Penguins clad in Christmas-themed outfits walk during an event at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
Nazma Akhter, a leader for the garment workers cries during a protest against the death of colleagues after a devastating fire in a garment factory, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (C), talks to Britain’s Prince Philip (R) as he inspects members of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at Windsor Castle in Windsor, southern England. (Reuters)
An abandoned wheelchair stands outside a burned out workshop for disabled people in Titisee-Neustadt, in the Black Forest region in south west Germany. Fourteen people died Monday after a fire broke out in the workshop. (Reuters)
A view of an underpass in the deserted town of Pripyat near the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukraine. Workers Tuesday raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that is eventually to cover the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. (AP)
A Palestinian woman walks past a mural of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in Gaza City. Palestinian authorities Tuesday opened Arafat’s grave and foreign experts took samples from his remains as part of a long-shot attempt, eight years after the iconic leader’s mysterious death, to determine whether he was poisoned. (AP)
Egyptian protesters, seen through the shattered glass of a guard booth, clash with security forces near Tahrir square, where an opposition rally has been called in rejection of President Morsi’s seizure of near absolute powers, Cairo. (AP)
Protesters throw flares in front of the European Parliament in Brussels. Farmers drove their tractors into the European Quarter of Brussels since Monday for a two-day protest against what they believe are unfair milk prices. (AP)
A part of the historic Titanic Inquiry Plan that went on display at Titanic Belfast museum in Northern Ireland. The plan, the world’s most valuable Titanic artifact, was a vital reference tool used in the inquiry and markings indicating where Titanic struck an iceberg remain on it to this day. (AP)
A cat invades the field of play during the third day of the second test cricket match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP )
Penguins clad in Christmas-themed outfits walk during an event at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)