Wednesday: The day in photos
A migrant worker feeds her 3-year-old child at the Wuchang Railway Station in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. The 40-day “Chunyun,” or spring festival travel rush, will officially end Thursday, with millions returning to work from their hometowns after the Lunar New Year holiday. The Ministry of Railways estimated that the railway system will handle a record 188 million passengers nationwide during the annual travel season, up 8% from last year. (China Photos / Getty Images)
A lioness cleans her 4-week-old cub at a zoo in Dortmund, Germany.
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A Vietnamese beggar sleeps on a Hanoi street. (Dai Kurokawa / EPA)
Signs advertise dental clinics in Karachi, Pakistan. (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
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A Ukrainian street musician dressed in a traditional Cossack costume performs on a domra, a long-necked string instrument, in Kiev. (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)
A woman folds dried clothes on the outskirts of Amritsar, India. Large laundry sites, called dhobi ghats, are still common in India; workers gather at the sites and take care of much of a city’s laundry. (Altaf Qadri / AP)
Singer Katy Perry is swept off her feet by Italian actor Luca Laurenti during a performance at the Sanremo music festival in Italy. (Claudio Onorati / EPA)
A skier follows a trail in the deep snow on a hill near St. Maergen in the Black Forest of southern Germany. (Winfried Rothermel / Associated Press)
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Tourists walk in the snow on the Great Wall of China, north of Beijing. City authorities said snow that fell on Tuesday was artificially induced in an attempt to reduce the effects of a drought. (Greg Baker / Associated Press)
A heavy snowstorm dropped a white blanket on Moscow’s Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral today. (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)
A pedestrian passes snowcovered tables and chairs of a street cafe in Memmingen, Germany, 18 February 2009. The weather situation in Bavaria steadied after previous heavy snowfalls. Sunshine and temperatures at around zero degrees currently dominate the weather in many places. (Karl Josef Hidebrand / EPA)
Smoke billows from an immigration center on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, where immigrants clashed with police over the planned expulsion of about 100 Tunisians, the ANSA news agency said. The protesters allegedly set parts of a holding facility on fire. (Alessandro Fucarini / Associated Press)
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Junked cars are stacked on at a hangar in Berlin, Germany. The German government has created an incentive program offering payments to people who scrap cars more than 9 years old and buy new vehicles. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)
Pakistani security officials defuse a bomb planted in a car in Peshawar. A spate of bombings, allegedly by the Taliban militants operating in neighboring tribal areas, has killed dozens of people in the past few weeks in Peshawar. (Arshad Arbab / EPA)
An art restorer touches up an 18th-century Christian Orthodox icon at the Byzantine & Christian Museum of Athens. The museum is readying a spring exhibition with more than 2,000 artifacts. (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)
A group of 227 migrants sit on board a fishing vessel in the container port of Birzebugia, Malta. The group, mostly from Somalia, came ashore near the Maltese capital of Valletta aboard a boat no more than 65 feet long, the news agency AFP reported. Previously this month, groups of 262 and 115 had arrived. (Ben Borg Cardona / AFP / Getty Images)
