A girl walks along an avenue of trees decorated with red lanterns ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at Ditan Park in Beijing.

Seen from above, an icebreaker dislodges a refrigerator ship stranded in ice in Russia's Sea of Okhotsk.

Newborn elephants Shavu and Uli enjoy their first get-together at a zoo in Wuppertal, Germany.

Peeping out from between her wares, a Thai vendor waits for customers at her sidewalk shop in Bangkok, Thailand.

Icy temperatures mean Montpelier's many chimneys are hard at work in the Vermont town in the US.