Tourists visit the Badaling section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The Lunar New Year began on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
A model wearing a creation by Molina Moda Flamenca laughs backstage during the International Flamenco Fashion Show SIMOF in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The show will run until Feb. 6. Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa (r.) rides with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera through the outskirts of Lake Ranco, 582 miles south of Santiago. Correa is visiting Chile on an invitation by Pinera. Alex Ibanez/La Presidencia/Reuters
During Friday prayers in Tehrir Square, prayers are raised to those who lost their lives to the violence. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
A resident waits to be evacuated from her flooded village of Sri Tanjong, 124 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Heavy rains triggered the worst floods in four years, killing five people, driving 41,000 people from their homes and cutting off several towns in the southern state of Johor. Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters
University of Texas at Austin students rejoice at 3:00 am as one of the heaviest snowfalls in years blankets the city during below-freezing temperatures. Tamir Kalifa/Daily Texan/AP
Boats and yachts remain piled up at Port Hinchinbrook, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. The storm, which hit in the early hours of Thursday, was among the most powerful ever to strike Australia, terrifying thousands of residents and causing widespread damage. Rick Rycroft/AP
Dylan Ferguson of the US jumps during Men's Aerials Qualification at the FIS Freestyle World Championships in Park City, Utah, on Thursday night. Mark Blinch/Reuters
Iranian women perform Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran. Vahid Salemi/AP
Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Hong Kong. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Protesters get the latest news at a makeshift newsstand in Tehrir Square. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
A pair of horses takes a break from grazing in a snow-covered pasture in Great Falls, Va. Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
A member of the Communist Union of Youth in Calcutta, India, shouts slogans as others carry portraits of Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin during a rally against the Russian government's attempts to remove Lenin's embalmed body from the Mausoleum in the Red Square. The body of the man who founded the Soviet Union still lies on public display in the mausoleum almost 20 years after the communist state collapsed. Bikas Das/AP
Residents with a baby survey what is left of their house after it was gutted by a fire in Manila. The fire destroyed a row of shanties, leaving about 100 families homeless. Pat Roque/AP
South Koreans ride on ice sleds at the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, South Korea. For many South Koreans, the Lunar New Year is one of the country's biggest traditional holidays. Lee Jin-man/AP
Vladimir Koshchavtsev, the owner of a small workshop manufacturing valenki, traditional Russian felt boots made of sheep wool, presses moisture from valenkis after dyeing them in a vat in the village of Spasovka, 124 miles east of Krasnoyarsk, Thursday. Koshchavtsev, previously unemployed, received a 300,000 rouble ($10,000) grant as part of a state program to support and stimulate jobless people to start their own business. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A visitor walks past an illuminated ice sculpture at Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival in Chitose on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. The ice sculpture festival, in which creations are formed by spraying water pumped from Lake Shikotsu, is held until February 13. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
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South Korea, long in the shadow of other Asian 'tiger economies,' is suddenly hip and enormously prosperous – so much so that it may have outgrown its thankless dream of reuniting with the North.
For months the young emperor to the north has been threatening to turn this thriving metropolis into a "sea of fire." But it's not easy to ruffle the jaunty vibe of 75-year-old Kim Chong-shik as he strolls among young couples and shoppers along the boutiques of the Gangnam District.
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