A father gives his baby a head massage with eggs after a haircut at a care center in Hefei, Anhui province, China.

According to traditional Chinese belief, getting a haircut on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month, which fell on February 23 this year, is likely to bring good luck.

Couples participate in a kissing contest at Hefei, Anhui province, in China.

A total of 63 couples took part in the contest in which men must carry their partners while kissing and try to last as long as possible. The winner was rewarded with a 1-carat diamond ring, local media reported.

A new miniature painting made on discarded chewing gum by artist Ben Wilson is seen on the Millennium Bridge in London. 

Wilson has painted miniature works of art on discarded chewing gum in various parts of London and Europe over the past seven years in an effort to "turn something some people would find disgusting into something artistic and beautiful," he said.

He chooses gum splatters with unusual shapes "to allow art to happen in a random way." 

A sheep passes Senegalese troops standing in formation for the arrival of African Union's United Nations mission in Darfur Force Commander Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba of Rwanda, at the Umm Baru team site.

A reveller celebrates Carnival by covering himself with mud from mangrove swamps in Curuca, Brazil, where the Amazon River pours into the Atlantic.

European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn presents the EU Commission's interim economic forecast during a news conference at the commission headquarters in Brussels.

A boy dressed as Lord Shiva bites the head of a python while performing at a park near a temple during the Mahashivratri festival in Chandigarh.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, who claims to be the world's shortest man standing at a height of 22 inches (56 centimeters), speaks to the media at Tribhuvan International Airport upon his arrival from Nepalgunj, in Kathmandu.

A woman takes a mud bath during Jouvert celebrations, a revellery of mass, music, mud and paint which marks the start of the two-day Trinidad Carnival street parade, in the capital city Port of Spain.