World in focus – best photos for January 9, 2017

Philippine National Police Special Action Force use binoculars to scan the route as Filipino Roman Catholic devotees join a procession to celebrate the feast day of the Black Nazarene Monday in Manila. The raucous celebration drew tens of thousands of devotees in a barefoot procession that lasted for several hours around the Manila streets and ended up with several people injured. Bullit Marquez / AP Photo

A rider competes in the Elite Men’s Championship on the second day of the 2017 British Cycling National Cyclo-Cross Championships in Peel Park, Bradford, northern England. The sport of cyclo-cross, featuring lightweight bikes with off-road tyres, has dramatically increased in popularity over the past few years. Oli Scarff / AFP

A girl is pulled by a dog as she skates down a street which is closed off to traffic to allow the public to jog, cycle and skate through the Chapinero district of Bogota, Colombia. David Gannon / AFP

A man covered in a rain coat drives his scooter down an empty road in Jiaxing, China’s Jiangsu province. Johannes Eisele / AFP

Legend Lin Dance Theatre dancers perform The Eternal Tides during a press event at the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwanese artistic director and choreographer Lee-Chen Lin has dedicated to the collection and preservation of the traditional cultures of Taiwan, particularly dance and music elements in the religious rituals and ceremonial rites, and then incorporated these elements into her choreography of The Eternal Tides. The dance will be performed in March at the hall. Chiang Ying-ying / AP Photo

Herders ride horses as they fight for a goat during a Buzkashi game at a winter festival in Yili, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China. China Daily / via Reuters

Japanese women wearing kimonos ride a roller coaster during their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo, Japan. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters

Filipino Roman Catholic devotees climb the carriage to kiss and rub with their towels the image of the Black Nazarene to celebrate its feast day in Manila, Philippines. The raucous celebration drew tens of thousands of devotees in a barefoot procession that last for several hours around Manila streets and end up with several people injured. Bullit Marquez / AP Photo

People walk by the seaside with the view of historical Maiden Tower under heavy snow in Uskudar district, on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey. Temperatures in Istanbul dropped to sub-zero degrees in with snowfalls and frost that even caused hundreds of incoming and outbound flights being cancelled due to the severe winterly weather conditions. Cem Turkel / EPA

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