WIDE AWAKE: An ultraorthodox Jewish mother prepared her newborn baby for the pidyon haben, or 'redemption of the first-born son,' ritual ceremony in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday.
ALL WET: British Prime Minister David Cameron exited a tunnel as he participated in the Great Brook Run in Chadlington, England, Thursday. Competitors waded through rivers and a tunnel.
BIG BRAIN: A farmer harvested rice next to 'Planting Brain,' an installation by artist Suharyanto Tri, in Bantul, Indonesia, Thursday. The artist's work is part of an outdoor sculpture exhibit called 'Last Harvest,' in which artists are voicing their concerns over diminishing…
INNER PEACE: A young Buddhist monk smiled as he took a break from performing a ritual at the Boudhanath Stupa temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday. Hundreds of monks from different monasteries prayed for peace and prosperity for the world.
IN FLUX: Protesters shouted Thursday in New Delhi at a demonstration against the recent gang-rape of a woman on a moving bus. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged Thursday to take action to protect the nation's women, while the victim was flown to Singapore for treatment.
FEELING FAINT: A bystander used a poster of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to fan a woman who fainted near Ms. Bhutto's mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan, Thursday. Ms. Bhutto was assassinated five years ago…
GET YOUR GOAT: A man walked with his goat amid snow in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday.
REFLECTIONS: Swings cast reflections in floodwaters in Wuerzburg, Germany, Thursday.
MAKING THE MOST OF IT: A girl played in floodwaters outside her house in Rantau Panjang, Malaysia, Thursday. Flooding has forced more than 10,000 Malaysians to evacuate their homes.
STACKED HIGH: A fisherman stacked fish caught during an ice-fishing event in Chagan Lake in Qian Gorlos, an autonomous Mongolian region of China, Thursday.
MADE IN THE SHADE: Beach umbrellas dotted Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro Thursday.
SNOW DOG: Luna, a black Labrador mix, ran through fresh snow in East Derry, N.H., Thursday. Parts of the state were expected to see as much as 18 inches of snow.
EMPTY SHELL: A Free Syrian Army fighter carried the empty shell of a cluster bomb fired by a jet fighter near Menagh air base near Aleppo, Syria, Thursday.
GOODBYE: A man reached out and touched a deceased finback whale on a beach Thursday in the New York borough of Queens. The 60-foot whale, which beached itself Wednesday, had floated away from the Breezy Point neighborhood during high tide overnight to nearby National Park Service…
TRIANGULATION: A workers installed a panel with Waterford Crystal triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball in New York Thursday. Hundreds of new crystal triangles adorn the ball.