Pictures Of The Day 16 February

Pictures Of The Day: From Protest To Tragedy
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Pictures of the day goes political as an Egyptian man protests against ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

The 83-year-old former president is accused of ordering the killing of hundreds of demonstrators during the uprising that overthrew him last February. A verdict in his trial is expected on February 22, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.

On the West Bank Israeli firefighters gather at the site of a crash between a truck and a school bus transporting Palestinian children between Jerusalem and the city of Ramallah. At least eight Palestinian children from east Jerusalem were killed when their school bus was hit by a truck on a road in the West Bank.

Happier pictures capture Venetian carnival atmosphere. The annual festival, which lasts nearly three weeks, will see the streets and canals of Venice filled with people wearing highly-decorative and imaginative carnival costumes and masks

It's chilly in Germany, with pictures of a man surfing on the so-called 'Eisbach' (ice creek) at the Englischer Garten park in Munich. . Temperatures in the Bavarian capital were around the freezing point.

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