• A woman visits a flowers installation in Times Square, Hong Kong. EPA
    A woman visits a flowers installation in Times Square, Hong Kong. EPA
  • French driver Sebastien Ogier of Citroen Total WRC celebrates winning the Rally Guanajuato Mexico in Leon, Mexico. EPA
    French driver Sebastien Ogier of Citroen Total WRC celebrates winning the Rally Guanajuato Mexico in Leon, Mexico. EPA
  • A Romanian youth spins a flaming tire as part of a tradition marking the upcoming Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Christian church calendar. AFP
    A Romanian youth spins a flaming tire as part of a tradition marking the upcoming Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Christian church calendar. AFP
  • Farmers tend the oysters at William Lynch's Lynch's Foylemore Oysters farm in Lough Foyle in County Donegal, Ireland. AFP
    Farmers tend the oysters at William Lynch's Lynch's Foylemore Oysters farm in Lough Foyle in County Donegal, Ireland. AFP
  • A horse is seen on the gallops near its stables in Lambourn, Berkshire, west of London. AFP
    A horse is seen on the gallops near its stables in Lambourn, Berkshire, west of London. AFP
  • Indonesian students dressed in kimonos take part in an event to mark the eighth anniversary of the 2011 tsunami disasterin Japan, at the Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh. AFP
    Indonesian students dressed in kimonos take part in an event to mark the eighth anniversary of the 2011 tsunami disasterin Japan, at the Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh. AFP
  • Players of Atletico and River Plate greet each other prior a match at Estadio Monumental José Fierro in Tucuman, Argentina. Getty Images
    Players of Atletico and River Plate greet each other prior a match at Estadio Monumental José Fierro in Tucuman, Argentina. Getty Images
  • Revelers wearing lanterns parade through the streets during the Morgenstreich in Basel, Switzerland. EPA
    Revelers wearing lanterns parade through the streets during the Morgenstreich in Basel, Switzerland. EPA
  • A boy practices somersaulting as he exercises at a beach in Kochi, India. Reuters
    A boy practices somersaulting as he exercises at a beach in Kochi, India. Reuters
  • Lee Spencer holds a red flare and his prosthesis as he arrives in Cayenne, French Guiana, after smashing solo Atlantic rowing record from mainland Europe to South America. AFP
    Lee Spencer holds a red flare and his prosthesis as he arrives in Cayenne, French Guiana, after smashing solo Atlantic rowing record from mainland Europe to South America. AFP

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