Best pictures from February 20
A worker is screened for radiation as he enters the emergency operation centre at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. Members of the media were allowed into the plant on Monday ahead of the first year anniversary of the March 11, 2011, tsunami and earthquake.
Students of a Nepalese army school perform martial arts during Army Day in Katmandu, Nepal.
A Hindu ascetic, or Sadhu, smokes marijuana on a chillum outside the Bhavnath temple during the Mahashivratri festival in Junagadh district, in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
School girls offer prayer before a performance of Indian classical dance on the occasion of Mahashivratri festival in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala.
The 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje performs the sacred Vajra dance in Bodh Gaya, India.
Revellers participate in a masked ball during the Carnival of All Colors in Maragojipe city, Brazil.
A Pakistani man helps his wife to walk down a slippery hill next to a snow sculpture in Murree near Islamabad, Pakistan.
Number 5 ranked qualifier Canada's Meaghan Benfeito performs a dive in the women's 10m platform during the Diving World Cup event at the London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in London.
A group of parents and children participate in the National Ballet of Canada's Family Day Ballet Workshop. The dance class took place at the National Ballet's Walter Carsen Centre and covered a variety of ballet and movement techniques.
New York Yankees, from left, Phil Hughes, Boone Logan and CC Sabathia stretch during practice at baseball spring training in Tampa, Fla.
New York Yankees fans reach through a fence for an autograph during the first formal workout for pitchers and catchers at the team's spring training complex in Tampa, Florida.