‘Funkenmariechen’, young majorette dancers, put the fingers in their ears during a cannon cracker at the start of the carnival season in Erfurt, central Germany. (AP)

A Free Syrian Army fighter plays with a cat in Khan al-Assal area. (Reuters)

Demonstrators are seen on the streets as violence breaks out at a parade celebrating Poland’s national holiday in Warsaw. The police used truncheons to try to break up a crowd of right-wing extremists who were pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete. (Reuters)

A woman dries used polythene sheets after washing them on the bank of the river Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)

A runner slips on the wet street at the start of the 1 kilometer (.6 mile) race for parents and their children during the Beirut Marathon in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

People practice yoga in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan. (Reuters)

A villager rides a horse carriage on the road between the southern border town of Ceylanpinar and Viransehir in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. (Reuters)

Yamaha MotoGP world champion rider Jorge Lorenzo falls during the Valencia Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Ricardo Tormo racetrack in Cheste, near Valencia, Spain. (Reuters)

Britain’s Prince Charles attends the Armistice Day Commemoration at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand. Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are touring New Zealand to commemorate the diamond jubilee of his mother Queen Elizabeth. (Reuters)

Cadets of Japan’s Military Defense Academy compete in their traditional ‘Botaoshi’ game, in which players try to pull down the opposing team’s pole, at the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the academy in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. (Reuters)