Thursday, Feb. 03, 2011

Play with? Not eat? Worried about little Paulchen spending his first months all alone, keepers at Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, gave the leopard cub a rabbit named Lisa to "play with." Paulchen, bullied by his sister and ignored by his mother, is now being bottle-fed by zoo staff.

Freezing his IRS off: Scott Powers, a pitchman for Liberty Tax Service, tries to drum up business in frigid Littleton, Colo., where the high temperature was in the single digits.

Hot crossed buns are on sale at Glodok market in Jakarta's Chinatown, which rang in the Year of the Rabbit Thursday.

Jughead: Protective headgear is a must when battling pro-government thugs wielding clubs in the streets of Cairo.

Now would be a good time to DUCK! Tim Roberts is unaware that he is about to be hit the head by a snowball at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine.

Shovel anxiety: Myles, a dog belonging to Andrea Todd of Akron, N.Y., finds driveway snow removal deeply disturbing.

Frozen Glory: An abused American flag lies stuck to icy pavement in a parking lot in New Carlisle, Ohio.

After a while, married couples begin to look like each other: Abyssinian Colobus monkeys tend to a yawning baby in Yokohama, Japan.

Still life in the fast lane: These are a few of the hundreds of cars stranded by a blizzard on Lake Shore Drive, Chicago.

A house with seven lightning rods: In Tully, Queensland, mates drinking cans of rum and cola sit on a metallic roof as they watch an approaching thunderstorm in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasi. Australia's worst cyclone in a century devastated towns and left 175,000 people without power, but miraculously no deaths were reported.

Devotees offer burning incense at a Taoist temple in Beijing on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit.

One hundred and twenty-six candles: Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez enjoys some cake at her birthday party in Ceiba Hueca, Cuba. Cuba's Prensa Latina agency said civil registry documents confirm Bautista was born on Feb. 2, 1885, making her 126 years old.

Coyotes cross a pasture, flushing birds off Cox Mill Road near Hopkinsville, Ky.

Gondola cables reflect the sun on a lift in the alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany.