Today in Pictures, Jan 22, 2018

Italy's Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek perform during the Gala Exhibition at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Moscow, Russia, a Filipino woman in colorful costume holds a statue of the Santo Nino (Child Jesus) as she performs during the Sinulog Grand Parade marking the feast of Child Jesus in Cebu City, Philippines and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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January 22, 2018 at 11:32 AM

Tennis player Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan prepares to serve against Angelique Kerber of Germany at the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Jan 22, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Pedestrians walk along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, on Jan 21, 2018, following a government shutdown. PHOTO: NYTIMES

Memory cards filled out by audience members and old photographs line the set of Native Guard in Atlanta, US, on Jan 12, 2018. The Alliance Theatre has brought Native Guard to Atlanta in the thick of debate about Confederate monuments. PHOTO: NYTIMES

People attend the battle of flour, marking the beginning of the carnival celebrations in Xinzo de Limia, Galicia, north-western Spain, on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Seven-year-old twins brothers Miroslav and Timophei Yaroshenko, members of the Cryophile winter swimmers club, play on a bank the Yenisei River that has been covered in snow, with the air temperature at about minus 38 deg C on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Italy's Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek perform during the Gala Exhibition at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Moscow, Russia, on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

Donja Zwinkels of Netherlands reacts after her penalty shot during the 2018 Eurohockey Women's Indoor Championship final match between Germany and The Netherlands in Prague, Czech Republic, on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Indian farmer Neeraj Singh holds a shovel as he walks through his mustard field on the outskirts of Amritsar on the eve of the Indian festival of Basant Panchmi, on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

A Filipino woman in colourful costume holds a statue of the Santo Nino (Child Jesus) as she performs during the Sinulog Grand Parade marking the feast of Child Jesus in Cebu City, Philippines, on Jan 21, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A balloon is tied to a child's push chair during the Tamborrada on the Day of San Sebastian, in which people dressed as Napoleonic era soldiers and cooks, in the Basque coastal town of San Sebastian, Spain, on Jan 20, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

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