Today’s top pics: Spectacular Northern Lights show over Iceland and more
Top photos of the day as selected by the Associated Press.
APTOPIX Canucks Flyers Hockey
Referees try to break up a fight between the Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, in Philadelphia. Philadelphia won 2-1. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
APTOPIX India Kumbh
Naked ash-smeared Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men return to their camp after taking dip at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, on Mauni Amavsya or the new moon day, the most auspicious day during the Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The Kumbh Mela is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at Sangam that dates back to at least medieval times. Pilgrims bathe in the river believing it cleanses them of their sins and ends their process of reincarnation. The event, which UNESCO added to its list of intangible human heritage in 2017, is the largest congregation of pilgrims on earth. Some 150 million people are expected to attend this year's Kumbh, which runs through early March. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
APTOPIX Russia Europe Weather
A worker clears snow next to the snow covered statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin at the Lenin Hut Museum in a forest near Razliv Lake, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Another cyclone caused a week of snowfall in St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
APTOPIX Winter Weather
A child plays at Westcrest Park in White Center in Seattle on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Winter weather pounded a swath of the U.S. West on Monday, closing schools, delaying hundreds of flights and turning coastal cities like Seattle that rarely get much snow unusually white, while the Midwest warmed up from a dangerous blast of cold last week. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
APTOPIX Switzerland Dance
A dancer waits prior to stepping on stage during the first day of the 47th Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Launched in 1973, the Prix de Lausanne is an international dance competition for young dancers aged 15 to 18. Closing the six-day event, scholarships granting free tuition in a world-renowned dance school or dance company will be award to the best dancers out of 74 participants this year. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)
APTOPIX West Virginia Texas Tech Basketball
Texas Tech fans run onto the court to celebrate with Tariq Owens (11) and the rest of the team after an NCAA college basketball game against West Virginia, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won 81-50. (AP Photo/Brad Tollefson)
APTOPIX 18th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards - Show
Shirley MacLaine, left, accepts the Career Achievement award from Kathy Bates during the 18th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards at Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision/AP)
APTOPIX India Kumbh
Naga Sadhus or Naked Hindu holy men shout slogans and take dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, on Mauni Amavsya or the new moon day, the most auspicious day during the Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The Kumbh Mela is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at Sangam that dates back to at least medieval times. Pilgrims bathe in the river believing it cleanses them of their sins and ends their process of reincarnation. The event, which UNESCO added to its list of intangible human heritage in 2017, is the largest congregation of pilgrims on earth. Some 150 million people are expected to attend this year's Kumbh, which runs through early March. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
APTOPIX Iceland Aurora Borealis Lighthouse
Aurora borealis or northern lights are visible in the sky above a lighthouse to the village of Grundarfjorour in Iceland, on Monday, 4 February 2019. Aurorae are caused by the interaction between energetic charged particles from the sun and gas molecules in the upper atmosphere of the earth, about 100 kilometres up. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
