Day in pictures

Turkish demonstrators, wearing prisoner outfits, kneel under a statue during a protest in Istanbul demanding the closure of Guantanamo Bay.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee speaks at a lunchtime campaign stop in Detroit.

A Chinese man waits for customers at a stall selling decorations ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations in February in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

Security forces stand guard in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. Authorities reported a record 1,260 civilian deaths during clashes with police in the Brazilian city last year.

A ray fish swims in the salt water aquarium of Sea Life in Dresden, eastern Germany.

US President George W Bush lights the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrances at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.

Musicians from Rajasthan perform at a cultural festival in Hyderabad, India. They are seated in 36 red-curtained cubicles and perform when their cubicle is lit.

Women wait for examinations and medical supplies in the Kibera slum, Nairobi.

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