Strong winds blow through the Schlossplatz in the town of Oldenburg on Friday, as the first of two expected weekend storm fronts sweeps through northern Germany. Ingo Wagner/European Pressphoto Agency …  Christopher Giraldo, 12, takes comfort in the arms of a neighbor, as they await the police to evict his family from their apartment in Madrid on Friday. The family couldn’t afford the rent after the father lost his job, but the eviction was postponed until Jan. 15. Andres Kudacki/Associated Press …  A woman at a highway tollbooth in Acapulco, Mexico on Friday takes contributions during a protest against the disappearance and suspected massacre of 43 college students in the southern Mexican town of Iguala. Pedro Pardo/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images …  A man looks out of a plastic tent at the three-day World Congregation of Muslims, or Biswa Ijtema, on the banks of the River Turag 13 miles north of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday. A.M. Ahad/Associated Press …  Security officers attend to freed hostages after police stormed a kosher market to end a hostage situation in eastern Paris on Friday. Four captives and the gunman died in the incident. Michel Euler/Associated Press …  A man prays outside the French Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Friday at memorial to the deadly attack two days earlier on the Paris headquarters of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The sign to the right reads: “I am Charlie.” Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images …  Bareback rider Cody Joe Ziober competes in the SandHills Stock Show and Rodeo on Thursday at the Ector County Coliseum in Odessa, Texas. Courtney Sacco/Associated Press …  Filipinos pull an injured participant in a Roman Catholic procession from a carriage carrying the statue of the Black Nazarene on Friday, a week before Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines. Dennis M. Sabangan/European Pressphoto Agency …  Worshipers take part in Friday prayers at the World Congregation of Muslims in a field outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Anik Rahman/NurPhoto/Zuma Press …  An Indonesian rescue helicopter searches, along with navy divers, for the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea on Friday. Adek Berry/Associated Press …  Photos of the Day: Jan. 9
In photos selected Friday by Wall Street Journal editors, strong winds sweep through a northern German town, a boy awaits his family’s eviction in Spain, the World Congregation of Muslims gets under way in Bangladesh, and more.