

An employee displays a green water dragon at the 'Frankfurt Animal Lounge' at the airport in Frankfurt. Some 300 reptiles were received from Vietnam at the lounge which is run by Lufthansa Cargo. The animals, which undergo quarantine in their country of origin, are checked for health and correct documentation before being moved on after a few hours. Alex Domanski/Reuters
Clean water seller Siti (l.) looks out a window as she waits for customers in a slum area near Pluit reservoir in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beawiharta/Reuters
A monk reacts as he participates in a debate as part of Tibetan New Year celebrations at a temple in Langmusixiang, Sichuan Province. A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk has set himself on fire and died in southwestern China, a rights group said, in the latest reported self-immolation by a monk denouncing Chinese policies. Carlos Barria /Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (c.) visits the Korean People's Army Unit 842 in an undisclosed location in this undated photo in Pyongyang. KCNA/Reuters
Boys recite verses from the Quran at Madrassa Arabia Taleem-ul-Quran, a religious seminary, in Lahore, Pakistan. Mohsin Raza/Reuters
Nepalese Chandra Bahadur Dangi who says he's only 22 inches tall arrives at the airport in Katmandu, Nepal. Guinness World Records officials will be in Nepal this weekend to measure Dangi who hopes to snatch the title of the world's shortest man from Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches tall. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
A horse stands next to a road at a Tibetan area near Langmusixiang, Sichuan Province, in China. Carlos Barria/Reuters
Myanmar girls in ceremonial dresses wait to take part in the 2600th anniversary celebrations of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Altaf Qadri/AP
Protesters run as smoke raises from a burning truck during an anti-US demonstration at a NATO military base in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Anti-American demonstrations continued for a second day in Afghanistan over what the US has said was the inadvertent burning of Qurans, Islam's holy book, at a NATO military base. Rahmat Gul/AP
People rollerskate at a park in the city of Myitkyina in northern Myanmar (Burma). Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Doll maker Vladimir Richkal works on a modelling clay doll of presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as a doll of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is seen at his gallery in Moscow. Throughout his career, Richkal has made dolls of all the candidates running in Russia's forthcoming presidential election to be held on March 4. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
New York ABC Eyewitness News Entertainment Reporter Sandy Kenyon records an introduction from the red carpet area as preparations for the Oscars continue in Hollywood, California. The 84th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday. Danny Moloshok/Reuters
A plane flies in the polluted air above the airport fences in Beijing. Countries opposed to an EU law forcing the world's airlines to pay for carbon emissions have agreed on a basket of retaliatory measures but will leave it up to each country to choose among them, Russia's deputy transport minister said on Wednesday. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
A procession of Orthodox believers follow a priest holding the Theotokos of Pochayiv, an icon of the Virgin Mary, behind a vehicle after the icon arrived at Manas airport near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. The icon, responsible for 539 miracles according to Russian church officials, is originally from the Pochayiv monastery in Ukraine. It is travelling through Kyrgystan. Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters
Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal for the dance and music show 'Ballet Revolucion' in Berlin. Ballet Revolucion, a fusion of ballet, contemporary dance and hip hop from a company of Cuban dancers and live musicians, runs from February 21 till March 4 in the German capital. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters
A copy painting of the 'Mona Lisa' is seen through the viewfinder of a video camera on display in Spain's Prado Museum in Madrid on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The 'Mona Lisa' copy was painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci's apprentices alongside the master himself as he did the original, museum officials said. Paul White/AP
A family member of an inmate pushes a fence guarded by police at the entrance of the prison of Apodaca in Mexico. According to local media, family members started a fire outside the fence and gunshots were heard from inside the prison, three days after members of the Zetas drug cartel orchestrated an elaborate escape and killed 44 of their rivals. Daniel Becerril/Reuters