Several 'tamborilleros' wearing typical clothes participate in the traditional La Tamborrada during El Dia Grande, the main feast day in the Basque city of San Sebastian in northern Spain. From midnight to midnight, companies of perfectly uniformed marchers parade through the streets of San Sebastian playing drums and barrels in honor of their patron saint. Alvaro Barrientos/AP
US Army Spec. Brian Channon stands outside a Black Hawk helicopter from Task Force Shadow 'Dust Off,' Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment as it refuels at Camp Dywer in the volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Kevin Frayer/AP
An Israeli left wing activist stands next to a Palestinian man before planting olive trees in an area where local Palestinians claim Jewish settlers uprooted olive trees last year in the West Bank village of Mughaiyir, northwest of Ramallah. Thursday is Israel's Arbor Day. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
Pascal Hens (r.) of Germany attempts to score against Majed Hamza of Tunisia during their Group A match at the Men's Handball World Championship in Kristianstad, Sweden. Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (l.) and NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba undergo a survival training course in Star City, Moscow. Sergei Remezov/Reuters
Female giant panda Tian Tian eats a fruitsicle at the National Zoo in Washington. Zoo Director Dennis Kelly and the secretary-general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, Zang Chunlin, signed a new giant panda cooperative research and breeding agreement for five more years. Jose Luis Magana/AP
Japan's Ryo Aono competes in the men's snowboard halfpipe final at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain. The championships take place in Barcelona and La Molina from January 15 to 22. Albert Gea/Reuters
Volunteer Roger Straley of the St. Andrew Bay Resource Management Association handles a juvenile green sea turtle during its release into the Gulf of Mexico at Cape San Blas, Fla., on Wednesday. The 200 sea turtles released were some of about 300 cold-stunned turtles gathered from St. Joseph Bay last weekend during sub-freezing weather along northwestern Florida's Gulf Coast. Terry Barner/The News-Herald/AP
Haitians walk near graffiti that reads 'Welcome Back Duvalier' along a street in Port-au-Prince. Four Haitians, including a former UN spokeswoman, filed criminal complaints on Wednesday against former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, accusing him of crimes against humanity including torture. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
A robin feasts on berries during a snowstorm in Muncie, Ind. Chris Bergin/The Star Press/AP
Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during his match against Ryan Sweeting of the US at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. Tim Wimborne /Reuters
A Tunisian protester grabs hold of a soldier's leg for safety as shots are fired in the air in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in downtown Tunis. Tunisian police fired shots into the air to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers associated with the rule of the ousted president leave the government. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
Pakistani students look out of a bus window in Karachi after taking part in a rally to protest against any attempts to modify blasphemy laws. About 2,000 schoolchildren gathered in Pakistan's largest city to show their support for the country's blasphemy laws. Fareed Khan/AP
A woman transports bags of wood chips from a sawmill to her house in the village of Selishki-Okorokovo in the Yaroslavl region of Russia about 186 miles north of Moscow. She will burn the chips in a furnace to warm her home. Mikhail Voskresensky/Reuters
Trainees take part in the Taiwanese Marines' frogmen 'road to heaven' test in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, on Wednesday. The 'road to heaven' test, the final stage of a nine-week intensive amphibious training program, requires trainees to execute various exercises and leopard crawl along a 50 meter-long path that is littered with jagged corals and rocks. Nicky Loh/Reuters
Students wear gas masks before entering a building where they will be exposed to tear gas as part of their chemical, biological, and radiological training during a winter military boot camp at a military unit in Bucheon, west of Seoul, South Korea. The boot camp is run by South Korean special forces, who organized six winter boot camps across the country in January. There are currently 1,200 civilians, including students, who have participated in the four-day-long boot camp. Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
Pete Jones, winner of the six-dog team race in 2010, practices for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally on the shores of Loch Morlich, Scotland. The rally, which involves more than 1,000 dogs and 200 mushers, will take place on Saturday. Russell Cheyne/Reuters
Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, at the zoo in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Employees walk the lion twice a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik's attention. Nozim Kalandarov/Reuters
An Afghan refugee girl (c.) stands in the alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, with friends. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
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