home, as COVID-19 outbreaks continue in Shanghai, China, Jan. 4, 2023.

Drivers barrel into standing water on Interstate 101 in San Francisco, California, Jan. 4, 2023. A bomb cyclone smashed into California, bringing powerful winds and torrential rain to areas already saturated by consecutive storms.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) passionately addresses other conservative Republican members after a fourth round of voting still failed to elect House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy as new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 4, 2023.

People skiing on a slope in Filzmoos south of Salzburg, Austria.

People slide down in an ice slide at the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, during the opening ceremony of the 39th Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival.

Locals attend to Chinese Lantern Festival in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 4, 2023.