The top images of the day range from dramatic sunsets, to the Dalai Lama making jokes and the introduction of a four-week-old Javon Gibbon in the UK. Here’s our selection:
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama points to his swollen right eye as he talks to journalists before boarding his chartered flight in Dharmsala, India, on 19 January. The Tibetan leader said that he was going to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, New York for a regular medical checkup.
An Orthodox believer plunges in icy water during celebrations of the Epiphany in Kiev, Ukraine.
Orthodox believers celebrate the holiday of the Epiphany on 19 January, and traditionally bathe in holes cut through thick ice on rivers and ponds to cleanse themselves with water deemed holy for the day.
A man plunges into icy water on the Epiphany in Moscow, Russia, with his son in his arms.
A four week old Javan Gibbon clinging to its mother Belle as it makes its public debut at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park near Ashford in Kent.
The as yet unnamed baby is the first of its species to be born at the park in six years.
The sunrise over Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire , as swathes of the country have been warned of icy conditions. The Met Office issued a yellow warning of ice stretching from the northern half of Scotland down to northern England, as outbreaks of sleet and snow overnight threatened to create slick conditions in sub-zero temperatures.
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