• A woman selling plastic containers looks for customers on the banks of the River Ganges on the occasion of Paush Purnima or full moon day, on a cold winter morning during the annual religious festival of Magh Mela, in Allahabad, India. Jitendra Prakash / Reuters
    A woman selling plastic containers looks for customers on the banks of the River Ganges on the occasion of Paush Purnima or full moon day, on a cold winter morning during the annual religious festival of Magh Mela, in Allahabad, India. Jitendra Prakash / Reuters
  • Memphis Grizzlies players JaMychal Green, centre, and Vince Carter, right, try to block a shot against Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, left, in the first half of the NBA basketball game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Larry Smith / EPA
    Memphis Grizzlies players JaMychal Green, centre, and Vince Carter, right, try to block a shot against Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, left, in the first half of the NBA basketball game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Larry Smith / EPA
  • Japan’s Kei Nishikori hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia. David Gray / Reuters
    Japan’s Kei Nishikori hits a shot during a training session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia. David Gray / Reuters
  • Hindu women sit around fires to keep warm before taking holy baths at Saali River during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival at Sankhu in Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
    Hindu women sit around fires to keep warm before taking holy baths at Saali River during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival at Sankhu in Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters
  • A pedestrian walks through Quincy Market on a warm winter afternoon in downtown in Boston, Massachusetts, US. Brian Snyder / Reuters
    A pedestrian walks through Quincy Market on a warm winter afternoon in downtown in Boston, Massachusetts, US. Brian Snyder / Reuters
  • The buildings of the banking district are seen through thousands of rain drops on a glass railing in central Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Probst / AP Photo
    The buildings of the banking district are seen through thousands of rain drops on a glass railing in central Frankfurt, Germany. Michael Probst / AP Photo
  • Beat Feuz of Switzerland in action at the start during a training session for the men’s downhill race of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup at the Lauberhorn, in Wengen, Switzerland. Jean-Christophe Bott
    Beat Feuz of Switzerland in action at the start during a training session for the men’s downhill race of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup at the Lauberhorn, in Wengen, Switzerland. Jean-Christophe Bott
  • A female firefighter battles a blaze during a fire spreading rapidly through residential areas in the mountainous suburb of Simonstown in Cape Town, South Africa. Hundreds of residents are being evacuated as the fire fanned by strong north westerly winds started in Ocean View ripped through Glencairn heading towards Simonstown according to eye witness reports at the scene. Nic Bothma / EPA
    A female firefighter battles a blaze during a fire spreading rapidly through residential areas in the mountainous suburb of Simonstown in Cape Town, South Africa. Hundreds of residents are being evacuated as the fire fanned by strong north westerly winds started in Ocean View ripped through Glencairn heading towards Simonstown according to eye witness reports at the scene. Nic Bothma / EPA
  • Two Japanese macakaks (Macaca fuscata) delouse in a Zoo in the wilhelma in Stuttgart, Germany, 11 January 2017. The Japanese macakak, red-faced macaw or snow monkey is a primate species from the genus of macaques. He lives in Japan and has the most distant area of all primate species. Ronald Wittek / EPA
    Two Japanese macakaks (Macaca fuscata) delouse in a Zoo in the wilhelma in Stuttgart, Germany, 11 January 2017. The Japanese macakak, red-faced macaw or snow monkey is a primate species from the genus of macaques. He lives in Japan and has the most distant area of all primate species. Ronald Wittek / EPA

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World in focus – best photos for January 12, 2017

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January 12, 2017

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