Photos of the day - January 16, 2014

The best news photos of the day for January 16, 2014.

A devotee offers prayer by crawling on the ground during the first day of Swasthani Brata Katha festival in Kathmandu, saltwater crocodile Max swims in a water basin during the annual inventory at the zoo in Dresden, a Hindu devotee takes a ritual shower before he starts his pilgrimage to the sacred Batu Caves Temple during Thaipusam festival outside Kuala Lumpur and a Palestinian boy walks among the rubble of a destroyed home after rocket fire in northeastern Gaza City are some of the photos of the day. (AP/Reuters)

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