Katie Ketchum, who performed in Cirque du Soleil for four years, trains at Cirque School in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Circus professionals train at the school, which also teaches recreational circus classes to the public. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Children sit on a piece of 3D artwork featuring a shark as they pose for a photograph for their family during an exhibition by the Trick Art Museum of Japan at the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei. Shengfa Lin/Reuters
Indian Hindu men are covered in red powder thrown on them as they sit on the floor of the Radha Rani Temple during Lathmar Holi in Barsana, India. According to tradition which has its roots in Hindu mythology men from Lord Krishna's village of Nandgaon are beaten by the women of Barsana, home of Lord Krishna's lover Radha. It is said that Lord Krisna's relatives used to tease Radha and her friends and were beaten by them in return. To this day, marriage between the two villages are not permitted. Kevin Frayer/AP
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths build a snowman on the roof of a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Ricky Romero, (l.), jumps in to photograph teammate J.P. Arencibia at spring training baseball in Dunedin, Fla. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press/AP
Pupils wait for the start of a GCSE mathematics exam at the Harris Academy South Norwood in south east London. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) march near Tiananmen Square ahead of the annual session of China's parliament, which starts from March 3, in Beijing. China is likely to unveil its military spending for 2012 on the weekend, flagging the direction that Beijing will take after President Barack Obama launched a new 'pivot' to reinforce US influence across Asia. Jason Lee/Reuters
Veiled Hindu women hold bamboo sticks as they celebrate 'Lathmar Holi' at Barsana in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
The Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen during a snow storm from Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Demonstrators stand in front of barricades as a vehicle burn outside a tunnel on a highway during a protest against the construction of high-speed train line Treno Alta Velocita (TAV), near Bussoleno, north of Turin. The TAV, which will link Turin in northern Italy to Lyon in France, will pass through the villages and towns of the demonstrators, who are also protesting for environmental reasons. Giorgio Perottino/Reuters
Palestinians play with snow near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israelis and Palestinians have woken up to a rare sight in the usually temperate Holy Land: a thin blanket of snow. Snow blanketed Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and the West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem. Bernat Armangue/AP
A man and a Buddhist monk ride a motor bike near U Bein bridge, the longest teak bridge in the world, in Mandalay. The bridge was built 200 years ago across the Taungthaman Lake and measures 0.75 miles in length. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
A Pakistani boy holds a copy of the Quran as he wears a headband reading 'God is great,' at rally to condemn the disposal last week of a number of Qurans at a US military base in Afghanistan, in Karachi, Pakistan. Fareed Khan/AP
An aircraft creates a contrail as it flies over a blanket of clouds above Krakow, Poland. Ferdinand Ostrop/AP
Honor guards march in step during the changing of the guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow. Russians will go to the polls for their presidential election on March 4. Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters
Jeremy Stoppelman, (c.), Yelp co-founder and CEO, applauds as his company's IPO begins trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The shares are up 61 percent to $24.15 in the first minutes of trading, after pricing at $15 on Thursday night. Richard Drew/AP
A fan reacts during the men's singles semi-final match between Andy Murray of Britain and Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the Dubai Tennis Championships. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
A man shows tattoos on his body at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom province, about 50 miles from Bangkok. Thousands of believers from across Thailand travel to the monastery to attend the annual tattoo festival to have their bodies adorned with tattoos and to pay their respects to the temple's master tattooist. They believe the tattoos have mystical powers, warding off bad luck and protecting them from harm. Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
A model poses for photographers backstage prior to Hussein Chalayan's Fall-Winter, ready-to-wear 2013 fashion collection, during Paris Fashion week. Thibault Camus/AP
A joey, which is approximately six months old, pokes its head out of its mother’s pouch at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. Joeys begin to emerge from the pouch for short periods at around 190 days. Franklin Park Zoo/Reuters
A woman rows on Lake Leman on a warm winter day in St-Sulpice near Lausanne. Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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