Day in Photos

January 5, 2020

Tourists walk in front of an ice sculpture ahead of the opening of the Harbin International Snow and Sculpture Festival in Harbin, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province, Jan. 4, 2020.

Bernadette Foster, a Dignams Creek resident, is seen with her pet dogs at the evacuation center in Cobargo, as bushfires continue in New South Wales, Australia.

In this photo provided by The Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, flag draped coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike, carried on a truck during their funeral in southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran.

Riot police pour water on the face of an anti-government protester who was pepper sprayed while getting detained after an anti-parallel trading protest at Sheung Shui, a border town in Hong Kong.

A sushi chef holds up the head of a bluefin tuna at a restaurant in Tsukji market area in Tokyo, Japan, after it was sold at the first auction of 2020 at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market. The tuna was sold 193.2 million yen ($1.8 million).

The car of driver Dumas Romain and co-driver Winocq Alexandre of France burns during stage one of the Dakar Rally, between Jiddah and Al Wajh, Saudi Arabia.

This photo provided by the U.S. Army, paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division walk as they prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 4, 2020.

This handout picture released by the Sumatra Barat Nature Conservation Agency shows a giant Rafflesia tuan-mudae - a fleshy red flower with white blister-like spots on its enormous petals at the Maninjau nature preserve in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Couples arrive for a "mass ice and snow wedding" ahead of the opening of the Harbin International Snow and Sculpture Festival in Harbin, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province.

Nottingham Forest's English goalkeeper Jordan Smith makes a save during the English FA Cup third round football match between Chelsea and Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge in London.