A broker in costume works on the trading floor at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange during the carnival in Frankfurt, Germany (Image credit: Matias Basualdo / EPA / Shutterstock)
Guests react to firecrackers outside of a restaurant during Lunar New Year celebrations in Panama City, Panama (Image credit: Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty Images)
Costumed revelers dance around a bonfire during the festival which marks the end of winter in Mohacs, Hungary (Image credit: Tamas Kacsur / EPA / Shutterstock)
People spend the afternoon on the waterfront at sunset, in Havana, Cuba (Image credit: Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo)
Palestinians sell bread on a street beneath a destroyed building in Zawiya market, Gaza City, Palestine (Image credit: Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP / Getty Images)
A grey heron wades in a field flooded by the Garonne river near La Reole, France (Image credit: Gaizka IROZ / AFP / Getty Images)
Revellers perform during the opening night of the Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Image credit: Pablo Porciuncula / AFP / Getty Images)
Smoke and lava erupts and flows from the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, La Reunion, French overseas territory (Image credit: Richard Bouhet / AFP / Getty Images)
Carnival goers wear traditional wax masks and carry bundles of twigs on Shrove Tuesday parade in Binche, Belgium (Image credit: John Thys / AFP / Getty Images)
People walk on a boulevard during heavy snowfall in Bucharest, Romania (Image credit: Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Getty Images)
A performer breathes fire during the carnival parade in Barranquilla, Colombia (Image credit: Vanessa Romero/ AFP / Getty Images)
A racoon waits for food at the coast in Panama City, Panama (Image credit: Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty Images)