Carnival celebrations take place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and New Orleans, Tibetans attend New Year or "Losar" celebrations and more.
A boy bowls a ball in a street, as a crowd of people watch, in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Men dressed as liberation-era Haitians march past election posters and the site of the former government tax office, which completely collapsed in the 2010 earthquake, during a parade on the first day of the Port-au-Prince Carnival celebration in Haiti.
Tibetans attend New Year or "Losar" celebrations at a monastery in Kathmandu. "Losar" can be traced back to the pre-Buddhist period in Tibet when Tibetans practised the Bon religion.
Revelers travel up and down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter as people celebrate Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans, LA.
Chinese hostesses pose for photographs outside the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, China.
Revelers of the Salgueiro samba school participate in the second night of the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome.
Kate Middleton, fiancee of Prince William, flips a pancake during their visit on Shrove Tuesday to City Hall in Belfast.
A Muslim schoolgirl from St. Maaz high school practices Vietnam Vovinam martial arts inside the school compound on International Women's Day in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
A migrant worker has his lunch near a construction site in Hefei, Anhui province of China.
A gallery employee walks through Yinka Shonibare's maze installation entitled 'Jardin d'amour' at the Parasol unit for contemporary art in London, England.
Brittny McCarthy (L) and Adam Schomer watch the sun set in Santa Monica, CA.
A man looks at a sculpture installation inside Berlin's main railway station Hauptbahnhof.