Today in photos (Feb. 28)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.

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Thu., Feb. 28, 2013

An art piece by US artist Nancy Fouts is seen at the both of the Pertwee Anderson and Gold gallery at the Art 13 London art fair in London, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Art 13 London, the new art fair to launch in the city in a decade will un from March 1-3, 2013.

Lefteris Pitarakis Associated Press
A worker waters plants around a statue of Mahatma Gandhi inside the premises of Parliament as Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram delivers the annual budget in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. India's finance minister has unveiled the national budget with a promise to set Asia's third largest economy back onto a path of high growth and to check runaway inflation and the fiscal deficit.

Saurabh Das Associated Press
A priest enters the square where the papal summer residence is located, in Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where Pope Benedict XVI will spend his first post-Vatican days and make his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.

Alessandra Tarantino Associated Press
A defected Syrian policeman, Adnan al-Hamod, 33, lights a kerosene lamp at an underground cave used for shelter from Syrian governemnt forces shelling and airstrikes, at Jirjanaz village, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. Across northern Syria, rebels, soldiers, and civilians are making use of the country's wealth of ancient and medieval antiquities to protect themselves from Syria's two-year-old war. They are built of thick stone that has already withstood centuries, and are often located in strategic locations overlooking towns and roads.

Hussein Malla Associated Press
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series.

Jason Mojica Vice Media
Republican House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick of Chattanooga signals his colleagues on House floor session in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, about how to vote on a motion on a bill about a bill to allow the state's nearly 400,000 handgun carry permits to store firearms in the vehicles no matter where they are parked. The House later approved the bill, sending it to the governor's desk.

Erik Schelzig Associated Press