Febbraio 01, 2015
1 Bangladeshi laborers unload sand from cargo ship in Dhaka.
2 Japanese women react as they read extra newspapers in Tokyo reporting about an online video that purported to show an Islamic State group militant beheading Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
3 A Syrian Civil Defence worker carries the body of a child following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo.
4 Novak Djokovic of Serbia kisses the trophy after defeating Andy Murray of Britain during the men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne.
5 Smoke is seen after an suicide bomb explosion in Gombe a day ahead of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to the state for an election campaign rally.
6 An anti-government demonstrator dressed as Batman protests against corruption and the induction of new members of the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil.
7 A H-IIA rocket, carrying a backup radar satellite for intelligence gathering by the government, lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
8 Bikers start off on the sand as they take part in the "Enduropale" motorcycle endurance race on the beach of Le Touquet, northern France.
9 A competitor shakes water off his head during the Tough Guy event in Perton, central England.
10 Men in costumes and traditional masks take part in the Schleicherlaufen festival in the western Austrian town of Telfs.
11 A float depicting U.S. President Barack Obama, left, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin and entitled "The Big Cold" is shown at the traditional Viareggio Carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy.
12 Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan falls into a row of fans during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 31, 2015.
Febbraio 02, 2015
1 Palestinian protesters run for cover from stun grenades fired by Israeli troops during a protest against the visit of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
2 Sheep stay on a road not reached by Vjosa River water that flooded a village of Darzeze, Fier district, 115 kilometers (70 miles) south of capital Tirana, Albania. Floods caused by heavy rains over the last days have hit southern Albania, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of villagers after rivers flooded thousands of acres, hundreds of homes and many roads.
3 Juris, left, and Lois Greste, parents of Australian journalist Peter Greste, and his brother Andrew, center, arrive at a press conference in Brisbane, Australia. Peter Greste, a reporter for Al Jazeera English was released from an Egyptian prison and deported after more than a year behind bars.
4 A projection turns and throws images onto a wall during the light festival in Ghent, Belgium.
5 A man dressed in a Red Army World War II uniform walks toward the monument to the Motherland during ceremonies marking the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, former Stalingrad.
6 A Ukrainian serviceman throws a signboard over the gates as the flames are doused after fighters of the Aydar Ukrainian volunteer battalion, burn tires at the entrance to the Defense Ministry in Kyiv during a protest against the possible disbandment of their battalion.
7 Migrating starlings fly in formation across the sky near the southern Israeli town of Rahat.
8 A woman holds onto her hat against the wind during a snow storm in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston, already buried under two feet (60 cm) of snow from a blizzard last week, was predicted to see a foot of snow after a huge winter storm hit the northeastern United States.
9 Singer Katy Perry performs during halftime of NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots in Glendale, Arizona, Feb. 1, 2015.
Febbraio 03, 2015
1 A Hindu devotee gets showered as part of a cleaning ritual before his pilgrimage during the Thaipusam festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2 People try to catch lucky beans scattered by celebrities during "Mame-maki," a bean throwing ceremony, at Zojyoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan.
3 French President Francois Hollande pays his respect to the flag-draped coffins of the nine French Air Force personnel in the Invalides courtyard during a ceremony in Paris. The air force personnel died in an accident at a base used for NATO training where a Greek F-16 fighter plane crashed after taking off from Albacete, Spain, about 250 kilometers southeast of Madrid on Jan. 26, 2015.
4 A farm is covered in snow on the Fellhorn mountain near Oberstdorf, southern Germany.
5 Italy's new President Sergio Mattarella (R) and Prime Mnister Matteo Renzi are escorted by Presidential Guards, after visiting the Unknown Soldier's monument in central Rome.
6 Lauren Cachbaux grimaces as she poses with a rattlesnake at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, Feb. 2, 2015.
7 Supporters welcome Muhammadu Buhari (in vehicle), presidential candidate from the All Progressives Congress party, as he visits Gombe Emir Abubakar Shehu-Abubakarn at the emir's palace during an election rally in Gombe, Nigeria.
8 An artificially triggered avalanche thunders down a mountain side at the Vallee de la Sionne in Anzere near Sion, Switzerland. The full-scale avalanche dynamics test site is providing scientists and engineers of the Swiss Institute of Research of Snow and Avalanches with essential data to understand and model avalanche motion, according to the Institute website.
9 Devotees offer prayer by rolling on the ground during the final day of the month-long Swasthani festival at Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal.
10 Employees adjust an transparent electronic screen, which shows social advertising on the front of a building, as it snows in central Moscow, Russia.
11 Spectators take pictures as hot air balloons are gathered on the frozen Upper Lake during International Balloon Week in the Swiss alpine resort of Arosa.
12 A man looks at an installation made of sock textiles on display at a demonstration hall of the local sock-making industry in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, China, Feb. 2, 2015.
13 Indian Hindu devotees gather on the banks of the river Ganges to take a 'holy dip' on the occasion of Maghi Purnima during the annual traditional fair 'Magh Mela' in Allahabad.
Febbraio 04, 2015
1 Full moon sets behind the parish church of Schoenach near Regensburg, southern Germany.
2 Australian journalist Peter Greste is hugged by his mother Lois, left, and father Juris, after his arrival in Brisbane, Australia. Greste, a reporter for Al-Jazeera ,was released from an Egyptian prison and deported after more than a year behind bars.
3 In this combination photo, a series of images taken from video provided by TVBS show a commercial airplane clipping an elevated roadway just before it careened into a river in Taipei, Taiwan. At least 25 people were killed and nearly 20 others are still missing.
4 Locals react as they are shot at by a policeman (not in the picture) while looting from a shop, believed to be owned by a foreigner, during service delivery protests in Mohlakeng, west of Johannesburg, South Africa.
5 India's opposition Congress party supporters wait to enter the rally ground as policemen wait beside security gates during an election campaign rally ahead of Delhi state election in New Delhi.
6 Authorities wearing Federal Railroad Administration vests look over the wreckage of a Metro-North Railroad train and a SUV in Valhalla, New York. Five passengers and the SUV’s driver were killed in the crash in Valhalla, about 20 miles north of New York City. Authorities said the impact was so forceful the electrified third rail came up and pierced the train.
7 Charlotte Martin, a member of the EE British Film Academy staff, makes seating arrangements for actors and actresses who are in contention for major BAFTA film awards in the auditorium of the Royal Opera House in London.
8 Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform in front of the Gangarama Temple during the Navam Perahera festival in Colombo, Feb. 3, 2015.
9 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, center, falls after addressing supporters upon his return from an African Union meeting in Ethiopia.
10 Ivan Timofeenko, co-founder of the "Newton Park" interactive museum of science, demonstrates the so-called Mirror Box, which produces various combinations of reflections creating volumetric geometric figures, during preparations for a performance for school children dedicated to the Russian Day of Science at the Museum Centre in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
11 Sumatran tiger Melati walks past a present box to celebrate the first birthday of her cub triplets in their enclosure at London Zoo in London.
12 A man cleans the floor as visitors walk past vintage and classic cars displayed by Bonhams auction house, during an exhibition, at the Grand Palais in Paris, France.
13 An Afghan refugee child stands outside her family's mud home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Febbraio 05, 2015
1 A municipal official looks through the window of a residential block, which was damaged by shelling, according to locals, in Donetsk, Ukraine.
2 Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, left, meets with relatives of those aboard TransAsia Airways Flight 235 at a funeral home in Taipei.
3 Baggage is placed near the wreckage of TransAsia Airways plane Flight GE235 after it crashed into the river shortly after taking off, in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The death toll has risen to 31, officials said.
4 The Salisbury Cathedral 1215 copy of the Magna Carta is installed in a cabinet by Chris Woods, right, the director of the National Conservation Service in the Queen's Robing Room at the Houses of Parliament in London. It will be displayed alongside the other three surviving original parchment engrossments of the Magna Carta to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, . The Magna Carta established the timeless principle that no individual, even a monarch, is above the law.
5 Guard rails on the highway "Autovia A-67" after a heavy snow fall near Aguilar de Campoo, Spain
6 Herdsmen from the Kyrgyz ethnic group hold their falcons as they ride on horses during a hunting competition in Akqi county, Xinjiang, Uighur Autonomous Region.
7 Horticulturalist Ellie Biondi adjusts a floral display during the media launch of the "Alluring Orchids" exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London.
8 A man puts the final touches on a giant figure showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, next to France's President Francois Hollande during preparations for the 131st Nice carnival parade in Nice, southeastern France.
9 Sunset in Manila Bay, the Philippines
Febbraio 06, 2015
1 A handout picture released by the Jordanian Queen Rania's office shows her holding a placard during a demonstration in the capital Amman to express her solidarity with the pilot murdered by the Islamic State (IS) group.
2 Catholic bishops, from different Indian dioceses, participate in a candlelight protest against recent attacks on churches, in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. Five churches in the Indian capital have reported incidents of arson, vandalism and burglary.
3 A member of the Ukrainian armed forces assists local residents onto a bus to flee the military conflict, in Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine. Convoys of buses converged from two sides on the town after separatist rebels and government forces appeared to have patched together a truce to allow civilians to be evacuated.
4 Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as the head priest, unseen, displays a relic of Sufi saint Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani at his shrine in Srinagar, India. Thousands of devotees thronged to the shrine which houses the relic on the Friday following the saint's Urs, or yearly commemoration.
5 Turkish police arrest people who were planning to demonstrate in front of the controversial new palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Protests were to denounce the impunity of the police after the killing of a 16-year-old boy during mass protests in June 2013 in Ankara.
6 A person looks at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano erupting, Feb. 5, 2015, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. This is the second eruption in the past year at Piton de la Fournaise after three years of quiet.
7 Three-week-old female orangutan baby 'Rieke' is pictured during a presentation to the media at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany.
8 Palestinians herd sheep in the Judean desert between Jericho and Jerusalem.
9 An Indian farm laborer dries newly-arrived chillies at a farm in Sertha, some 25 kms from Ahmedabad. Farm owner Jivanlal Patel says crop yields are down following unseasonal rains and global warming, which has has pushed the price of chillies up by half in the last year.
10 A competitor calls with a shell at the German championships in deer-calling at the "Jagd & Hund" (hunting & dog) exhibition in Dortmund. Competitors use specially designed instruments or ox horns to imitate the mating call of red deers.
11 A Palestinian girl plays on the beach of Gaza City after sunset.
12 Carnival masks in the likeness of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff are displayed at the Condal factory in Rio de Janeiro.
13 Three riders wear jackets with the design of the British Union Jack as the walk to the upper start position of the natural ice run of the Cresta Run during the International Match skeleton competition at the private St. Moritz Tobogganing Club (SMTC), Switzerland.
14 A woman poses for a photograph amongst decorations to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. The Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 19, marks the Year of the Sheep on the Chinese calendar.
15 A man takes a picture of his dog at Florida park in the Spanish Basque town of Vitoria following heavy snow.
Febbraio 08, 2015
1 A Filipino trooper inspects the alignment of a guard of honor during rehearsals for the arrival of Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Villamor Air Base in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, the Philippines.
2 A woman takes pictures of the frozen lakeside due to the strong wind conditions in Geneva, Switzerland.
3 Members of North Korea's Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (MPAF) dance during a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces of Korea, at an undisclosed location in Pyongyang in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
4 A woman carries a piglet as she runs on ice during a running challenge in Changsha, Hunan province, China. A total of 20 people participated in the challenge requiring them to choose a pig ranging between 15 kg and 115 kg in weight, and carrying it while running on a 20.15-meter-long ice track.
5 A man enjoys a ride on a sled pulled by a kite on the frozen river of Kalmius in Donetsk, Ukraine.
6 A cupcake interpretation of Swan lake is displayed during the final day of the Cake International show in Manchester, north west England.
7 A squirrel chews a Tibetan Prayer flag in Cologne, western Germany.
8 Ivory Coast soccer fans sing before their African Cup of Nations final soccer match with Ghana in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
9 Spectators watch the fireworks during the 6th World Pyrotechnics Olympics in Manila, the Philippines, Feb. 7, 2015.
10 Locals re-enact the 1573 medieval battle of "Seljacka Buna" in Donja Stubica, Croatia, Feb. 7, 2015.
11 People gather in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, to watch the "Angel's flight" as a woman dressed in traditional costume descends from the bell tower into St. Mark Square, one of the highlights of the Venice Carnival.
12 Sakashita Satoshi of Japan, right, skates besides Torsten Kroeger of Germany, center, and Kwak-Yoon-Gy of South Korea, left, during the men's 500 meters quarterfinal race at the World Cup short track speed skating championship in Dresden, Germany.
Febbraio 09, 2015
1 Corbit Larson clears snow in front of his Centre Music store in Framingham, Massachusetts. A long duration winter storm that began on Feb. 7 night remains in effect for a large swath of southern New England until the early morning hours on Feb. 10, 2015.
2 European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph from the International Space Station. Cristoforetti wrote, "A spectacular flyover of the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. (Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti)
3 Drummers perform "HeartBeat" by Stereotank, a Brooklyn-based design studio, which is the 2015 winning Times Square Valentine Heart produced by the Times Square Alliance, in New York City. The interactive sculpture consisting of a massive heart that visitors are encouraged to move around and play various percussion instruments on, is installed at Times Square and open to the public until Mar. 8.
4 People watch as Mt. Sinabung ejects ash into the air during an eruption in Karo regency, Indonesia's North Sumatra province in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
5 A French police officer speaks to a child as he secures an access to a school at the Castellane housing area in Marseille. Hooded gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles fired on police in the French city, where Prime Minister was paying a visit, a police source said.
6 Residents try to salvage their belongings from a heavily damaged building after shelling between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in Donetsk.
7 A child throws water at a woman on a street during Carnival celebrations in summer at downtown Lima, Peru, Feb. 8, 2015.
8 A man climbs an artificial wall of ice in the city of Liberec, Czech Republic, Feb. 8, 2015.
9 A girl plays with snow inside a display of plastic penguins during the Ice and Snow carnival at Taoranting park in Beijing, China.
10 Team Bota Bota competes during the Quebec Winter Carnival ice canoe race on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City, Canada, Feb. 8, 2015.
11 Madonna performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Feb. 8, 2015.
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Febbraio 10, 2015
1 A Spanish Civil Guard officer (L) throws a sandwich to African migrants sitting at the top of a border fence during an attempt to cross into Spanish territory, between Morocco and Spain's north African enclave of Melilla.
2 In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 and it seems to be smiling.
3 People look at the remains of a rocket on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.
4 A boy rides on a snow wagon towed by a robot dressed as a Teddy bear during the Ice and snow carnival at Taoranting park in Beijing, China, Feb. 9, 2015.
5 An infant anhinga reaches inside an adult bird's mouth to feed at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
6 A couple sitting on their motorcycle cross a flooded road on a cart in Jakarta. Heavy monsoon rains have flooded many sections of the Indonesian capital leaving some commuters stranded.
7 Smoke rises in the sky after a suicide car bomb attack in Kunduz province. Taliban insurgents launched an attack on a police headquarters in northern Afghanistan, provincial police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hosseini said.
8 Seagulls fly over waves during stormy weather off the shores of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
9 A street artist performs in Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.
10 Workers push harvested cotton with their feet at a cotton processing unit in Kadi town in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
11 Dancers in cheerleader costumes pose for the photographers next to a wax figure of U.S. singer Taylor Swift during a photo call in central London. The new wax figure was unveiled at the Madame Tussauds London attraction.
12 A drone Interceptor MP200, top, catches a drone DJI Phantom 2 with a net during a demonstration flight in La Queue-en-Brie, east of Paris, France, Feb. 9, 2015. France has faced dozens of drone overflights over sensitive sites — mostly nuclear facilities, a worrisome development in a country that gets the highest percentage of its energy in the world from atomic power.
13 A diver feeds red heart-shaped squid meat (C) to rays during a feeding session at the Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan.
14 A model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Maya Hansen at Madrid's Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain.
Febbraio 11, 2015
1 A shop owner cleans his merchandise ahead of Valentine's Day at the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq.
2 Municipal workers remove broken tiles near the fence of Beirut's seaside corniche which was damaged by strong waves in Lebanon.
3 A homeless Indian reads a newspaper before sunrise in the old city area of New Delhi.
4 Soccer fans celebrate as Argentina's Huracan team members walk onto to the pitch for the start of the Copa Libertadores soccer match against Peru's Alianza Lima, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 10, 2015.
5 Syrian refugees brave the cold and snow as they walk to a metro station in Istanbul, Turkey.
6 Iranian schoolgirls wave their national flag during the 36th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square.
7 A South Korean army K-2 tank fires during an annual live-fire military exercise in Yangpyeong.
8 A dog lies down as its owner begs on a street nearby in Madrid, Spain.
9 Pakistani female police commandos attend a training session in Nowshera, near Peshawar.
10 A woman swims in icy waters after breaking the ice of the frozen Songhua River in Jilin, Jilin province, China.
11 A dark, snaking line across the lower half of the sun in this Feb. 10, 2015 image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a filament of solar material hovering above the sun's surface.
Febbraio 12, 2015
1 A worker puts the final touches to a replica of a Beijing opera mask made with lemons and oranges during the 82th Lemon festival in Menton, France. It took more than 20,000 hours of work for teams to set up the festival and some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 82th festival, which is themed "Tribulations of a lemon in China".
2 Students wearing traditional hanbok dresses bow as they attend a graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at the Dongmyeong girl's high school in Seoul, South Korea.
3 Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian journalist of Al Jazeera English, holds up an Egyptian flag after a retrial at a courthouse near Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian judge ordered Fahmy and another Al Jazeera English journalist, Baher Mohammed, released on bail as their retrial on terror-related charges continues.
4 This handout picture released by Spanish Proteccion Civil (Civil Defense) shows a toxic orange cloud spreading after a chemical explosion at a warehouse in the Spanish north-eastern Catalonian town of Igualada.
5 Students give thumbs-up to wish the Indian cricket team luck, as they hold a giant cut-out replica of the Cricket World Cup trophy, at a school in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
6 A Buddhist monk plays with a tiger at the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua, also known as Tiger Temple, in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand.
7 Officials stand by the scene of a fatal collision that killed longtime CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon in New York, Feb. 11, 2015. Simon, who was 73, covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq two decades ago.
8 Women dressed in costumes for "Weiberfastnacht" (Women's Carnival) celebrate in Cologne, Germany.
9 A man is surrounded by pelicans as he walks near a fish market in the Chorrillos municipality in Lima, Peru, Feb.11, 2015.
10 A demonstrator holds an upturned umbrella before a cordon of police during a protest against the rationing of water in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2015.
11 The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, launched by SpaceX and carrying NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite, lifts off from launch pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
12 Dancers of the state opera ballet perform during a dress rehearsal for the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, Feb. 11, 2015.
13 A view of a Van Gogh-inspired hot air balloon being inflated during the Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta at Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga province, north of Manila.
Febbraio 13, 2015
1 High school students wearing Guy Fawkes masks take part in a protest against the education policies of the ruling AK Party as a tram drives by in Istanbul, Turkey. Education is the latest flashpoint between the administration of President Tayyip Erdogan, and secularist Turks who accuse him of overseeing creeping 'Islamization' in the NATO member state.
2 Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko delivers a speech during his visit to the training center of the Ukrainian National Guard outside Kyiv, in this handout picture. Poroshenko said the country is still a long way from peace and that there are no guarantees a ceasefire deal agreed upon in Belarus Thursday would take effect.
3 People rush an injured person to a hospital following an attack involving suicide bombers and gunmen at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
4 A woman lights a candle in front of the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deadly allied bombing of Dresden during WWII in Dresden, eastern Germany. British and U.S. bombers destroyed the centuries-old baroque city center.
5 A schoolgirl walks past campaign posters in support of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan along a road in Ikoyi district in Lagos.
6 Pedestrians walk in severe cold weather through steam coming from a street vent, in New York's Times Square. Bitter cold temperatures were expected to grip much of the northeast U.S. on Friday, and through the weekend, as some of the coldest air of the season moved into the region.
7 An Indian flower seller arranges varieties of roses at a roadside stall ahead of Valentine's Day in Siliguri. Despite opposition from some right-wing groups who see the day as counter to traditional Indian culture, Valentine's Day is celebrated in India as Rashtriya Prem Divas.
8 Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes (2nd R) hands over the city's ceremonial key to the Rei Momo, or Carnival King Wilson Neto (L) at Cidade Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event officially kicks off the 2015 carnival week in Rio.
9 More than 3,000 students, teachers and nuns from the Catholic-run St. Scholastica's College, wear purple ribbons and dance to take part in the global campaign to end violence against women and girls dubbed One Billion Rising, in Manila, Philippines.
10 Bangladeshi girls put vermillion powder on each other as they celebrate the arrival of spring on the first day of Falgoon at the Dhaka University campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Falgoon is the 11th month on the Bengali calendar.
11 A two-day-old female reticulated giraffe, also known as the Somali giraffe, is licked by her mother Malindi in the indoor enclosure at the Zoo in Duisburg, Germany.
12 With a backdrop of the Sydney Opera House, "The Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors" stand on display in rain during the launch of the Chinese Festival in Sydney, Australia. The warriors, created by Chinese artist Xia Nan for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, are on display during Chinese New Year celebrations.
13 A large mannequin figure depicting the King of the Carnival is set up during preparations for the 131st Nice Carnival parade in southeastern France. The Carnival, running Feb. 13-March 1, celebrates the "King of Music."
14 A pine forest is covered with snow during a storm in Jezzin, south Lebanon.
Febbraio 15, 2015
1 Children wearing orange suits depicting victims of the Islamic State carry banners inside a cage during a protest against forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Douma Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus.
2 Kim Taylor, right, shovels snow in front of her home in Norwood, Massachusetts. A storm brought a new round of wind-whipped snow to New England, threatening white-out conditions in coastal areas and forcing people to contend with a fourth winter onslaught in less than a month.
3 Investigative personnel work at the scene of a cafe shooting in Oesterbro, in Copenhagen. Danish police shot and killed the man they believe was responsible for two deadly attacks at an event promoting freedom of speech and on a synagogue.
4 Foster Glore twirls a sign advertising Lennar Homes at the entrance to a new housing development west of Denver with a giant lenticular cloud in the background, Feb. 14, 2015. The clouds form just east of the Colorado foothills when strong jet stream winds shoot over the Rocky Mountains.
5 Protesters restrain a man (R) who allegedly beat other protesters during a demonstration inside a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Anti-mainland Chinese demonstrators protested against parallel traders and confronted police, government radio reported.
6 Polina Edmunds of the U.S. performs during the ladies free skating program competition at the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Seoul, South Korea.
7 Bordeaux's fans throw colored powders in the air during the French L1 football match between Girondins de Bordeaux (FCGB) and Saint-Etienne (ASSE) at the Chaban-Delmas stadium in Bordeaux, southwestern France.
8 India's Shikhar Dhawan looks at the sky from his fielding position during the Cricket World Cup match against Pakistan in Adelaide, Australia.
9 A member of a rival team is hit by an orange during an annual carnival battle in the northern Italian town of Ivrea.
10 Backdropped by Britain's National Gallery in central London, protesters hold placards during a rally to show solidarity with Greece.
11 Revelers of the X9 Paulistana samba school perform during the first night of the carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
12 Men holding their partners stumble and fall during a Valentine's Day event in Mogosoaia, Romania, Feb. 14, 2015. Never celebrated before the 1989 fall of the communist rule in Romania, Valentine's Day became ever more popular in the following years and is now widely adopted by Romanian youngsters.
13 An Indian Muslim bride smiles as she sits with other brides during a mass wedding organized by a social organization in Ahmadabad.
Febbraio 16, 2015
1 A woman shops for good luck ornaments at the traditional Dihua market for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan.
2 A man yawns at a railway station in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. The Chinese Ministry of Transport said a total of 2.807 billion trips are expected to be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which started from Feb. 4 through Mar. 16, Xinhua News Agency reported.
3 A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge during extreme cold temperatures in Toronto, Canada.
4 A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly behaded by Islamic State (IS) group militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news in the village of Al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. The Islamic State group in Libya released a video purportedly showing the mass killing of 21 Coptic Christians.
5 A cat makes its way down the stairs at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, or Presidential Palace, in the Indian captial New Delhi, as an honor guard stands in formation prior to the welcome ceremony for Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.
6 Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian man as they clear a protest on the land that Palestinians said was confiscated by Israel for Jewish settlements, near the West Bank town of Abu Dis near Jerusalem.
7 Bulgarian Muslims Azim Liumankov and his bride Fikrie Bindzheva pose in front of their house during their wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in the Rhodope Mountains, Feb. 15, 2015.
8 Children walk on the debris of a damaged building in al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.
9 Townswomen dressed as Lamia, with their faces painted white and eyes darkened, sing and dance in the Basque coastal town of Mundaka on Carnival, Spain, Feb. 15, 2015. The Lamia are Basque mythological creatures whose lower extremities are those of a duck or fish depending on their proximity to the sea.
10 A lonely clown waits for the carnival parade in Cologne, western Germany.
11 Firefighters work at the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as icicles hang from where the water from their hoses froze.
12 Revelers of the Vila Isabel samba school perform during the first day of carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
13 Chefs prepare tacos of cochinita pibil, a popular dish from Yucatan, in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world's longest taco in Guadalajara, Mexico, Feb. 15, 2015. Guadalajara broke the Guinness record for the longest taco, with a length of 2.5 kilometers, as part of the COME gastronomy festival, local media reported. The chefs used 4 tons of pork, 36,000 tortillas and spices for 325 taco servings.
14 Men in fancy costumes chat during the Carnival of Cadiz in southern Spain.
Febbraio 17, 2015
1 A man slides down a snow-covered hill in the northwest of Washington, D.C. Some 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) of snow fell in the city overnight, bringing closures to schools and government offices.
2 Icicles hang from buildings on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts, Feb. 16, 2015.
3 People participate in a massive snowball fight in the wake of winter storm Octavia at Meridian Park in Washington, D.C.
4 A view of an explosion after shelling is seen not far from Debaltseve, Ukraine. Government forces and pro-Russian separatists said they would not carry out an agreement to pull back heavy guns in east Ukraine.
5 White whales swim in their temporary enclosure at an oceanarium at the Russky Island in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia.
6 Moe Kyaw Than, 45, a volunteer with the Myanmar Red Cross Society was wounded when the convoy he was in, was fired upon by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), between the capital of Kokang, Laukkai, and Chinshwehaw, according to the Myanmar army. Thousands of people have been forced to flee Myanmar into the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan following fighting between Myanmar's army and insurgents, the Chinese government said, repeating a call for restraint.
7 Two mothers and their children eat before participating in the parade of the Carnival in Gijon, northern Spain, Feb. 16, 2015.
8 A worker fixes red lanterns ahead of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations at the Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur.
9 A bomb disposal expert investigates an unattended package in front of a cafe in Oesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark. Police found no explosives in the package that was left in front of the cafe where the deadly shooting attack took place on Feb. 14, 2015, police said in a twitter message.
10 Indian devotees travel on a ferry to Umananda, left, a river island in the Brahmaputra that houses a Shiva temple, during Shivratri festival in Gauhati.
11 Pakistani police officers and a volunteer rush an injured person to a hospital after a bombing in Lahore, Pakistan. An apparent suicide bombing killed five people outside a police complex in Lahore, officials said.
12 The Up'Ards and the Down'Ards fight for the ball during the first day of the Royal Shrovetide Football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire England.
13 A participant falls during the fancy dress Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, off Brick Lane in east London.
14 Children wearing traditional costumes are seen during preparations for Chinese lunar new year celebrations in Hong Kong. The Chinese "year of the sheep" begins on Feb. 19.
15 A model swings her purse at photographers as she gets into a limo following the Tory Burch Fall/Winter 2015 collection show during New York Fashion Week.
16 Clown-like performers known as Gilles take part in a carnival parade on Shrove in the streets of Binche, Belgium. The Binche Carnival tradition is one of the most ancient and representative of Wallonia and inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
17 Dead pilot whales lay on a remote beach at Farewell Spit at the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island after beaching themselves on Feb.13, 2015.
Febbraio 18, 2015
1 A wounded Ukrainian soldier looks through a window as he arrives at a hospital in Artemivsk. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists.
2 A man with a sheep soft toy waits to plant his first joss stick at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple in Singapore. Each year, at the stroke of midnight, hundreds of people vie to be the first to place joss sticks in an urn at the temple to mark an auspicious start to their year.
3 A partially frozen American Falls in sub freezing temperatures is seen in Niagara Falls, between U.S. and Canada, Feb.17, 2015. Temperature dropped to 6°F (-14°C). The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill warning for Western New York until Feb. 20, 2015.
4 Fatimid period gold coins were found in the seabed in the Mediterranean Sea near the port of Caesarea National Park in Caesarea, Israel. A group of amateur Israeli divers have stumbled upon the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found in the country, dating back to the 11th century and likely from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.
5 People walk during heavy snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey.
6 A woman takes a selfie in front of a multi-colored sheep installation displayed in a shopping mall for the Chinese New Year celebrations in Hong Kong.
7 A reveler holding a giant harp, parades during the flower parade of the 131st Nice carnival edition in southern France. The Carnival, running from Feb. 13 until Mar. 1, 2015, celebrates the "King of Music".
8 Sudanese from the Bedouin ethnic group collect Trona, a natural form of sodium carbonate minerals, from Oasis Natron in Malha, a town in Sudan's North Darfur. Trona crystallizes into a glass-like hard rocky substance as result of a chemical reaction when natural forms of sodium carbonate minerals settle in water.
9 Revelers wearing masks pose for photographers during carnival festivities in Portugal's northeastern village of Podence, Feb. 17, 2015.
10 A woman is reflected in mirrors, decorated with sea shells and put up for sale, as she walks along Karachi's Clifton beach, Pakistan.
11 Ballerinas from the Australian Ballet perform on a floating platform during a promotional event in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
12 Miss P, a 15-inch Beagle with handler William Alexander, looks on after winning the "best in show" of the 139th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, Feb. 17, 2015.
13 Hindu devotees, their bodies pierced with lemon and paladai, or bowl with a spout mainly used to feed milk to infants, wait to participate in a procession to mark Shivratri, or the night of Shiva, in Chennai, India.
Febbraio 19, 2015
1 A Tibetan boy points a toy gun towards a girl during the function to mark "Losar" or the Tibetan New Year at a Tibetan Refugee Camp in Lalitpur, Nepal.
2 Catwalk or Skycats of the Scandinavian Aerobatic Team leave a trail of Indian tri-colour smoke as they perform aerobatics during the second day of the Aero India 2015 at the Yelahanka Airforce Station in Bangalore.
3 A rebel fighter of al-Jabha al-Shamiya (the Shamiya Front) covered with mud sits near the front line in Bashkuwi village, north of Aleppo, Syria.
4 A girl dressed in a Hanbok, a Korean traditional costume, stands in front of a barbed-wire fence, as her parents prepare for a memorial service for North Korean family members, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, on the occasion of Seolnal, the Korean Lunar New Year's day.
5 Afghan refugee women, clad in burqas, climb on a truck to be repatriated to Afghanistan, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.
6 Palestinians walk near the ruins of their houses that was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia.
7 A fire-eater performs at Manila's Chinatown, the Philippines, to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
8 Workers move cones near an upside-down car art installation by British artist Alex Chinneck in a car park on the South Bank in London.
9 Stefan Kraft of Austria is mirrored during his jump in a training session of the men's normal hill individual HS100 ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.
10 Kagome Co's employee Shigenori Suzuki tries to eat a tomato which is fed to him by the newly-developed "Wearable Tomato" device for runners, during its unveiling event ahead of the weekend's Tokyo Marathon in Tokyo, Japan.
11 Men with their skis walk during a heavy snowfall on the Troodos mountains in Cyprus.
Febbraio 20, 2015
1 A clergyman stands near photos of people, killed in anti-government protests in 2014, during a commemoration near Independence Square in Kyiv. Ukraine will mark the first anniversary of the ousting of the pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich next weekend, honoring the memory of the 100 or so civilians killed in protests against him.
2 The Josephine Shaw Lowell Fountain in Bryant Park in New York remains frozen. The temperature in Central Park Friday morning was 2 degrees Fahrenheit (-16.6C). The previous record for this date was 7 degrees Fahrenheit (-13.8C), set in 1950.
3 Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (R) speaks during a gathering in Caracas in support of arrested Mayor Antonio Ledezma. Opposition leaders demanded the release of Ledezma, who was arrested on accusations of plotting violence against President Nicolas Maduro's government.
4 An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city. A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East on Friday, with snow forcing the closure of all roads leading in and out of Jerusalem and sprinkling Israel's desert with a rare layer of white.
5 College students raise their fists in the air and yell to kick off a ceremony marking the start of the job-hunting season in Tokyo. Some 1,500 students, who will graduate from schools in March 2016, attended the annual ceremony which aims to encourage future graduates to look for employment.
6 Brides wait for the start of a mass wedding ceremony in the old quarters of Delhi, India. A total of 12 couples took their wedding vows on Friday during the ceremony organized by a Hindu religious organization.
7 A man makes patterns in the snow after a heavy snowstorm in Amman. The Jordan Meteorological Department forecasted thunderstorms and rain on Friday with snowfall in areas 600 meters above sea level and higher.
8 Residents who fled from conflict areas near the Myanmar-Chinese border arrive at a temporary refugee camp at a monastery in Lashio, northern Myanmar. Myanmar's army continued an offensive to flush out rebels from areas around a flashpoint town on the northeastern border with China, state media said, in 11 days of fighting that have displaced tens of thousands of people.
9 A woman passes by graffiti in central Athens. Germany and Greece faced off in yet another eurozone meeting Friday in search of a last minute bailout compromise, with Berlin insisting Athens accept continued austerity in return for fresh debt aid.
10 Migrants wait at the port of Lampedusa to board a ferry bound for Porto Empedocle in Sicily. Authorities on the Italian island of Lampedusa struggled to cope with a huge influx of newly-arrived migrants as aid organizations warned the Libya crisis means thousands more could be on their way.
11 Residents make their way through rain from Tropical Cyclone Marcia in downtown Brisbane. Two powerful cyclones further north pounded Australia and left a trail of destruction with houses ripped apart, trees uprooted and power lines torn down, cutting electricity to thousands of people.
12 A security guard stands near a tree decorated with red lanterns at Ditan Park during a temple fair for a Lunar New Year celebration in Beijing.
13 Leonado's Da Vinci picture is used as part an advertisement for the Expo 2015, in Milan, Italy. This year's Expo exposition has the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", and will run from May 1 to October 31, 2015
14 Eric Frenzel of Germany soars through the air during the normal hill ski jumping portion of the Nordic Combined Individual Gundersen event at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.
15 Icicles hang off a strawberry plant in Plant City, Florida. Temperatures overnight in the fields dipped into the low 30's (F). Farmers spray water on their crops to protect the plants from being damaged by a freeze.
Febbraio 22, 2015
1 Students wearing bird costumes dance during the annual Caracol Festival in Manila, the Philippines.
2 Morgan Kneisky of France kisses the finish line after his victory with teammate Bryan Coquard in the Men's Madison final at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris, France.
3 Palestinians cross a flooded street in the Bedouin village of al-Moghraka, central Gaza Strip.
4 Two International Finance Centre tower, center right, and International Commerce Centre, top left, are seen over the clouds in Hong Kong.
5 Servicemen of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special forces unit take part in a show during Maslenitsa celebrations at a base in Minsk.
6 Sarah Hendrickson of United States jumps as judges look out of their tower windows during the Mixed Team Ski Jumping competition at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Falun, Sweden.
7 A man adds beer to a hot beer bath during the Otepaa Sauna marathon in Otepaa, Estonia.
° C at China's border with Russia in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, Feb. 21, 2015.
9 A boy spins rings of fire during rituals in celebration of Sirni Zagovezni, the first Sunday before Great Lent, in the village of Lozen, Bulgaria. People in the region believe they can chase away evil spirits with fire rituals on Sirni Zagovezni.
10 Participants compete during a traditional historical ski race in the northern Bohemian town of Smrzovka, Feb. 21, 2015.
11 Artists wave to the crowd during a Carnival parade in Nice, France. The 131st Carnival of Nice will run up to March 1 and will celebrate the "King of Music."
Febbraio 23, 2015
1 Maldives police try to move former President Mohamed Nasheed during a scuffle as he arrives at a courthouse in Male. Nasheed was denied bail a day after his surprise arrest on terrorism charges.
2 NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore works outside the International Space Station on the first of three spacewalks preparing the station for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. Fellow spacewalker Terry Virts, seen reflected in the visor.
3 Pakistani women carry wood they have collected to be used as fuel for cooking and heating, in Islamabad.
4 Somalis run from an explosion during a fire that engulfed a fuel market, causing extensive property damage but no loss of life, in the Hodan district of the capital Mogadishu.
5 Children play inside an inflatable tube on the snow at Taoranting Park's temple fair for Lunar New Year celebrations in Beijing, China.
6 Bangladesh residents react after finding the body of a relative following a ferry accident at Paturia some 70kms east of Dhaka. The death toll soared to 69 after the overcrowded boat sank within minutes of colliding with a cargo vessel.
7 Sadao Kimbara (L) and his daughter-in-law Sayuri (2nd R) ride on Honda motorcycles with sidecars he made out of oil barrels, as his grandchildren Rio (2nd L), Ruka (C), pet dog Tida and Rui sit in the sidecars in Ome, pn the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan.
8 Winner for Best Actor Eddie Redmayne accepts his award from Cate Blanchett at the 87th Oscars in Hollywood, California, Feb. 22, 2015.
9 Jennifer Lopez reacts during the 87th Oscars in Hollywood, California, Feb. 22, 2015.
10 Men carry floating pitchers that they use to catch fish while heading home in Soneri village next to Keenjhar Lake, near Thatta, Pakistan, Feb. 22, 2015.
11 A man cycles on the path between the marine lake and the coastal wall at New Brighton, north west England as waves from the Irish Sea hit the coast.
12 Drachenburg Castle is illuminated with an installation by German light artist Wolfgang Flammersfeld in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Germany, Feb. 22, 2015.
13 Lebanese sit in the snow as they smoke a water pipe a day after a strong snow storm, near the village of Hamana, Mount Lebanon, Feb. 22, 2015.
Febbraio 24, 2015
1 Acrobatic pilots perform at the Australian International Airshow at the Avalon Airfield in the city of Lara, southwest of Melbourne.
2 For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes the trans-Atlantic journey from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rain forest. Among this dust is phosphorus, an essential nutrient that acts like a fertilizer, which the Amazon depends on in order to flourish. (Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
3 Huge waves crash on the San Esteban de Pravia seafront in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.
4 Egyptians walk carrying their belongings toward the Libyan side of the Ras Djir border crossing as they head to Tunisia for a flight evacuating them back to Cairo. Since the release of a gruesome video showing the beheading of Egyptian Christians by Islamic State group militants on a beach in Libya, Cairo has urged the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians working in Libya to leave, and also chartered planes to fly many of them home from Tunisia.
5 Government workers from the Bureau of Customs destroy counterfeit footwear products in Manila, the Philippines. A government statement said over 150,000 pairs of fake shoes and slippers of various brands including Nike, Adidas, Converse, Sketchers, North Face, Leaveland, Merrell, Lacoste, Vans, Havaianas and Ipanema worth PHP 50 million ($1.13 million), which were smuggled from China, were destroyed at a government warehouse in Manila.
6 A woman mourns her dead donkey in Ait Sghir in the High Atlas region of Morocco.
7 Ice builds up along Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Feb. 23, 2015. The city is struggling through the third coldest February on record.
8 Models present creations of Serbian designer Marko Mitanovski during the 2015 Autumn/Winter London Fashion Week.
9 Policemen take position as a resident rides his motorcycle during a shooting with suspected drug gangs after a protest at Linha Amarela highway near the slum complex of Mare in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb 23, 2015.
10 Dead fish are seen on the banks of the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
11 Phoenix Suns' Alex Len dunks against the Boston Celtics during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Feb 23, 2014.
Febbraio 25, 2015
1 South Korean graduate Yoo Hye-jin checks her smartphone during a graduation ceremony at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul.
2 Police enter the apartment of Emilia Montoya Vazquez by forcing their way in between furniture after they broke down the main door to evict her and her family in Madrid, Spain. Montoya, who lived with her son and daughter in law, both unemployed, and three grandchildren of 7, 6, 3 years old, had accumulated a debt with the (EMV) City Hall Housing Company as she could not afford to pay the rent due to her only income - a state benefit of 460 euros ($522) a month.
3 A view of Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island ferry as the New York Harbor is filled with large chunks of ice. Heavy ice in the East River shut down commuter ferry service between Manhatta, Queens, and Brooklyn on Feb. 24, 2015.
4 Onlookers gather on Queen Elizabeth bridge to look at a public transport bus that drove over the side of the bridge in Johannesburg, South Africa. No fatal injuries were reported and the bus driver sustained minor injuries.
5 Local residents drive bullock carts among old temples in Bagan, Myanmar.
6 Kashmiri Muslims cross the Dal Lake on a small boat as migratory birds move on the water surface in Srinagar, India.
7 Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung throws an object at Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang (not pictured) to demand a universal retirement protection scheme during the annual budget report meeting at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong.
8 A man walks past graffiti in Athens. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Wednesday it had not been an easy decision for euro zone finance ministers to extend the Greek rescue plan by four months.
9 An elderly woman is rescued from an apartment balcony during a building fire in downtown Cairo, Egypt. An electrical fire raged in a residential building in the Ramsis neighborhood, injuring at least three people.
10 Sri Lankan shadow dancers perform in Colombo.
11 Russian artist Vasily Slonov carries props he called "Oil Mosquitoes", which are made of stainless steel and glass filled with natural oil, for a demonstration of an installation on the banks of the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
12 Laborers work at the installation site of a new railway track on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura.
13 Fans of Argentina's Racing Club cheer for their team playing against Paraguay's Guarani during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Feb. 24, 2015.
Febbraio 26, 2015
1 Norwegian supporters follow the Nordic Combined ski jumping competition in the ski stadium of the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden.
2 Passengers travel on an overcrowded train on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.
3 Students are protesting changes in the system of university degrees on the second of a two-day strike in Madrid, Spain.
4 Men inspect the damage at a site hit by what activists said were two barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Shaar neighborhood.
5 Pakistani villagers prepare cow dung cakes in the suburbs of Islamabad. Cow dung cakes are popularly used as fuel for cooking in rural areas a major source of domestic fuel as an alternative to firewood.
An elderly woman drags a cart with her belongings on the outskirts of Debaltseve. After weeks of relentless fighting the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell last week to Russia-backed separatists.
7 British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran poses with his British album of the year award for 'X' and his male solo artist award at the BRIT Awards 2015 in London, Feb. 25, 2015.
8 Singer Madonna falls during her performance at the BRIT music awards at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, London, Feb. 25, 2015.
9 An American Robin, known for its warm orange breast and cheery singing, sits in a tree as snow falls in Fairfax, Virginia. (Diaa Bekheet/VOA)
10 Afghan men push a car which became stuck near an avalanche site in Panjshir province north of Kabul, Feb. 25, 2015.
11 A fisherman casts his line as birds fly over the Sao Conrado beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
12 A man holds firecrackers during the opening of a wholesale market in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China.
13 A supporter of Bangladesh's World Cup cricket team shouts in the crowd during the Cricket World Cup match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the MCG in Melbourne, Australia.
Febbraio 27, 2015
1 Turkish forensic officers prepare to remove a vehicle in front of the US consulate in Istanbul. Police detained one man after he threatened to detonate a bomb he said he was carrying. Bomb experts discovered he was not carrying a bomb.
2 Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in a winter training in temperatures below minus 10 degrees Celsius at China's border with Russia in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, Feb. 26, 2015.
3 Riot Police remove a housing rights activist who climbed a bulldozer in an effort to stop the eviction of Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family and the demolition of their house in Madrid, Spain.
4 Fans of AS Roma leave the Kuip stadium through a secured corridor after the Europa League soccer match against Feyenoord in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 26, 2015.
5 Hindu men from the village of Nandgaon, smeared with colors, play holi at the Ladali or Radha temple before taking out a procession for the Lathmar Holi festival, at the legendary hometown of Radha, consort of Hindu God Krishna in Barsana, India.
6 Two quick-footed llamas dash in and out of traffic in a Phoenix-area retirement community before they were captured, Feb. 26, 2015, in Sun City, Ariz. The llamas thwarted numerous attempts by Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies and bystanders to round them up before they were roped into custody.
7 Acrobatic pilots perform on the first public day of the Australian International Airshow at the Avalon Airfield near Lara, southwest of Melbourne.
8 A silhouetted Pakistani vendor forms bubbles while waiting for customers at a stall selling bubbles and balloons at the Rawal Lake park in Islamabad.
9 This picture shows a costume created by Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto and used by David Bowie during a press preview of an exhibition dedicated to the British singer at the Philarmonie in Paris.
10 Runners participate in the 2015 Tel Aviv Marathon in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv.
11 An employee gathers items in a warehouse at a distribution point of Russia’s online retailer Ulmart in Saint Petersburg, Feb. 26, 2015.
12 An Indian security personnel stands guard stands in front of copies of the "Economic Survey 2014-15" at Parliament House in New Delhi.
