• U.S. markets will reopen after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. [The New York Times]• A cold front later in the week should ease the latest blanket of smog in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, but honors for the slain civil rights hero extend beyond America’s borders. Martin Luther King III visited the monument in 2009 during a tour to promote tolerance a decade after a war fed by ethnic divisions tore the region apart. Above, the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 18:52 UTC