Updated 11:51am 15 January 2013

World in Pictures, January 7, 2013: Dakar rally in Peru, Russian volcano stirs and Pope Benedict at the Vatican (GALLERY)


More than 14,830 Indians play the traditional khol in an attempt to create a Guinness record, in Titabar
More than 14,830 Indians play the traditional khol in an attempt to create a Guinness record, in Titabar

TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of KTM rider Francisco Lopez of Chile competing in the second stage of the 2013 Dakar Rally in Pisco, Peru; smoke and ash rising from Plosky Tolbachnik volcano in Russia, which last erupted in 1976 and Pope Benedict XVI delivering his speech during an audience with foreign ambassadors to the Holy See, at the Vatican. 

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