Two policemen on horses keep an eye on Republican presidential hopefuls' supporters outside a polling station at Webster School in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. (AFP)

Indian workers cover elephant statues at Ambedkar Memorial Park in Lucknow. Workmen using truckloads of cloth raced to comply with election officials who ordered the statues of Chief Minister of Utter Pradesh state Mayawati, who is a hero to India's lowest castes, along with nearly 200 statues of elephants, her party's symbol, be covered. (AP)

Migrant workers have an annual meal at a local construction site in Chengdu, Sichuan province, January 9, 2012. More than 1,400 migrant workers took part in the annual meal to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year. (Reuters)

A keeper looks inside the mouth of a South American sea lion at 'Tiergarten Schoenbrunn' Zoo in Vienna, Austria. (Reuters)

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building over the skyline of Manhattan in New York, January 9, 2012. (Reuters)