The day in pictures

Jan 26, 2024 : Amber Glenn takes a victory lap around the rink following the championship women medal ceremony during the 2024 US Figure Skating Championships at Nationwide Arena.

January 27, 2024: Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after beating Qinwen Zheng of China in the final of the women’s singles at the Australian Open in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

January 27, 2024: Members of the Charlies Angels Dance Team perform before a game between the Washington Wizards and the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

January 25, 2024: Audrey Shin skates in the championship women short program during the 2024 US Figure Skating Championships at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

January 25, 2024: Hondo Young, 12, rests in the pen with his pig, Cracklin, at the Hays County Livestock Show at Dripping Springs Ranch Park in Dripping Springs, Texas.

January 25, 2024: Blue Hall, 4, helps her friends show their chickens at the Hays County Livestock Show at Dripping Springs Ranch Park in Dripping Springs, Texas. More than 400 4H and FFA participants, ages 5 - 18, showed their chickens, turkeys, rabbits, lambs, goats, pigs, steers and heifers at the event, which ends with an auction on Saturday that is expected to raise more than $1.3 million to be given back to the children.

January 25, 2024: Villagers hang noodles out to dry in a field as they prepare for upcoming Lunar New Year markets in Huai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

January 25, 2024: Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska hits a return against China's Zheng Qinwen in their women's singles semi-final match on day 12 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on .

January 25, 2024: A youth looks through an army anti-tank rocket launcher during the 'Know Your Army' exhibition in Prayagraj.

January 24, 2024 : Oscar sits on the lawn asTibetan monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery in Karnataka State, South India, recite prayers during the blessing of animals at Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, Florida.

January 24, 2024 : Students from the Swaminarayan Gurukul school take part in a 'Magh Snan' or holy bath in Ahmedabad, India.

January 24, 2024 : Empty rails are pictured in Frankfurt, Germany. The German train drivers' union GDL has called for a six-day strike starting early Wednesday.

January 23, 2024 : The Sanibel Lighthouse got its missing leg back. The leg was lost in Hurricane Ian on Sept. 28, 2022.

January 23, 2024: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley shakes hands with Georgette Georgi Hebert from Bedford, N.H., at Chez Vachon diner in Manchester, N.H., during the New Hampshire presidential primary.

January 23, 2024: A sculler glides on Lady Bird Lake in a dense fog in Austin, Tx.

76ers center Joel Embiid is doused with water by teammates after scoring 70 points in a victory against the Spurs.

January 21, 2024: Jason Kelce reacts after the Kansas City Chiefs score against the Buffalo Bills during the first half for the 2024 AFC divisional round game at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y.

January 22, 2024: Women attend the funeral ceremony of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members who were killed in an air strike in Syria, in Tehran, Iran. An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians, Syrian and Iranian state media reported.

January 22, 2024: A Hindu devotee has the words 'Sri Ram' written on his forehead as he watches in Hyderabad, India, a live telecast of the inauguration of a temple dedicated to the Hindu Lord Ram in northern Ayodhya. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historic mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in a grand event that is expected to galvanize Hindu voters in upcoming elections.

January 22, 2024: Palestinian families flee Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, along the coastal road leading to Rafah, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Israeli army bombarded Khan Yunis, the latest epicentre of the war in Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister rejected what he said were Hamas conditions for the release of hostages, even amid mounting pressure from their families.

January 21, 2024 : People hold up their cell phones as they protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024.

January 20, 2024 : TCU Horned Frogs guard Jameer Nelson Jr. and Iowa State Cyclones forward Milan Momcilovic go for a loose ball during the second half at Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

January 20, 2024: Members of the public look at pigeons in their cages during the "British Homing World Show of the Year" at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, northwest England. "The British Homing World Show of the year" is the biggest gathering of pigeon fanciers, attracting up to 15,000 visitors to see the showing and judging of more than 2000 of the country's best homing pigeons.

January 19, 2024 : A lone pedestrian walks along snow covered Exchange Street near the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.

January 19, 2024: View of a seal at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel ARC Simon Bolivar, which was designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet.

January 19, 2024: People participating in the March for Life walk past the Supreme Court, in Washington.

January 19, 2024: A Russian Orthodox believer dips in the icy water during a traditional Epiphany celebration, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day. The temperature in St.Petersburg is -4 Celsius (24 Fahrenheit).

January 19, 2024: In a snow storm anti-abortion activists march and rally in front of the U.S. Capitol during the annual March for Life in Washington on January 19, 2024. The event ended at the U.S. Supreme Court.

January 18, 2024: Spain's Carlos Alcaraz serves against Italy's Lorenzo Sonego during their men's singles match on day five of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.

January 17, 2024: A model presents a creation by Bluemarble for the Menswear Ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2024/2025 collection as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris.

January 17, 2024: Participants try to control a bull during an annual bull-taming festival 'Jallikattu' in the Alanganallur village of Madurai district.

January 15, 2024: Tourists on a dingy of the cruise ship L'Austral visit the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula.

January 16, 2024: An Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchling was released into the sea at Lhoknga Beach, Indonesia's Aceh province, on Jan. 16, 2024.

January 16, 2024: A Sikh man demonstrates his skills during a religious procession on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, in Prayagraj.

January 17, 2024: A steam train travels through a snow-covered landscape on the way to northern Germany's 1,142-meter (3,743-foot) highest mountain, 'Brocken', at the Harz mountains near Schierke, Germany.

January 16, 2024: A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the "Luminarias," a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come.

January 17, 2024: Children play with pigeons next to Yeni Cami (New Mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey.

January 16, 2024: General view of the snow-covered area ahead of the first training of the men's Downhill of FIS ski alpine world cup in Kitzbuehel, Austria.

January 15, 2024: An installation by artist Sandeigh Kennedy of 657 pairs of shoes in memory of the more than 600 mass shootings that occurred in the United States in 2023 is seen in Houston, Texas, as the country marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Each pair of shoes has "a marker denoting the location, date, number of injuries, and the number of lives lost at each event. Each pair is painted black to give a sense of equality to each victim," says the Texas artist. The shoes are displayed in front of the Broken Obelisk, a Barnett Newman sculpture, at the Rothko Chapel Plaza. In 1969, the city of Houston refused to place it in front of its City Hall because it was honoring Martin Luther King.

January 16, 2024: Wildlife veterinaries and members of the capture team from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) try to take a sedated rhino out of the water for safety during a capture and translocation operation of rhinos in Nairobi National Park. Plans to translocate 21 rhinos to Loisaba Conservancy in Northern Kenya officially started. The animals will be moved from various congested conservancies to control population and poaching, but the operation had an unsuccessful start due to technical reasons and had to be postponed. After completion, this operation will be one of the largest translocation of rhinos in Kenya's history.

January 14, 2024: A fisherman arranges fishing nets on board the fishing boat "Saint-Pierre" off Guethary, southwestern France. To limit the accidental capture of dolphins, the French government issued a decree on Oct. 2023 banning fishing to 8-meter-long (or bigger) boats from Jan. 22 to Feb. 20 inclusive between 2024 and 2026.

January 14, 2024: Billowing smoke and flowing lava are seen in this Icelandic Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management handout image during a volcanic eruption on the outskirts of the evacuated town of Grindavik, western Iceland. Seismic activity had intensified overnight, and residents of Grindavik were evacuated, Icelandic public broadcaster RUV reported. This is Iceland's fifth volcanic eruption in two years, the previous one occurring on Dec. 18, 2023, in the same region southwest of the capital Reykjavik. Iceland is home to 33 active volcano systems, the highest number in Europe

January 15, 2024: Pilgrims take a holy dip amid dense fog at the confluence of River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal during 'Gangasagar Mela' on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island, around 150 km south of Kolkata.

January 14, 2024: A Detroit Lions fan celebrates after a 2024 NFC wild-card game against the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field.