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Our world in photos: January 28

January 28, 2021 Michaela Keil
FRANCE — Vendee Globe: French yachtman Charlie Dalin celebrated with a bottle of champagne after being the first to cross the finish line of the Vendee Globe solo around-the-world sailing race, in Les Sables-d'Olonne on Wednesday. The final winner of the race will be decided Thursday as some rivals were given a time compensation. Photo: Loic Venance/Pool via AP
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GUATEMALA — Reflection: Saidy Aguilon was reflected in the window of a home in Comitancillo on Wednesday. She believes that her husband is one of the charred corpses found in a northern Mexico border state on Saturday. The country’s Foreign Ministry said it was collecting DNA samples from a dozen relatives to see if there was a match with any of the bodies.
Photo: Oliver de Ros/AP

 

COLORADO — Taking a moment: Abou Diol held his head by the family picture of his brother Djibril Diol after a news conference by Denver Police at Denver Police Crime Laboratory in Denver, on Wednesday. Denver police arrested three teenagers on suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with an August arson fire. That overnight house fire on North Truckee Street killed Djibril Diol, his wife, daughter, sister, and niece.
Photo: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP

 

BOLIVIA — Plea: A health worker held a sign that reads in Spanish: “The white aprons, we’re in mourning” during a protest outside Petrolero Obrajes Hospital in La Paz on Wednesday. Health workers wanted Bolivia’s President Luis Arce to declare a quarantine to reduce the contagion of COVID-19 that has sickened doctors and filled hospitals’ intensive care units.
Photo: Juan Karita/AP

 

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BRITAIN — High kick: Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes was airborne as he kicked the ball at goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Sheffield United at Old Trafford in Manchester on Wednesday.
Photo: Tim Keeton/Pool via AP

 

BRITAIN — Detained: A protester was detained by police during a police operation to clear an HS2 protest camp outside Euston station in London on Thursday. Some protesters against a high-speed rail link between London and northern England were evicted from a park in the capital city early Wednesday after they dug tunnels and set up a makeshift camp.
Photo: Alastair Grant/AP

 

POLAND — Protest: People protested against new anti-abortion laws, near the ruling Law and Justice party headquarters in Warsaw on Wednesday. The protest came after the country’s top court on Wednesday confirmed its highly divisive ruling that will further tighten the predominantly Catholic nation’s strict anti-abortion law. The Constitutional Tribunal published the justification of its decision, which will take immediate effect.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP

 

PENNSYLVANIA — Steam cloud: A person, wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, walked through steam vented from a manhole in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Photo: Matt Rourke/AP


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