February 16, 2015

A woman shops for good luck ornaments at the traditional Dihua market for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan.

A man yawns at a railway station in Taiyuan, Shanxi province. The Chinese Ministry of Transport said a total of 2.807 billion trips are expected to be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which started from Feb. 4 through Mar. 16, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge during extreme cold temperatures in Toronto, Canada.

A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly behaded by Islamic State (IS) group militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news in the village of Al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. The Islamic State group in Libya released a video purportedly showing the mass killing of 21 Coptic Christians.

A cat makes its way down the stairs at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, or Presidential Palace, in the Indian captial New Delhi, as an honor guard stands in formation prior to the welcome ceremony for Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.

Israeli border policemen detain a Palestinian man as they clear a protest on the land that Palestinians said was confiscated by Israel for Jewish settlements, near the West Bank town of Abu Dis near Jerusalem.

Bulgarian Muslims Azim Liumankov and his bride Fikrie Bindzheva pose in front of their house during their wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in the Rhodope Mountains, Feb. 15, 2015.

Children walk on the debris of a damaged building in al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.

Townswomen dressed as Lamia, with their faces painted white and eyes darkened, sing and dance in the Basque coastal town of Mundaka on Carnival, Spain, Feb. 15, 2015. The Lamia are Basque mythological creatures whose lower extremities are those of a duck or fish depending on their proximity to the sea.

A lonely clown waits for the carnival parade in Cologne, western Germany.

Firefighters work at the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as icicles hang from where the water from their hoses froze.

Revelers of the Vila Isabel samba school perform during the first day of carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Chefs prepare tacos of cochinita pibil, a popular dish from Yucatan, in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world's longest taco in Guadalajara, Mexico, Feb. 15, 2015. Guadalajara broke the Guinness record for the longest taco, with a length of 2.5 kilometers, as part of the COME gastronomy festival, local media reported. The chefs used 4 tons of pork, 36,000 tortillas and spices for 325 taco servings.

Men in fancy costumes chat during the Carnival of Cadiz in southern Spain.