Steam from a heating plant rises as at temperatures of -14 degrees Celsius (-6.8 degrees Fahrenheit) are recorded in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

A person drives a donkey cart as a fire burns fields along the road between Sango and Niono used by Malian and French convoys heading to Diabaly, which was seized last week by Islamists and then heavily bombed by French planes. (AFP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists as she responds to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Reuters)

Indian Hindu pilgrims travel on boats to take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India. (AFP)

A man looks at a flat-rental leaflet in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. (AFP)

Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra (center) puts the final touches to his 56-meter tall artwork in tribute to architect Oscar Niemeyer, one of the 20th century’s most influential modernist architects, at the financial center on Sao Paulo’s Avenida Paulista, January 22, 2013. Niemeyer died in December 2012, aged 104. (Reuters)

A man shows his ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in Amman. Jordanians voted in their first parliamentary elections since the Arab Spring revolts. (Reuters)

Ice-covered trucks are blanketed in smoke after a warehouse fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Fire department officials said it is the biggest fire the department has had to battle in years and one-third of all Chicago firefighters were on the scene at one point or another trying to put out the flames. (Reuters)

A model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier as part of the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2013 fashion show in Paris, France. (Reuters)