XtremeCollections of the day - March 23 2015

A snowboarder performs during the Red Bull Jump and Freeze competition at ski resort Shimbulak, Israeli illusionist and endurance artist Hezi Dean performs a purported levitation trick in Tel Aviv and a polar bear shakes off water after swimming in a pool at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk are some of the photos of the day.

 A snowboarder performs during the Red Bull Jump and Freeze competition at ski resort Shimbulak outside Almaty March 22, 2015. Participants wearing festive costumes perform tricks before getting into a pond with icy water.

 Israeli illusionist and endurance artist Hezi Dean performs a purported levitation trick in Tel Aviv March 22, 2015. Dean on Sunday began what he calls a "24-hour levitation" on the outside of a Tel Aviv building.

 A man falls from an ox cart as he competes during an ox cart competition near U Bein bridge, in Mandalay March 22, 2015.

 Felix, a 9-year-old male polar bear, shakes off water after swimming in a pool for the first time after winter at the Royev Ruchey zoo in a suburb of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk March 22, 2015. Felix was delivered to the zoo as a weak, orphaned cub from a scientific polar station on the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean in May 2006, according to zoo representatives.

 A girl takes a bath from a public water tank on the occasion of World Water Day in Bhopal, India, March 22, 2015. International World Water Day is held annually on March 22 as a means of highlighting the importance of freshwater and its management.

 Graduates of the National Academy toss up their caps into the air to celebrate their graduation during the graduation ceremony at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2015. In this year, 492 students graduated the academy.

 Rescuers pull the wreckage of a small helicopter out of a lake in Hefei, Anhui province March 22, 2015. The pilot remained missing and the sole passenger was injured after the two-seated Ukraine-made helicopter fell into the lake on Friday night during an unregistered flight, local media reported.

 Canada's Jennifer Jones (L) and Kaitlyn Lawes look on during the medal ceremony after losing to Switzerland in the final at the World Women's Curling Championships in Sapporo March 22, 2015.

 A man visits a World War Two memorial in the former village of Khatyn, northeast of Minsk, March 22, 2015. Nazi troops killed 149 villagers on March 22, 1943, most of them children and women, and burned down their houses and the village was never restored again, according to historians. Belarus will mark the 70th anniversary of their victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 this year.

 Afghan women's rights activists carry the coffin of Farkhunda, an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set alight on fire on Thursday, during her burial ceremony in Kabul March 22, 2015.

 People lay flowers and well-wishes for former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in a heavy downpour at the Singapore General Hospital in Singapore March 22, 2015. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore, has been in hospital with severe pneumonia since Feb. 5. He turned 91 last September.

 Snowboarders perform with a homemade craft during the Red Bull Jump and Freeze competition at ski resort Shimbulak outside Almaty March 22, 2015. Participants wearing festive costumes perform tricks before getting into a pond with icy water.

 Protesters holding placards shout slogans at a rally against Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration in the central Tokyo March 22, 2015. More than 10,000 people join the protest, according to the organizer. Placards read in Japanese "No to the Abe administration".

 Demonstrators wave flags with the image of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally celebrating Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year, in Istanbul March 22, 2015. Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Saturday his militant group's three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state had become "unsustainable" but stopped short of declaring an immediate end to its armed struggle.

Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi gather at the al-Anad air base in the country's southern province of Lahej, after seizing it March 22, 2015. Houthi fighters opposed to Yemen's president took over the central city of Taiz in an escalation of a power struggle diplomats say risks drawing in neighboring oil giant Saudi Arabia and its main regional rival Iran. Residents of Taiz, on a main road from the capital Sanaa to the country's second city of Aden, said that Houthi militias took over the city's military airport without a struggle from local authorities late on Saturday.

 People walk during a heavy snowfall in central Moscow, March 22, 2015.

 Israeli soldiers leave a bomb shelter in Kibbutz Mefalsim, during a surprise drill near the border with the Gaza Strip to maintain the readiness of the forces in the area March 22, 2015.

 A Kurdish girl gestures while others wave Kurdish flags during a gathering celebrating Newroz, which marks the arrival of spring and the new year, in Istanbul March 22, 2015. Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan said on Saturday his militant group's three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state had become "unsustainable" but stopped short of declaring an immediate end to its armed struggle.


 Members of the local Cossack community undergo military training at a boot camp set up by the Russkiye Vityazi (Russian Knights) military patriotic club in the village of Sengileyevskoye, south of Stavropol, March 22, 2015. A group of cossacks from the village of Kazanskaya, who are planning a professional career at the military intelligence service, has arrived at a camp for training under the leadership of professional instructors.

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