Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, eats her lunch ahead of her 116th birthday celebrations at Kurenai Nursing Home in Osaka, Japan. She was born on March 5, 1898 and married in 1919GettyDutch designer Iris van Herpen's show at Paris Fashion Week featured writing models vacuum packed in suspended square plastic bagsReutersWen Yuzhu poses for pictures on the deck of his miniature model of China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, by the seaside in Qingdao, Shandong provinceReutersAn artwork called Baby Formula, by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is displayed at the Ayala Museum in Makati City, Metro Manila. made from 1,815 cans of popular baby formula milk brands arranged to form a map of China, the work represents the artist's reaction to the issue of milk safety in ChinaReutersA a brown Labrador named Code Four competes in the Doggie Gras parade at the Helen Woodward Animal Centre in Rancho Santa Fe, CaliforniaReutersMardi Gras revellers party in the French Quarter of New Orleans, despite the rainGettyRevellers dance during the annual Trinidad & Tobago Carnival at the Queen's Park Savannah in Port-of-SpainReutersRevellers take part in a traditional last-day-of-carnival event called "Kusaki" in Jedlinsk, near Radom in Poland. During the carnival, where all roles are played by males, villagers portray the "defeat of Death"ReutersRevellers celebrate Carnival at the annual block party known as "Os Cao" (The Dog) by covering themselves with mud from mangrove swamps, in Redinha, Rio Grande do Norte state in northeastern BrazilReutersA boy wearing a carnival costume runs in high water in Saint Mark's Square in VeniceGettyA man wades through water outside his house after an enormous thunderstorm in Christchurch, New ZealandGettyA large storm cloud looms over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera HouseGettyIce cover on the Great Lakes is seen from space by NASA's Aqua satelliteReuters/NASAGreenpeace activists prepare to plant a flag on Olivares glacier for the symbolic founding of Glacier Republic to draw attention to the need to protect Chilean glaciersReutersA frontier soldier from the People's Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire as part of training in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, ChinaReutersChinese People's Armed Police give free haircuts during the annual "Learn from Lei Feng Day" in Shanghai. Lei Feng, a soldier in the People's Liberation Army who died in an accident in 1962, is celebrated as a national hero for his self-sacrificing and patriotic actsReutersA military band member yawns during the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in BeijingReutersUkrainian servicemen play football near Russian military vehicles at the Belbek Sevastopol International Airport in the Crimea regionReutersA Russian soldier lies with his back to Ukrainian fighter jets as he watches Ukrainian servicemen at the Belbek airport in the Crimea regionReutersSubrata Roy, Sahara group chairman, has ink thrown at him an unidentified man upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in New DelhiReutersLos Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul stretches prior to the game against the Phoenix Suns at the US Airways Centre in Phoenix, ArizonaReuters
