January 9, 2019

Filipino Roman Catholic devotees cross the bridge in a raucous procession of the Black Nazarene to celebrate its feast day in Manila, Philippines.

People are seen on top of the Marina Bay Sands SkyPark observation deck in Singapore.

Workers at a brick factory stack bricks on carts in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Iceland horses play in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany.

Dark clouds hang over the city of Frankfurt, Germany.

A Naga Sadhu or a Hindu holy man, wearing prayer beads, plays a traditional instrument on the banks of the River Ganges ahead of the "Kumbh Mela," or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, previously known as Allahabad, India.

Mini's Spanish driver Nani Roma and co-driver Alexandre Haro Bravo compete during the Stage 2 of the Dakar 2019 between Pisco and San Juan de Marcona, Peru.

The Bell Nexus, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is displayed during the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 8, 2019.

Hundreds of houses are part of the Sarot Group's Burj Al Babas project close to the town center of Mudurnu in the Bolu northwestern region, Turkey. The project to build 732 villas and a shopping center, which began in 2014, encountered difficulties as Sarot Group applied for bankruptcy protection. Sarot Group's decision cames after some of their Gulf customers could not pay for the villas they had bought as part of the $200 million (175 million euros) project, Sarot's deputy chairman, Mezher Yerdelen, said. The villas are worth between $400,000 to 500,000 each.

Waves crash on the shoreline of the al-Manara promenade in Lebanon's capital city Beirut.

Bangladeshi garment workers vandalize a vehicle during a protest in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Thousands of garment workers have staged demonstrations to demand better wages for the fourth straight day, shutting down factories on the outskirts of the capital.

Washington's first and oldest synagogue, Adas Israel Synagogue, is moved on a remote controlled platform to its new location where it will become be the cornerstone of the Capital Jewish Museum on 3rd St. NW in Washington, D.C.

Czech National Ballet cast members perform during a rehearsal of "La Bayadere" at Maestranza Theatre in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain.

A Kenya Wildlife Service officer carries a tortoise leaving the scene where Chinese nationals were detained after a police operation aimed at stopping contraband goods, including illegal ivory and animal trophies, in Kilimani area of Nairobi, Kenya.