Today in photos (Jan.28)

A man cries during the burial of Vinicius Rosado, who died in a nightclub fire, at a cemetery in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A fast-moving fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in this southern Brazilian city early Sunday, killing more than 230 people. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors. (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

A protester part of the Black Bloc, holds the Egyptian national flag during clashes with riot police near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. An unpredictable new element has entered Egypt’s wave of political unrest, a mysterious group of black-masked young men calling themselves the Black Bloc. They present themselves as the defenders of protesters against the rule of President Mohammed Morsi, but Islamists have used them to depict the opposition as a violent force wrecking the nation. (Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)

Catholic believers hold candles while they march and chant prayers for peace in the town of Laiza, in northern Myanmar’s Kachin-controlled region, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A key outpost protecting the headquarters of ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Myanmar has fallen to government troops, a spokesman for the guerrilla group said Sunday. The Kachin Independence Army spokesman said the hillside outpost at Hka Ya Bhum, near the guerrilla group’s headquarters in the town of Laiza, was overrun Saturday afternoon. (Alexander Yuan / Associated Press)

An elderly man walks holding an umbrella, during a snowfall, back dropped by a large poster in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

President Barack Obama speaks to media as he meets with representatives from Major Cities Chiefs Association and Major County Sheriffs Association in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Washington, to discuss policies put forward by President Obama to reduce gun violence. From left are Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau, Hennepin County Minnesota Sheriff Richard W. Stanek, President Obama, and Charles H. Ramsey Police Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

A Pakistani child, who was displaced with her family from Pakistan’s tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, looks out through a hole of a makeshift curtain at the entrance of her family’s home, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)