Workers use a crane to extract the 1993 40th Anniversary Chevrolet Corvette from the sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. HANDOUT/REUTERS

National police detain an anti-government protester during clashes at Altamira square in Caracas. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS

Revellers from the Vila Isabel samba school participate in the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome. RICARDO MORAES/REUTERS

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection for French fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS

An aerial view of a building shaped like a clay teapot is seen in Wuxi. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS

Zeid, a Palestinian cigarette vendor and a diabetic, sits next to his artificial limb during a visit to a prosthetics centre in Qalqilya. AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

A Russian soldier lies with his back to Ukrainian fighter jets he watches Ukrainian serviceman at the Belbek airport. BAZ RATNER/REUTERS

A reveler parades through the French Quarter on Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. JONATHAN BACHMAN/REUTERS

Afghan girl, whose family fled the Soviet-led war in Afghanistan, plays with a toy bus beside her makeshift shelter in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad. ZOHRA BENSEMRA/REUTERS

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses the crowd during an election rally in Kirikkale. UMIT BEKTAS/REUTERS

U.S. first lady Michelle reacts after finding wireless microphones from tv stations under her seat, as she visits Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School ahead of her upcoming trip to China, in Washington. YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS

A model presents a creation by British designer Sarah Burton from her Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women’s ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Alexander McQueen during Paris Fashion Week. GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS

A child dressed as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez parade during the Carnival festival in Caracas. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS

Chinese People’s Armed Police give free haircuts during the annual Learn from Lei Feng Day in Shanghai. ALY SONG/REUTERS

Rachel Canning attends a hearing in her lawsuit against her parents Sean and Elizabeth Canning, in Morristown. CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS

A frontier soldier from the People’s Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire as part of training in Heihe. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

A boy puts his palms together as he rests with his family outside Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. JACKY CHEN/REUTERS

A supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul leaves after a presidential campaign event in Kabul. OMAR SOBHANI/REUTERS

Dhuna Devi Saud prepares to sleep inside a Chaupadi shed in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

Storm clouds and dust can be seen in the sky above a woman as she walks at dusk along Mollymook Beach. DAVID GRAY/REUTERS

Japanese Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest woman, poses for a photo next to her birthday cake as she celebrates her 116th birthday in Osaka. KYODO/REUTERS

Supporters of AAP and BJP clash during a protest outside the office of BJP in Lucknow. STRINGER/INDIA/REUTERS

Handout photo of NASA-funded sounding rocket launching into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska. NASA/REUTERS

Uniformed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalnoye outside Simferopol. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

Members of the IUNA Ballet perform during a rehearsal of their show Dressed by grace at a public square, ahead of the Ciudanza Dance Festival, in Buenos Aires. MARCOS BRINDICCI/REUTERS

UN special envoy Robert Serry gestures as he leaves in a car in Simferopol. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

Drone flies in the sky as a solar halo is observed in Lima. MARIANA BAZO/REUTERS

Mohamed, a 35-year-old from the city of Conakry in Guinea, shows his injuries which he claims were sustained by the Moroccan police in June 2013, in Nador. JUAN MEDINA/REUTERS

An anti-austerity protester sits on the ground during scuffles with police officers following a demonstration by several hundreds of protesters, some of them from the communist-affiliated trade union PAME, in Athens. ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS/REUTERS

Police detain a protester during a demonstration against Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fourth term, in Algiers. STRINGER/REUTERS

U.S. artist Janet Echelman’s luminous 1.26 installation hangs over the city skyline during a media preview of the i Light Marina Bay festival in Singapore. EDGAR SU/REUTERS

Locals and fire-fighters try to control a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka. STRINGER/REUTERS

A man widely believed to be Bitcoin currency founder Satoshi Nakamoto is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his home in Temple City, California. DAVID MCNEW/REUTERS

Police stand guard in front of the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon. HUGO CORREIA/REUTERS

Police fire teargas at anti-government protesters at Altamira square in Caracas. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/REUTERS

Wang Feng practises on a fellow student during a training course at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Centre in Zhengzhou. JASON LEE/REUTERS

People walk past a copy of an Pac-Man art piece by French urban artist Space Invader, in Hong Kong. BOBBY YIP/REUTERS

A worker looks on as she and her colleagues plant paddy crop at a paddy field in Tangerang, Indonesia’s Banten province. BEAWIHARTA/REUTERS

People inspect damage at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President al-Assad in Aleppo’s district of al-Sukari. STRINGER/REUTERS

Male lion Zawadi Mungu plays with his cubs for the first time in the Oregon Zoo’s Predators of the Serengeti habitat in Portland. HANDOUT/REUTERS

Rick Lawrence from Newburgh, New York, steers the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club’s Jack Frost on the frozen Hudson River near, Astor Point in Barrytown. MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS

Women practise a pole dancing move during an International Women’s Day event at a women’s-only pole dancing fitness studio in Sydney. JASON REED/REUTERS

A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at the Beijing Capital International Airport. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

A Palestinian woman throws stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes that erupted following a rally marking International Woman’s Day at Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

A farmer shouts while running alongside his oxen as they race through a paddy field during the Kakkoor Kalavayal festival at Kakkoor village. SIVARAM V/REUTERS

People have lunch on the beach during a warm and sunny day in Nice. ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERS

Spectators watch as fireworks from a China pyrotechnic company light up the sky during The 5th Philippine International Pyromusical Competition in Manila. ROMEO RANOCO/REUTERS

An anti-government protester using a DirecTV receptor as shield walks among teargas during a riot in Caracas. JORGE SILVA/REUTERS

Women take part in a march to mark International Women’s Day in Mexico City. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

A military member waits for delegates to board, near the Great Hall of the People after a plenary session of NPC in Beijing. KIM KYUNG-HOON/REUTERS

Pro-Ukrainian supporters are seen though a Ukrainian flag as they take part in a rally in Simferopol. DAVID MDZINARISHVILI/REUTERS

A Canadian Sphynx cat is evaluated during an international feline beauty show in Bucharest. BOGDAN CRISTEL/REUTERS

Indian sand artist Patnaik applies final touches to a sand art sculpture he created wishing for the well being of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, on beach in Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. STRINGER/INDIA/REUTERS

A woman survivor holds her crying baby in a hospital in Aleppo’s al-Sakhour district. STRINGER/REUTERS

Former oligarch Khodorkovsky addresses Ukrainians during an anti-war rally at Independence Square in Kiev. TATYANA MAKEYEVA/REUTERS

Two-year-old Nao Watanabe plays in a ball pit at an indoor playground which was built for children and parents who refrain from playing outside because of concerns about nuclear radiation in Koriyama. Toru Hanai/REUTERS

Firemen try to loosen debris piling up against a bridge over the overflowing Acre river in Rio Branco. STRINGER/BRAZIL/REUTERS

A Tibetan activist gestures from a police vehicle after getting detained by Nepalese police for protesting near the Chinese Embassy Consular office in Kathmandu. NAVESH CHITRAKAR/REUTERS

A military personnel takes photos from the window of an aircraft belonging to the Vietnamese airforce during a search and rescue mission off Vietnam’s Tho Chu island. KHAM/REUTERS

An employee works inside an undergarment factory in Kolkata. RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI/REUTERS

Military personnel work within the cockpit of a helicopter belonging to the Vietnamese airforce during a search and rescue mission off Vietnam’s Tho Chu island. ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/REUTERS

‘Female’ robots pole dance during a demonstration on the Tobit Software stand at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover . WOLFGANG RATTAY/REUTERS

A man sleeps outside a pub in London’s east end. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS

Member of a pro-Russian self defence unit takes an oath to Crimea government in Simferopol. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS

A woman walking by a poster calling people to vote in the upcoming referendum, in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. BAZ RATNER/REUTERS

A man daubed in coloured powder poses for a picture at a temple during Lathmar Holi at village Nandgaon. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS