Afghan children peer out of their tent as they watch others play as it snows in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmad Massoud/AP
Egyptians celebrate the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Ben Curtis/AP
A capybara sits under a stream of hot water to keep warm during a cold, snowy day at Saitama Children's Zoo in Higshimatsuyama, near Tokyo. Koji Sasahara/AP
Children play on an electric tower in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beawiharta/Reuters
High school students who defected from North Korea attend their graduation ceremony at Hangyeore Middle and High School in Anseong, near Seoul, South Korea. Forty-three students graduated from the school, which was built to educate North Korean teenage defectors. They will go on to college or find employment. Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves during a rally to mark the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran. Hundreds of thousands turned out in a rally the clerical establishment billed as a chance to show solidarity with "Islamic" protesters in Egypt. Raheb Homavandi/Reuters
A child performer in traditional costume eats bread as she rehearses for the upcoming Lantern Festival at a park in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. Reuters
A protester shakes the hand of the military outside the television building in Cairo. The military watched passively as protesters broke down barriers and moved towards the building. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
Two rare white lion cubs play at the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands. The cubs arrived 10 weeks ago and are descendants of the white lions found only in the Timbavati nature reserve in South Africa, according to the zoo. The white lion is a Kruger lion with a color gene mutation. Jerry Lampen /Reuters
A UN guard post, framed by Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot flags, is seen in the background as children play on a jungle gym in a Cyprus park between the United Nations buffer zone and a Turkish military post in the Turkish-occupied area of the divided capital, Nicosia. Petros Karadjias/AP
Snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg of the US performs a jump in front of a television tower during a training session for the Nokia Air and Style snowboarder competition at the Olympic stadium in Munich, Germany. Michaela Rehle/Reuters
A child watches from a bus as traffic was halted due to demonstrations beginning at Cairo University and moving to the television building near Tahrir Square. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
A picture of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is worn in protest on the hat of German director Volker Schloendorff prior to the screening of Panahi's movie "Offside" at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin. Panahi was sentenced in December 2010 to six years in prison in Iran. Markus Schreiber/AP
Performers in Singapore are seen during the "Chingay Parade," a multicultural street performance that is part of the Chinese new year celebrations. Wong Maye-E/AP
John Mills breaks ice from around his boat in Fairhaven, Mass., in an attempt to take it out to dive for quahogs in Buzzards Bay. Peter Pereira/The Standard Times/AP
Bruiser the dog supervises as workers unload equipment and supplies at the Boston Red Sox training facility in Fort Myers, Fla. Bruiser belongs to minor league equipment manager Mike Stelmach. Dave Martin/AP
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