Members of the Honor guard line up during a meeting of Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
A Syrian woman waits for the opening of Cilvegozu border gate near the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province at the Turkish-Syrian border.
German chancellor Angela Merkel drinks beer during a political Ash Wednesday meeting of her Christian Democratic Party, CDU, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , in Demmin, eastern Germany.
Ethnic Kachin children eat a meal at a camp for internally displaced people in Myitkyina, northern Kachin state, Burma.
Banana Joe, an Affenpinscher, won Best of Show during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, February 12, 2013.
Small-scale tobacco farmers arrange bales at the start of Zimbabwe's selling season at Boka Auction Floors in Harare.
Nuns wave to Pope Benedict XVI as he leads the Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
A street vendor selling bread walks in front of graffiti denouncing Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Chinese residents cook Cantonese fried rice during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 12, 2013.
Prasit Rangsitwong, left, and Varutton Rangsitwong run away from a giant flower ball as a part of an adventure-themed wedding ceremony in Prachinburi province, Thailand, on the eve of Valentine's Day.