Picture the Day

South Africa's Imran Tahir (right) celebrates with team mate Rilee Rossouw after he dismissed Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene for four runs during their Cricket World Cup quarter-final match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Picture: Reuters

South Africa's Jean-Paul Duminy celebrates after he dismissed Sri Lanka's Tharindu Kaushal for a duck during their Cricket World Cup quarter-final match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Picture: Reuters

A woman sits on a bench made from a tree, which is a creation by Brazilian artist Hugo Franca at Largo da Batata square in Sao Paulo. Franca, a designer from Sao Paulo is working with the city to make use of fallen trees to turn them into sculpture furniture to line the city's parks, streets and plazas. Picture: Reuters

Jordanian Maysoon al-Badawi feeds her cats at her home in Amman. Badawi began taking care of street cats 19 years ago, after witnessing a neighbour throwing a cat and its kittens from a high place. She is currently taking care of about 100 cats. Picture: Reuters

An Afghan store owner dresses a mannequin in traditional clothing ahead of celebrations for the New Year, known as Nowruz, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The New Year, which has been celebrated for at least 3 000 years, is one of the most important celebrations in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and portions of western China and northern Iraq. Picture: EPA

German riot police officers clash with a protester outside the new European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters on Wednesday. Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters clashed with riot police hours before the ceremonial opening of the building. Picture: Reuters

Indian farmers attend a protest rally over the land acquisition bill in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday. Thousands of farmers from all over India staged protest over a bill that eases rules for acquiring farmers' land for large projects and would waive consent clauses for some projects including defence and rural infrastructure schemes that previously required approval by up to 80 per cent of landowners affected. Picture: EPA

A Palestinian woman reads a local newspaper, which features the Israeli election on its front page, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip,on Wednesday. As the dust settles on a dramatic election, the immediate questions are how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to stage such a fierce comeback, why the opposition fell short and what it means for Israel, the Palestinians and the world. Picture: Reuters

Balinese Hindus carry sacred objects as they walk along the shore during the Melasti ceremony ahead of Nyepi day at Pererenan Beach on the Indonesian island of Bali on Wednesday. Nyepi is a day of silence to celebrate the Balinese new year, reserved for self-reflection, where people are not allowed to use lights, light fires, work, travel nor enjoy entertainment. Picture: Reuters

The Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) are seen on the sky above Pilisszentkereszt, north of Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday. An aurora is a phenomenon where natural light, caused by charged particles, is displayed in the skies mainly over the high latitude Arctic and Antarctic regions. Picture: EPA

Blockupy protesters dressed up as clowns stand behind a police officer near the new European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters on the day it officially opens, in Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. Picture: EPA

A woman works in the mustard fields of Khokana in Lalitpur. Picture: Reuters

The aurora borealis, or the northern lights, over Derwent water near Keswick, England, on Wednesday. The northern lights are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun. Picture: AP

A man holds his baby near recyclable materials recovered from a fire at a residential district in Malabon, Metro Manila on Wednesday. Two people were killed and 500 families rendered homeless in Malabon on Tuesday after a fire caused by an electrical short circuit in the area broke out, according to local media reports. Picture: Reuters

A photograph of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen on the floor with Likud party ballots at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election after exit polls showed he had erased his centre-left rivals' lead with a hard rightward shift in which he abandoned a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state. Picture: Reuters

Zinaida Bulygina, 65, helps local children, members of a winter swimmers family club, to immerse in the icy waters of the Tuba river in the Kuragino village, southeast of the Russian Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The "Ldinka" (Ice Floe) club was founded by Bulygina, a former champion of the USSR in winter marathon swimming, in 1993. Picture: Reuters

Companion Cannabis, by Holistic Therapeutics, a Marijuana medicinal tincture for dogs and cats is displayed at La Brea Compassionate Caregivers, a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. Pets might soon be able to use pot under a bill introduced in the Nevada Legislature. Picture: AP

A girl participates in St Patrick's day celebrations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. Picture: AP

A Hindu nun holds a poster during a protest rally to show solidarity with the nun who was raped during an armed assault on a convent school in Kolkata March. In the days before death threats and extortion attempts had already shattered the peace at her Convent of Jesus and Mary school, police and school officials say. For 19 years, the Catholic school in the town of Ranaghat in West Bengal state had been teaching children of workers at a nearby jute factory without incident. Picture: Reuters

The two murder accused leaving the dock at the Verulam Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. Dressed in the pink top is Rajwanthie Haripersadh, followed by her daughter, Kavitha Naicker. The pair are accused of murdering 9-year-old Phoenix schoolboy Shahiel Sewpujun. Picture: Ismail Adam

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