US News FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailCopy The day in photos By Social Links for Post Staff Report View Author Archive Get author RSS feed Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Back to Reading Published Jan. 30, 2014, 4:30 p.m. ET 1 of 13 A woman holds a crucifix in the faces of riot police as protesters refused to leave their barricades in Kiev, Ukraine on Thursday. Getty Images 2 of 13 A tree is decorated with red lanterns ahead of the Chinese New Year on Friday in Beijing. Getty Images 3 of 13 People visit the flower market in Victoria Park on Thursday as Hong Kong prepares for the Chinese New Year. Getty Images/Xaume Olleros 4 of 13 A car races around a bend on the third day of 2014 Formula One preseason testing Thursday in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Getty Images 5 of 13 Tom Scudamore leads the pack on his way to win the Novices' Hurdle Race on Thursday at Wincanton Racecourse in England. Getty Images 6 of 13 A Hindu devotee offers prayers to the god of sun on Mauni Amavasya — new moon day — Thursday in Allahabad, India. AP/Rajesh Kumar Singh 7 of 13 Monkeys huddle together against the cold morning in New Delhi, India. AP/Saurabh Das 8 of 13 A lion cub snarls at a GoPro camera mounted on a remote-controlled car in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve. Barcroft Media 9 of 13 The cub curiously toys with the camera.. Barcroft Media 10 of 13 Hindu women take water from the holy Bagmati River during the festival of Madhav Narayan on Thursday in Kathmandu, Nepal. AP/Niranjan Shrestha 11 of 13 Security forces line up before the opening of the Spring Festival on Thursday at Beijing's Temple of Earth park. Getty Images 12 of 13 An eight-week-old lion cub bares his teeth at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata, Greece. AP/Thanassis Stavrakis 13 of 13 Ice crystals glisten in the sunlight in Wake Forest, N.C., where temperatures reached single digits on Thursday. AP Up Next World's most fantastic ice sculptures