[Boats and yachts are piled together at Port Hinchinbrook, Australia, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph. Image via AP]

[Pro-Mubarak forces (reportedly hired by Egypt's president to cause chaos) clash with anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square. At least three died and 639 were injured during Wednesday's surprisingly violent protests. Photo via AP]

[A Kansas City Scout sign warns motorists along I-70 near Kansas City, Mo. on Tuesday. I-70 was closed from Kansas City to St. Louis because of heavy snow. Image via AP]

[Lydia Vasquez scrapes ice from the windshield of her car in Denver on Monday. Image via AP]

[A man in Bucharest, Romania, walks on a frozen lake. Image via AP]

[Workers clear a platform at the Edison train station in New Jersey as snow falls during Wednesday night's snowstorm. Image via AP]

[A villager rides a bullock cart in Kosi village, more than 100 miles from Patna, India. Image via AP]

[A man walks across a frozen river in Benxi in the Liaoning province of China. Image via AP]

[A Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket, which may someday be used to send humans into space, rises from the launch pad during its first unmanned launch in California. Image via AP]

[The weather in Brooklyn, N.Y. was really gross on Tuesday, as the poor person shoveling the sidewalk here could have told you. Image via AP]

[A Pakistani laborer transports the front portion of a van through his handcart at a road in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Image via AP]

[Fireworks explode over New York Harbor tonight in honor three cruise ships, the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, which met at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Image via AP]

[Someone—Mayor Bloomberg?—hard at work shoveling in NoLiTa on Wednesday night. Click through for another photo. Image via Dan Nguyen]

[The sun setting in Liberty Park, N.J. on Monday night. Image via AP]

[For this picture of spectators watching the Four Hill ski jumping tournament in Austria, AP photographer Kerstin Joensson exposed the film for a 10th of a second and rotated the camera during the exposure. Image via AP]

[Two polar bears fight at the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic. Image via AP]

[Japan's Taku Tekeuchi during a trial jump at the Four Hills tournament in Austria. Image via AP]

[New Mexico has been unseasonably cold lately, which sucks, but it appears to make the sledding that much more awesome. Image via AP]

[People walk through the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Image via Getty]

[Children play in the slums of Lahore, Pakistan. Image via AP]