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The WORLD in a SNAP (13)

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The WORLD in a SNAP (13)

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  1. JANUARY 15: A Baltimore Ravens fan, Tommy Lee, of Seattle, stays bundled up a against the cold -- it was near freezing at the start of the game -- as he watches teams warm up before the Ravens faced the Houston Texans in a divisional playoff football game in Baltimore. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press

  2. JANUARY 15: A reveler releases a bull with flaming horns during a festival in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, in the streets of Gilet, a town near Valencia, Spain. (Alberto Saiz/Associated Press)

  3. JANUARY 10: Indian schoolchildren perform yoga during a rehearsal for the inaugural ceremony of the International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India. (Ajit Solanki/Associated Press

  4. Biological analyst Alan Dowden of the Seattle Sperm Bank rides the Sperm Bike, a custom-designed, high-tech bicycle used to deliver donated sperm to fertility clinics, in Seattle November 8, 2011. According to Seattle Sperm Bank's managing director Gary Olsem, donor sperm is transported by medical technicians aboard the bike in liquid nitrogen-cooled vacuum containers. The first Sperm Bike was adopted by Seattle Sperm Bank's sibling company, the European Sperm Bank, in Cophenhagen. (Reuters/Anthony Bolante)

  5. Farooq Naeem / AFP - Getty Images - A Pakistani nomad boy runs with his sheep on the outskirt of Islamabad on Jan. 10, 2012. Nomads travel from Pakistan's northern areas to the plain areas in winter to shield their livestock from the freezing winter temperatures.

  6. Robin Utrecht / AFP - Getty Images - Dutch Queen Beatrix meets Oman's Sultan Qaboos at the city gate in Muscat, Oman on Jan. 10, 2012.

  7. JANUARY 11: South Korean Special Warfare Forces members train in the snow in Pyeongchang. More than 200 soldiers are participating in the one-month winter exercise. (Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press

  8. Residents light candles during a vigil to honor a Chinese father and his baby shot dead by thieves, in Rome Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. People gathered and marched days after robbers shot and killed a man and his 8-month-old child outside their home in Rome. Police say the killings occured Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 when robbers confronted a Chinese immigrant, his wife and daughter, and demanded receipts from the family's business. (AP Photo/Roberto Monaldo, Lapresse)

  9. A Central American migrant sleeps atop a wagon while waiting for the freight train "La Bestia", or the Beast, to travel to north Mexico to reach and cross the U.S. border, in Arriaga in the state of Chiapas January 10, 2012. Hundreds of thousands of migrants, mostly Central Americans, risk robbery, death from fast-moving freight trains or dehydration in the desert while trying to reach the U.S illegally. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata

  10. Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistani food vendor Tofail Maskin, 18, prepares rice in Islamabad that is to be donated to the poor. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press

  11. Allahabad, India — Street children play on a roadside in Allahabad, India. A new study says 42% of children in India under the age of 5 are underweight and nearly 60% are stunted. The Hunger and Malnutrition Survey was released Tuesday and surveyed more than 100,000 children in 112 districts across nine states in the country. - PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press

  12. Members of the JabbaWockeez dance crew perform holding a tablet with the Qualcomm Snapdrogan processor during a keynote address by Chairman and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs of Qualcomm at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show at The Venetian on January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 13 and is expected to feature 2,700 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to about 140,000 attendees. - Kevork Djansezian - Getty Images

  13. A Tibetan female oracle dances in trance as Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama reads religious scriptures on the final day of Kalachakra Buddhist festival, in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. Bodh Gaya is believed to be the place where Buddha attained enlightenment. Altaf Qadri - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  14. A Pakistani laborer smokes cigarette early morning as he waits for work at a roadside in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. - Anjum Naveed - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  15. Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images - Ola Abu Safia, 18, rides a horse at the Al-Furusia riding center in Gaza City on Jan. 10, 2012. Opened in 2002, the center caters to a small number of women who practice horse riding despite the strict social and cultural norms in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

  16. Divyakant Solanki / EPA - School children participate in a mass yoga session during the inauguration ceremony of the 22nd International Kite Festival at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Jan. 11, 2012.

  17. Yuli Seperi / Getty Images Contributor - Statues with a variety of faces, shapes and unique characters at Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple on Jan. 11, 2012 in Bintan Island, Indonesia.

  18. Reuters - People visit "Moroz-city" (Frost city) at the Sokolniki city park in Moscow, Jan. 10, 2012. The city, made of ice, consists of streets, a bank, a theatre, a prison, a registry office, a hotel and other sights, according to the local media.

  19. Reptile keeper Casey Burridge with a Green Python hatchling on her face (Photo credit: Rex Features)

  20. JANUARY 5: A surfer sails his board off a wave as large swells hit the California coastline at dusk in Cardiff. (Mike Blake/Reuters

  21. JANUARY 12: Ahmad Sharif sells balloons in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Ahmad Jamshid/Associated Press

  22. Buddha statues with a variety of faces shapes and unique characters at Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple in Bintan Island, Indonesia. 500 statues are situated inside the temple featuring Ksitigarbha Hodhisattva, known as the Bodhisattva of Hell because of his vow not to achieve Buddha-hood until 'all the hells are empty'. (Photo by Yuli Seperi/Getty Images)

  23. A giant puppet stands as kites fly during the International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. More than a hundred Indian and foreign kite flyers participated in the five day long International kite festival that began Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

  24. A girl looks at food served to her for free at a government-run school in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. UNICEF's latest data say one-third of the world's malnourished children younger than 3 lives in India, a rate worse than sub-Saharan Africa. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called child malnutrition the country's shame. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

  25. A child looks at a candle flame during an event to pray for the reconstruction of areas devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Iwanuma in Miyagi prefecture, an area hit by the disaster, in this photo taken by Kyodo January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Kyodo

  26. Singrauli, India — A volunteer prepares to launch a hot-air balloon in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Two balloons were launched to spotlight the threat forests face in the area, which is known for coal mining. PHOTOGRAPH BY: RONNY SEN / AFP / Getty Images

  27. Brussels, Belgium — Cardboard cutouts that represent prisoners are seen during a demonstration by Amnesty International against the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. PHOTOGRAPH BY: OLIVIER HOSLET / EPA

  28. An Indian child eats mid-day meals organized by Government of Andhra Pradesh at a shanty area of Hyderabad. (AP)

  29. A Hindu devotee walks at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the annual month long Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Magh Mela involves bathing on auspicious dates spread over a period of 45 days. - Rajesh Kumar Singh - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  30. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli - Kashmiri vendors selling "Kangris" or traditional firepots walk on a street on a cold day in Srinagar January 11, 2012. An intense cold wave is sweeping through Kashmir region after a recent snowfall which dipped the day temperatures to minus 2 degree Celsius and night temperatures to minus 5.5 degrees Celsius, local media reported. The traditional firepot

  31. REUTERS/China Daily Former NBA player Yao Ming lifts up a giant panda cub at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, January 11, 2012. Yao came to the research base after attending the launch ceremony of Panda Valley protected area, where the first batch of giant pandas has been resettled from captivity for wildlife training, local media reported.

  32. STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images - A man is seen busy in puffing smoke with a pipe as he sits in the snow on a sunny day at Saribazar in Bhaderwah valley on January 12, 2012 after heavy snowfalls, 200km away from Jammu, in Jammu and Kashmir.

  33. Indian school children eat a free meal at a government school under the Mid-Day Meal scheme, on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. The Mid-Day Meal is the world’s largest school feeding program reaching out to millions of children in primary schools across India, mainly to enhance school enrollment and attendance and improve nutritional levels among children. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

  34. Divyakant Solanki / EPA School children participate in a mass yoga session during the inauguration ceremony of the 22nd International Kite Festival at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Jan. 11, 2012. Around 120 kite enthusiasts from eight Indian states and 74 foreign kite flyers are participating in the festival.

  35. Musadeq Sadeq / AP - Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri , second left, the calligrapher of the biggest copy of the holy Koran in the world, stands with his nine students around the Koran ahead of its unveiling at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 12, 2012.

  36. Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images - Hussaini Khedrit and his students display an oversized page from the Koran at the Naser Khusro Balkhi Library during an opening ceremony in Kabul on Jan. 12, 2012. The Naser Khusro Balkhi Library was founded by The Aga Khan Foundation in Kabul.

  37. Shiite pilgrims march on their way to Karbala for Arbaeen, in western Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. The holiday marks the end of the forty day mourning period after the anniversary of the 7th century martyrdom of Imam Hussein the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

  38. Indian soldiers train on stunt motorcycles in preparation for an upcoming Republic Day parade in New Delhi. (AP)

  39. An Indian man wrapped in warm woolens drinks a glass of tea to keep out the chill on a cold winter morning in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

  40. B.K. Bangash / AP A dressed monkey sits at a roadside to earn money from passers-by for his owner in Islamabad, Pakistan on Jan 13.

  41. Submitted by Mike Taylor / UGC - Panda, San Diego Zoo, Calif.

  42. Dakar rally 2012 Andrey Karginov of Russia and co-drivers Andrey Mokeev and Igor Devyatkin attempt to free their Kamaz truck after it became stuck on top of a sand dune during stage seven in Copiapo, Chile on January 7, 2012. (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images

  43. JANUARY 13: A squirrel chomps down on a ear of corn perched from the feeder at a home in Edwardsville, Illinois. Giving pesky squirrels threir own feeders can sometimes keep them away from the bird feeders. (Margie M. Barnes/The Telegraph)

  44. JANUARY 14: Fireworks illuminate the sky over St. Sava temple in Belgrade. Orthodox Christians in Serbia celebrate New Year on January 14, according to the Julian calendar. (Darko Vojinovic/Associated Press)

  45. South Florida Fair 2012: The 100th anniversary edition Six-week old Yorkshire piglets race in the Robinson's Racing Pigs show. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post

  46. South Florida Fair 2012: The 100th anniversary edition The big ferris wheel looms over the midway on Thursday. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post

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