Feb 3, 2014

Feb. 3 Daily Brief: Lunar New Year, more snow for the Northeast, anti-government protests continue in Kiev

Lunar New Year, more snow for the Northeast, anti-government protests continue in Kiev and more in today’s daily brief.

: Evening light illuminates a girl playing at the Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur February 3, 2014. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

: A man, among a group of hikers, takes a photo of the setting sun in Hong Kong on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year holiday on February 3, 2014. Chinese communities across Asia came together to usher in the Year of the Horse, with tens of thousands of worshippers flocking to temples across China to pray for good fortune in the new year. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

: A performer prepares to take part in the Chinese New Year Twilight Parade along George Street on February 2, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Thousands of Sydneysiders attended the annual parade to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, over 2700 performers and 32 floats took part including 350 performers from Beijing, Shaanxi and Hunan in China. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

: This long exposure picture shows apartment buildings and office blocks clustered together in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district on February 3, 2014. Home prices in the southern Chinese city have risen by 120 percent since 2008, and by more than 30 percent from their previous peak in 1997, with prices in the luxury market being pushed up by wealthy buyers from mainland China. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man shovels ice next to ice-covered car in Postojna February 3, 2014. A quarter of households in Slovenia were left without electricity on Monday after a weekend of blizzards and very low temperatures wreaked havoc on power lines and roads, the national STA news agency reported. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)

: Bicycles and pedicabs are covered with snow February 3, 2014 on the east side of Manhattan as a snowstorm hits New York. (Stan Honda /AFP/Getty Images)

: Ice-covered electric power pillar is seen in Postojna February 3, 2014. A quarter of households in Slovenia were left without electricity on Monday after a weekend of blizzards and very low temperatures wreaked havoc on power lines and roads, the national STA news agency reported. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)

: A women with child drags a sledge next to a fallen pillar of the main power lines in Strmca February 3, 2014. A quarter of households in Slovenia were left without electricity on Monday after a weekend of blizzards and very low temperatures wreaked havoc on power lines and roads, the national STA news agency reported. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)

: An anti-government protester walks at a road block in Kiev on February 3, 2014. Tens of thousands of protesters, buoyed by pledges of support from Europe and the United States, rallied in Ukraine on Sunday in a bid to wring new concessions from President Viktor Yanukovych. More than 50,000 people could be seen on Kiev’s barricaded Independence Square — that has become the epicentre of a two-month protest movement — and thousands more were arriving. (Aris Messin/AFP/Getty Images)