

Monkeys at the Dhaka Zoo in Bangladesh cuddle together to stay warm on a cold and foggy Wednesday morning. Pavel Rahman/AP
Spc. Samuel Coast from Meadville, Pa., rests on a stack of duffles as members of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry assemble at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday. The soldiers are leaving to train for about five weeks at Camp Atterbury, Ind., before departing for Afghanistan, where they will serve as security for Provincial Reconstruction Teams. Keith Srakocic/AP
Icicles hang from an orange tree in Plant City, Fla., after it was sprayed with water throughout the night. The water was sprayed to protect plants from freezing in the unusually cold weather. Scott Audette/Reuters
Snow falls around the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in central London on Wednesday. Toby Melville/Reuters
A worshiper lights candles in a church in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 6. According to the Julian calendar that is used by Russia's Orthodox church, Christmas is celebrated on Jan. 7. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
Kap, a polar bear at the Neumuenster Zoo, relaxes in his enclosure as temperatures fall to 23 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday. Heribert Proepper/AP
Valerie and Maik Joradan from Frankfurt, Germany, enjoy the sun while dressed warmly in South Beach, Miami, Fla., on Wednesday. The morning temperature in the area was in the low 40's. Alan Diaz/AP
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady leads a drill during practice at the NFL football team's facility in Foxborough, Mass., on Wednesday. Brady's strong return from a left knee injury, which cost him the entire season last year, has earned Brady The Associated Press 2009 NFL Comeback Player of the Year award. Gretchen Ertl/AP
Iraqi Army soldiers march at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier to mark Army Day in Baghdad, Iraq. The nation commemorates when the Iraqi Army was activated in 1921 while under British rule. Hadi Mizban/AP
US Senator Chris Dodd (D) of Connecticut, announces he will retire at the end of his term in East Haddam, Ct., on Wednesday. Brian Snyder/Reuters
The Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru No. 2 fires a water cannon at the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Ady Gil (at base of ship) in the Antarctic Ocean on Wednesday. The Sea Shepherd's high-speed ship collided with the Shonan Maru in the most serious clash between the two sides in the past several years. JoAnne McArthur/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/AP
A Greek Orthodox pilgrim kisses the wooden cross retrieved from the Golden Horn water course in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday. Greek Orthodox men braved the cold in a race to retrieve the wooden cross, which was thrown into the water in a traditional ceremony commemorating the Epiphany by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the World's Orthodox Christians. Ibrahim Usta/AP
Yun Zi, a five-month-old panda cub, hangs onto a limb while playing in one of the panda enclosures at the San Diego Zoo on Wednesday. Yun Zi will make his public debut tomorrow at the zoo. Lenny Ignelzi/AP
Kumiki Yudai hands a Chinese cabbage to a robot named 'Robovie-II,' developed by Japanese robotic research institution ATR, at a grocery store during a shopping assistant experiment on Wednesday. The robot greets the shopper at the entrance of the store, follows him to the shelves while holding a grocery basket, and reminds him of the items on a shopping list previously entered through a mobile device. The experiment aims to gather data in order to provide assistance to the elderly through robots and network technologies. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
A man and his horse are sprayed with holy water during the Epiphany religious services in Izvoru, Romania, on Wednesday. Traditionally, the villagers have their horses blessed with the holy water before participating in a race to mark the holiday. Vadim Ghirda/AP