December 30, 2013

Divers dressed in penguin costumes perform with a school of fish as part of the New Year and winter vacation season's events at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.

Students stand to form "Happy 2014" to welcome the upcoming New Year at a middle school in Ma'anshan, Anhui province, China.

Ambulances line up at the site of a trolleybus explosion, background, in Volgograd, Russia. A bomb blast tore through the trolleybus, killing at least 10 people a day after a suicide bombing that killed at 17 at the city’s main railway station.

Children stand in the snow outside their shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan.

An aerial shot of a pirogue packed with passengers arriving at a dock after crossing a waterway near the town of Malakal, South Sudan.

The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is seen stranded in ice in Antarctica, Dec. 29, 2013. An Antarctic blizzard has halted an Australian icebreaker's bid to reach the Russian ship trapped for a week with 74 people onboard, rescuers said on Monday.

Rosslyn in Northern Virginia, USA, is seen before the storm, Dec. 29, 2013 (Photo taken by Dimitris Manis/VOA Greek service)

A worker takes a break while arranging "wishing spheres" along Marina Bay in Singapore. People penned their wishes for the New Year onto the spheres before placing them into the river.

Lava spews from the Southeast Crater of Mt. Etna in Sicily, southern Italy.

Kashmiris transport their belongings to a safer place after their houses were destroyed by a fire at Dhobi Ghat, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. At least 14 residential houses were gutted in the fire, according to residents.

Craftsmen make a snow castle at a park in Changchun, Jilin province, China.

Members of Sao Paulo's Commerce Association release thousands of balloons with the color of the Brazilian flag to celebrate the end of the year in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A man dressed up as Spiderman poses for photos as he takes part in the annual "air worthiness" test of confetti in Times Square in New York, Dec. 29, 2013.