Men wearing the traditional “fundoshi” or loincloth pray as they bathe in ice-cold water at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo. Yuya Shino / Reuters
Bangladeshis board trains after attending the Akheri Munajat concluding prayers on the third day of Biswa Ijtema. Abir Abdullah / EPA
Troops from the Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Force 1st Airborne Brigade jump from a C-1 transport plane during an annual new year military exercise at Narashino exercise field in Funabashi, east of Tokyo. Toru Hanai / Reuters
Los Angeles Kings centre Anze Kopitar scores past St Louis Blues goalie Brian Elliott. Mark J Terrill / AP Photo
A man with a child enjoy a slide built of blocks of ice on the frozen Houhai Lake in Beijing. Andy Wong / AP Photo
A horse set to compete in the Sandhills Stock Show in Odessa, Texas, bucks in its pen. Edyta Blaszczyk / Odessa American via AP
Bangladeshi Muslims attend the Akheri Munajat concluding prayers on the third day of Biswa Ijtema. Abir Abdullah / EPA
Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic serves in her match against Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during day one of the 2016 Sydney International. Matt King / Getty Images
Sacramento Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins goes to the basket between Golden State Warriors’ Andrew Bogut, left, and Draymond Green. Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo
Ronan Chabot drives his Toyota during the seventh stage in the Dakar Rally 2016 near Uyuni, Bolivia. Marcos Brindicci / Reuters
Garret Heath of the United States competes in the Men’s 8km race during the Great Edinburgh Cross Country in Scotland. Ian MacNicol / Getty images
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron fumbles after being hit by Pittsburgh Steelers’ Cameron Heyward during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Cincinnati. Gary Landers / AP Photo
Firemen work on a fire after explosions at a chemical plant Lengshuijiang, in Hunan province, China. Guo Quan / EPA