The best images from around the world for Jan. 5
Penguins swim in their pool during the annual stock take at London Zoo. Caring for more than 750 different species, zoo keepers started the New Year with the task of counting every animal.Kirsty Wigglesworth/The Associated Press
A few hundred protesters gather in front of the offices of the President of Dalhousie University in Halifax. The protest was a reaction to recent controversy involving some Dalhousie dentistry program students and their comments made on social media.Scott Munn/The Globe and Mail
The Alma tug boat, operated by Svitzer A/S, sits grounded on Bramble Bank on the Isle of Wight, U.K. The car transporter was deliberately grounded after developing a list, shortly after it left the Port of Southampton.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Toronto Maple Leafs' Roman Polak is silhouetted while participating in an outdoor practice open to the public at the Harry Gairey rink in Toronto.Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
A piece of a recovered window panel of AirAsia Flight 8501 is shown at a press conference in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.Trisnadi/The Associated Press
A Nepalese woman devotee sits near a bonfire to warm herself during the first day of month long Swasthani Bratakatha festival in Sankhu, Nepal. Unmarried women pray to get a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast.Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press
A cyclist makes his way along a path beside the Rideau Canal Skate Way in Ottawa. Within the last 24 hours the nation's capital has gone from freezing rain and above zero temperatures into a deep freeze and frostbite warnings.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
People pray on the first day of business in 2015 at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese stocks swung between gains and losses on the first trading day of the year, with airlines leading gains and energy explorers falling as crude oil dropped.Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg
Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armoured personnel carriers during a ceremony to hand over weapons, military equipment and aircrafts to the army at a firing range outside Zhytomyr, Ukraine.Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters
Outgoing General Secretary of the International Organisation of Francophonie and former Senegalese president Abdou Diouf (L) welcomes newly-appointed IOF General Secretary, Canadian Michaelle Jean at the IOF headquarters in Paris.Bertrand Guay/AFP / Getty Images