19 Janar, 2015

A boy carries a cross during Epiphany Day celebrations in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Orthodox priests throughout the country bless the waters by throwing a cross into it as worshippers try to retrieve it, with a strong belief that catching the cross brings health and prosperity to the person who catches it.

Women carry gas cylinders to fill them at a distribution point in Cairo. Egypt is going through its worst energy crisis in decades and is seeking fresh sources of natural gas.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touches the Western Wall during a visit to the Old City of Jerusalem.

Indian Hindu devotees walk across a pontoon bridge at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, on the eve of “Mauni Amavasya” or new moon day, considered the most auspicious date of bathing during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair “Magh Mela” in Allahabad.

Students from Langata primary school run past riot police as they protest against a perimeter wall illegally erected by a private developer around their school playground in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

Russia's Ekaterina Gnidenko and Australia's Caitlin Ward (R) fall after a collision during the women's kerin at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Cali, Colombia, Jan. 18, 2015.

Thousands march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge along with members of the cast of the movie "Selma" in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Selma, Alabama, USA, Jan. 18, 2015. In 1965, King led thousands of nonviolent protesters on a march through Selma to the state capitol in a historic Civil Rights demonstration.

Spectators wearing masks depicting Britain's Royal family hold Union flags during the men's singles first round match between Andy Murray of Britain and Yuki Bhambri of India at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Laborers shovel coal onto a truck at a coal dump site outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

A Russian Orthodox believer bathes in the icy water on Epiphany Day at a pond in Tyarlevo village outside St. Petersburg.

Lindsey Vonn, right, and second placed Anna Fenninger spray sparkling wine on the podium after Vonn clinched an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.