Bizarre ice formations are seen on the banks of a mountain stream near Fuessen, in Bavaria.
The statue of Christ the Redeemer is seen during sunset in Rio de Janeiro.
Clowns pose for a photo during an annual pilgrimage at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
A NASA image shot from the Hubble shows hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent region in the Large Magellic Cloud galaxy.
Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier calves blocks of ice near the city of El Calafate, in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz.
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