Delhi, India: A child is administered polio drops by a mobile medical unit
Lanslebourg, France: Dogs barks before the start of the seventh stage of the La Grande Odyssee sled dog race
Belalp-Blatten, Switzerland: A group of skiers dressed as witches participate in "Hexenabfahrt" (downhill of the witches)
Tokyo, Japan: A participant pours icy
water over himself out of a wooden bucket for a purification ceremony
during the Daikoku festival, at the Kanda Myojin shrine
Copenhagen, Denmark: Queen Margrethe waves from a horse-drawn carriage
Delhi, India: Tibetans surf the web at an internet cafe
Guatemala City, Guatemala: Indigenous people attend the inauguration of Otto Perez Molina as the country's new president
Gangasagar, India: An Indian Sadhu (Hindu holy
man) takes a dip in the sea at the confluence of the River Ganges and
the Bay of Bengal during Makar Sankranti
Mexico City, Mexico: Japanese artist and calligrapher Sachiyo Kaneko paints during a performance in a park
Bogota, Colombia: Matador Juan Viriato in a bullfight at the Santamaria bullring
Lyon, France: People hold a banner during a demonstration of the Youth Nationalist Movement
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Muslims climb up on to
a train as they attend the Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the
third day of the second largest congregation
Giglio, Italy: The Costa Concordia cruise ship keels after it was run aground
Bucharest, Romania: Protestors negotiate with police on University Square
Passau, Germany: Visitors stand inside a church made entirely of snow and ice
Islamabad, Pakistan: A dressed monkey sits at a roadside to earn money from passersby for its owner
Beijing, China: An instructor smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session for female bodyguards
Pa-an, Burma: A girl awaits the release of her relative, a political prisoner
Chengdu, China: A panda keeper feeds a four-month-old cub at a panda research base
Islamabad, Pakistan: Children sit around a fire to warm themselves during a cold evening