Photos of the day

Revelers take part in the Battle of Enfarinats, a flour fight during the annual Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain. Residents celebrate using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups: a group of married men called Els Enfarinats — who take control of the village for one day, pronouncing ridiculous laws and fining those who infringe them — and a group called La Oposicio, whose members try to restore order. At the end of the day, the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes. (David Ramos / Getty Images)

A reveler takes part in the Battle of Enfarinats in Ibi, Spain. The flour-fighting festival has been celebrated since 1981, after the town recovered the tradition, but the origins remain unknown. (David Ramos / Getty Images)

Passenger Andrew Peacock took this photo of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, which is stuck in the ice off east Antarctica. An Australian icebreaker was battling bad weather to reach the ship, which got stuck Tuesday after a blizzard's whipping winds pushed sea ice around it, freezing it in place. The ship was carrying a scientific expedition.

Barbara Tucker, a passenger aboard the trapped ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, looks at an Adelie penguin on the ice off east Antarctica. (Andrew Peacock / FootlooseFotography.com via Reuters)

The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is seen trapped in thick Antarctic ice 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Australia. (Andrew Peacock / Australasian Antarctic Expedition/ootlooseFotography.com via AP)

A moose takes a break from eating branches in Anchorage. A couple who were walking dogs drew the moose's attention away from a tree. (Mark Thiessen / AP)

The Chaparrastique volcano spews ash in San Miguel, El Salvador. The volcano belched a column of hot ash into the air Sunday, frightening residents and prompting authorities to order evacuations in the area. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the region, which is known for its coffee plantations. (Reuters)

A Nepalese mahout demonstrates his skill with a pachyderm during an elephant beauty pageant in Chitwan, Nepal. The five-day Chitwan Elephant Festival is celebrated with elephants, horses and bullock cart races, as well as elephant soccer games and the beauty pageant. (Prakash Mathema / AFP/Getty Images)

A swimmer gestures as he jumps into the icy water of the partially frozen Songhua River in Harbin, China. (Sheng Li / Reuters)

A Free Syrian Army fighter jumps from a high window during what activists said were clashes with pro-government forces in the Bab al-Hadid district of Aleppo, Syria. (Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters)

Men try to help save the life of an al-Azhar University student who was heavily injured from clashes outside the university in Cairo. Students of Egypt's main Islamic university said they were prevented from taking their exams by fellow students who support the Muslim Brotherhood. (Mohammed Asad / AP)

First responders work at the site of a bomb blast on a trolley bus in Volgograd, Russia. At least 10 people were killed when an explosion ripped through the trolley bus; it was the second deadly blast in the city in two days, the Interfax news agency reported, citing law enforcement officials. (Sergei Karpov / Reuters)

A man swings a doner kebab knife at anti-government protesters in Istanbul.Supporters of left-wing Freedom and Solidarity Party who were taking part in an anti-government protest Sunday were attacked by two unidentified men. Nobody was hurt during the incident, and the two men were detained by plainclothes police officers. The protesters had been demonstrating against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the recent corruption scandal in Turkey. (Murad Sezer / Reuters)

A Christian resident celebrates as trucks pass carrying fleeing Muslims out of Bangui, Central African Republic. French troops surrounded one broken-down vehicle to protect it from the hostile crowd. In recent days, vehicles carrying panicked Muslims toward the northern edge of the city have come under attack by anti-balaka militiamen, with some passengers executed and others robbed. Military escorts shuttled nationals of Chad and Cameroon to the airport Friday to board evacuation flights, and French troops stepped in to help Muslims fleeing north by road make it safely through hostile areas. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP)

A displaced woman makes tea for others inside a United Nations compound that has become home to thousands displaced by the recent fighting in Juba, South Sudan. Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, on Friday urged South Sudan's leaders to resolve their political differences peacefully and to stop the violence that has displaced more than 120,000 people in the world's newest country. (Ben Curtis / AP)

A displaced child stands in front of the makeshift tents where she and others live next to shipping containers at a U.N. compound in Juba, South Sudan. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba, and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiraling series of ethnically based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (Ben Curtis / AP)

Archbishop Antonio Rouco Varela gestures during a Mass honoring the family in Madrid. Thousands of people have attended a Mass in the Spanish capital honoring the family as the building block of Christianity; church leaders have given their backing to recent government moves aimed at tightening restrictions on abortions. At the outdoor service in Colon Square, Varela said “the gift of life” was sacred and not to be tampered with. (Andres Kudacki / AP)

A boy sits in a bucket as he plays while waiting for his mother to fetch water from a nearby hand pump to bathe him, outside a makeshift hut in Chennai, India. (Babu / Reuters)

Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul. (Omar Sobhani / Reuters)

Miami Heat forward LeBron James reacts after scoring and drawing a foul against the Sacramento Kings during the first half of a National Basketball Association game in Sacramento. (Steve Yeater / AP)

Pan Yizhong reacts as he chews worms during an eating race in Liuyang, China. He has eaten 147 dumplings in one sitting and polished off 40 bowls of noodles in 15 minutes. (Wang Zhao / AFP/Getty Images)

An arapaima fish swims at Vinpearl Times City Aquarium in Hanoi. The aquarium, which is the largest in Vietnam, opened Tuesday. (Luong Thai Linh / European Pressphoto Agency)

A child beats a drum as a dancing bear performs on a street in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Farooq Naeem / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman walks past dancers from Romania's northeastern region of Moldavia performing the "bear" dance, a ritual for good luck in the new year, during a traditional parade in Comanesti, 186 miles northeast of Bucharest. (Bogdan Cristel / Reuters)

Visitors play with the resident cats in Singapore's first cat cafe, in Boat Quay. Neko no Niwa, or Cat Garden, opened Christmas Day after almost a year of preparations to ensure adherence with the country's stringent animal-control regulations. It houses 13 cats that were adopted or rescued from the streets. (How Hwee Young / European Pressphoto Agency)

Supporters shield their eyes from the sun as Everton plays Southampton during an English Premier League soccer match at Goodison Park Stadium in Liverpool, England. (Jon Super / AP)

Takara Anderson plays the drums during the Kwanzaa celebration at the East Anaheim Community Center in Anaheim, Calif. The seven-day event dates to 1966, according to organizers. (Eugene Garcia / Orange County Register via AP)