Protesters clash with riot police in front of the parliament during a 24-hours general strike in Athens. A general strike gripped Greece in protest against new austerity measures. (AFP)

Residents gather as a whale shark is pulled from the water by cranes after it was found dead at Karachi's fish harbor, Pakistan. (Reuters)

Banknotes shredded and compressed into heating fuel are distributed at the Foundation to Help Autism in Miskolc, eastern Hungary. Hungary is the only country to recycle its worn cash for fuel each year, a total of some $1 billion worth of forints. The bricks are then sent to a few charities, covering up to a third of their annual heating fuel supplies. (Reuters)

Maldives soldiers, left, clash with police officers in Male. President Mohamed Nasheed presented his resignation in a nationally televised address after police joined the protesters and then clashed with soldiers in the streets. (AP)

A participant sits outside his tent at the camping area of the Campus Party event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Campus Party is an annual week-long, 24-hour technology festival that gathers around 7000 hackers, developers, gamers and computer geeks from around the world. (Reuters)

Supporters wave National League for Democracy flags as Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of major opposition the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, gives a speech in a stadium at Pathein, the capital of rice bowl Ayeyawady Division, about 176 kilometres (110 miles) west of Rangoon, Burma. (Reuters)

Soldiers ride their motorcycles on the road destroyed by an earthquake in La Libertad, Negros Oriental in central Philippines. (Reuters)

US President Barack Obama reacts as Joey Hudy of Phoenix, Arizona, launches a marshmallow from his Extreme Marshmallow Cannon in the State Dining Room of the White House during the second White House Science Fair in Washington. (Reuters)

Ice-covered lampposts in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia. Europeans across the continent have been battling more than a week of extreme weather, with thousands still trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans. (AP)

A Hindu devotee gets his cheek pierced with a metal rod during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP)

An airplane drawing a contrail seems to divide the full moon in two halves in the sky over Frankfurt/M., western Germany, February 6, 2012. (AFP)