Tuesday: The day in photos

Eli Azran leans over the body of his daughter, Irit Shitrit, at her funeral Tuesday. The 39-year-old mother of four was killed by a Hamas rocket hit in a neighborhood south of Tel Aviv on Monday.  (Uriel Sinai / Getty Images)

A layer of ice covers a stretch of the Rhine near Duesseldorf, Germany, where temperatures are frigid.  (Martin Gerten / EPA)

Bathers play chess in a pool of steaming hot water in the Szechenyi Thermal Bath, one of the largest spa complexes in Europe. Szechenyi’s neo-baroque baths were built in 1913 and are the largest thermal baths in Budapest, Hungary. The baths are a popular place to relax for locals and foreigners. Thousands of tourists arrived in Budapest to enyoy the last days of this year and first day of 2009.  (Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman holds a newborn Chinese Meishan pig at a Berlin animal park, where13 piglets were born on Dec. 28.  (Theo Heimann / AFP / Getty Images)

Thai protesters try to break into the Foreign Ministry in Bangkok as police officers push them back during a Tuesday demonstration. Thousands of demonstrators loyal to exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra surrounded Parliament, extending months of political turmoil.  (Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press)

Schoolchildren in Ahmadabad, India, celebrate the coming new year.  (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)

A South Korean protester wears a mask meant to resemble former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee during a rally in Seoul at Samsung headquarters. About 3,000 people protested; they were among those affected by a 2007 oil spill that has been blamed on a Samsung Heavy Industries vessel.  (Jung Yeon-Je / AFP / Getty Images)

Czech cyclist Zdenek Stybar celebrates as he wins the GVA Trophy cyclocross race in Loenhout, Belgium. Belgian Sven Nys, at left, finished second.  (Peter Deconinck / AFP / Getty Images)