Day in pictures

Palestinians walk along the collapsed border fence between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after it is blown up by militants. Tens of thousands crossed the border to buy essential goods.

A trader at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange stands in front of a chart showing heavy falls on the Dax Index amid fears the European Central Bank will not make big cuts in interest rates.

The US billionaire financier, George Soros, attends the opening session of the annual gathering of economic and political leaders at the Swiss resort of Davos.

An Afghan beggar protects himself from cold in Kabul, Afghanistan. More than 200 people have died during the recent cold weather, the most severe in decades.

A Nepali protester throws a tear-gas canister back at police on the second day of protests against the fuel price rises in Kathmandu.

A Chinese policeman sets fire to illegal fireworks at a quarry in Chongqing.

A US soldier mans a machine gun on top of a Humvee as it drives along a road on the outskirts of Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

Chinese workers install the finishing-touches to an 80m-long corridor of 1,000 red lanterns at a park in the north-eastern coastal city of Dalian ahead of next month's Spring Festival.

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