Samajwadi Party supporters listen to party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at an election rally in Allahabad, India. India's biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, will be choosing its state assembly in elections starting next week. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus workers watch as an elephant exits a train car before joining the animal walk to the Bi-Lo Center in downtown Greenville, S.C. The circus will be performing at the city Feb. 1-5. Rainier Ehrhardt/AP
Jana Khalil with the colors of Egypt's national flag painted on her face looks up while sitting with a relative in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's newly elected lawmakers took aim at the country's military rulers, accusing them of trampling on democratic norms and overstepping their powers by passing laws, including a crucial one regulating presidential elections. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A vendor arranges pineapple-shaped lanterns for sale ahead of the Lantern Festival at the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The festival marks the last day of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and falls on February 6 this year. Leo Lang/Reuters
A worker picks out roses in preparation for the upcoming Valentine's Day, at a farm in Cajica. A troubled global economy and bad weather has some growers in Colombia worried about this year's crop. Colombia exports 450 million flowers for Valentine's Day, and flower farmers say that day alone accounts for 12 percent of their annual income. John Vizcaino/Reuters
Men dressed in sheepskin costumes for a carnival celebration walk on the way to the Pyrenees village of Ituren, northern Spain. The tradition is to march through the village every year in a ritual to purify the harvest land from evil spirits and to welcome the coming Spring. Alvaro Barrientos/AP
Sri Lankan nurses take part in a protest outside a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan nurses staged a protest against irregularities, political interferences, and demanded the government to establish better professional standards. Eranga Jayawardena/AP
A couple kiss in the snow in central Seoul. The Korea Meteorological Administration issued a heavy-snowfall watch in Seoul and three other South Korean cities. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
A narrow-gauge railway makes its way through a snow covered forest at the Harz national park near Schierke, central Germany. After a period of relatively mild weather a cold spell has reached central and eastern Europe. Jens Schlueter/AP
Afghan guards of honor wait for the arrival of Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, unseen, head of the Transition Commission during the second phase of transfer of authority ceremony from the NATO- led troops to Afghan security forces in Qalay-e-Naw, Badghis province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Shamil Azad/AP
People walk on Monastiraki square in central Athens. Greece's Prime Minister Lucas Papademos held talks on restructuring Greek debt with senior officials from the European Central Bank and the European Union. John Kolesidis/Reuters
Nobel Peace prize winner Rigoberta Menchu lights a candle during a ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of an attack on the Spanish embassy that killed 37 people in Guatemala City. Menchu's father died in the Jan. 31, 1980 attack by alleged government agents who burned down the Spanish embassy where Mayan peasants were occupying the embassy in protest. Moises Castillo/AP
An Indian family whose hut was destroyed sleep on the ground where the dwelling used to be in the Ghazipur slum, just outside New Delhi, India. Dozens of huts were destroyed in an early morning fire but there were no casualties, according to local news reports. Kevin Frayer/AP
Oil recovery experts sit at a bar in the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. Italian emergency officials are ending the search for missing people in the submerged part of the Costa Concordia cruise ship due to the danger to rescue workers. Pier Paolo Cito/AP
A man walks in the snow in the village of Jezerc, west of Kosovo's capital Pristina. Hazir Reka/Reuters
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves from a vehicle as she arrives in Pakokku township. The United Kingdom will be hosting a visit by Suu Kyi to a Department For International Development (DFID) funded livelihood project in the dry zone near Pakokku. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Dancers take part in a lesson at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
A nun prays at Sednaya monastery, north of Damascus, during a tour organized by the Ministry of Information to see the damage caused by a shell fired at the monastery on Sunday. Officials say the shell was fired by rebels causing a one-meter hole in the wall of one of the convent's rooms. The monastery was built in 547 AD. Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters
A goose peers from its snow-covered cage at a park in Istanbul, Turkey. Murad Sezer/Reuters
A cyclist out enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures watches a plane land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Temperatures in the nation's capital reached the mid 60's today. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
A woman displays a message written on her hands during a march to demand trial for Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. The message reads: 'February 1st, a new Yemen will be created,' in reference to the presidential elections due for February 21, 2012. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
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At least 70 people died in a melee following a soccer match in Port Said, Egypt. The security failure is spawning rumors that the incident plays into the military's law-and-order appeal.
A soccer match between Masry and Ahly in the Egyptian city of Port Said ended in tragedy today, with at least 73 people killed in a melee that broke out after the final whistle. Given the context of Egypt's political transition, the story is liable to become about a lot more than the latest in the long list of violent incidents started by soccer hooligans.
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