January 21, 2016

Belarusians wearing folk costumes celebrate a Pull the Kolyada Up the Oak rite in the village of Martsiyanauka, some 77 km (48 miles) east of capital Minsk.

Participants attend the 'Collisions. A Virtual Reality World Premiere' event at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

A Kashmiri Muslim demonstrator throws a stone towards Indian police (unseen) during a protest in Srinagar. Clashes between Indian police and Kashmir Muslim demonstrators broke out after a protest which was organized by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), a Kashmiri separatist party, to mark the anniversary of the killings of at around 50 people allegedly by Indian security forces during a protest on January 21, 1990, demonstrators said.

UAE's Al-Fursan display team performs during the opening of the Bahrain International Airshow 2016, in Sakhir, south of the capital Manama.

Sri Lankan fireball dancers are seen performing during the inauguration of the annual 'Duruthu Perahera' festival at Kelani Buddhist temple, in the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 20, 2016.

Cross-country skiers make their way through the snowy landscape on the Grosser Arber mountain in Bayerisch Eisenstein east of Regensburg, southern Germany.

A woman wearing traditional opera make-up performs pole dance by the side of a lake under sub-zero temperatures, in Handan, Hebei province, China, Jan. 20, 2016.

A lantern installation of a dragon is displayed during a lighting test ahead of the park's lantern festival, in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China.

Traditional "Parachicos" dancers wearing wooden masks perform on the street during a Catholic celebration in Chiapas De Corzo, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2016.

The dancing lights of the Aurora Borealis is shown over the Pacific northwest taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Scott Kelly in this handout provided by NASA, Jan. 20, 2016.

Icicles hang on a statue at the Fountain of the Place de la Concorde on a cold winter day in Paris, France, Jan. 20, 2016.