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Comayagüela (Honduras) (AFP) – Police escort retired Honduran General Romeo Vasquez to Tamara prison outside Tegucigalpa as he awaits trial for the 2009 military killing of a protester, days after leading the coup against former President Manuel Zelaya. Also imprisoned are Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff head Venancio Cervantes and former Joint Operations Command commander Carlos Puerto, arrested alongside Vasquez. They will remain at the National Penitentiary in Tamara, 27 km northwest of Tegucigalpa, until the first trial hearing on January 10. IMAGES

Epsom (AFP) – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer slams those “spreading lies and misinformation” following days of incendiary posts by tech billionaire Elon Musk on his X platform over historical sex offences against children in northern England.

Yangon (AFP) – Shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel at around 6am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, dancing, and Buddhist prayer — with the aim of quitting drugs.

Cetinje (Montenegro) (AFP) – Thousands of people gather in the town of Cetinje in Montenegro, as well as in the capital Podgorica, to remember the victims of a mass shooting on New Years Day, and to demand accountability from the authorities.

Russia (AFP) – Emergency workers clean up the beaches of the Black Sea in southern Russia following an oil spill which occured on December 15. Russia’s Delfa centre, which rescues and provides rehabilitation for dolphins, says it had recorded 61 dead cetaceans since the incident, 32 of whom “most likely” died due to the spill.

Beverly Hills (United States) (AFP) – Workers and designers put a final touch on the Golden Globes red carpet ahead of the first Hollywood award ceremony of the year, opening the much anticipated Oscars race.

Yangon (AFP) – Relatives of released prisoners await their loved ones outside prison after the country’s junta government announced it would release almost 6,000 inmates as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country’s independence day.

Atlanta (AFP) – People line up outside the Carter Presidential Center, in Atlanta, Georgia, where former US President Jimmy Carter’s body lies in repose from 7:00pm on 4 January to 6:00am on 7 January.

Mamoudzou (AFP) – Nurses and psychologists continue to treat ill children in the informal settlement of Cavani Sud in eastern Mayotte after the devastation of Cyclone Chido. Emergency shelters have been closing to allow for the return to school, which Mamoudzou’s mayor wants to happen as normal on 20 January.

West Burton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Heavy overnight snow turns the Yorkshire Dales village of West Burton and it’s waterfalls into a winter wonderland. An amber weather warning — the second most serious — for snow and freezing rain is in place for much of Wales, central England and parts of northwestern England.

Galeras (Colombia) (AFP) – The Colombian tradition of ‘living pictures’, in which the participants recreate motionless artistic scenes for hours as though frozen in time, returns to the streets of Galeras as is tradition every January. ‘Living pictures’ was declared intangible culture heritage by UNESCO in December.

Maghazi refugee camp (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. “This is an act of revenge against civilians, as you can see, children, elderly and women,” says Mohammed Abu Labda, whose brother was killed in the strike. Hamas’s 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures. Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 45,658 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.