Day in pictures

Animals get to know each other at a pig farm in the Philippines, one of two being tested after a strain of the Ebola-Reston virus was found in pigs for the first time late last year.

Members of Scotland's national centre for dance, Dance Base, host a hula-hoop class to celebrate the allocation of £1bn ($1.5bn) of lottery funding for projects to improve health and wellbeing.

An Orthodox priest in Bulgaria walks in the snow, as the country struggles to cope with the severe cold after Russian gas supplies remained cut off for a second day.

Shia Muslims in India celebrate Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the battle of Karbala in AD680.

Buckshot the bull makes an appearance at the New York Stock Exchange, as the market's opening bell is rung by Professional Bull Riders, Inc.

An Afghan woman walks at sunset in Kabul, where another 30,000 US troops will be sent by mid-year to help combat an expected Taleban surge.

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