San Marino’s Davide Simoncini, left, and Northern Ireland’s Martin Paterson go nose to nose during their World Cup Group 3 qualifying soccer match in Serravalle, San Marino. Northern Ireland won. (Marco Vasini / Associated Press)
A show of hands on a Jerusalem wall would not have decided Israel’s election Tuesday, and neither did voters as inconclusive results sent the nation into political limbo. Both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line leader Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory, leaving the kingmaker role to Avigdor Lieberman, a rising political hawk with an anti-Arab platform. (Odd Andersen / Associated Press)
Just like the temperatures, skateboarder Jose Ramos soars in New York’s Columbus Circle. It was 10 to 20 degrees above the city’s typical mid-February highs. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)
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Palestinian children raise a banner atop their destroyed home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip. Theirs was one of hundreds of homes blown up or bulldozed by Israeli troops during the three-week war against Hamas. (Ali Ali / EPA)
Wilbaer the polar bear cub gives his mother, Corinna, a playful nip at the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. (Wilhelma Zoo / EPA)
Hindu holy men offer prayers amid colorful garments laid out by bathers to dry at Sangam in Allahabad, India. Sangam is the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, along with the invisible Hindu mythological river Saraswati, and is considered one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)
A cluster of tornadoes roared through Oklahoma, killing at least eight people in Lone Grove, about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. In nearby Edmond, Michael Jerry, owner of Four Seasons Paintless Dent Removal, checks out the damage to his business. Jerry was not in the building Tuesday when a tornado came through. (Bill Waugh / Associated Press)
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Peter Thorpe and Marylou Neal stand amid the ruins of their house in Kinglake, Australia, in the aftermath of the fires that continued to blaze across Victoria state. (Luis Ascui / Getty Images)
A man is silhouetted against a work by artist Isaac Montoya at the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid. (Paul White / Associated Press)
In Tel Aviv, Israel, a worker walks next to a rotating sign showing Israeli Foreign Minister and
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, kneels next to an opened ancient limestone sarcophagus containing a mummy in a burial chamber discovered at Sakkara, about 12 miles southwest of Cairo. The discovery of the burial chamber, containing around 30 mummies and sarcophagi from different eras, was announced on Monday. The necropolis was first created in the sixth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (4,300 BC). The limestone sarcophagus dates to the 26th Dynasty (ca. 500 BC), making it around 2,600 years old. (Michael Nelson / AFP / Getty Images)
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Afghan ministry workers console each other outside the Ministry of Justice in Kabul after Taliban militants attacked three government buildings in the Afghan capital with coordinated suicide bombs, killing more than at least 19 people and injuring more than 50. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)
A gardener works in the greenhouse at British naturalist Charles Darwin’s home in Downe Village, Kent , Britain. Thursday is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. (Andy Rain / EPA)
Zimbabawean’s greet their new prime minister,
