In this picture made with a fisheye lens, South Korean speedskaters practice at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
In this picture made with a long exposure, waves move on the shore as the sun sets at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Two men walk toward salt-covered rocks that were once deep underwater at Lake Oroumieh, in northwestern Iran. Oroumieh, one of the biggest saltwater lakes on Earth, has shrunk more than 80 percent to 1,000 square kilometers (nearly 400 square miles) in the past decade, mainly because of climate change, expanded irrigation for surrounding farms and the damming of rivers that feed the body of water, experts say.
Models display Autumn/Winter designs by Martin Lamothe during the Madrid Fashion Week.
An Afghan internally displaced girl looks through a window made of a broken car windshield at their home in a poor neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A couple walk along an embankment next to the frozen Moscow river with Moscow's City Centre skyscrapers visible in the background. Mild weather has set in Moscow with temperatures of about 3 C (37.4 F) during the day time.
A demonstrator raises his arms toward the Bolivarian National Police (BNP) firing tear gas and a water cannon in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.
An anti-government protester is engulfed in flames during clashes with riot police outside Ukraine's parliament in Kiev, Ukraine. Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence following new manoeuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet republic.
Participants race in the River Ganges during the Ganga water rally from Allahabad to Varanasi. The water rally is jointly organized by the Indian Kayaking and Canoeing Association, Allahabad Boat Club and Uttar Pradesh State Tourism to promote adventurous water sports.
The relative of a missing Kashmiri youth takes part in a silent protest, organized by Association of Parents of Disappeared People (APDP), in Srinagar. Nearly two dozen relatives of missing Kashmiri youths were protesting against the army’s decision to close the Pathribal fake encounter case against five soldiers in connection with the killing of five innocent persons in March 2000 in Pathribal.