10 photo highlights of the day – in pictures

Young women in traditional costumes at a New Year's Eve parade in Bali, Indonesia Photograph: Firdia Lisnawati/AP

Up Helly Aa Vikings take part in a torchlight procession on the first night of the new year celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian

A kite seller is silhouetted during sundown on New Year's Eve in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/Demotix/Corbis

A massive fireball rises into the air after two trains collided outside Casselton, North Dakota. A freight train derailed and was hit by a second train. There were no reports of injuries in the accident Photograph: Dave Arntson/ZUMA Press/Corbis

Children show posters with the Chinese character, Ma, meaning 'horse' in English, to celebrate the forthcoming year of the horse, at a primary school in Jiujiang, China Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

A migrant labourer waits for his facial cream to dry at a barber shop in New Delhi, India Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters

People leave the Nevado de Colima national park in Mexico after it was temporarily closed to visitors following three days of snowfall Photograph: HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images

The Motherland Calls monument in thick fog at the Mamayev Kurgana second world war memorial complex in Volgograd, Russia Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

Muslim residents stand behind the remains of burning furniture as they shout threats at gathered Christians in Bangui, Central African Republic Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

A rocky area on the Saulire mountain in Meribel, France, where Michael Schumacher had a skiing accident. Schumacher is still in a critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery Photograph: David Ebener/dpa/Corbis