News in pictures on Tuesday 23rd Feb. 2010

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World
Feb 23, 2010

News in pictures on Tuesday

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Palestinian policemen take their position during clashes between Palestinians stone-throwers and Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron. Israel said on Sunday it wanted to include two Jewish shrines in the occupied West Bank in a national plan to rehabilitate some 150 Jewish and Zionist heritage sites, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

This photo released by Guinness World Records shows Giant George (above), a Great Dane from Tucson, stands 3 feet, 7 inches tall from paw to shoulder, which is three-quarters of an inch taller than his closest rival, Titan, a white Great Dane from San Diego. Sitting under Giant George is owner David Nasser. -- PHOTO: AP

Models display fashions during the Fall/Winter So Curve New York Lingerie Fashion Show at the Edison Ballroom in New York. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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A skier practices his routine ahead of the Men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials qualification at Cypress Mountain during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, north of Vancouver. -- PHOTO: AFP

A dead snail lies on a partially dried reservoir in Shilin county of Kunming, Yunnan province. A total of about 3.56 million hectares of crops in China had been affected by severe drought, said the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Supporters of Nepal's deposed royal family hold a sit-in protest outside the government headquarters in Kathmandu. The demonstrators said the public should have been consulted over the abolition of the world's last Hindu monarchy. Nepal's 240-year-old royal dynasty was abolished in 2008 after the Maoists came to power following a general election and forced the unpopular ex-king Gyanendra off the throne. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Gold medallists, Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, perform in the Ice Dance Free programme at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, during the 2010 Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP

Britain's John (left) and Sinead Kerr perform in the ice dance free dance figure skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

US Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates perform in the Ice Dance Free program at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, during the 2010 Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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France's Isabel Delobel (bottom) and Olivier Schoenfelder perform during the ice dance free dance figure skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

France's Natalie Pechalat (right) and Fabian Bourzat perform during the ice dance free dance figure skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Emily Samuelson (left) and Evan Bates of the US perform in the ice dance free dance figure skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev compete in the Figure Skating Ice Dance free programme, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver during the XXI Winter Olympics, on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP

Hungary's Nora Hoffmann and Maxim Zavozin compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics ice dance figure skating free programme at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver on Feb 22, 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP