This is a selection of photos taken today from all around the world to inform you what happened this day. Take a look at these photos to keep abreast of what’s going on in the world. Remember that one photo says more than thousands words.

From a spotted seal that waits to be fed in the icy water at seal bay in east China’s Shandong Province to Muslim devotees from around the world who are attending Friday prayers in the streets during the first day of the three-day-long Muslim Congregation at Tongi.

Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!

Yantai City, China

A spotted seal waits to be fed in the icy water at seal bay in east China’s Shandong Province
Photograph: Shen Jizhong/ Xinhua/Barcroft Images

Salvador, Brazil

People take part in the traditional event Lavagem das Escadarias Bonfim, a symbolic washing of the steps and churchyard of the Bonfim church with scented water, which dates back to the 1700s
Photograph: Lucio Tavora/AFP/Getty Images

La Paz, Bolivia

Peugeot driver Stephane Peterhansel and his co-driver Jean Paul Cottret spray spectators as they drive between Arequipa and La Paz during stage 6 of the 2018 Dakar Rally
Photograph: Eric Vargiolu/AFP/Getty Images

Krevo, Belarus

A picture taken with a drone of a truck driving past a forest near the village of Krevo, 100 km north of Minsk
Photograph: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images

Singapore

Khansa, an eight month old critically endangered Bornean orangutan, shows off its two front-teeth at Singpore Zoo. This is the zoo’s 46th successful orangutan birth as part of its active breeding programmes used for wildlife preservation
Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Makurdi, Nigeria

Pall bearers carry the coffins through Ibrahim Babangida Square of those killed during clashes between cattle herders and farmers. Violence between the two groups has claimed thousands of lives over the past few decades
Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images

Bhaktapur, Nepal

A worker stacks bricks on his head at a factory in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley
Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Van, Turkey

Water turns to ice as it drips down a wall in the freezing temperatures
Photograph: Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Banda Aceh, Indonesia

A wild animal known as Binturong sticks its head out of a cage at the Aceh Natural Resources Conservation Agency office. The agency takes in rare and protected animals from people who have them illegally as pets and release them back to their natural habitat
Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Muslim devotees from around the world attend Friday prayers in the streets during the first day of the three-day-long Muslim Congregation at Tongi
Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA