Day in pictures

Wild macaques huddle together as they sleep in a park in Guizhou, China. Freezing temperatures and heavy snow have been wreaking havoc in many parts of the country.

Security guards tussle with a protester from animal welfare group Peta protesting against a cock-fighting competition in Manila in the Philippines.

The Guizer Jarl, or leader, gathers his men during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival in the Shetland Islands. The festival celebrates Viking heritage on the Scottish isles.

A man takes a photo of China's national aquatic centre, which has been built for this year's Olympics. Known as the Water Cube, it will host its first event on 31 January.

A woman looks at Damien Hirst's "Beautiful, Shattered, Mellow, Exploding, paint filled balloons painting", which goes on sale in London on Tuesday.

Skaters fill an ice rink in the South Korean capital, Seoul, one of the few benefits of a prolonged cold snap affecting the city.

Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement, Nashi, protest outside the European Commission office in Moscow. They say the group is being oppressed in Estonia.

Romanian Gypsy contestants react with delight after being selected for the final of a Gypsy beauty and traditional dance contest in Bucharest.

A rodent, representing the forthcoming Chinese Year of the Rat, sits in a maze in a Hong Kong window display. The Lunar New Year is on 7 February.

A cobbler sits on a street in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir, waiting for his first morning customers to arrive.

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