

A visitor walks inside the Miracoco Luminarium inflatable installation by British designer Alan Parkinson of Architects of Light during the one week-long Ziguzajq Children's Festival in Valletta, Malta. Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters
A tree burns in the ravine along Manzanita Lane near Broken Arrow in Reno, Nev. Nevada firefighters are battling a wind-whipped wildfire that has already burned several homes and caused several injuries. Liz Margerum/The Reno Gazette-Journal/AP
A Nepalese Buddhist monks perform traditional mask dance during the last day of Mahakala Puja, a Buddhist ritual ceremony, at Sangay Chhoeling Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal. Binod Joshi/AP
Women wearing high heeled shoes take part in a race during the 'Tour de Takong' (stiletto shoe race) race in Marikina, Metro Manila More than 100 residents participated in the contest as part of Sapatos (shoe) festival to promote Marikina city, the shoe capital of the Philippines. Charlie Priela/Reuters
A Bahraini woman carrying a national flag is seen gesturing behind a Bahraini flag during an anti-government rally in A'ali, Bahrain. Thousands of Shiite-led protesters calling for greater rights streamed into the area outside the capital of Manama in one of the largest demonstrations in weeks against the Gulf kingdom's rulers. Hasan Jamali/AP
Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov of Russia perform during the Pairs Short Program in the Bompard Trophy event at Bercy in Paris. Gonzalo Fuentes /Reuters
Former Maoist rebels walk at the Shaktikhor cantonment in Chitwan, about 138 miles southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. The Maoists gave up their decade-long armed revolt in 2006, confined their fighters to UN-monitored camps, locked up their weapons and joined mainstream politics. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
A demonstrator hits a police vehicle during a protest to demand for changes to the public state education system in Santiago. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is the profiteering in the state education system, local media reported. Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
A woman carries a bag as she harvests chrysanthemum at a field in a flower plantation in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China. Reuters
A breeding tom turkey mills around on a sunny morning at Raymond's Turkey Farm in Methuen, Mass. Elise Amendola/AP
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (c., wearing maroon scarf) observes Buddhist religious rituals at a function celebrating his 66th birthday in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa invited 600 children, who share the same date of birth, to his residence for celebrations. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP
Croatian majorettes walk with the national flag through the streets of Vukovar during a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of Vukovar's fall. The Danube town of Vukovar was entirely destroyed 20 years ago by Serb paramilitary forces backed by units of the former Yugoslav army at the beginning of Croatia's 1991-95 independence war. Nikola Solic/Reuters
Workers walk in a construction site of a new shopping center in Pristina, Kosovo. Hazir Reka/Reuters
Students lie face down in a classroom during a mock drill in a local high school in a low-income neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. More than 2,400 high school students and teachers carried out a mock shoot out drill in high risk neighborhoods due to violence level in the city, local media reported. Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
A three-story building lies on its side at Onagawa, in northeast Japan. Though much of the debris left by the March 11 tsunami has been removed, eight months later there is little sign of rebuilding in communities across northeast Japan. Greg Baker/AP