Hindu fire breathers and bread robes: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • London, UK

    The Kilgore College Rangerettes from Texas in the New Year’s Day parade in central London. The annual event attracts an audience of 500,000 to watch performances by 10,000 participants from the UK, US and Europe

    Young women in a dance troupe, wearing red jackets and white skirts
  • Les Rousses, France

    A skater looks at pancake ice on the frozen Lac des Rousses in eastern France. This phenomenon forms when slushy ice in water clumps into round, pancake-like shapes due to waves or currents

    Pancakes of snow on a frozen lake
  • Banda Aceh, Indonesia

    An aerial picture shows fishers arranging nets on a beach on the north coast of Sumatra

    A snake of net carried by fishermen in an aerial photograph
  • Manila, Philippines

    Participants raise their hands to be blessed with holy water during the annual Catholic Feast of the Black Nazarene

    Devotees raise their hands in prayer
  • Prayagraj, India

    A Panchayati Mahanirvani Akhara devotee performs fire-breathing stunts in a procession towards the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh

    Man performs fire-breathing stunts in a procession in the street
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Children warm up by lighting fires on the street to escape the cold

    Children huddled around a fire
  • Osmaniye, Turkey

    An aerial view of agricultural workers washing and packaging radishes in a stream in the Kadirli district near the southern city of Osmaniye, where most of Turkey’s radish production takes place

    Farm workers washing red radishes
  • Banjul, Gambia

    A procession before an annual hunting festival that marks the new year with music, dancing and a contest between rival societies for the best display of animal heads, masks and costumes

    A person in horned costume parades in the street
  • Little Bollington, UK

    A drone view shows flooding after part of the Bridgewater canal embankment collapsed during heavy rain in north-west England

    Aerial view of flooded landscape
  • Dunfanaghy, Ireland

    A surfer on Marble Hill beach on the north coast of Donegal. A yellow weather and ice warning has been issued across Ireland as temperatures are set to drop to -3C overnight

    Silhouette of surfer with board on a beach
  • Pasadena, US

    The Ohio State University marching band performs before the college football playoffs quarter-final at the Rose Bowl stadium in California

    Conductor on a tall ladder in front of marching band
  • Chucuito, Peru

    Aymara Indigenous people at the Roscasiri festival, a traditional Aymara event in which people decorate themselves with bread and fruit to represent abundance for the new year

    People with bread and fruit costumes
  • Harbin, China

    A winter swimming enthusiast braves an ice pool in Harbin in north-east China

    Swimmer in ice pool
  • Seoul, South Korea

    Supporters of the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol lie in the street outside his official residence

    Protesters lie down in the street
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