Jockeys compete in a race for purebred Arab horses during the Liwa 2014 Moreeb Dune Festival on January 2, 2014, in the Liwa desert, 250 kilometres west of the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. – Photo by AFP
A Bangladesh resident of a shanty town looks out of a window of her home at a street filled with political posters in Dhaka on January 3, 2014. Bangladesh's main opposition party has called for a non-stop blockade, rejecting plans for a January 5, election and plunging the nation into fresh political turmoil. – Photo by AFP
People take part in the traditional sea bath during New Year's celebrations on January 1, 2014 at Malo-Les-Bains beach in Dunkirk, northern France. – Photo by AFP
Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. A large car bomb killed five people and wounded at least 20 in south Beirut. – Photo by AFP
Schumacher fan caps, a fan T-shirt and a letter are attached on the fence at the Michael Schumacher Cart Center in his home town Kerpen, western Germany, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. The Formula One record world champion is still in a coma after his skiing accident in France. – Photo by AP
Lightening streaks across the sky of Montevideo, Uruguay, near the city's World Trade Center (L), during a thunderstorm early on January 2, 2014. – Photo by AFP
Indian children swing from a tree in the Maidan area of Kolkata on January 2, 2014. The Maidan (or open field) is the largest urban park in Kolkata and is known as the ëlungs of the city', stretching over more than a thousand acres. – Photo by AFP
A dog named Lilly looks on as store manager Katharina Warkalla mixes a meal for her in Berlin's Gruenewald district on January 2, 2014. The shop mixes fresh meats, vegetables and other ingredients to prepare meals for the animals which can be eaten on site or taken away. – Photo by AFP
A man looks at the level of water on January 2, 2014 in the city center of the western city of Quimperle flooded by the Laita river. – Photo by AFP
A veiled chameleon, also known as Yemen chameleon, sits on the finger of a keeper during an animal inventory at the Biosphere Potsdam tropical plants and animal park in Potsdam, eastern Germany, on January 2, 2014. – Photo by AFP
This photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division on January 2, 2014 shows a rescue helicopter from the Chinese ship Xue Long carrying passengers who spent Christmas and New Year trapped on the icebound Russian research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica shortly prior to landing after they were airlifted from the ice in a dramatic rescue mission, as rescue workers gather near a makeshift landing pad. – Photo by AFP
Paris Saint-Germain's Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (R) fights for the ball with Real Madrid's Spanish defender Alvaro Arbeloa (L) during their friendly football match at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence in the Qatari capital Doha on January 2, 2014. – Photo by AFP
This aerial photo showing a 20-metre-tall and 30-metre-wide picture, made from pine cones, of a horse is displayed to celebrate the Year of the horse at the Hitachi Beach park in Hitachinaka city, Ibaraki prefecture, some 100-kilometres north of Tokyo on January 3, 2014. – Photo by AFP
Visitors explore the inside of the Exxopolis inflatable walk-in sculpture at the Opera House in Sydney on January 3, 2014. The Exxopolis by Architects of Air sculpture covers some 53 metres of the Sydney Opera House forecourt and is over nine metres high. – Photo by AFP
An Italy fan driving a Fiat car celebrates after the World Cup soccer match between Italy and Australia, in the streets of downtown Frankfurt in this June 26, 2006 file photograph. – Photo by Reuters
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