Abraham Lincoln, hot air balloons, Duchess of Cambridge | Feb. 12
The day in photos from around the world.
- South African Police provide security at the entrance to Parliament after the session was disrupted during the official opening session in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Security guards entered South Africa’s parliament on Thursday to remove opposition lawmakers who disrupted an annual address by President Jacob Zuma to demand that he answer questions about a spending scandal. (Schalk van Zuydam/Pool/AP)
- Norway’s Nina Loeseth races down the course during the womens giant slalom competition at the alpine skiing world championships on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (John Locher/AP)
- Tiger Woods, left, kisses United States’ Lindsey Vonn during the womens giant slalom competition at the alpine skiing world championships on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (Marco Trovati/AP)
- Assistant harbormaster Isaac Perry uses a boat to break through a fresh layer of ice covering Marion Harbor, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Marion, Mass. (Peter Pereira/Standard Times/AP)
- Namee Barakat hugs his wife Layla during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., about the death of his son, Deah, his daughter-in-law and her sister on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Barakat said the death penalty would not be enough for Craig Hicks, the man charged with murdering the three Muslim students. (Allen G. Breed/AP)
- Suzanne Askar, right, rests her head on the shoulder of Safam Mahate, a student at North Carolina State University, as they stand next to Nida Allam, far left, during a vigil for three people who were killed at a condominium near UNC-Chapel Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Craig Stephen Hicks appeared in court on charges of first-degree murder in the Tuesday deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. (Al Drago/News & Observer/AP)
- Female mourners gather for the funerals of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his 21-year-old wife of less than two months, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha; and her 19-year-old sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, at the Method Road Soccer Complex Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, on the North Carolina State campus in Raleigh, N.C. The three were shot to death Tuesday, Feb. 10, in what police described as a long-standing argument over parking spaces at the condominium complex where Barakat had lived for more than a year. (Corey Lowenstein/News & Observer/AP)
- A policeman wearing a mask blocks the entrance to the area after a chemical explosion in Igualada, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Spanish authorities Thursday ordered the residents of five northeastern towns to stay indoors for some two hours after a chemical explosion at a warehouse spread a large, orange toxic cloud over the area. A spokeswoman for Catalonias regional firefighting department said the blast occurred when products being delivered to a warehouse in the city of Igualada became mixed, exploded and set a truck on fire. She said two people were slightly injured. Firefighters said the chemicals were nitric acid and ferric chloride. The regions Civil Protection department ordered some 65,000 residents of Igualada and four nearby towns to stay indoors until the cloud dissipated. The order was lifted two hours later but maintained for pregnant women, children, elderly people and those with respiratory problems. (Manu Fernandez/AP)
- Firemen work in the area of a chemical explosion in Igualada, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Spanish authorities Thursday ordered the residents of five northeastern towns to stay indoors for some two hours after a chemical explosion at a warehouse spread a large, orange toxic cloud over the area. A spokeswoman for Catalonias regional firefighting department said the blast occurred when products being delivered to a warehouse in the city of Igualada became mixed, exploded and set a truck on fire. She said two people were slightly injured. Firefighters said the chemicals were nitric acid and ferric chloride. The regions Civil Protection department ordered some 65,000 residents of Igualada and four nearby towns to stay indoors until the cloud dissipated. The order was lifted two hours later but maintained for pregnant women, children, elderly people and those with respiratory problems. (Manu Fernandez/AP)
- Elvira Reyes Mariano, centre left, leaves the apartment after she got evicted by riot police in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. The landlord’s loss of the apartment to Bankia bank is causing Reyes Mariano and her family’s eviction. Reyes Mariano lives with her husband Soltero Rodriguez Cuevas, 44 years old, both unemployed, her sister and their three kids. They continued to occupy a foreclosed Bankia bank apartment after their landlord left as they could not afford to pay rent. Dozens of housing right activists tried to stop the process by blocking the building entrance but riot police removed them and evicted the family. (Andres Kudacki/AP)
- Dakota Johnson poses for photographers at the UK Premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey, at a central London cinema, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. (Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)
- South African Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, disrupt the official opening session inside Parliament while security personnel dressed in white shirts try and stop the action in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Security guards entered South Africa’s parliament on Thursday to remove opposition lawmakers who disrupted an annual address by President Jacob Zuma to demand that he answer questions about a spending scandal. (Rodger Bosch/Pool/AP)
- Hot air balloons dot the sky at the start of the 19th Philippine Hot Air Balloon festival Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 at Clark Special Economic Zone, a former U.S. Air Force base in Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines. Now on its 19th year, the hot air balloon festival features a total of 32 hot air balloons participating from all over the world. (Bullit Marquez/AP)
- James Hayney portraying President Abraham Lincoln, takes part in a parade organized by the Union League of Philadelphia for the former president’s birthday, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Philadelphia. 206 years has passed sense Lincoln was born in 1809. (Matt Rourke/AP)
- Pakistani nomad women carry water to their houses at dusk in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb 12, 2015. People living in suburbs of the capital are lacking basic necessities of life. (B.K. Bangash/AP)
- A technician adjusts the headset for driver Danica Patrick as she prepares for an interview during NASCAR media day at Daytona International Speedway, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (John Raoux/AP)
- In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 photo, drug addicts gather around fire to warm themselves, in a suburb of Tehran, Iran. Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran’s 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. They say the numbers keep rising annually, even though use of the death penalty against convicted smugglers has increased, too, and now accounts for more than nine of every 10 executions. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
- Markus Kaarma stands in Missoula County District Court while Judge Ed McLean sentences him to 70 years in prison for the shooting death of German exchange student Diren Dede on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015 in Missoula, Mont. Kaarma shot 17-year-old Dede, who was unarmed, last year after he was alerted by motion sensors in his garage. Witnesses said Kaarma fired at the teen four times. (Kurt Wilson/The Missoulian/AP)
- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, center, and others applaud during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at City Hall in Philadelphia. Democrats have selected Philadelphia as the site of the party’s 2016 national convention, choosing a patriotic backdrop for the nomination of its next presidential candidate. The convention will be held the week of July 25, 2016 (Matt Rourke/AP)
- House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Boehner refused to rule out a potential shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security because of a congressional impasse over funding. (Molly Riley/AP)
- Britain’s Kate Duchess of Cambridge, who is pregnant, tries a sailing winch simulator during a visit to the Spinnaker Tower, Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, England, Thursday Feb. 12, 2015. The wife of Prince William on Thursday met Portsmouth community members involved with the Ben Ainslie Racing project and viewed exhibits destined for the visitor center at the boat racing teams Portsmouth headquarters, opening in July. (Christopher Pledger/Pool/AP)