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World
Feb 26, 2010

News in pictures on Friday



Works by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso are on display at an exhibition opened in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow. Most of the exhibits
came from the collection of the Paris Picasso Museum. -- PHOTO: AP




Eleidi Cainet works on a handicraft made with tobacco leaves during the 12th annual Cigar Festival in Havana. -- PHOTO: AP




Two parts of an ancient Biblical manuscript are seen at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Two parts of an ancient Biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents are going on display together for the first time Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible. -- PHOTO: AP

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A Thai worker dressed as a cowboy showing off his rope skills at the Cowboy City resort in Pak Chong, in northeastern Thailand. Thailand's north-east Isaan region has developed its own cowboy scene over the past four decades, ever since US troops spent time in the country during the Vietnam War and left an indelible cultural stamp, say locals. -- PHOTO: AFP




Gold medalist South Korea's Yu Na Kim cries during the award ceremony of the Women's Figure Skating event, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver during the XXI Winter Olympics. -- PHOTO: AFP




A person walks over a bridge in Central Park during morning snowfall in New York. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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Parliamentarians of the Left party (Die Linke) hold up placads featuring the names of victims of a bombing in Kundus, ordered by the German armed forces last September, during a debate at the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin. The parliamentarians were expelled from the debate on raising the upper limit for troops in Afghanistan by 850 and to extend the troop's mission by one year. -- PHOTO: AFP




Fireworks are seen over the main Mosque in Grozny, Chechnya. Friday is a holiday marking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad's birthday. Muslims celebrate Prophet Mohammad's birthday all over the world every year on 12th Rabi-ul-Awal month on the Islamic calendar with traditional festivities and religious fervour. -- PHOTO: AP