Pictures of the day: January 12, 2017

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

A man walks across Red Square, with the Kremlin's Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower (R) and St. Basil's Cathedral seen in the background, in air temperatures of about minus 10 degrees Celsius in central Moscow. PHOTO: AFP

Indian women prepare pongal during celebrations of the Tamil harvest festival, Pongal at a college in Chennai. PHOTO: AFP

Men fish along the Galata Bridge in the Karakoy district of Istanbul following a snow storm. PHOTO: AFP

An Iraqi man rides in the trunk of a taxi in eastern Mosul. PHOTO: AFP

A Kashmiri Muslim walks along a snow covered hill on the outskirts of Srinagar follwoing the season's first snowfall in Kashmir. PHOTO: AFP

Yemeni children play in a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of the southern city of Taez. PHOTO: AFP

Nepalese Hindu devotees gather to bathe in the Shali River on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Hundreds of married and unmarried women in the Himalayan nation have started a month-long fast in the hope of a prosperous life and conjugal happiness. PHOTO: AFP

Afghan youth collect metal and plastic from a landfill to sell for recycling on the outskirts of Mazar-i- Sharif. PHOTO: AFP

Hindu women sit around fires to keep warm before taking holy baths at Saali River during the Swasthani Brata Katha festival at Sankhu in Kathmandu, Nepal. PHOTO: REUTERS

Researchers hold giant panda cubs during an event to celebrate China's Lunar New Year in a research base in Ya'an, Sichuan province, China. PHOTO: REUTERS

People attend the opening ceremony and concert of the "Elbphilharmonie" (Philharmonic Hall) along the Elbe river in Hamburg, Germany. PHOTO: REUTERS

Snow covers the Lebensese Village of Baskinta. PHOTO: REUTERS

A wild horse is herded into corrals by a helicopter during a Bureau of Land Management round-up outside Milford, Utah, US. PHOTO: REUTERS