An End of the World dinner menu, which costs $272 per person, is seen inside a Hong Kong restaurant, China. (Reuters)

Guatemalan Mayan natives take part in celebrations marking the end of the Mayan age known as Bak’tun 13 and the start of the new Mayan age at the Tikal archaeological site, Peten department, north of Guatemala City. (AFP)

Rio de Janeiro residents celebrate the summer’s first day as the sun rises at the Copacabana beach, Brazil. (AFP)

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s incoming Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), casts his shadow on his portrait after attending a meeting in Tokyo. (Reuters)

A newly reinstated monument of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen on his birthday anniversary in the village of Zemo Alvani, northeast of Tbilisi, Georgia. (Reuters)

Egyptian men try to extinguish fire from buses set ablaze during clashes between opponents and supporters of President Mohamed Morsi in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria. (AFP)

Indian women passengers watch from inside a bus in New Delhi. Indian officials announced Friday a broad campaign to protect women in New Delhi following the recent gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus. (AP)

A woman walks along footprints of others in the snow in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

A red rose in the garden of Hana Qutt’s house in the west bank, Palestine. (Hana Qutt)

An iguana sleeps on a tree branch at Phnom Tamao Zoo and Wildlife Rescue Center in Tra Pang Sap village,Takeo province, south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)