Several cows stand in snow, at 1245 metres above sea level in Gaebris, Appenzell, Switzerland. Photo Keystone, Ennio Leanza/AP.
Clowns gather for a mass photo during the 14th International Clown Convention in Mexico City. Hundreds of clowns from throughout Latin America are meeting this week in Mexico City, taking part in contests, parades and mass photos as part of the...
US Marines with Alpha Company-Task Force Raider, 2nd Recon Battalion lie down inside a small patrol base during a pause in an all night mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Photo Brennan Linsley/AP.
Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed, left, speaks to the media as Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik, right, looks on after an underwater cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth, in Girifushi,...
Sgt. Trista Warford of Maple Hts., Ohio stands with her fellow members of the Ohio Army National Guard 's 135th Military Police Company during a welcome home ceremony at Kenston High School in Bainbridge Twp., Ohio. Photo Amy Sancetta/AP.
Al Ittihad fans cheer for their team during the first leg during the AFC Champions League semifinal soccer match between Al Ittihad and Nagoya Grampus in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Photo STR/AP.
The twin spires of St. Fidelis Church and a municipal water tower are distorted by heat vapours as they are silhouetted by the setting sun in Victoria, Kansas. Photo Charlie Riedel/AP.
A girl takes a ride on the swing carousel in the Chechen regional capital Grozny, southern Russia. Photo Yelena Afonina/AP.
An Italian paratrooper with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lands as other Italian soldiers stand by during a changing command ceremony at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound run by the Italian military forces in...
A young man performs artistic jumps on his bmx bike at the former Ewald coal mine in Herten, Germany. Photo Martin Meissner/AP.