Photos of the Day: A Baby Orangutan and Firefighters

Tokyo, Japan

Business people pray for prosperity in the new year at the Kandamyojin shrine. 4 January is the first business day of the year in Japan

Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

Washington, US

Nancy Pelosi (left), newly elected speaker of the House, greets Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a mock swearing-in event at the Capitol. Ocasio-Cortez, 29, in November became the youngest woman to serve in Congress

Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Sydney, Australia

Supporters known as the Richies, after the former Australian cricketer Richie Benaud, on the second day of the fourth test against India

Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP