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A topless Ukrainian protester is arrested by Swiss police after climbing up a fence at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
JANUARY 29: Underprivileged children are dressed in costume to look like Mahatma Gandhi before attempting a world record for most look-alikes in Kolkata, India. Local non-government organizations put on the event and a total of 485 children took part in the rally ahead of the anniversary of Gandhi's death which falls on January 30th. (Bikas Das/Asociated Press))
Revellers pose for a picture after attending a Chinese New Year parade at Chinatown in New York January 29, 2012. The Lunar New Year began on January 23 and marked the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. Source: REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz
An Indian student with his face painted participates in a march for peace and communal harmony to mark the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in Mumbai, India. (AP)
Ice slides, ice castles and colored lights! It's a paradise for children to enjoy during the 17-day-long Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan on January 30, 2012.
JANUARY 29: Devotees in colorful costumes prepare to dance in the streets during a procession to celebrate the feast day of the Child Jesus in Manila, Philippines. Hundreds of elaborately-dressed images of the Child Jesus are paraded every last Sunday of January for the celebration. (Bullit Marquez/Associated Press)
JANAURY 30: A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, bathes in the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the annual month- long Hindu religious fair of Magh Mela in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus bathe during the astronomically auspicious period that lasts 45 days. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press))
A Chinese folk artist performs at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Dragon in Qingdao, China. (Photo by Hong Wu/Getty Images)
Brad Pitt, left, and Angelina Jolie arrive at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday Jan. 29, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
People visit the Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival in Chitose. The 17-day-long ice festival began January 27 and attracted some 210 thousands visitors last year. (Photo credit: TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
Mashco-Piro Indian tribe's survival threatened in Peru - Diego Cortijo / AFP - Getty Images - A photo released by the Survival International organization on Jan. 31, 2012 of what they describe as being uncontacted members of a family from the Mashco-Piro tribe somewhere in the southeastern Peruvian jungle. According to Survival International, illegal logging displaces the indians from their homes.
Lerwick, Scotland — Young boys take part in a Viking procession during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Scotland's Shetland Islands. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Vikings in the Shetlands and culminates with up to 1,000 "guizers" (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into a Viking longboat to set it afire later in the evening. PHOTOGRAPH BY: ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP
Pernelle Carron and Lloyd Jones of France perform during their ice dance, free dance routine at the European Figure Skating Championships at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, northern England January 27, 2012. The championships run from January 23 to 29. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the congress center where the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The activists are from the group Femen, which has have become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests against a range of issues including oppression of political opposition. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Viking celebration of the New Year in Shetland Islands, Scotland - Andy Buchanan / AFP - Getty Images Participants dressed in armour and holding Viking war-axes and shields gather for a procession during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands on Jan. 31. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 'guizers' (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening.
JANUARY 29: A bride and groom stand in front of others during a mass wedding ceremony in Virar, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India. More than 1000 couples were married during the event that was organized by a local politician. (Rajanish Kakade/Associated Press)
FEBRUARY 1: Indian dancers wear traditional clothing and masks as they perform at the opening of the Surajkund Fair in Faridabad, Haryana, just outside New Delhi. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)
Michael Hoyson is seen outside Lucas Oil Stadium before NFL football's Super Bowl XLVI Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, in Indianapolis. Eric Gay - AP
Dutch artist Meike van Schijndel's 'kisses' urinals are presented at the Rolling Stones Fan Museum by curator Ullrich Schroeder in Luechow, Germany. Newspaper editorials and letters to the editor have expressed outrage at the piece's alleged misogyny. (Photo credit: Philipp Schulze)
An Indian artist performs in dance festival "Rabindra Nirtyotsav" in Hyderabad on February 1, 2012. Rabindra Nirtyotsav is a unique dancing Guiness record feat of a 25 hour long non-stop dance performance by 125 artists portrayed in nine different dance forms exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's compositions. AFP PHOTO / Noah SEELAM (Photo credit should read NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)
JANUARY 31: 'Guizers' with flaming torches accompany a Viking Galley in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, off the coast of Scotland, during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival. Originating in the 1880s, the tradition which celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage sees around 900 guizers drag the Viking galley through the streets of Lerwick, culminating in the burning of the galley. (Danny Lawson/PA)
A homeless man rests inside an overcrowded shelter set up by the city hall in Bucharest January 31, 2012, as temperatures plunge to minus 16 degrees Celsius (minus 3 degrees Farenheit) overnight. More than 60 people have died in a cold snap across Eastern Europe, authorities said on Tuesday, forcing some countries to call in the army to help secure food and medical supplies and set up emergency shelters for the homeless. The temperature in Ukraine sank to minus 33 degrees Celsius (minus 27 Fahrenheit), the coldest in six years, while eastern Bosnia experienced lows of minus 31 C (minus 24 F) and Poland, Romania and Bulgaria minus 30 C (minus 22 F).13 people have died from the cold in Romania, according to local media. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
Three men dressed up as traditional fortune gods perform at a securities trading house in Taipei as the Taiwan Stock Exchange resumed trading after the Lunar New Year holidays. Taiwan's weighted index surged 173.72 points, or 2.40 percent at 7,407.41. (Photo credit: PATRICK LIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Migrants workers from Tajikistan relax on the roof of their shelter after working at local market outside Moscow, July 18 2011. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
A keeper cares for the sensitive skin of one-year old baby elephant Dinkar at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany, on January 31, 2012. As temperatures reached around minus eight degrees Celsius, the zoo's Indian elephants are allowed to stay only half an hour outside before they have to turn back in their warm house. JOCHEN LUEBKE - AFP/Getty Images
A foot of a Newar girl is painted red before performing rituals during an Ihi ceremony in Kathmandu January 28, 2012. In the ceremony, girls are married to Bel, the fruit of a wood-apple tree, before reaching puberty. Ihi is a two-day ceremony which begins with purification rituals and ends with "Kanyadan" (giving away the virgin) of the girl by her father. A Newar girl will be married thrice in her life, first to Bel, a second time with the sun in another ritual, and lastly with her future husband later in life. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Revellers attend the Chinese New Year parade at Chinatown in New York January 29, 2012. The Lunar New Year began on January 23 and marked the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. Source: REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz
The brutal festival at Nem Thuong village,Vietnam - This is one Vietnamese festival that makes even non animal lovers cringe. Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck. A pig is carried around the village during a festival at the Nem Thuong village in Bac Ninh, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Hanoi, January 28, 2012. Organized by the villagers, the festival is held on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar to worship the village's deity Doan Thuong, an anti-royal military general who lived in 13th century. Every year, thousands of people from the village and nearby villages will gather to smear the blood of the pig on their banknotes in the belief that it would bring luck in the new year. The festival is known as the most brutal in the country and is condemned by many, including some who called on the government to stop the festival. REUTERS/Kham
A model displays an outfit by Spanish designer Francis Montesinos during the presentation of the Autumn/Winter collections of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid on February 1, 2012 in Madrid. The presentation of the Autumn/Winter 2012/2013 collections takes place from February 01 to 05, 2012. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU (Photo credit should read PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images)
A tribal Indian dancer from Gujarat waits before performing at the opening of the Surajkund Fair in Faridabad, Haryana, just outside New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The fair is held for two weeks and features culture and crafts from all of India's states, its South Asian neighbors and other countries in the world. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Men dressed in sheepskin costumes for a carnival celebration walk on the way to the Pyrenees village of Ituren, northern Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. The tradition is to march through the village every year in a ritual to purify the harvest land from evil spirits and to welcome the coming Spring. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Mayan guides perform a ritual at the site where the Spanish embassy used to be in Guatemala City, Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012. The gathering marks the 32nd anniversary the Jan. 31, 1980 attack by alleged government agents who burned down the Spanish embassy where Mayan peasants were occupying the embassy in protest. The attack killed 37 people. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Surajkund, India — Artists from the state of Assam pose during the media preview for the annual Surajkund Crafts Fair, which attracts artisans from across the country and other Asian nations. - PHOTOGRAPH BY: MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP
Workers readying rose bouquets before the arrival of Valentine's Day in a farm in Chia, Colombia. Source: Reuters
Gabon's artist Pierre Philippe Ekouaga paints a mural on a wall, representing the Panthers of Gabon, nickname of the national soccer team, in Libreville, Gabon, during the African Cup of Nations. (AP)