2013: The Year in World News (41 images)

U.S. Wrestling executive director Rich Bender(L) hugs Hojatollah Khatib, Iran's Wrestling chief (R) prior of their meeting in Tehran, Iran on February 2013. The aim of the meeting was to find a common ground to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. Last week the International Olympic Committee made a secret-ballot surprise decision to remove wrestling from the Olympic program for the 2020 Games . UPI/Maryam Rahmanian

A police officer throws a snowball at his colleague in Paris on January 20, 2013. Heavy snow in the area is expected to disrupt flights at both Paris airports as more than half of the country has been put under orange alert with snow forecast to be as thick as up to 20 centimeters. UPI/ David Silpa

Iranian horseback archer Ghodrat Geravand attends a training session at Samand club in Tehran, Iran on January 11, 2013. Horseback archery is gaining followers in Iran, where there are currently 1,000 athletes practicing this sport. The most successful nations in horseback archery are Korea, Japan, Turkey, Iran and Britain. UPI/Maryam Rahmanian

South Korean military police (not shown) stand guard in a conference hall straddling the border between North and South Korea as a North Korean soldier approaches to have a look through a window.near the demarcation line separating the two countries in the Demilitarized Zone's (DMZ) Joint Security Area (JSA) in Seoul on January 29, 2013. UPI/Stephen Shaver