Beijing, China: Actors perform the dragon dance ahead of the Lunar New Year and the year of the Dragon at a park
Bagram, Afghanistan: Two US gunners aboard a US Chinook helicopter
Kranjska Gora, Slovenia: Emi Hasegawa of Japan crashes during the World Cup women's slalom
Berlin, Germany: A model holds hair rollers for the stylist amid preparations for Stephan Pelger's fashion show
Nyack, New York, US: A Red-bellied woodpecker perches on a suet feeder during a winter storm
Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghans gather around
a fire to keep warm. Afghanistan is enduring a harsh winter daytime
temperatures falling minus 15 degrees Celsius
Bata, Equatorial Guinea: A young woman wears a wig
in the colours of Equatorial Guinea's football team outside the Estadio
de Bata stadium ahead of the African Cup of Nations opening match
Sofia, Bulgaria: Bulgarian Orthodox bishops attend a service celebrating Patriarch Maxim's day in St Nedelia cathedral
Tiwanaku, Bolivia: Bolivian indigenous
women joke during commemorations for the second year of President Evo
Morales's government
Giglio Porto, Italy: Statues of the
Madonna and Jesus in storage after they were recovered from a chapel on
board the sunken Cruise ship Costa Concordia
Muharraq, Bahrain: Bahraini youths react to teargas fired during the politically charged funeral of Yousif Mowali
Kolkata, India: Indian police officials
adjust their uniforms in front of the Victoria Memorial before a
rehearsal for the Republic Day parade
Park City, Utah, US: A man stands in a
snowstorm holding a sign asking for tickets outside the Eccles Theatre
during the Sundance Film Festival
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A girl carries a
religious image as she leads a procession of missionaries from the
Apostolic church to attend Mass