Tuesday: The day in photos
Ryan Ruppert walks along a rain-soaked Seal Beach Pier with his morning coffee. Although Southern California is wet from rain and the mountains are blanketed in snow after a series of midwinter storms, sunshine is on its way later this week, the National Weather Service says. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Marine One, with President Obama aboard, departs from the South Lawn of the White House. Obama is traveling to Denver, where he will sign the stimulus package passed last week by Congress, before spending the night in Phoenix. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images)
A member of the Unidos do Viradouro samba school puts final touches on the organization’s float in Rio de Janeiro in advance of the coming Carnival celebration, which will start Feb. 20. (Vanderlei Almeida / AFP/Getty Images)
Nguyen Thi Oanh works in a studio in Bat Trang, a Vietnamese village famous for its ceramics, about 6 miles east of Hanoi. (Chitose Suzuki / Associated Press)
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Immigrants from Mauritania watch as Spanish police officers patrol a neighborhood in central Madrid. Many legal immigrants are being unfairly arrested by police under pressure to fill arrest quotas, police union officials charged this week. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the arrest quotas were meant to lead to the capture of people involved in illegal activities. (Victor R. Caivano / Associated Press)
A protester is among those gathered outside the American Embassy in London to call for the release of former British resident Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed is being held at the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Ethiopian national is on a hunger strike but has been declared fit to travel by doctors should the Obama administration clear the way for his release. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)
An open-air secondhand clothing and goods market in Zhdanovichi is a sign of the times in Belarus, where the average monthly salary is about $350 U.S. and the Belorussian ruble continues to devalue in the face of the global economic crisis. (Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images)
An Indian snake charmer sounds off in Kolkata, where hundreds of the practitioners and their families gathered to demand the right to continue their shows with snakes. A government ban on such shows has stripped 800,000 members of Bengal’s Bedia community, who have worked as snake charmers for generations, of their only source of income. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA)
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South African Trevor Johnston looks up from his makeshift ledge five floors above the ground in Cape Town. Johnston, chief executive of nonprofit organization Educo Africa, is spending the week hanging off the side of the building to try to raise awareness of South Africans who exist on the margins of society. (Nic Bothma / EPA)
Ethnic Albanians gather in the main square of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The U.S. is among the more than 50 countries that have recognized Kosovo’s sovereignty. Serbia continues its diplomatic efforts to maintain a claim over Kosovo, considered by Serbs to be the cradle of their Orthodox Christian religion. (Visar Kryeziu / Associated Press)
