Today in Photos (Jan 30)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015.

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Fri., Jan. 30, 2015

Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S., right, and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic celebrate after defeating Taiwan�s Chan Yung-jan and China�s Zheng Jie in their women's doubles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015.

Rob Griffith Associated Press
Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, right, reaches out to shake hands with Dutch Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, left, following a joint news conference after their meeting at the Finance Ministry in Athens, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. Dijsselbloem who chairs eurozone finance meetings says there is no decision so far on what to do after Greece�s current bailout program runs out at the end of next month.

Lefteris Pitarakis Associated Press
A crew member on the Towline, a 65-foot steel-hull ice breaking vessel, keeps watch while working in a snow storm to clear ice for a dredging operation on the Royal River, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, in Yarmouth, Maine.

Robert Bukaty Associated Press
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters surround extremists inside a hotel near police headquarters in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. Kurdish troops and the city�s security force have been trying to rout the IS group. Three gunmen subsequently took positions inside the hotel, located in the city center, triggering a firefight with the Kurds and the police.
A Pakistani girl stands amid banners that carry the name of the Prophet Muhammad during a rally organized by the religious party Jamaat-e-Islami to condemn the French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo for publication of caricatures of Muhammad, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015.

B.K. Bangash Associated Press
People run as they try to protect themselves from the water in Paseo Nuevo promenade at high tide, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. Authorities have announced gale-force winds in upcoming days of up to 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour).

Alvaro Barrientos Associated Press