Journalism of Courage
India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers ride their camels in front of India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan during a rehearsal for the "Beating the Retreat" ceremony in New Delhi January 19, 2013. The ceremony symbolizes retreat after a day on the battlefield, and marks the official end of the Indian Republic Day celebrations. (Reuters)
A racer (not pictured) and his sledge dogs take part in the Border Rush Race in The Giant Mountains National Park in Jakuszyce, Poland, January 10, 2013. Border Rush is an international sled dog race run which starts in Jakuszyce in the Czech-Poland border region. (Reuters)
Khan, a 3-year-old male Bengali white tiger, participates in his weekly training session with a piece of meat inside an open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a surburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 27, 2013. Every Wednesday, a zookeeper will train Khan using meat suspended on a chain so that the tiger will not lose motor and mental skills associated with hunting, an official representative of the zoo said. (Reuters)
A cat watches passers-by from a pub window in central London. (Reuters)
A man wades through a flooded graveyard in the village of Monospitovo, 180 km east of capital Skopje, February 27, 2013. One man drowned and several hundred homes in Macedonia were flooded on Tuesday as two days of heavy rain drenched farmland and caused power outages in the Balkan country, authorities said. (Reuters)
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, February 18, 2013. The post-harvest festival is celebrated by the farmers of Kakkoor and the surrounding villages. (Reuters)
A Maine coon cat is examined by a judge during the Athens 21st International Cat Show. (Reuters)
A bear rides a bicycle during a show presenting the new program "From Heart to Heart" at the National circus in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. (Reuters)
A performer carries a python for a show at the Ditan Temple Fair celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing February 11, 2013. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, began on February 10 and marked the start of the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese zodiac. (Reuters)
A stray dog chases geese near a restaurant on mount Cobenzl in the north of Vienna. (Reuters)
A Kazakh hunter whispers to his tamed golden eagle during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, some 150 km (93 miles) east of Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters)
Anfisa, a 8-year-old female chimpanzee, washes a window of her enclosure where she lives with a male chimpanzee named Tikhon, at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. (Reuters)
Abayed, a six-year-old herding dog, walks with a specially-made wheeled walking aid outside the Humane Center for Animal Welfare near Amman February 26, 2013. The dog, whose name means "white", was hospitalised and treated after a bullet pierced his spine and paralysed him some two years ago. (Reuters)
