World News in Pictures

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An anti-government protester defies riot police in Bangkok, the Thai capital, to display a ribbon bearing a "King's soldier" slogan.



Protesters opposed to the Ukrainian government throwing bricks at interior ministry officers near the Vekhovnaya Rada parliament building in the capital Kiev.



A girl trapped in the rubble of a collapsed auditorium near the South Korean city of Gyeongju awaiting rescue. Heavy snow on the roof has been blamed for the accident.



African asylum seekers staging a protest at the Holot detention centre in the southern Negev desert over Israeli policy on migrants.

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Keen nature photographer Geir Jartveit took this photo of a heron catching a frog in Alesund, Norway. Refusing to be gobbled up the frog kept jumping and wriggling free from the grasp of the heron's beak for over 30 minutes until it ran out of steam and couldnt fight any longer



If you're looking for a mini-people carrier complete with industrial-strength armour, then some American designers have got the vehicle for you. Affectionately named the Badonkadonk, it appears to be a big metal hovercraft, but is in fact manoeuvred using four off-road wheels. The one-of-a-kind Donk can fit up to four passengers, two comfortably, inside its fully carpeted interior that is accented with some lovely mood lighting. Designers, NAO Design, say it is an armoured land cruiser/recreational tank, which is as adept at serving as a mobile party as it is transporting your groceries



A new range of scented candles have been designed for men who are fed up of the feminine smells and want to get in touch with their masculine side. The products shun scents like vanilla, shea butter, and lavender often used in favour of more 'manly' smells. Some of the odours include the waft of gasoline, leather, pencils, car exhaust, wood, wet grass, and money. Other fragrances are red wine, bacon and even fast food. The 'Stinky Candle Company' is the brain child of inventor Jeff Bennett who became fed up with seeing the same types of scents on sale in shops

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Photographer Samantha Dumora has done her best to guess what her dog is daydreaming about - creating a series of fantasy adventures around her unaware pooch as he takes his daily naps. Arty Samantha first began taking shots of her Jack Russell pup, Woodstock, as a way of practicing her camera skills. But she soon realised Woodstock was a natural in front of the camera - so natural he would relax himself into a snooze allowing his owner to create a series of doggy daydream scenarios all around him



An anti-government protester stands near Thai soldiers guarding a Defence Ministry compound, which is serving as a temporary office for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, in north Bangkok



Prince Charles, wearing traditional Saudi attire, attends the traditional Saudi dance, known as 'Arda', which was performed during Janadriya culture festival at Der'iya in Riyadh

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A wax figure of former U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan with former President Ronald Reagan is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Washington, DC. The figure of the former first lady was sculpted using hundreds of photographs and took approximately 800 hours to make, with 140 hours to complete just the the hair



Masked members of protest band Pussy Riot leave a police station in Adler during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Two members of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained in connection with a theft less than two months after their release from prison



An Afghan woman takes a photograph with her mobile phone as she and supporters attend an election rally by Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Jalalabad

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Want to hang your coat up whilst out and about? Why not try this new creation from the Simongao collection shown off during London Fashion Week



Ice covers the shoreline of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. This winter's prolonged cold weather has caused more than 88 percent of the Great Lakes to be covered in ice which is near the record of 95% set in February 1979

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The team from Great Britain GBR-2, piloted by Lamin Deen, take a curve during the men's four-man bobsled training at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia



An image taken by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows an active region of the sun's coronal loops taken over a two-day period from February 8 - 10. Coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions. These structures are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface. Many coronal loops last for days or weeks, but most change quite rapidly



An image taken by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory shows the young star cluster NGC 346 showing a heart-shaped cloud of 8 million-degree Celsius gas in the central region. Evidence from radio, optical and ultraviolet telescopes suggests that the hot cloud, which is about 100 light years across, is the remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred thousands of years ago. The progenitor could have been a companion of the massive young star that is responsible for the bright X-ray source at the top centre of the image. This young star, HD 5980, one of the most massive known, has been observed to undergo dramatic eruptions during the last decade



A pair of friendly Kashmir rock agamas bask in the sun to keep themselves warm in Pangot, India

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Violence between anti-government protesters and police in Kiev

Protesters are braced for a fresh assault by riot police in central Kiev after Tuesday’s clashes left at least 25 people dead in the worst violence since the start of Ukraine’s three-month political crisis. As dawn rose over Kiev’s battered city centre, protesters hurled paving stones and molotov cocktails at lines of riot police that had pushed into the heart of the devastated protest camp on Independence Square

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Protesters pull up cobblestones and stack them for use as missiles, to throw at riot police






A wall of anti-government protesters during Tuesday's clashes with police in Kiev

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Anti-government protesters receive medical treatment inside Mikhailovsky Zlatoverkhy Cathedral, Kiev, during the early hours of 19 February



The scene outside the destroyed district police department in Lviv. Police said protesters had seized regional administration headquarters in the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv

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A soldier helps an injured boy away from the site of a car bombing in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.



Pope Francis has a hard time keeping his mantle in place on a windy Wednesday during his weekly general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, Rome



A protester wears an ingenious gas mask made from plastic water bottles at a demonstration in Caracas, Venezuela. Members of the opposition are protesting after their leader Leopoldo Lopez surrendered to authorities on Tuesday. Lopez was being sought by authorities for allegedly inciting violence during protests last week

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An apartment building damaged by an explosion near the Kuwaiti Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The bombing, which was in a Shia district, killed several people



Norway's Magnus Hovdal Moan reacts, as compatriot Joergen Graabak finishes first, while Germany's Fabian Riessle and compatriot Bjoern Kircheisen follow behind in the cross country race of the Nordic Combined individual Gundersen 10 km event of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jumping Center in Rosa Khutor, Russia February 18, 2014



Urban landscape taken in the flooded Somerset village of Moorland, England

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Thai police officers react after an explosion during clashes with anti-government protesters near Government House in Bangkok February 18, 2014



A police officer talks to a man during an inspection to combat against crimes involving prostitution, gambling and drugs, inside a massage room at a bath center in Qingdao, Shandong province, China February 17, 2014

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Interior Ministry members are on fire, caused by molotov cocktails hurled by anti-government protesters, as they stand guard during clashes in Kiev February 18, 2014



Castaway fisherman Jose Salvador Alvarenga hugs his mother Maria Julia Alvarenga and his father Ricardor Orellana while leaving the hospital in Santa Tecla on the outskirts of San Salvador February 18, 2014



Serena Williams smashes her racquet during her women's singles match against Ekaterina Makarova of Russia at the WTA Dubai Tennis Championships, February 18, 2014

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Protesters battle police in Kiev - more pics

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Wounded people are seen after clashes with riot police in central Kiev, February 18, 2014

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A female Bengali white tiger drags a man by his shirt after the man climbed into the enclosure, at a zoo in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, February 16, 2014. The man was slightly injured and was taken away by police after zoo staff tranquilized two female Bengali white tigers, local media reported

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Sochi 2014: men's parallel snowboard slalom

A different breed of snowboarding from freestyle and boardercross, the slalom has more in common with traditional skiing. Using longer, narrower boards, the riders are able to carve tight corners at impossible angles, making for incredible photos.











Patrick Bussler grits his teeth and heads for the finish just outside the medal positions in fourth place

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Zan Kosir collapses on the ground in victory while Patrick Bussler bends over double from the exertion after the bronze medal race



The final saw Russian Vic Wild, right, against Nevin Galmarini of Switzerland. Wild came from behind to take the gold



Russia's Vic Wild soaks up the applause of his home crowd

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An orangutan plays with an abandoned elastic band at Surabaya Zoo in East Java, Indonesia



It appears its even too wet for ducks as they seek refuge on a flooded bench in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire



You hum it, I'll play it... A cheeky chipmunk nibbles on a nut in Toronto, Canada



He's still got it! Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi greets a female security guard as he arrives to meet journalists at the end of talks with Democratic Party secretary Matteo Renzi



The last surviving six A4 class locomotives have been brought together in County Durham - known as The Great Goodbye - to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Mallard's 126mph world speed record. It is thought to be the last time the steam locomotives, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, will all be together in the same place again

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'Sittin' in the morning sun. I'll be sittin' when the evening comes...' A very relaxed otter soaks up the sun sittin' on the dock of the bay in Pender Island, Canada



Artist Jane Perkins, from Exeter doesn't mind if people class her work as rubbish. That's because all of her pieces are made out of junk found in charity shops, car boot sales and in and around her home. This is her recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa