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Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 10 images.
A woman holds her 4-month-old daughter who was born with microcephaly in the sea in Olinda, Brazil. Brazil is investigating more than 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly, a condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and can suffer developmental problems that may be linked to the Zika outbreak. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Divers wear costumes as they perform at an aquarium ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival inside a zoo in Beijing, China. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
A supporter of US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz sits in her car decorated with patriotic items outside a campaign event in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
A Palestinian youth jumps with a sword as he demonstrates his ninja-style skills for the photographer in front of the ruins of buildings that were destroyed in 2014 war in the northern Gaza Strip. The youths, who have been receiving martial arts training at local clubs in Gaza for the past two years, decided to form a team to hold regular shows in the hope that the publicity generated will eventually lead to them being invited to participate in international contests. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
A girl, with her father in a wheelchair, asks for help to pay a medical bill from passersby, in Douma, Syria. Photograph: Bassam Khabieh/ Reuters
Members of the German coast guards prepare to transport the body of a dead stranded sperm whale to the shore line, at the coast of Buesum, Germany. Photograph: Fabian Bimmer/Reuters
A sloth holds on to the post of a traffic barrier on a highway in Quevedo, Ecuador. Transit police officers, who were patrolling the new highway, found the sloth after it had apparently tried to cross the street and returned the animal to its natural habitat after a veterinarian found it to be in perfect condition. Photograph: Reuters
US President Barack Obama and college football Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry assume the position of the famous trophy after Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
People run to enter Guangzhou Railway Station in Guangdong province, China. More than 50,000 passengers were stranded at a railway station in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday because of weather delays, state media said. Photograph: Lin Hongxian/Reuters
A schoolbag with the UNICEF logo rests on a desk inside a school damaged due to what activists said was an air strike carried out by the Russian air force in Injara town, Aleppo countryside, Syria. Bombs dropped by suspected Russian warplanes killed at least 12 Syrian schoolchildren when they hit a classroom in a rebel-held town in Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Photograph: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters