A group of Taiwanese women paratroopers after a drill held at Taiwan's northern Hsinchu airbase. (AFP)
Workers monitor the lift of the space shuttle Discovery from the the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Virginia. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
People walk at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum before the start of the 17th annual remembrance ceremony in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Timothy McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges for the 1995 deadly bombing and was executed in 2001. (AP)
Matevz Lenarcic gestures in front of his plane after landing in Brnik Airport, Slovania. Biologist and environmentalist Lenarcic set off on January 9 on a journey around the world in an ultra-light aircraft. He aims to break the records for the lightest aircraft and the least amount of fuel used to fly around the world. (Reuters)
Mexico performs during the Teams Technical Routine during a synchronized swimming qualification event at the Aquatic Center at Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. (Reuters)
Thaneshwar Guragai spins a basketball on a toothbrush while holding the toothbrush in his mouth for exactly 22.41 seconds to break the last Guinness record of 13.5 seconds set by Thomas Connors of U.K, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Reuters)
The art work 'Five Minutes Of Pure Sculpture' by British artist Anthony MacCall at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Germany (AP)
An apprentice of beekeeper She Ping uses burning incense to drive off bees from She's face as he assists covering She's body with bees in order to break a world record in Chongqing Municipality, China. She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees). (Reuters)
Harris O'Riordan plays with an umbrella during a Homecoming Parade for soldiers in Forfar, Scotland. (Reuters)