

Sudanese people gather as voting materials are unloaded from a helicopter of the United Nations mission in Sudan at Tali, in southern Sudan. Referendum voting begins Jan. 9, 2011, in a vote to determine if Southern Sudan should remain part of Sudan or to split into its regional parts. Tim McKulka/AP Photo
Cambodian boys look at a head of male python, Krong Pich, in a cage after its wedding ceremony at Svay Rolum village, Kandal Province, 12 miles south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Hundreds of Cambodians organized the wedding ceremony for a pair of what they believed to be magic pythons to ask for prosperity and safety. Heng Sinith/AP Photo
Raw recruits attend training at an Army recruitment training center in Nonsan, south of Seoul, South Korea. Yang Yeong-suk/Reuters
Birds rest on the back of a baby one-horned rhinoceros at Sauraha forest, 99 miles south of Katmandu, Nepal. Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters
A Pakistani girl walks a horse in an alley of a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo
People sit around a bonfire to keep warm in Allahabad, India. Many parts of northern India continue to be affected by severe cold weather conditions. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks at an inauguration ceremony in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Morry Gash/AP Photo
Bangladeshi cricket-lovers show tickets at a ticket sale counter for the Cricket World Cup, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh will stage eight matches at two grounds as well as the opening ceremony on Feb. 18. Pavel Rahman/AP Photo
Riot police stand behind a protective wire barrier during clashes outside Al Abasseya Cathedral in Cairo late Sunday night. Angry Coptic Christians clashed with police on Sunday as they demanded more protection for Egypt's Christians following a New Year's Day church bombing that killed 21 of their brethren. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
A worker moves a bag of coffee beans at a warehouse of an export company owned by the Communist Party in Vietnam's southern province of Binh Duong. Vietnam, the world's second-largest coffee producer after Brazil, exported an estimated 2.2 million bags of the commodity in December 2010, a drop of 10.3 percent from the same month in 2009, government statistics showed. Kham/Reuters
A mother and son sled down a slope as they enjoy a sunny winter day in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo
Norway's Tom Hilde soars over thousands of spectators to take the third place in the third event of the Four-Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. Austria's Thomas Morgenstern won the competition ahead of Poland's Adam Malysz and Hilde. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Medical personnel check Chen Kecai as he competes against Jin Songhao in a cold endurance competition on Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, Hubei Province, China. The men, wearing only shorts, immersed themselves in ice-filled containers. Jin won with a time of 120 minutes which surpassed Chen's 118 minutes. Chen set the Guinness world record for the longest time spent in direct full body contact with ice on March 14, 2010, with a time of 1 hour, 48 minutes and 21 seconds, local media reported. Reuters
An archer dressed in a traditional Japanese warrior's attire aims an arrow as he performs the New Year's Shito ritual ceremony of archery at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Photo
Spectators cheer a competitor during the second stage of the third South American edition of the Dakar Rally 2011 from Cordoba to Tucuman. Eric Gaillard/Reuters
A snake crosses the Capricorn Highway which is under flood waters south of Rockhampton. Military aircraft flew supplies to an Australian town slowly disappearing beneath flood waters on Monday, as record flooding in the country's northeast continues to cut coal exports and devastate wheat production. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Austin Mendoza trudges up a hill with his sled at Willows Park in Summerlin, Nevada. The fast moving storm dumped a few inches of snow in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas. Jeff Scheid/AP Photo