Day in pictures

A Humboldt penguin shakes off water at a centre for endangered animals in West Java, Indonesia.

German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld presents a gold coin worth 5,900 euro (£5,000) bearing the image of French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

A woman walks past riot police guarding a hotel where US President George W Bush is due to stay for the Apec summit in the Peruvian capital, Lima.

Competitors set off in a kayak on the first leg of a gruelling five-day multi-discipline race through the Australian state of Tasmania.

Audiences wear 3D glasses at the world's first fully 3D-based film and entertainment technology festival in Singapore.

A Filipino boy joins a protest rally in Manila, where children's rights advocates are urging lawmakers to criminalise child pornography.

A boy sits in front of a construction site in India. Economists say India and China's ability to resist the global economic slowdown will greatly influence whether the crisis drags the world into a depression.

Participants from sanitation and hygiene groups sit on toilets in the German capital's central railway station on World Toilet Day.

England cricketers warm up during a practice session before the third one-day international cricket match against hosts India.

Construction gets under way on a stand from which Barack Obama will watch the inaugural parade after he is sworn in on 20 January 2009.

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