World in focus - best photos for January 4, 2018

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A multiple exposure image shows the sky during the Quadrantis meteor shower above Saint Esteban chapel in Comillas, Cantabria, northern Spain. Pedro Puente Hoyos / EPA

A herd of buffalo in Kiskunsag National Park are driven from their winter habitat in Szabadszallas to the animal farm of Fulopszallas, Hungary. Sandor Ujvari / EPA

People visit the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin in China's northeast Heilongjiang provinc. Greg Baker / AFP Photo

Firefighters tackle a warehouse blaze in Corteolona e Genzone, near Pavia, northern Italy. Flavio Lo Scalzo / EPA

A creek swells from the melt water in the Taunus mountains near Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Michael Probst / AP Photo

Unmarried women members of the Shembe Church pray on top of Nhlangakazi Holy Mountain during the annual Nazareth Baptist Church pilgrimage near Durban, South Africa. Kim Ludbrook / EPA

A fisherman prepares to set sail in Pontedeume, Galicia, northern Spain. Cabalar / EPA

Roger Federer of Switzerland prepares to serve to United States' Jack Sock during the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. Will Russell / Getty Images

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