Friday: The day in photos
British ice sculptor Mick Fox applies the finishing touches to a penguin sculpture during London’s first International Ice Sculpting Festival on the grounds of the National History Museum. The festival, whose theme is “Wildlife in the City,” is a timed, international competition between five teams of ice sculptors from around the globe. (Shuan Curry / AFP/Getty Images)
A nun and visitor try to stay warm near a wood-burning stove in a monastery near the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Russia’s natural gas company Gazprom stopped all natural gas shipments to Ukraine and Europe amid a debt and pricing dispute. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin struck a deal early today with the European Union on supervising the flow of natural gas through Ukraine, paving the way to restart shipments to fuel-starved European customers. (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)
Men run bare chested in the Retiro Park after an unusually heavy snowfall in Madrid. (Victor R. Caivano / Associated Press)
Icicles cover an anchor chain at the Rhine river in front of the cathedral in Cologne in western Germany. (Roberto Pfeil / Associated Press)
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A dog plays in the snow on the banks of a lake in Luedenscheid, Germany. Germany is experiencing one of its coldest winters of the last 100 years, the national weather service said, with temperatures dropping as low as minus 30 degrees in the mountains in the south. (Phillip Guelland / AFP/Getty Images)
“The Highjumper” is on display in the southern German city of Heidelberg as part of the Body Worlds exhibit. Body Worlds, the exhibition of Gunther von Hagens’ controversial technique of preservation of corpses by means of plastination, runs there from Jan. 10 to April 16. (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli police attempt to dodge stones being thrown by Palestinian protesters during clashes in east Jerusalem. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP/Getty Images)
Filipino Catholic devotees wave white cloths as they await the cart carrying the black statue of Jesus Christ known as the Black Nazarene during the celebration of its feast in front of a church in Manila. (Pat Roque / Associated Press)
