Beyoncé, bushfires and Boxing Day dips: photos of the day – Thursday

Great Bowden, UK

Riders prepare for the Fernie Hunt Boxing Day meet in Leicestershire

Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Piau-Engaly, France

People enjoy the sunshine at a ski resort in the Pyrenees

Photograph: Hubert Psaila Marie/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

Sydney, Australia

The yacht Celestial takes part in the 2024 Sydney to Hobart race

Photograph: Mark Evans/EPA

Ayr, Scotland

People take part in a Boxing Day charity swim that raises funds for Ayrshire Cancer Support

Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs fends off Alex Highsmith of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium

Photograph: Joe Sargent/Getty Images

Lhasa, China

Monks take part in a ceremony at Jokhang Temple in Tibet

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Houston, Texas

Beyoncé performs with her daughter, Blue Ivy, during the half-time interval of an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans

Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

Cocoa Beach, Florida

A surfer dressed as Father Christmas takes part in the annual Surfing Santas event

Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

Baghdad, Iraq

An acrobat takes part in a circus performance

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Gomadingen, Germany

Horses gallop through the snow at the Main and State stud farm

Photograph: Thomas Warnack/AP

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip

Students take part in a class at New Rahmaa school, which was established in a tent for displaced people

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Cusco, Peru

People take part in Takanakuy celebrations, during which conflicts over issues such as land and livestock are traditionally resolved

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Harbin, China

Men at work at the annual ice sculpture event

Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Gaza City

Relatives of five Al-Quds journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike mourn outside al-Awda hospital

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Toronto, Canada

Two deer walk between gravestones at the Park Lawn cemetery

Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Yuandang, China

A train crosses a lake on a section of the new Shanghai-Huzhou high-speed railway

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Cromer, UK

People run into the sea at the start of the Cromer Boxing Day dip

Photograph: Victoria Jones/Rex/Shutterstock

Grampians, Australia

Smoke rises from a bushfire in the Grampians national park

Photograph: Victoria Emergency Services/AFP/Getty Images