A full moon over the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Reuters)

A man looks for his photographs at a collection center for items which were found in the rubble of an area devastated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)

A girl sits on a weighing scale at a wood saw mill in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters)

A protester attends an anti-corruption demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia. Hundreds of Slovaks are protesting in the capital to demand that top politicians accused of corruption step down. (AP)

An investor reacts as she looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai, China. Asian stock markets climbed as China's inflation eased and Greece moved closer to inking a deal with private creditors to restructure its debt and avoid a massive default. (AP)

An employee works inside a cotton processing unit at Kadi town, about 56 km (35 miles) north of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters)

Colombian riot police arrest a student protesting against the high price and bad service offered by the Transmilenio public transport system in Bogota. (AFP)

US athlete Chaunte Lowe (R) commiserates with US athlete Inika McPherson (L) after she failed a jump during the women's high jump qualifications at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships at the Atakoy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. (AFP)

The Northern Lights in the skies near Faskusfjordur on the east coast of Iceland, March 8, 2012. A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems. (AP)