A group of young Japanese women in kimonos attends a Coming of Age Day ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, January 11, 2021. /CFP

Locals wear masks while shopping for Spring Festival decorations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 12, 2021. /CFP

Assistant engine driver Oksana Sokolova during locomotive examination practice at the Sverdlovsk-Passazhirsky engine house, Russia, January 13, 2021. /CFP

Nearly a million Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges River on the first day of the Kumbh Mela despite the raging COVID-19 pandemic in India, January 14, 2021. /CFP

U.S. Workers have started building a new 13-mile border wall in the desert between Sunland Park, New Mexico, U.S. and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, January 15, 2021. /CFP

A handout photo made available by the European Space Agency on January 15, 2021, shows a Hubble image of an expanding, gaseous corpse – a supernova remnant known as 1E 0102.2-7219. /CFP

Officials feed pigeons in Guvenpark during weekend-long curfew to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ankara, Turkey, January 16, 2021. /CFP