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World
Mar 3, 2010

News in pictures on Wednesday



US navy officers lead training onboard the USS John L. Hall guided-missile frigate at Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi. US naval forces started exercises with Georgia's coastguard along the Black Sea coast, in a sign of Washington's support for the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Representatives attend the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. -- PHOTO: AP




The pyramids in the Meroe desert where archaeologists believe to be holding mysteries to rival ancient Egypt. The Louvre will host its first exhibition at the end of March on the Meroe dynasty, the last in a line of 'black pharaohs' that ruled the Kush kingdom on the banks of the Nile for more than 1,000 years until its demise in 350 AD. -- PHOTO: AFP

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A hospital worker helps an injured Thai soldier after he was taken to a hospital following a gunfight with suspected militants in Thailand's restive southern Yala province. In separate incidents, suspected Islamic militants shot dead a father and his young daughter, while a roadside bomb wounded five soldiers, police said. The casualties were the latest in a six-year separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia that has left more than 4,000 people dead and thousands more wounded. -- PHOTO: AFP




South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak (left) poses as a skater after receiving a pair of sunglasses as a present from their Winter Olympic national team's skaters, as first lady Kim Yoon Ok, women's 500 metres speed skating gold medallist Lee Sang Hwa (second from right) and women's figure skating gold medallist Kim Yu Na look on during a luncheon meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




China's former Olympic 110 metre hurdle champion Liu Xiang (centre) arrives as a delegate for the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Liu will put a proposal before lawmakers at China's annual parliamentary session calling for better working conditions and social security benefits for the nation's coaches. -- PHOTO: AFP

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Music teacher Claudia Vergara reacts over his damaged piano at her destroyed house in Constitucion, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP




People walk in a food market in Havana on March 2, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




Haitian Voodooists sing and play the drums during a ceremony in a 40-year-old temple March 2, 2010 in Cite Soleil, Haiti. Two members of this Voodoo group were injured last week when the were attacked by a protestant Christian mob while attempted to hold a ceremony honoring the people killed in January's 7.0 earthquake. Voodooists also claim they are receiving less aid from international aid organizations because of their faith. -- PHOTO: AFP

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Dora Lee Brown rushes through the snow as she carries an arrangement of chrysanthemums to her garden club's display for the 2010 Southern Spring Home and Garden Show Tuesday, March 2, 2010 in Charlotte, N.C. A spring snowstorm dusted Charlotte throughout the day, with forecasters calling for up to five inches by Wednesday morning. -- PHOTO: AP




About one dozen sea lions are shown on docks near Pier 39 in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. After an abrupt disappearance that left tourists disappointed and experts baffled, sea lions are slowly returning to San Francisco's Pier 39. -- PHOTO: AP




Men pour a mixture of colored water and marigold flowers on the occasion of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors at the Dauji Temple in Dauji, 180 kilometres south of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. -- PHOTO: AP

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Children play in a camp for homeless earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. A magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti on Jan 12. -- PHOTO: AP




A discarded car seat and tires are shown in the Gowanus Canal, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday the Gowanus Canal is the nation's newest superfund site. -- PHOTO: AP




During a medevac flight of US Army Task Force Pegasus the bloody hand of a wounded US Marine is seen as he receives medical treatment shortly after take off over Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Tuesday March 2, 2010. Pegasus crews provide the fast medical evacuation of seriously wounded combatants and civilians. -- PHOTO: AP