Today in photos (Feb. 8)
View a gallery of photos from around the world on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
Section:Gallery
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Authorities continue their investigation at the site in Midland City, Ala., on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 where a five year old boy was held hostage in an underground bunker before being rescued Monday. Authorities shot and killed Jimmy Dykes after a week long standoff. The boy who was freed from an underground bunker is acting like a typical 5-year-old by all accounts, playing with toys and running around, but psychology experts and a woman who suffered through a similar ordeal warn there could be long-term emotional scars.
Dave Martin Associated Press
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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a ferry that capsized in Meghna River at Munshiganj, 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. A passenger ferry capsized Friday after colliding with another ship on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.
A.M. Ahad Associated Press
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Horses are hoisted in the air by a crane as they are being transferred from a cargo ship onto a truck upon arrival at a port in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Hundreds of horses and cows arrived at the port Friday from West Timor to be distributed to various cities on the main island of Java.
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Detail of burned Beitar Jerusalem trophies, shown in Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. The offices of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team were set on fire early Friday in an apparent arson attack, police said, a day after four of the club's fans were charged with anti-Muslim chanting at a recent game. Tensions have been bubbling ever since the team announced last month it would sign on two Muslim Chechen players, Zaur Sadayev and Gabriel Kadiev, in a break from the team's unofficial tradition of not signing Arabs or Muslims.
Bernat Armangue Associated Press
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A group of men help push a sports car up a snow-covered street in the Old Port section of Portland, Maine, during a snow storm, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. The storm is expected to dump up to two feet of snow on the region.
Robert Bukaty Associated Press
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A Tunisian woman walks past burning cars during clashes with the police near the cemetery where thousands of Tunisians are gathered to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, Friday Feb. 8, 2013 The Wednesday Feb. 6 assassination of prominent government critic Chokri Belaid plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011.
Amine Landoulsi Associated Press
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