A young girl wears the Syrian national flag on her face during a rally in support of President Bashar Assad in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan. Mohammad Hannon/AP
Bramble, a Tamworth pig, runs in snow in Sinnington, northern England. Snow fell in many areas of England and Wales overnight. Nigel Roddis/Reuters
An ethnic Kayin woman hugs Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, after Suu Kyi met with Saw Htay Maung, chairman of the KNU/KNLA Peace Council, in Yangon. It was the first meeting between the Noble Peace Laureate and a representative of the ethnic armed group. Last year, Suu Kyi offered to help mediate between the government and ethnic armed groups but the government declined. Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Belgian rider Tom Boonen of the Omega Pharma-Quick Step team puts on the leader's gold jersey after winning the Tour of Qatar cycling race following its sixth and final stage between the Sealine Beach Resort to the Doha Corniche. Mohammed Dabbous/Reuters
Devotees walk around candles stuck to jars of honey, forming a Holy Cross shape, during mass for the 'sanctification of honey' at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in the town of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Honey and beehives are sanctified by performing a ritual for health and rich harvest, marking the day of St. Haralampus, Orthodox patron saint of bee-keepers. Valentina Petrova/AP
Britain's Prince Harry meets servicemen wearing camouflage ghillie suits during a visit to RAF Honington airbase, near Bury St Edmunds in southern England. The prince, third in line to the throne, is an Apache helicopter co-gunner and follows in the footsteps of elder brother William, who is currently on deployment as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. Chris Radburn/Pool/Reuters
A worker arranges a saree, a traditional cloth used for women's clothing, as it is hung out to dry after dyeing it at a workshop in Shardarpara village, India. Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner for his role in fighting apartheid, greets local dancers who performed for him in Dharmsala, India. Hundreds of exiles cheered as the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile felicitated the Archbishop at the Tsuglakhang temple. Tutu is in the country to support the 'Girls Not Brides' initiative started in 2011 to tackle child marriage in African and South-East Asian countries. Ashwini Bhatia/AP
An Egyptian protester demonstrates against the ruling military council after Friday prayers at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo. Amr Nabil/AP
A duck tries to grab a piece of bread from a group of swans at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds site in Fairburn Ings, northern England. The birds are feeding in a small area of open water. Most of the lake is frozen as severe winter weather continues in parts of the United Kingdom. John Giles/PA/AP
A woman walks in front of a suntan advertisement on a snow-covered street in Bucharest, Romania. Radu Sigheti/Reuters
Muslim women pray as the head priest displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Eid Milad-un Nabi, marking the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, Indian-Administered Kashmir. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the Prophet. Dar Yasin/AP
A child, eyelashes covered with hoarfrost, walks along a street in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia. The air temperature in Yakutsk is about minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Viktor Everstov/Reuters
A high school graduate who escaped from North Korea weeps during a graduation ceremony at Hangyeore Middle and High School, which was built to educate North Korean teenage defectors, in Anseong, South Korea. Forty-eight students graduated during the ceremony. Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
Iana Williams (l.), who is homeless, rides in the elevator at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in Los Angeles. A recent report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness found that California's population of homeless families increased by five percent between 2009 and 2011. It is estimated that there are more than 300,000 homeless children in California. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
People ride on a horse-drawn cart down a snow-covered road outside Daia village, Romania, as icy weather continues across Europe. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
An anti-government protester fixes her head scarf as she marches on the Budaiya highway, west of Manama, during an anti-government protest in Bahrain. Thousands of anti-government protesters shouted slogans during a march that was organised by opposition parties ahead of next week's anniversary of the unrest. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
Technicians inspect wind turbine blades at Alstom's offshore wind site in Le Carnet, on the Loire Estuary, in France. French power and transport engineering company Alstom will start its new direct drive Haliade 150-6MW offshore wind turbines in April. Stephane Mahe/Reuters
Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice of Australia swims in the women's 400 meter individual medley event at the New South Wales swimming championships in Sydney. Australia's top swimmers are attending the event in preparation for the 2012 London Olympic trials next month in Adelaide, South Australia. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A model talks on her phone backstage before the Richard Chai Fall/Winter 2012 collection show during New York Fashion Week. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Workers representing the charity organization Ecodom carry sheaves of reed near the village of Stakhovtsy, Belarus. The reeds are used in the construction of buildings, including houses for migrants from the Chernobyl zone. Members of the Belarussian charity and its German partner Heim-statt Tschernobyl e.V. (Houses instead of Chernobyl) have built houses since 1994 for Belarusian migrants from Chernobyl, the place where the world's worst civil nuclear accident took place. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
Mark Rogers of Owego, N.Y., listens to Republican presidential candidate former Penn. Sen. Rick Santorum speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP
A traffic light displays the image of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Images of Putin were stuck onto traffic lights in different parts of the city to support him in the upcoming Russian presidential elections, which are scheduled for March 4. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
During a ceremony at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot in San Diego, US Marine Sgt. Philip A. McCulloch Jr. (r.) receives the Silver Star medal from Brigadier General Daniel D. Yoo for 'conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action' while serving in Afghanistan. Lenny Ignelzi/AP
Marco Pichlmayer of Austria soars through the air during official training ahead of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
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