1 SHKURT 2014

Medical personnel look for survivors following a reported airstrike on the Tariq al-Bab district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Residents take cover behind Thai soldiers who were sent in to rescue people following clashes between anti- and pro-government groups at a major intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, on the eve of nationwide snap elections. At least seven people are reported wounded, including an American photojournalist.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany.

A villager runs as Mount Sinabung erupts at Sigarang-Garang village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

Fans try to get closer look at Spanish actor Antonio Banderas and French actress Juliette Binoche, in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 31, 2014. Banderas and Binoche are starring in a film that dramatizes the cave-in at a mine in Chile's Atacama desert and the globally televised rescue of the miners that mesmerized millions across the globe.

A folk artist on stilts performs at a temple fair celebrating the traditional Chinese Spring Festival on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Dongyue Temple, in Beijing.

Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong to celebrate the Year of the Horse.

Warga bersuka ria dalam perayaan Thingyan, festival air yang menandai tahun baru negara Myanmar, di Yangon. Empat negara Asia Tenggara yaitu Myanmar, Thailand, Kamboja dan Laos memulai tahun baru Buddha.

Bikers take part in the "Caravana del Zorro" (Caravan of the Fox), from Constitution Square in Guatemala City to Esquipulas, 220 km eastward. Some 35,000 motorcyclists marched in a pilgrimage to the Cristo Negro (Black Christ) Basilica, a 53-year-old tradition that was declared a Nation Heritage event.

A Colombian grower selects flowers in a farm in Facatativa for export before Valentine's Day, Jan. 31, 2014.

Olympic rings are displayed in Paris, France, with images against restriction of speech and freedom of information, repression of demonstrations, discrimination due to sexual orientation and migrant's exploitation, as part of a protest by human rights organizations a week before of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

A volunteer rides his snowboard along the practice slope for the alpine ski course of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.