Pakistani Shiite Muslim children hold candles and banners next to photographs of people, who were killed by a bomb blast in market in Quetta, Pakistan. Terrorized by ferocious attacks that have killed nearly 400 ethnic Hazaras in the past 18 months, with almost half of those deaths occurring in the first two months of this year, Shiite leaders blamed the inaction of Pakistan’s security service for the rising violence against them in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province. Photo: AP
A Pakistani girl stands outside her home during a rainfall in a suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo: AP
Two female North American River Otters at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, N.Y., trained by zookeeper Catina Wright take soda bottles and place them into recycling bins. Photo: AP
In this photo provided by the Chicago Zoological Society, Max, a 2-year-old Amur tiger, plays with what is left of a snowman that his keepers made for him at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Before being knocked down, the snowman featured meat for eyes and buttons, as well as bones for feet. The Chicago Zoological Society’s Animal Programs staff provides enrichment to the animals that encourages natural behavior by physically and mentally stimulating them with a variety of items that they may not receive on a regular basis. Photo: AP
Snow covers the cars parked in the parking lots at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The storm that socked the Chicago area with the season's biggest snowfall has tapered off, but it's not completely finished. Snow will continue falling periodically today, dropping another inch or two in the city and up to three inches in the northern suburbs, according to the National Weather Service. Photo: AP
A woman watches anniversary celebrations of the Guna Revolution in Ustupu, an island in the Guna Yala region on Panama's Caribbean coast. With 80,000 members, the Gunas are Panama's second most numerous indigenous group and are considered the most organized. They are known around the world for their brightly color "mola" woven cloth panels. Photo: AP
University of Maryland engineering student Colin Gore performs a test flight in Baltimore in a one-man, human-powered helicopter that he and fellow students designed and built. The team of undergraduate and graduate students hope to claim the $250,000 American Helicopter Society Sikorsky Prize, which has remained out of reach since it was first offered in 1980. In order to win, a helicopter must fly under human power for at least 60 seconds and momentarily reach an altitude of 3 meters while remaining within a 10 meter square box. Photo: AP
