Wednesday, Feb. 03, 2010

Soooo sleepy that even a concrete pillow feels soft at the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta.

Go for a walk, she said. It will be fun, she said ... IF YOU'RE A HUSKY: A woman takes her terriers out for some exercise in Minsk.

Caution, steps may be icy: A pedestrian walks up a flight of stairs disguised as a ski slope in Vancouver, B.C.

How low can you get? A Trinidad dancer squeezes under a flaming limbo bar while rehearsing for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, a military music festival in Sydney.

Fort Enid rises from the prairie: Joe Ward's mission in life is to build the biggest snow fort that Enid, Okla., has ever seen.

Exercising his First Amendment rights, the Saints' Na'Shan Goddard bench-presses a reporter during media day for Super Bowl XLIV.

A face that's hard to refuse: An old woman asks passers-by for alms on a roadside in the old part of New Delhi.

Bonfire of the banned: A Pakistani official throws bottles of beer and booze, and kilos of heroin and hashish into a fire in Karachi. The contraband was confiscated during various raids last year.

Get out of jail free: A wrecked prison van sits in front of Haiti's main penitentiary, which was severely damaged in the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince. All of the prison's approximately 4,500 inmates escaped during the temblor.

This won't hurt a bit: A boy cries before being vaccinated against multiple diseases at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the National Stadium of Port-au-Prince.

Pepper paupers: Villagers in Shertha, India, are paid 14 cents for every 44 pounds of chilis they clean by removing their petioles.

Those who shelter bugs in their fur in Islamabad, Pakistan, shall never want for friends.

White House to get whiter: Washington is expecting a new snowstorm this weekend that likely will add to the accumulation on the North Grounds.

Indian food vendors head home at the end of a day's work on the banks of the River Ganges at Sangam, the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers.

The early bird catches the cold: A robin, traditionally the harbinger of spring, searches for berries after a 6-inch snowfall in Fort Washington, Md.