December 30, 2013

Divers dressed in penguin costumes perform with a school of fish as part of the New Year and winter vacation season's events at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.

An American Robin, known for its warm orange breast and cheery singing, sits in a tree as snow falls in Fairfax, Virginia. (Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

Ambulances line up at the site of a trolleybus explosion, background, in Volgograd, Russia. A bomb blast tore through the trolleybus, killing at least 10 people a day after a suicide bombing that killed at 17 at the city’s main railway station.

Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan.

An aerial shot of a pirogue packed with passengers arriving at a dock after crossing a waterway near the town of Malakal, South Sudan.

The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is seen stranded in ice in Antarctica, Dec. 29, 2013. An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach the Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said.

Norwegian supporters follow the Nordic Combined ski jumping competition in the ski stadium of the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.

A worker takes a break while arranging "wishing spheres" along Marina Bay in Singapore. People penned their wishes for the New Year onto the spheres before placing them into the river.

Lava spews from the Southeast Crater of Mt. Etna in Sicily, southern Italy.

Rusiya tərəfdarı separatçılar Donetsk yaxınlığından ağır texnikanı çıxarır - Yelenovka kəndi. 26 fevral. 2015


 

Norwegian supporters follow the Nordic Combined ski jumping competition in the ski stadium of the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.

Members of Sao Paulo's Commerce Association release thousands of balloons with the color of the Brazilian flag to celebrate the end of the year in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A man dressed up as Spiderman poses for photos as he takes part in the annual "air worthiness" test of confetti in Times Square in New York, Dec. 29, 2013.