A swimmer on a broomstick jumps into water during a winter swimming event on the ice-covered Songhua river in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province.

A Sri Lanka's Marxist People Party supporter attends a demonstration demanding governemental actions to find hundreds of people who have disappeared during decades in Sri Lanka due to decades of a long conflict, in Colombo.

Richard Branson poses for the media with Newcastle United palyer's Mike Williamson, left, Sami Ameobi , second Right, and Davide Santon, right, at the first branch of the bank to display the Virgin Money branding in Newcastle, England.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into a court house in Cairo, Egypt.

Visitors pose with their pets after worship at Ichigaya Kamegaoka Hachimangu in Tokyo. The shrine specially arranges the dates for pet-owners and their pets to offer the New Year's prayers together.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, center front, accompanied by his wife, Wan Azizah, arrives at the High Court for the verdict of his sodomy trial in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

American Idol Judge and musician Jenniefer Lopez plays with the hair of fellow judge Steven Tyler of Aerosmith as they participate in the American Idol panel at the Fox Broadcasting Company Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena , California.