Mass. digs out, Kurds take Kobane, painted pigeons, Pope and peacekeepers

A flock of colored pigeons fly during a pigeon-breeding competition in the southern Spanish village of Bollullos de la Mitacion. During competition a single dove is chased by dozens of pigeon cocks resulting winner the male which courts the hen for longer. (Cristina Quicler/Getty Images)

A man collects colored pigeons after a pigeon-breeding competition in the southern Spanish village of Bollullos de la Mitacion. During competition a single dove is chased by dozens of pigeon cocks resulting winner the male which courts the hen for longer. (Cristina Quicler/Getty Images)

Thousands of Cuban students and government officials march in Havana to celebrate the 162th anniversary of Cuban national hero Jose Marti’s birthday. Marti, a leader of the Cuban independence movement from Spanish rule and an illustrious poet and writer, is considered a national hero in Cuba. (Adalberto Roque/Getty Images)

A model presents a creation by Frank Sorbier during the 2015 Haute Couture Spring-Summer collection fashion show in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/Getty Images)

A Malian supporter cheers his team ahead of the 2015 African Cup of Nations group D football match between Guinea and Mali in Mongomo. (Carl De Souza/Getty Images)

Ukrainian servicemen put their dogs under the jackets to keep them warm in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The military conflict between Russia-backed separatists and the government forces in eastern Ukraine has been raging since April, claiming more than 5,100 lives, according to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Jennifer Bruno gathers belongings inside her heavily damaged apartment the day after a winter storm in Marshfield, Mass., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The storm buried the Boston area in more than 2 feet of snow and lashed it with howling winds that exceeded 70 mph. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Frozen sea spray coats houses the day after a winter storm in Scituate, Mass., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Residents of Massachusetts woke up Wednesday to cars buried in several feet of snow, and secondary roads that remain covered. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Dexter Newcomb begins cleanup at his house in Scituate, Mass., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, the day after a winter storm left his neighborhood coated in frozen sea spray and sand. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Pope Francis is greeted by Argentinian officers of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus, UNFICYP, as he arrives for his weekly general audience in Pope Paul II hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis laughs as he meets with newly married couples at the end of his weekly general audience at the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. (Vincenzo Pinto/Getty Images)

Burlesque artist Dita Von Teese speaks to reporters as she arrives to attend Elie Saab’s Spring-Summer 2015 Haute Couture fashion collection, presented in Paris, France, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

A Kurdish fighter walks with his child in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobane, known as Ain al-Arab. Kurdish forces recaptured the strategic town on the Turkish frontier on January 26 in a symbolic blow for the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in a brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

A Kurdish man stands in a destroyed building in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobane, known as Ain al-Arab. Kurdish forces recaptured the strategic town on the Turkish frontier on January 26 in a symbolic blow for the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in a brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

A Kurdish man talks with a radio as he checks the eastern part of the Syrian border town of Kobane, known as Ain al-Arab. Kurdish forces recaptured the strategic town on the Turkish frontier on January 26 in a symbolic blow for the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in a brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

A rebel fighter rides a bike through an empty street in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Aleppo has been divided between regime control in the west and rebels in the east since mid-2012. (Karam Al-Masri/Getty Images)

Sotheby’s staff pose for a picture with ‘Le Grand Canal’ by Claude Monet, during a preview of their upcoming Impressionist and Modern, Surrealist and Contemporary Art sale, at the auction house in London, England, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The collection of paintings and sculptures, with an estimated total value of 233 million pounds ($354 million), is due to go under the hammer on Feb. 3 and Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Horse Grenadiers of San Martin walk near Argentina’s Intelligence Service Agency, or SIDE, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Jewish groups boycotted the Argentine government’s Holocaust Day commemoration Tuesday in protest over the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, while skepticism grew over President Cristina Fernandez’s plan to reform intelligence services that she has suggested were behind the prosecutor’s death. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

An Afghan refugee man refugee man shows his son how to use a slingshot, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A woman holds a candle outside the prime minister’s official residence as part of a demonstration in support of Kenji Goto, in Tokyo, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Junko Ishido, the mother of Goto, the Japanese freelance journalist being held hostage by Islamic State group extremists, appealed publicly to Japan’s leader to save her son Wednesday after his captors purportedly issued what they said was a final death threat. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A Palestinian protester covers his face with a Palestinian flag during an attack on the headquarters of the United Nations in Gaza city on after the UN announced a lack of funds to rebuild the Palestinian territory. Around 200 people demonstrated outside headquarters burning tires and throwing stones at the building as some 100,000 people remain homeless after July-August conflict, which killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and 73 people on the Israeli side. (Mahmud Hams/Getty Images)

Ronnie Adrian Jay Towns enters Magistrate Judge Bryan Selph courtroom for his arraignment Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 in McRae, Ga. Towns has been charged with murder and armed robbery in the deaths of Bud and June Runion, according to Telfair County Sheriff Chris Steverson. The bodies of 69-year-old Elrey “Bud” Runion and his 66-year-old wife, June Runion of Marietta, Georgia, were found Monday not far from where their SUV was discovered in a lake near McRae. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, Woody Marshall)

Mass. digs out, Kurds take Kobane, painted pigeons, Pope and peacekeepers

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