Day in Pictures

A man fishes on an ice-pack of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Cold weather has blanketed the Moscow region with temperatures reaching around 5 F dropping to -8 F overnight.

A woman carries a carnival costume into a warehouse at the Samba City complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday Feb. 17, 2011. Rio's carnival celebration starts March 4.

Slovenia's Tina Maze celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's giant slalom, at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Thursday, Feb.17, 2011.

Cocoa growers protest an export ban by burning sacs of cocoa beans in front of European Union headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. A placard alongside the burning beans reads "No to economic slavery." Ivory Coast's biggest bank shut down its operations Thursday, joining the companies fleeing the country's deepening political crisis, as hundreds of growers in the world's largest cocoa exporter burned their beans in protest.

Jordan DiBiase, 3, retrieves a puck out of a puddle that formed on a skating pond, Thursday, Feb 17, 2011, in Yarmouth, Maine. Temperatures in the mid 40s made for spring-like conditions in the middle of winter.

A man dressed as a package of Belgian fries, protests with students in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. While politicians wallow in Belgium's longest political crisis which pits the leaders of 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings against those of 4.5 million Francophones, people from around the country unite in celebration of crisis day number 249 on Thursday, what many see as equaling the world record of a country going without an effective government, formerly held by Iraq.

Fashion from the Ralph Lauren Fall 2011 collection is modeled on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, during Fashion Week in New York.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin covers her heart during the national anthem as she attends a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011.

Relatives of children who died after ingesting cough syrup in 1995 protest holding a fake coffin as they demand compensation from Haitian courts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Nearly 90 children died in Haiti after they ingested a cheap cough syrup laced with a chemical used in antifreeze.