Blackpool, England: Fishermen brave wind-whipped waves on Blackpool promenade
Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica: An Adelie penguin on the ice
Titanyen, Haiti: A woman who lost both her arms in the January 2010 earthquake attends a memorial service at a mass grave site
Sagar Island, India: Hindu pilgrims perform
rituals at the Gangasagar festival. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims arrive
for the Gangasagar, which culminates in a dip in the ocean at the
confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal
Sagar Island, India: Workers arrange straw mats
before delivering them to temporary camps for the Gangasagar pilgrimmage
and festival
Sagar Island, India: A Hindu pilgrim offers
prayers after taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the
Bay of Bengal
Islamabad, Pakistan: A worker arranges bricks at a factory
Islamabad, Pakistan: A man combs a rubbish tip for items that can be sold to a recycling factory
Kabul, Afghanistan: Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini
Khedri, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the Qur'an,
turns a page of the book
Moscow, Russia: A soldier from the
presidential regiment guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just
outside a snow-clad Kremlin wall
Nairobi, Kenya: Pedestrians cross a bridge on the Nairobi-Thika highway
Arequipa, Peru: A biker competes during the 11th stage of the Dakar rally from Arica to Arequipa
Tauranga, New Zealand: The stern section of the
container ship Rena sinks after splitting away. The ship had been wedged
on a reef off the east coast of the North Island since October
Beijing, China: A woman performs stretching exercises under rows of red lanterns in Ditan park