The ancient Colosseum is seen during an heavy snowfall late in the night in Rome on February 4, 2012.

A woman looked at an installation made of recycled plastic bottles representing fishes, in Botafogo beach, in Rio de Janeiro, on June 19, 2012.

A fully grown male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, some 45 kms from Siliguri, on June 20, 2012. The animal was rescued by the Sukna Forest rescue team from the Mahananda Wildlife sanctuary by lowering a ladder and a net into the tank.

This picture taken on August 28, 2012, shows police trying to help remove a car surrounded by water after its owner parked it on the bank to watch waves brought on by Typhoon Bolaven in Qingdao, in northeast China's Shandong province.

A full moon rises over the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center.

A young surfer sailed his board off a wave as large swells hit the California coastline at dusk in Cardiff, Calif.

A double rainbow appeared after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nev.

Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of Sept. 3.

Retired space shuttle Endeavour is carried on the back of a NASA jet as it approaches the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

A foreign tourist sat next to a large art display of a shark displayed at a shopping mall in Bangkok. Thailand is a tourist magnet but its image as the "Land of Smiles" has been tested in recent years by deadly political unrest, devastating floods and more recently a bungled bomb plot involving Iranian suspects.

Workers wore panda costumes as they carried a box to transport giant pandas back to the wild, at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wolong, southwest China's Sichaun province.

Leona, 7, explored a labyrinth made up of 250,000 books. The installation titled "aMAZEme" was created by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo at the Royal Festival Hall in central London July 31, 2012.

Lightning struck over a pier during a storm in Atlit, near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on Oct. 25, 2012.

The Space Shuttle Enterprise passed the Statue of Liberty as it rode on a barge in New York Harbor on June 6, 2012. Enterprise was moved up the Hudson River to be placed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

A young man hung from a moving train in Yangon's suburbs Sept. 17, 2012. Around the former capital of Myanmar, with its growing and increasingly demanding population of almost 5 million, a circular train operates, moving passengers through the suburbs.

Space Shuttle Endeavour was transported on Manchester Avenue while being moved from Los Angeles International Airport to its retirement home at the California Science Center in Exposition Park in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2012.

Performers took shelter from the rain at the start of Notting Hill Carnival in west London on Aug. 27, 2012.

Festivalgoers enjoyed the Hackney Weekend festival at Hackney Marshes in east London on June 24, 2012.

A German tourist sat on a sunbed on the beach of the Olympia Riviera resort in the town of Killini, some 180 miles southwest of Athens. Greece's sandy resorts, azure waters, and ancient temples remain popular, but will not, it seems, be enough to pull it out of a fifth year of recession.

A view of the Brazilian Yawalapiti village before the start of this year's “quarup,” a ritual held over several days to honor a person of great importance who has died.

The shadow of a woman was cast on the wall of a monastery as she looked toward the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Aug. 23, 2012. The stupa is a collection of shrines and temples.

People swam at the start of the annual Lake Zurich crossing swimming event in Zurich on Aug. 22, 2012.

A Palestinian girl played on a beach in Gaza City on a summer's day, Aug. 26, 2012.

The full moon rose through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games on Aug. 3, 2012.

Security guards stood in front of the soon to be opened largest Louis Vuitton store in Shanghai on July 18, 2012.

A frozen river next to a group of houses located on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, April 3, 2012.

Bavarian farmers transported their cows on a boat over the picturesque Lake Koenigssee at dusk on Oct. 3, 2012. Before the winter season approaches the farmers have to drive their cattle down from their Alpine meadows to a narrow valley that can only be reached by boat.

Actors playing the parts of Sandy, left, and Frenchie took shelter from the rain while greeting the arriving audience at the Future Cinema outdoor screening of the 1978 film "Grease" in Barnes, southwest London, on Sept. 9, 2012.

A horse, a boxer dog, and a podenco dog (Andalusian hound) were silhouetted in Marinaleda, Spain, on Aug. 15, 2012.

Performers posed after the end of the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic stadium on Aug. 12, 2012.

Devotees tried to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai on Aug. 10, 2012.

Competitors worked to pull a woman up an obstacle where competitors must jump to the top of a half pipe during the Tough Mudder at Mt. Snow in West Dover, Vt., on July 15, 2012. The Tough Mudder is a 9-mile endurance event in which competitors run through a military style obstacle course complete with mud, water and fire.

Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla knelt in front of a bull during the last bullfight of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona on July 14, 2012. Padilla lost an eye after getting gored last October during a bullfight in Zaragoza, Spain. He made a comeback five months later.

Commuters disembarked from crowded suburban trains during the morning rush hour at Churchgate railway station on World Population Day in Mumbai on July 11, 2012. According to a 2011 census by the Indian government, Mumbai has a population of more than 12 million.

The pack of riders cycled past a woman on a horse during the 13th stage of the 99th Tour de France cycling race between Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux and Cap d'Agde on July 14, 2012.

An indigenous man stood in a subway train as he made his way to the People's Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio de Janeiro on June 20, 2012. The People's Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmental Justice is a parallel event of the Rio+20 United Nations sustainable development summit.

Vacationers basked in front of the wreckage of capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbor of Giglio Porto off the coast of Italy on June 20, 2012.

A Polish boy fetched a ball from a field during a game of soccer at a pitch in Lisewo, a village near Spain's Euro 2012 training base in Gniewino.

Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda walked the high wire from the US side to the Canadian side over the Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 15, 2012.

The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieved supplies for some mid-mission fixes dropped by parachute from a C-130 in the Arctic Ocean in this July 12, 2011, NASA photo. Scientists punched through the sea ice to find waters richer in phytoplankton than any other region on earth. Scientists annoucned their discovery in June 2012.

Artist and poet Barry Edgar Pilcher, 69, played the saxophone on the Island of Inishfree in County Donegal, Ireland, on May 1, 2012. Pilcher is the only inhabitant of the island on which he has lived for the past 20 years. He only leaves the island once a week to collect his pension and buy groceries on the mainland.

A keeper looked inside the mouth of a South American sea lion at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna on Jan. 10, 2012.

Mushers and their dogs competed after the mass start of the eighth stage of the La Grande Odyssee sled dogs race in Bessans Jan. 16, 2012. The race crosses the Alps in France covering more than 621 miles over 11 days.

A music group performed on a path amid fields to greet the farmers at Hwanggumpyong Island, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong, on June 6, 2012.

A sandstorm blew past an inflatable blimp inside Forward Operating Base Joyce in Afghanistan's Kunar Province on June 24, 2012.

The Tribute in Light illuminated the sky over New York's lower Manhattan skyline a day before the 11-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks as Natsuki of Yokohama, Japan, raised his arms for a portrait from Brooklyn. The Tribute in Light is an art installation near the site of the World Trade Center in remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

A boy balanced on wooden poles as he performed tricks to earn his living on a street in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Aug. 13, 2012.

A boy walked past a football post near the ancient city of Kirtipur in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Aug. 12, 2012.

A woman carried her child on the roof of the Opera House in Oslo, Norway, on June 20, 2012. In Oslo, the economy has been untouched by the recession and it is a vibrant city with people still spending on everything from housing to consumer goods.

Shoes and boots hung from a fence outside the town of Samalayuca, 31 miles from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on July 9, 2012.