10 photo highlights

Camels walk along sand dunes in the Liwa desert, United Arab Emirate as the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival takes place Photograph: KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images

Aymara women traffic police speak during a training session before heading out to control the vehicular traffic on the streets of El Alto, Bolivia Photograph: Juan Karita/AP

Children dressed in Santa Claus costumes gather around a girl dressed up as Virgin Mary during Christmas celebrations at a church in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters

A boy from Dinka tribe smiles in a Dinka cattle herders camp near Rumbek, capital of the Lakes State in central South Sudan Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A bicycle is covered with ice after freezing rain in Toronto, Canada. Thousands of households are without power in the Greater Toronto area following an overnight ice storm Photograph: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters

Scottish polar bears play in the freshly fallen snow. Highland Wild Life Park currently have two male polar bears in their collection and the two bears have become inseparable and have formed a very close bond Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova speaks to the media after she was released from prison in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Tolokonnikova was freed from prison under an amnesty that allowed for her early release from a two-year sentence for a protest in a church against President Vladimir Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

French troops of the Sangaris operation try to comfort a crying boy after a demonstrator was shot dead by African Union soldiers near the international airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

A monk walks in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank. Every Christmas pilgrims travel to the church where a gold star embedded in the floor marks the spot where Jesus was believed to have been born Photograph: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images

A squirrel eating a mince pie in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The squirrel picked up the pie after it was left by passers-by and scampered back up a tree to scoff its feast Photograph: Michael McGurk/Rex Features