Best pictures from February 18
A bridge for the new highway connecting Sochi, the host city for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, and the winter sport resort of Krasnaya Polyana, rises up behind a graveyard.KAI PFAFFENBACH/Reuters
Nude visitors study the laserchrome prints "Shepherd Boy" (L) and "Jason" by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at the art exhibition "Nude Men" at Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria. The museum welcomed naked viewers from the public on Monday in an after-hours showing of the exhibition, which has been extended to run until March 4, 2013.HEINZ-PETER BADER/Reuters
Indian school children perform Surya Namaskar or Sun salutation during a function to mark 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, in New Delhi, India. Hundreds of school children across India performed Surya Namaskar, a Yoga posture which comprises 12 different bodily postures that ought to be performed in particular sequence.Manish Swarup/The Associated Press
A farmer loses control over his pair of oxen as they race through a paddy field during the "Kakkoor Kalavayal" festival at Kakkoor village, on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Kochi.SIVARAM V/Reuters
Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their country cross into Jordanian territory, near Mafraq. According to the Jordanian Armed Forces sources, around 89,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the Jordanian border since the beginning of 2013.MUHAMMAD HAMED/Reuters
A young cotton-headed tamarin looks out from its cage at a temporary shelter west of Bogota, Colombia. Sponsored by Bogota's Ministry of Environment, the shelter receives between 3,000 and 3,500 wild animals a year; some seized from poachers and others found hurt.Fernando Vergara/The Associated Press
A young Brotogeris Jugularis or Parakeet, also known as "bronceado," is fed by a veterinarian at an animal shelter west of Bogota, Colombia. Of the 3,000 to 3,500 wild animals a year taken in by the shelder, seventy per cent are reintroduced to their habitat and the remaining 30 per cent are sent to zoos around the country.Fernando Vergara/The Associated Press
No sled? No problem. Snow sliding at Riverdale Park in Toronto on a sunny Family Day holiday.Moe Doiron/The Globe and Mail
Jonathan Wang, left, his friend Anna Huang, her father Haiming Huang, and his sister Isabella Wang ice fish on Lake Simcoe at Innisfil, Ontario, on Family Day, when Ontario residents can fish without purchasing a license.Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail
Toronto Blue Jays infielder Jose Reyes, centre, stretches with teammates during baseball spring training in Dunedin, Florida.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press