Photos of the Day: A Bhelaghar Structure and a Moment of Mourning

Queensland, Australia

An endangered dead Great Hammerhead shark is found in a shark net off a beach on the Gold Coast. Activists are calling for the Queensland government to remove the nets
Photograph: Sea Shepherd Australia/EPA

St Petersburg, Russia

Performers work with fireworks during a Christmas Star light show near the Peter and Paul Fortress
Photograph: Alexander Demianchuk/TASS

Gaillac, France

Visitors admire giant lanterns installed at the Foucaud Park for the Lantern Festival. Thirty-six scenes and nearly five hundred monumental silk sculptures are on display
Photograph: Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty Images

Sydney, Australia

A storm front sweeps up the coast of New South Wales
Photograph: Michele Mossop/Getty Images

Assam, India

A worker prepares a Bhelaghar structure, made of bamboo and straw, as part of celebrations ahead of the Magh Bihu festival in the Morigaon district
Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters