Day in pictures

Artist Chen Jingzhong puts the finishing touches on his giant pig sculpture as China prepares to welcome the Year of the Pig in February.

An Afghan girl blows a bubble from chewing gum as she sits with the wood she collected from the rubble of a dismantled complex in Kabul.

Shinto priests process across a ceremonial bridge at the Kamigamo shrine in Kyoto, Japan, to offer a prayer for the new year.

Children in Panschwitz, eastern Germany, wear traditional wedding dress for the "Bird's Marriage" festival, part of the heritage of the area's Sorbian minority.

A man in Kashmir lifts his robe before an Indian police officer as part of tight security ahead of Republic Day celebrations on Friday.

A passer-by walks past giant snowmen installed in a Moscow street as part of a theatre show.

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