Huskies pant during a training session at Feshiebridge, in Aviemore, Scotland. The Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain will hold its annual sled dog rally this weekend.
A young Chinese boy photographs white-cheeked gibbons at the Beijing Zoo. The zoo grounds were originally a Ming Dynasty imperial palace and finally opened to the public in 1908.
Women dancers from Darjeeling state, in traditional attire, wait to perform during the opening ceremony of the three-day International Tourism Mart in Gauhati, India. About 79 buyer delegates from 23 countries are participating in the program.
A tourist dressed in a ballet outfit poses for photos while in the background on a Jumbotron in Times Square New York, US President Barack Obama prepares to speak to the crowd after he takes the oath of office during the 57th Presidential Inauguration ceremonial swearing-in.
A young girl is reflected in the glass as she views a Spot-Eye Cichlid fish at the Beijing Aquarium. The aquarium is the largest in China, is shaped like a huge conch shell, and houses more than 1,000 marine species and freshwater fish.
Tourists visit the Colosseum in Rome. Traces of decorations in blue, red and green were found in a corridor currently closed to the public while archaeologists were working to restore an area between the second and third floor of the Colosseum, which has fallen into disrepair in recent years.
Tourists visit the Colosseum in Rome. Traces of decorations in blue, red and greenwere found in a corridor currently closed to the public while archaeologists were working to restore an area between the second and third floor of the Colosseum, which has fallen into disrepair in recent years.
Tourists walk outside Rome's Colosseum. A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of red, black and blue frescoes as well as graffiti and drawings of phallic symbols indicating that the arena where gladiators fought was far more colorful than previously thought.
Japanese traditional wooden houses, "Gassho zukuri", are lit up in the snow-covered village of Shirakawa in Gifu prefecture, central Japan. The Gassho zukuri farmhouses were listed as one of the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1995, and the village will be illuminated until February 16.
A couple shares a moment as paragliders fly over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Lima, Peru. Paragliding has gained such popularity in the Peruvian capital that tourists wait in lines on weekends to fly for 150 soles, about $58, for a 10 minute flight over the sea and the buildings of the tourist district of Miraflores.
Tourists are silhouetted as they watch sunset from the roof of a wooden boat on the Tonle Sap River near Chroy Changvar village in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
A tourist couple take a photo in an iconic red telephone box in Parliament Square as snow falls in London. The red telephone boxes are no longer used in Britain, and are only placed in well known tourist points in the capital.
People are silhouetted against the glass of an aquarium while a Giant Manta Ray swims past at the Resorts World Sentosa's Marine Life Park which is a new tourist attraction to boost numbers of visitors.