4 janar 2015

Indian students pour water on each other as part of a ritual bath on the eve of Magh Purnima in Ahmadabad. Many Hindu devotees take a holy bath during the auspicious festival hoping that their sins are washed away according to ancient Hindu tradition.

Visitors look around ice sculptures ahead of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. The winter festival will be officially opened on Jan. 5, 2015.

Visitors use kaleidoscopes which are displayed with ice sculptures ahead of the 31st Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.

Embers glow against the smoke-filled sunset near Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills, Australia, Jan. 3, 2015.

Dover Athletic supporters applaud their team from trees outside the ground that overlook the pitch during their English FA Cup third round soccer match against Crystal Palace at Crabble Athletic Ground in Dover, southern England.

Dressed in a traditional Japanese fire fighting uniform, a member of the Edo (Tokyo) Firemanship Preservation Association performs on a bamboo ladder during an annual New Year's celebration event at a shopping mall in Tokyo, Japan.

A man wearing a Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) costume walks in snowfall at Dvortsovaya Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 3, 2015.

The cargo ship Hoegh Osaka lies on its side after running aground in the Solent estuary, near Southampton in southern England.