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Pictures of the day 18th feb
(01 of22)
STOKE ON TRENT, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 18: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits the Emma Bridgewater factory on February 18, 2015 in Stoke on Trent, England. (Photo by Danny Martindale/WireImage) (credit:Danny Martindale via Getty Images)
(02 of22)
STOKE ON TRENT, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 18: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits the Emma Bridgewater factory on February 18, 2015 in Stoke on Trent, England. (Photo by Danny Martindale/WireImage) (credit:Danny Martindale via Getty Images)
(03 of22)
Carnival of Nice, southern France on February 17, 2015, first Parade of Lights on the 'Place Massena'. Photo by ShootPix/ABACAPRESS.COM (credit:ShootPix/ABACA)
(04 of22)
Chinese folk artists perform during the opening ceremony of the Spring Festival Temple Fair at the Temple of Earth park on February 18, 2015 in Beijing, China. The Chinese Lunar New Year of Sheep also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the Fifteenth day. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) (credit:Lintao Zhang via Getty Images)
(05 of22)
Singer Kylie Minogue arrives at BVLGARI And Save The Children STOP. THINK. GIVE. Pre-Oscar Event at Spago on February 17, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) (credit:Jon Kopaloff via Getty Images)
(06 of22)
'The 139th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show' at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Tuesday, February 17, 2014 -- Pictured: Best in Show, Miss P the 15' Beagle -- (Photo by: Dave Kotinsky/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) (credit:USA Network via Getty Images)
(07 of22)
Revelers dance to a brass band in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Revelers in glitzy costumes filled the streets of New Orleans for the annual fat Tuesday bash, opening a day of partying, parades and good-natured jostling for beads and trinkets tossed from passing floats. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(08 of22)
Al-Jazeera English journalist Baher Mohammed kisses his 6 month-old son Haroon, who was born while he was in prison, during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in 6 October city, a suburb southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Mohammed, one of three Al-Jazeera English journalists released after over a year in Egyptian prison says he is optimistic he would be exonerated from terrorism-related charges during his retrial which begins next week. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(09 of22)
Eddie Ray Routh enters the courtroom following a break in his capital murder trial at the Erath County, Donald R. Jones Justice Center in Stephenville, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Routh is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (AP Photo/Mike Stone, Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(10 of22)
Indian devotees travel on a ferry to Umananda, left, a river island in the Brahmaputra that houses a Shiva temple, during Shivratri festival in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Shivratri, or the night of Shiva, is dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(11 of22)
A man covers his face with animal blood to takes part in the ''Momotxorro Carnival'', in Alsasua, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Momotxorro, characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual, come out onto the town's streets. Wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, they are dressed in a white sheet stained with blood, sheepskin gilets, blue trousers, white socks and black sandals. They tour the town roaring fiercely and brandishing their wooden staves, goading and frightening everyone who gets in their way. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(12 of22)
Taylor Wilkinson, right, and Karissa Courtney, both Seattle Pacific University students with the afternoon off, share a hammock overlooking the Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains beyond Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Seattle. Temperatures hit record highs a day earlier, including 59 at Sea-Tac Airport, in parts of Washington and Oregon as one of the mildest winters continues in the Northwest. Forecasters expect more near-record temperatures on Tuesday because of a summer-like high pressure ridge that creates sunny, dry days. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(13 of22)
Egyptian Muslims gather during Moulid al-Hussein, a religious celebration marking the birthday of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. The celebration is one of the largest in Egypt, which attracts hundreds of thousands of Muslims worshippers from all over the country and takes place at Al-Hussein mosque. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(14 of22)
Emmy Rossum arrives at the 17th Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (credit:Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
(15 of22)
The Up'Ards and the Down'Ards, fight for the ball during the first day of the Royal Shrovetide Football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire England, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. The Royal Shrovetide Football match, played over two days, occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne, which hundreds of participants battle it out in a 'no rules' game, where the aim is to get a ball into one of two goals that are positioned three miles apart at either end of Ashbourne. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(16 of22)
The Up'Ards and the Down'Ards, fight for the ball during the first day of the Royal Shrovetide Football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire England, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. The Royal Shrovetide Football match, played over two days, occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne, which hundreds of participants battle it out in a 'no rules' game, where the aim is to get a ball into one of two goals that are positioned three miles apart at either end of Ashbourne. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(17 of22)
Snow covered ice is seen on the Hudson River outside of Pier 92 and 94 in New York City on February 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (credit:TIMOTHY A. CLARY via Getty Images)
(18 of22)
An officer carries a baby as migrants disembark from a tug boat after being rescued in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, southern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. With Libya's security rapidly deteriorating, the number of migrants who set out in smugglers boats from Libyan shores toward Italy has surged. (AP Photo/Francesco Malavolta) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(19 of22)
A plow removes snow from the White House driveway after a winter storm, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Washington. The season's first major snow storm to blast large parts of the South dropped up to 8 inches of snow around the Washington area. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(20 of22)
Baby gorilla Diara explores its enclosure at the Leipzig Zoo in Leipzig, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Diara was born in March 2014. (credit:AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
(21 of22)
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 17: A disabled model in wheelchair takes catwalk at New York Fashion Week on February 17, 2015 in New York, United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(22 of22)
The aurora borealis, or the northern lights as they are commonly known at Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland. (credit:Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)