March 13, 2013

A fire still burns after a tugboat and barge hit a gas pipeline on March 12, 2013, in Perot Bay in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, USA, about 30 miles south of New Orleans.

Visitors sit at tables at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea.

Sui Wenjing (top) and Han Cong of China perform in the pairs short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reviews an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at Vnukovo airport on his arrival in Moscow, Russia.

A serviceman of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's special forces unit breaks a stack of burning tiles with his head during a show at their base in Minsk.

Comet PanSTARRS (L) is seen with a one-day old crescent moon as both set over the Very Large Array radio telescope antenna dishes March 12, 2013 near Magdalena, New Mexico, USA.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd R), Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin (2nd L, back) and actor Steven Seagal (R, back) visit a new sports arena on the territory of the Sambo-70 training sports complex in Moscow.

With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for some photographs in their Sokol suits in Destiny, the U.S. Laboratory . From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander, with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

A woman cycles as she carries baskets to sell in a market near Lapdaung mountain in Sarlingyi township, Burma.

A racegoer smiles during Ladies Day, the second day of racing at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England.

Two meerkats play in the snow in their enclosure at the zoo in Kronberg, western Germany.