Tuesday in photos

A girl peeps out of a tent on a foggy morning in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh state, India. Police diver Daniel Stark is seen under the ice surface of a frozen lake at Boennigheim near Heilbronn, Germany. Marine mammal trainer Daniel Ng presents Gracie, a resident Sea Cow also known as Dugong, with a cake covered with sea grass in Singapore at the Singapore Underwater World. View a slideshow of these images and more.

Section:Gallery

Tue., Jan. 13, 2009

A girl peeps out of a tent on a foggy morning in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Uttar Pradesh is one of India's poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 million people are homeless, according to state government statistics. Last year, the state reported 151 cold-related deaths.

Rajesh Singh Ap
Hindu devotees take holy dip during the annual Makar Sankranti festival at a natural hot water spring at Tatapani, 52 kilometers (33 miles) from Shimla, India, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Makar Sankranti celebrates the sun's journey into the northern hemisphere, a period which is considered to be highly auspicious and is one of the most important festivals of the Hindu calendar.

Anil Dayal Ap
Flares and smoke are seen during an Israeli military operation in downtown Gaza City, early Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.

Khalil Hamra Ap
Flares and smoke are seen during an Israeli military operation in downtown Gaza City, early Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.

Khalil Hamra Ap
An explosion from an Israeli airstrike is seen in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Israeli troops advanced into Gaza suburbs for the first time early Tuesday, residents said, hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Islamic militants that they face an "iron fist" unless they agree to Israeli terms for an end to war in the Gaza Strip.

Abdalrahem Khateb Ap
Lebanese soldiers, left, stand guard behind razor wire in front of the building of the Egyptian embassy as people from leftist group burn a representation of an Israeli flag during a protest against Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Israeli ground troops battled Palestinian militants in the streets of a densely populated Gaza City neighborhood early Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes and sending terrified residents running for cover as gunfire and explosions echoed in the distance.

Fadi Ghalioum Ap
Bosnian people search for food and other provisions, scavenging anything that is worth re-cycling at the garbage depot on the outskirts of their village, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, near their village of Visca, suburb of northern Bosnian town of Zivinice, Bosnia. The extreme winter low temperatures persist in the region and has forced people who live in poverty to resort to desperate measures to scrape a living.

Amel Emric Ap
An Italian Arcigay gay rights association activist throws flowers in Rome, during a demonstration in front of the Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, to remember Alfredo Ormando. Ormando, 39, from Palermo, Sicily, set himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, on Jan. 13, 1998, to protest against the anti-gay policy of the Roman Catholic church.

Sandro Pace Ap
Equipped with an elaborate mask, a fancyful designed hat showing various motives and cow bells, a so-called Silvesterchlaus (New Year's Clauses) walks from house to house in Urnaesch, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, to offer his best wishes for the New Year to the farmers in this region. After a performance of singing and dancing they usually receive food, hot drinks or money.

Ennio Leanza Ap
The Swiss Alps above high fog are seen from the health resort Hoechenschwand, southern Germany on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.

Steffen Schmidt Ap
Fog surrounds the landscape around the town Kerns in central Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.

Urs Flueeler Ap
The moon is seen over a landscape near Dresden, eastern Germany, early Tuesday morning, Jan. 13, 2009.

Matthias Rietschel Ap
Spain's Prado Museum director Miguel Zugaza is seen backlighted by a projection of a Google Earth slideshow after a press conference, in Madrid, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009.Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth in a unique project that allows art enthusiasts to zoom in on the gallery's main works from anywhere in the world, and even detect details not immediately discernible to the human eye.The initiative, the first of its kind in the world, involves 14 paintings which include Velazquez's "Las Meninas," Goya's "Third of May" and Rubens' "The Three Graces."

Daniel Olza Ap
An investor reacts as he looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares fell Tuesday on unease about a bleak outlook for corporate profits and declines on Wall Street and elsewhere in Asia. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 1.95 percent, or 36.98 points, to close at 1863.37.

Eugene Hoshiko Ap
Marine mammal trainer Daniel Ng presents Gracie, a resident Sea Cow also known as Dugong, with a cake covered with sea grass on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 in Singapore at the Singapore Underwater World. The Sea Cow or Dugong, a highly endangered species similar in shape and size to the dolphin is celebrating its twelfth birthday in conjunction with the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Ox.

Wong Maye-E Ap
Police diver Daniel Stark is seen under the ice surface of a frozen lake at Boennigheim near Heilbronn, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 during an ice diving practice session of the local police divers.

Thomas Kienzle Ap
Spokane police Officer Mike McCasland waits for a tow truck to free a semitruck jackknifed on a snow berm Monday on Riverside and Madison. Riverside Ave.westbound is blocked at Monroe.

Colin Mulvany The Spokesman-Review