Day in pictures

Training has started for hundreds of husky dogs in Blairgowrie, Scotland, ahead of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally.

A coffin containing the body of Rabbi Refoel Shmuel Birnbaum is carried from the Mir Yeshiva Rabbinacal School in Brooklyn, New York - the school that he directed.

A man shows off his bionic hand - the first commercially available model. The firm behind the hand is opening new headquarters in Livingston, Scotland.

Ukrainian women enjoy a shot of vodka and an appetiser of pork fat and pickle to celebrate Orthodox Christmas, according to the old Julian calendar.

A Japanese traditional dancer drinks sake - rice wine - during a New Year ceremony in Kyoto, Japan.

A visitor to the Hong Kong Toy Fair looks at items on display at one of hundreds of trade stands.

A French soldier with Nato-led forces stands guard for a bridge-opening ceremony on the Shamali Plains north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Muslim women pray at a shrine in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, as a priest displays a relic believed to be hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad.

Tribal people from India's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh are among 5,000 participants at the Namdapha eco-cultural festival in the town of Maio.

Residents of Beijing select red-coloured New Year decorations to welcome the Chinese year of the rat.

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