Bangladeshi farmers walk with their cattle through a mustard field at Singair, outskirts of Dhaka. (AP)

Snow is cleared on the runways at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. A muted version of the deadly winter storm that has killed more than a dozen across the eastern half of the country reached the Northeast. (AP)

A man shows his catch of puffer fish from the flood waters in Malaysia’s northeastern town of Rantau Panjang, bordering Thailand. (AFP)

An Israeli air force Apache helicopter releases flares during an acrobatics display at a graduation ceremony in the Hatzerim air force base near the southern city of Beersheba. (AP)

Team USA’s goalie John Gibson makes a save against Germany during the second period of their preliminary round game during the 2013 IIHF U20 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia. (Reuters)

NASA’s Curiosity rover uses the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images of the rover. The mosaic shows the rover at ‘Rocknest,’ the spot in Gale Crater where the mission’s first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover. A fifth scoop was collected later. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

A small portion of guns that were turned in by their owners are stacked inside a truck at a gun buyback held by the Los Angeles Police Department in Los Angeles, California, December 26, 2012, following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. (Reuters)

A cartpuller wades through flood water as he crosses a street during heavy rain overwhelms the area in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP)

A solar panel erected at the Gambaga ‘witches’ Camp in Northern Ghana to supply electricity, December 22, 2012. (Albert Oppong-Ansah/Northern Ghana/VOA reader)

Judges look at an adorned elephant during an elephant beauty contest at the Elephant Race event in Chitwan, about 170 km (106 miles) south of Kathmandu, Nepal. (Reuters)

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs her autograph on a painting created by her supporter during an opening ceremony of a music concert, a benefit for the second anniversary of her National League for Democracy Party’s Education Network, at People Square in Rangoon. (AP)

A ring-tailed lemur sniffs at a tomato frog (Dyscophus antongilii) during an animal inventory at the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany. (AFP)

British soldiers work on vehicles, which will be re-deployed to the UK at Camp Bastion, outside Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Reuters)

A bird flies over a frozen crane sculpture fountain with icicles hanging from its wings at a Tokyo park in Japan. (AFP)