13 Shkurt, 2015

High school students wearing Guy Fawkes masks take part in a protest against the education policies of the ruling AK Party as a tram drives by in Istanbul, Turkey. Education is the latest flashpoint between the administration of President Tayyip Erdogan, and secularist Turks who accuse him of overseeing creeping 'Islamization' in the NATO member state.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko delivers a speech during his visit to the training center of the Ukrainian National Guard outside Kyiv, in this handout picture. Poroshenko said the country is still a long way from peace and that there are no guarantees a ceasefire deal agreed upon in Belarus Thursday would take effect.

People rush an injured person to a hospital following an attack involving suicide bombers and gunmen at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.

A woman lights a candle in front of the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deadly allied bombing of Dresden during WWII in Dresden, eastern Germany. British and U.S. bombers destroyed the centuries-old baroque city center.

A schoolgirl walks past campaign posters in support of Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan along a road in Ikoyi district in Lagos.

Pedestrians walk in severe cold weather, through steam coming from a street vent, in New York's Times Square. Bitter cold temperatures were expected to grip much of the northeast U.S. on Friday, and through the weekend, as some of the coldest air of the season moved into the region.

An Indian flower seller arranges varieties of roses at a roadside stall ahead of Valentine's Day in Siliguri. Despite opposition from some right-wing groups who see the day as counter to traditional Indian culture, Valentine's Day is celebrated in India as Rashtriya Prem Divas.

Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Eduardo Paes (2nd R) hands over the city's ceremonial key to the Rei Momo, or Carnival King Wilson Neto (L) at Cidade Palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event officially kicks off the 2015 carnival week in Rio.

More than 3,000 students, teachers and nuns from the Catholic-run St. Scholastica's College, wear purple ribbons and dance to take part in the global campaign to end violence against women and girls dubbed One Billion Rising, in Manila, Philippines.

Bangladeshi girls put vermillion powder on each other as they celebrate the arrival of spring on the first day of Falgoon at the Dhaka University campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Falgoon is the 11th month on the Bengali calendar.

A two-day-old female reticulated giraffe, also known as the Somali giraffe, is licked by her mother Malindi in the indoor enclosure at the Zoo in Duisburg, Germany.

With a backdrop of the Sydney Opera House, "The Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors" stand on display in rain during the launch of the Chinese Festival in Sydney, Australia. The warriors, created by Chinese artist Xia Nan for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, are on display during Chinese New Year celebrations.

A large mannequin figure depicting the King of the Carnival is set up during preparations for the 131st Nice Carnival parade in southeastern France. The Carnival, running Feb. 13-March 1, celebrates the "King of Music."

A pine forest is covered with snow during a storm in Jezzin, south Lebanon.