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Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet lays a wreath at a make-shift memorial for those killed in recent violence in Kiev February 25, 2014
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Anti-Balaka Militants in CAR
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A fighter from the Christian "anti-balaka" militia holds a machete in his mouth at the headquarters in the northern Bangui suburb of Boeing, an area near the Mpoko International Airport of Bangui February 22, 2014
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A fighter from a militia known as anti-balaka wears charms for protection in Mbakate village, Central African Republic, November 25, 2013. The group say they are protecting their village from Seleka fighters. With the country slipping deeper into chaos, former colonial power France plans to boost its force there to around 1,000 troops to restore law and order until a much bigger African Union force fully deploys. The land-locked country has been gripped by violence since the mainly Muslim rebels, many of them fighters from neighbouring Sudan and Chad, seized power in the majority Christian country in March last year. Some 460,000 people - around a tenth of the population - have fled the sectarian violence their takeover ignited
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A burial team leads a horse drawn caisson through a snow covered Arlington National Cemetery, above, on Feb. 25, in Arlington, Va. The Washington, D.C., area received about an inch of snow this morning, adding to an already significant total for the winter
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Bitterly cold temperatures sweep through the upper Midwest, bound for the East Coast
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A deep freeze has settled in over the Great Lakes this winter and a new image released by NASA shows the astonishing extent of the ice cover as seen from space.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the lakes on the early afternoon of Feb.
19. At the time, 80.3 percent of the five lakes were covered in ice, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Earlier this month, ice cover over the Great Lakes hit 88 percent for the first time since 1994. Typically at its peak, the average ice cover is just over 50 percent, and it only occasionally passes 80 percent, according to NASA's Earth Observatory
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Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a point to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their cabinets held a meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem
Adolf Merkel? :)
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A giant tortoise looks less than impressed when a newborn hatchling decided to take a moment to sun itself on her head in Oklahoma, USA
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Luo Jinsha drives his self-made aircraft following a failed test flight on the outskirts of Shanghai. Luo, 28, spent around eight months and 40,000 yuan (£3,912) to build the plane to fulfil his dream of flying. Despite failing during the first test flight, Luo said he will not give up hope. The aircraft was able to move quickly on the ground but could not take to the skies
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A man dressed for carnival waits for Pope Francis prior to his general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican
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Thai police commandos participate an anti terrorist exercise at the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok, Thailand
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne pulls a pint of Fuller's London Pride during a visit to officially re-open Westminster's The Red Lion pub following a major refurbishment - at the taxpayers expense he forgot to add. :)
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A California couple have stumbled on this cache of gold coins worth 10 million dollars (approx. £6,000,000) buried in their back yard. The couple, who wish to remain anonymous, found the 19th century US coins - believed to be the largest such find in US history - while walking with their dog on their property last year. They noticed the top of a rusty tin can protruding from the ground, dug it up and took it home. The coins dated from 1847 to 1894 and many were in mint condition having never been circulated. The haul will be put up for sale by auction in May
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A series of images from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) show the first moments of an X-class significant solar flare in different wavelengths of light. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona
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A fire crew comes to the aid of a pipe fixer who became frozen with fear in Yichang, Hubei Province, CHina
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U.S. singer Eve performs next to models during Paris fashion week
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Demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon as fireworks explode around them during a protest against the opening of a new road encompassing a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara
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Canadian WTA tennis player Eugenie Bouchard and Bulgarian ATP player Grigor Dimitrov play an exhibition match on a floating court in Acapulco's Santa Lucia Bay, Mexico
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Dancers parade during the Nice Carnival in southwestern France
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Russians Alexander Emereev (left) and Dmitry Zaytsev are showered in rice after their wedding in Buenos Aires. Alexander and Dmitry said they chose to wed in Argentina for fear of homophobia in their country
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One of two rare copies of 'Mein Kampf' signed by the young Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on display in California. The two-volume set - a first and second edition - of the future German Fuhrer's political manifesto will be sold online to the highest bidder. Both volumes are signed by Hitler and are dedicated to Josef Bauer, an early Nazi party member and a leader of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch bid to overthrow the Bavarian government
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Discarded helmets and a loudspeaker sit on a barricade in central Kiev as Ukraine’s interim leaders try to form new unity government
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Zip-pit: Pramac Racing rider Andrea Iannone of Italy rides out of the pit lane during the MotoGP pre-season test at the Sepang circuit outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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A woman with the ferret on her shoulder goes for a walk in Yuntong Mount Park, China.
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Screen break: Protesters take to the streets in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul after allegations of corruption were made against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his son
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Residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, in Syria in picture made available today
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Protester Aaron holds a placard during a demonstration against Mt. Gox, in front of the building where the digital marketplace operator is housed, in Tokyo February 25, 2014
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Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces arrest a suspected militant during a raid operation in Abu Ghraib district, west of Baghdad, February 24, 2014
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Riot police take cover as protesters use fireworks against them during a demonstration against the opening of a new road including a part of the Middle East Technical University campus in Ankara, Turkey February 25, 2014.
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A protester stands with a placard as fellow anti-U.S. demonstrators are sprayed with water from a water canon by Philippines' Bureau of Fire Protection during a clash with riot policemen near the U.S. embassy in Manila February 25, 2014
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Teachers display a card with an illustration depicting a girl going through a medical checkup by a doctor, as they describe preventive measures to avoid when sexual harassment occurs, during a class in Shadabad Girls Elementary School in Pir Mashaikh village in Johi, some 325 km (202 miles) from Karachi, Pakistan February 12, 2014.
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A Palestinian man stands behind Israeli border police officers guarding the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City February 25, 2014.
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19-month-old pope impersonator Daniele De Sanctis cries through his big moment as is handed to Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican
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The female (left) and male polar bear twins at Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany, pose for the cameras. The twins were born on 09 December 2013
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The Duchess of Cornwall looks on as the Prince of Wales tries his hand at some archery at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard
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A seal washed up in December's storm surge appears to wave from its hammock as workers prepare to release it back to the wild in Norfolk
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NATO defence ministers (L-R) Jeanine Hennis Plasschaert, (Netherlands), Ursula Von der Leyen (Germany), Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide (Norway) and new Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti share a laugh prior to the start of a NATO Defense Ministers council meeting at the Alliance's headquarters
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A bedraggled Daniel Radcliffe on the muddy set of his latest film Frankenstein in the grounds of Greenwich College in London
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An Indian boy dressed as Mahatma Gandhi begs for alms from Hindu devotees during the Maha Shivaratri festival outside the Keesaragutta Temple on the outskirts of Hyderabad
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(Left to right) Dawn Service, Miss 3D and Roma Therapy pose during a photo shoot on the Observation Deck, 879ft (268m) above street level, at the Sydney Tower Eye. The event was organised ahead of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade which will be held in Sydney on March 1, 2014
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A nominee for Queen of the Carnival of Santa Cruz shows off her outfit under the watchful eyes of the jury on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife
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Paramilitary riot police personnel practice their techniques in coordination with the rapid deployment riot unit for major events and the aerial support unit at their headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Kirby Chambliss (blue plane) and Michael Goulian (white) of the United States and Nigel Lamb (yellow) of Great Britain fly over the Yas Marina Circuit during a recon flight prior to the first stop of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi
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A sight for sore thighs! The German sprint race team stand on the podium after placing second in the 2014 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Cali, Colombia
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Crimean Tatars clash with a police officer in front of a local government building in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine
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The crew of the Afon Cefni mutli-purpose tugboat/workboat from Holyhead, Wales, hard at work by the wreck of the Costa Concordia in Giglio harbour, Italy
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Models present creations by designer Gareth Pugh as part of his Autumn/Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection show during Paris Fashion Week :rofl:
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A Free Syrian Army fighter runs to take cover after launching a mortar towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia province
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Amur Leopard Ilka sitting next to her 11-week-old offspring at the Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, Germany. Amur Leopards are classified as critically endangered
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A mysterious mummy that languished in German collections for more than a century is that of an Incan woman killed by blunt-force trauma to the head, new research reveals.
The story began in the 1890s, when Princess Therese of Bavaria acquired two mummies during a trip to South America. One was soon lost, but the other somehow made its way to the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection in Munich.
To learn more about the enigmatic remains, Andreas Nerlich, a paleopathologist at Munich University, and his colleagues put the mummy through a computed tomography (CT) scanner.
From the outside, the mummy's head looked fairly normal, but the frontal bones of the skull were completely destroyed.
"She must have received a couple of really severe hits by a sharp object to her skull just before her death," which killed her, Nerlich told Live Science.
The woman's skull structure, diet (determined by isotopes found in the hair), and hairbands woven from alpaca or llama hair point to a South American origin.
One possibility is that she was killed in a ritual murder, just as other Incan mummies were.
"She might have been chosen as a victim for a ritual murder, because she was so ill and it might have been clear that she might have lived only for a relatively short period," Nerlich said
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Maymo, a lemon beagle, poses for a shame illustration, above, in Merrimack Valley, Mass.
In late 2011, Jeremy Lakaszcyck of Boston started putting shaming videos of Maymo on YouTube, but behaviorists insist dogs lack shame.
The guilty look -- head cowered, ears back, eyes droopy -- is a reaction to the tantrum a person is throwing over damage the dog created hours earlier.
However, scientific findings haven't put a dent in the popularity of online dog shaming sites like dogshaming.com and shameyourpet.com or videos like those posted on YouTube
Dawlish restoration
Here are the first pictures of the restoration effort on the Dawlish railway line, parts of which were destroyed by powerful storms and waves in January and February.
The railway line connects Devon and Cornwall to the rest of the UK
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It is not just the line and parapet wall that needs repairing - about 30 landslips also need fixing
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The ultimate alphabeard. New York design director Mike Allen took two years to create the entire alphabet using his facial hair. After carefully sculpting each letteron his chin, Mike would then shave it off and wait two weeks before attempting the next
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An anti-Yanukovich protester buckles her helmet as she stands guard outside the parliament building along with fellow activists in Kiev