Today’s top pics: Belgium Carnival Binche and more
Top photos of the day as selected by the Associated Press.
APTOPIX Germany Berlin Film Festival
Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, poses for the photographers during a photo-call for the film 'Hillary' ' during the 70th International Film Festival Berlin, Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
APTOPIX Taiwan China Outbreak
Worshippers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus as they pray at the famous Hsing Tian Kong Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
APTOPIX Paris Fashion F/W 2020/21 Dior Arrivals
Guests arrive for Dior Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
APTOPIX Italy Virus Outbreak
A Russian tourist dons both a carnival mask and a protective face mask as he visits St. Mark's square Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Italy has been scrambling to check the spread of Europe's first major outbreak of the new viral disease amid rapidly rising numbers of infections and calling off the popular Venice Carnival and closing tourist attractions. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)
APTOPIX Italy Virus Outbreak
Empty tables sit in St. Mark's square in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Italy has been scrambling to check the spread of Europe's first major outbreak of the new viral disease amid rapidly rising numbers of infections and calling off the popular Venice Carnival and closing tourist attractions. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)
APTOPIX Britain Pancake Race
Schoolchildren from local schools take part in the children's races prior to the annual Pancake race in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Every year women clad in aprons and head scarves from Olney and the city of Liberal, in Kansas, USA, run their respective legs of the race with pancakes in their pans. According to legend, the Olney race started in 1445 when a harried housewife arrived at church on Shrove Tuesday still clutching her frying pan with a pancake in it. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
APTOPIX Italy Virus Outbreak
Lawmakers Matteo Dall'Osso, right, and Maria Teresa Baldini wear sanitary mask during a work session in the Italian lower chamber Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Civil protection officials on Tuesday reported a large jump of cases in Italy, from 222 to 283. Seven people have died, all of them elderly people suffering other pathologies. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)
APTOPIX Britain Daily Life
Players take part in the Atherstone Ball Game in Atherstone, England, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. The game, played annually on Shrove Tuesday, honors a match played between Leicestershire and Warwickshire in 1199, when teams used a bag of gold as a ball. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)
APTOPIX Financial Markets Wall Street
Traders Andrew Silverman, left, and Sal Suarino work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. Stocks opened slightly higher on Wall Street as the market claws back some of the ground it lost in a dramatic sell-off a day earlier. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
APTOPIX Belgium Carnival Binche
A group of people dressed as 'Gilles of Binche' arrive to the Grand Place to pick up their jubilee medals at the City Hall during a traditional carnival in Binche, Belgium, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. During the traditional carnival, clown-like performers known as Gilles wear colourful costumes, wax masks, bell bets and wooden footwear. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
APTOPIX Mardi Gras
Andy Overslaugh is dress as "day" as he marches along with the Society of St. Anne on Royal Street on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Rusty Costanza)
APTOPIX Iraq Protests
Anti-government protesters run to cover during clashes with security forces in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
APTOPIX Italy Soccer Champions League
Napoli's Lorenzo Insigne, left, and Barcelona's Arturo Vidal vie for the ball during the Champions League, Round of 16, first-leg soccer match between Napoli and Barcelona, at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
APTOPIX Britain Soccer Champions League
Bayern's Thomas Mueller, left, jumps for the ball with Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger during a first leg, round of 16, Champions League soccer match between Chelsea and Bayern Munich at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, England, Tuesday Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
APTOPIX Spain Traditional Carnival
A ''Momotxorro'' with his face covered in blood plays a horn while taking part in the carnival, in Alsasua, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. During the carnival, Momotxorros characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual, come out onto the streets wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, and dressed in a white sheet stained with blood. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
APTOPIX Spain Traditional Carnival
''Momotxorros'' take part in the carnival, in Alsasua, northern Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. During the carnival Momotxorros, characters who seem to have been resurrected from a prehistoric ritual, come out onto the streets wearing horns and hiding their faces under headscarves, and dressed in a white sheet stained with blood. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
APTOPIX Iran Virus Outbreak Mideast
A worker disinfects a public bus against coronavirus in Tehran, Iran, in early morning of Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Iran's government said Tuesday that more than a dozen people had died nationwide from the new coronavirus, rejecting claims of a much higher death toll of 50 by a lawmaker from the city of Qom that has been at the epicenter of the virus in the country. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
APTOPIX Senators Predators Hockey
Nashville Predators center Colin Blackwell (42) scores a goal against Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson (41) in the first period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
APTOPIX Jets Capitals Hockey
Washington Capitals right wing Garnet Hathaway, center, celebrates his goal against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Laurent Brossoit (30) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
APTOPIX Paraguay Colombia Copa Sudamericana Soccer
Angelo Rodriguez of Colombia's Deportivo Cali fights for the ball with goalkeeper Pablo Gavilan of Paraguay's River Plate during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
APTOPIX Election 2020 Debate
From left, Democratic presidential candidates, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
APTOPIX India Ash Wednesday
A Catholic woman holds a rosary and prays on Ash Wednesday at Saint Mary's Basilica in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
APTOPIX Mexico Tennis Acapulco Open
Australia's Nick Kyrgios grimaces as he moves his wrist, shortly before retiring from a match against France's Ugo Humbert during the first round of the Mexican Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak South Korea
Workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus at a bus garage in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. The number of new virus infections in South Korea jumped again Wednesday and the U.S. military reported its first case among its soldiers based in the Asian country, with his case and many others connected to a southeastern city with an illness cluster. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
APTOPIX Vatican Pope
Faithful wear face masks as they wait for Pope Francis arrival in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
APTOPIX India Trump Protests
Fire fighters douse a fire at Gokul puri tyre market which was burnt Tuesday in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. At least 20 people were killed in three days of clashes in New Delhi, with the death toll expected to rise as hospitals were overflowed with dozens of injured people, authorities said Wednesday. The clashes between Hindu mobs and Muslims protesting a contentious new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities of all major faiths in South Asia except Islam escalated Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
APTOPIX Spain Virus Outbreak
Police officers wearing masks stand in front of the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel in La Caleta, in the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Spanish officials say a tourist hotel on the Canary Island of Tenerife has been placed in quarantine after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the COVID-19 virus and Spanish news media says some 1,000 tourists staying at the complex are not allowed to leave. (AP Photo)
APTOPIX Egypt Mubarak Funeral
A supporter holds a photo of Egypt’s ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak as he weeps outside the gate of the mosque ahead of his funeral in New Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Egypt is holding a full-honors military funeral for Mubarak who was ousted from power in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. Mubarak, 91, died on Tuesday at a Cairo military hospital from heart and kidney complications. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
APTOPIX Paris Fashion F/W 2020/21 Kenzo
A model wears a creation for the Kenzo fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
APTOPIX India Trump Protests
Indian Muslim women look out of a window as security officers patrol a street in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. At least 20 people were killed in three days of clashes in New Delhi, with the death toll expected to rise as hospitals were overflowed with dozens of injured people, authorities said Wednesday. The clashes between Hindu mobs and Muslims protesting a contentious new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities of all major faiths in South Asia except Islam escalated Tuesday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
APTOPIX Greece Migrants
A riot policeman detains a protester during clashes in Karava near the area where the government plans to build a new migrant detention center, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Local authorities declared a 24-hour strike on two eastern Greek islands Wednesday to protest government plans to build new migrant detention camps there. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Also on this day in 2020 local authorities declared a 24-hour strike on two eastern Greek islands to protest government plans to build new migrant detention camps there. See more top news photos as selected by the Associated Press.