Photos of the Day: An ice-Covered River and Homemade Rafts

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Performers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school take part in the first night of the Rio carnival at the Sambadrome

Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

 

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

A car on a road connecting the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River

Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

 

Schramberg, Germany

People ride homemade rafts down the Schiltach stream in a race as part of the town’s carnival celebrations

Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters