News in pictures on Saturday 27th Feb. 2010

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World Feb 27, 2010

News in pictures on Saturday

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A woman walks past a display of terracotta warrior lanterns in Beijing, a day ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival. The Chinese Lantern Festival, known as Yuanxiao, marks the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar new year. -- PHOTO: AFP

A woman dressed in flowers participates in the annual celebration of Panagbenga, a flower festival, in Baguio city, north of Manila. Thousands of locals and tourists visited the city to witness the event. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Canada fan Andy Maxwell watches the women's curling finals between Sweden and Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Children pour colored water on each other as they celebrate Holi, the festival of colors in Allahabad, India. The festival also marks the coming of Spring. -- PHOTO: AP

Damaged mannequins and broken glass are placed on the side of a road on a destroyed site a day after blasts and gun battles in Kabul. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Visitors walk during the Luxury and Yachts Show at the Verona fair. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Local Taiwanese jump and fall into the Yeliou harbor as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in the northeastern village of Yeliou, Taiwan. Swimming across fishing harbors, believed to be blessed by Matsu, the Chinese god of the sea, will give good luck in the new year. -- PHOTO: AP

Police try to remove anti-fur activists wearing tee-shirts reading "enough fur" demonstrating against Max Mara outside the entrance of Milano Fiera prior the Max Mara Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear collection during the Women's fashion week in Milan. -- PHOTO: AFP

French schooner La Boudeuse sails on the Oyapock river in the French South American territory of Guiana. The three masts Goelette left the brittany harbour of Fecamp last November for a two-year scientific expedition entitled "Terre Ocean" (Earth Ocean) from South America to the Pacific Ocean. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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A man walks across the Brooklyn Bridge into New York, as the region is hit with another storm which could drop as much as 60.9cm of snow in New York City and parts of the metropolitan region. -- PHOTO: AFP

United States' USA-3, Jamie Moriarty stumbles at the start and has to be pulled into the sled with teammates Mike Kohn, front, Bill Schuffenhauer, left, and Nick Cunningham, during the men's four-man bobsled competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia. -- PHOTO: AP

Slovakia's Veronika Zuzulova is seen during the second run of the Women's Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Slalom event at Whistler Creek side Alpine skiing venue. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Sidney Crosby #87 of Canada battles for the puck with Jozef Stumpel #15 of Slovakia during the ice hockey men's semi-final game between the Canada and Slovakia on day 15 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place. -- PHOTO: AFP

A Canadian fan attends the ice hockey men's semi-final game between the Canada and Slovakia on day 15 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver, Canada. -- PHOTO: AFP

Ice fisherman Tim Rasmussen, left, and Seamus, a miniature Schnauzer, endure freezing temperatures for his favorite sport near Ashland, Ill. Cold winter weather stayed locked in the Midwest with a forecast for more snow and freezing rain. -- PHOTO: AP

A view of Guri dam and the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Power Station, in the southern state of Bolivar. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this month declared a state of emergency in the electric sector, after the drought reduced reservoirs serving the country's Guri hydroelectric dam to dangerously low levels. Mr Chavez has said the country's largest hydroelectric dam, Guri, could reach critical level in June if the drought continues. -- PHOTO: REUTERS