10 photo highlights today

A young dancer from Slovakia shows off her agility competing in the preliminaries of the World Show Dance Championships in Riesa, Germany. With around 3,000 dancers from 31 countries competing for a variety of titles, we're looking forward to seeing more images from the event this week. Photograph: Hendrik Schmidt/EPA

Riot police standing guard in front of the Ukrainian Cabinet of the Ministers are an imposing presence during a protest in Kiev. Ukrainians staged the biggest rally in Kiev since the 2004 Orange Revolution demanding that the government sign a key pact with the European Union. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

Photographed against the light of the setting sun, Afghan refugee children play in a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Angry anti-government protesters shout as they get ready to attack a police barricade near the Government house in Bangkok. Demonstrators forced their way into Thailand's finance ministry as thousands called for the resignation of the prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Twelve year old Mary Joy Fabella cooks dinner for her family as her father opens canned fish in their makeshift shelter in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in Palo, the Philippines. Survivors are still struggling with daily life after thousands had their homes and livelihoods destroyed by the typhoon. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

These women sitting with their bibles are attending the Worldwide Missionary Movement National Congress held at the San Marcos stadium in Lima, Peru. The crop the photographer has chosen emphasises their commonality. Photograph: Karel Navarro Pando/AP

A heartfelt moment is witnessed between Chinese paramilitary policemen as they see off veteran colleagues during a farewell ceremony in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

Looking a little like Narnia, the Fichtelberg near Oberwiesenthal in eastern Germany has been transformed into a spectacular wintery scene. Photograph: Bernd M RZ/AFP/Getty Images

It's the travelling circus...of a kind. White House staff and press board Air Force One on a foggy morning in Seattle on their way to attend fundraisers and events on the economy and immigration with President Obama in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Head to head: a wonderful picture of symmetry as Pope Francis meets Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Vatican Basilica, in St Peter's, Rome. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP