10 photo highlights today

Mist lingers around trees on the Somerset Levels as the early morning sun rises over Glastonbury, in the UK. Gorgeous! Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

This picture from day two of the Ashes test, was sent in to us today as an alternative approach to photographing the match. Mitchell Johnson of Australia looks as though he's the subject of an impressionist painting as he runs in to bowl against England at The Gabba in Brisbane. Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

Serving it up on a tea tray, these demonstrators make their feelings clear before a march to the headquarters of energy company npower in London during a protest against energy prices. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

In Thailand today the anti-government protest is a riot of colourful rainwear as demonstrators block the road outside the Interior Ministry in Bangkok. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Mount Sinabung is continuing to erupt on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, blanketing crops in thick ash. Several thousand people were evacuated from their homes overnight, taking the total number of those who have fled the recent eruption to around 12,300, said the national disaster agency. Photograph: Sutanta Aditya/AFP/Getty Images

He who dares wins... some good fortune hopefully. Walking through burning charcoal in a ritual called Lianhuo, or fire walking, in Pan'an county, Zhejiang province in China is seen as as a way to ward off evil and bring luck. Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

A little boy gets a shower in the street before leaving for school in Lalitpur, Nepal. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Portrait of the day goes to this turkey at Fenham-Le-Moor Farm in Northumberland where he and 650 of his companions are, um, getting ready for Christmas. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Photographer Alan Crowhurst made sure he was in the right place at the right time to take this striking picture of horses and riders making their way along the gallops at Seven Barrows Stables in Lambourn, England. Great work! Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

Who's watching who? The King penguins are on parade at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland. The parade only takes place in winter when temperatures fall below 10 degrees Celsius. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA