A look at the best news photos from around the world.
2-ри јануари 2015
![A Syrian man stands on top of rubble following an overnight rocket attack on the contested Bab al-Hadid neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. Once Syria's economic hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by fighting that began there in mid-2012 and the city is now divided with government forces controlling the western part and rebels controlling the east.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4e37bcb9-6e66-4360-aa58-1ece7cf71258_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Syrian man stands on top of rubble following an overnight rocket attack on the contested Bab al-Hadid neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. Once Syria's economic hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by fighting that began there in mid-2012 and the city is now divided with government forces controlling the western part and rebels controlling the east.
![Local residents dressed as Father Frost, an equivalent of Santa Claus, and his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden), walk with servicemen as they visit checkpoints of the Ukrainian army and self-defense units to congratulate the military with the coming of a New Year, near Lysychansk, Luhansk region.](https://gdb.voanews.com/cb20955e-538a-4f59-b5ac-3a890e2f2db9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Local residents dressed as Father Frost, an equivalent of Santa Claus, and his granddaughter Snegurochka (Snow-Maiden), walk with servicemen as they visit checkpoints of the Ukrainian army and self-defense units to congratulate the military with the coming of a New Year, near Lysychansk, Luhansk region.
![A woman holds a placard showing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a soccer player during an anti-government protest called by civil groups in Budapest. The protest follows a number of other rallies against Orban's government, which has seen a plunge in popularity over the past months.](https://gdb.voanews.com/67f559a4-0fcd-4ad0-ac15-76ba2b27d0f4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman holds a placard showing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a soccer player during an anti-government protest called by civil groups in Budapest. The protest follows a number of other rallies against Orban's government, which has seen a plunge in popularity over the past months.
![Firefighters stand on a ladder to inspect the Norman Atlantic multi-deck car-and-truck ferry docked at Brindisi harbor. Tugboats hauled the burnt-out hulk of the ferry that caught fire on Sunday off the coast of Greece into a southern Italian port on Friday, opening the way for an investigation into the cause of the blaze that killed at least 11 people.](https://gdb.voanews.com/774f266d-994e-45e1-b463-9faaa9bae560_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Firefighters stand on a ladder to inspect the Norman Atlantic multi-deck car-and-truck ferry docked at Brindisi harbor. Tugboats hauled the burnt-out hulk of the ferry that caught fire on Sunday off the coast of Greece into a southern Italian port on Friday, opening the way for an investigation into the cause of the blaze that killed at least 11 people.