Photos of the day

Hindu fire breathers and bread robes: photos of the day – Thursday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

London, UK

The Kilgore College Rangerettes from Texas in the New Year’s Day parade in central London. The annual event attracts an audience of 500,000 to watch performances by 10,000 participants from the UK, US and Europe

Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu/Getty Images

Les Rousses, France

A skater looks at pancake ice on the frozen Lac des Rousses in eastern France. This phenomenon forms when slushy ice in water clumps into round, pancake-like shapes due to waves or currents

Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Banda Aceh, Indonesia

An aerial picture shows fishers arranging nets on a beach on the north coast of Sumatra

Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images

Manila, Philippines

Participants raise their hands to be blessed with holy water during the annual Catholic Feast of the Black Nazarene

Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters

Prayagraj, India

A Panchayati Mahanirvani Akhara devotee performs fire-breathing stunts in a procession towards the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh

Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Children warm up by lighting fires on the street to escape the cold

Photograph: Md Rakibul Hasan Rafiu/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Osmaniye, Turkey

An aerial view of agricultural workers washing and packaging radishes in a stream in the Kadirli district near the southern city of Osmaniye, where most of Turkey’s radish production takes place

Photograph: Ahmet Aslan/Anadolu/Getty Images

Banjul, Gambia

A procession before an annual hunting festival that marks the new year with music, dancing and a contest between rival societies for the best display of animal heads, masks and costumes

Photograph: Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP/Getty Images

Little Bollington, UK

A drone view shows flooding after part of the Bridgewater canal embankment collapsed during heavy rain in north-west England

Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Dunfanaghy, Ireland

A surfer on Marble Hill beach on the north coast of Donegal. A yellow weather and ice warning has been issued across Ireland as temperatures are set to drop to -3C overnight

Photograph: David Young/PA

Pasadena, US

The Ohio State University marching band performs before the college football playoffs quarter-final at the Rose Bowl stadium in California

Photograph: Jon SooHoo/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Chucuito, Peru

Aymara Indigenous people at the Roscasiri festival, a traditional Aymara event in which people decorate themselves with bread and fruit to represent abundance for the new year

Photograph: Connie France Calderon Martel/AFP/Getty Images

Harbin, China

A winter swimming enthusiast braves an ice pool in Harbin in north-east China

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Seoul, South Korea

Supporters of the impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol lie in the street outside his official residence

Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images