Kate Middleton, Westminster dog show, Elvis impersonator and more in the day in photos

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Feb. 14, 2012

Kate Middleton, duchess of Cambridge, greets young girls as she visits Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, England.

Chris Jackson / Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Thai-Swedish couple William Timhede, 23, left, and Napatsawan Timhede, 39, are chased by an actor in a pirate costume as part of an adventure-themed wedding ceremony in Prachinburi province, Thailand, on the eve of Valentine's Day.

Wason Wanichakorn / AP

Feb. 12, 2012

Chris MacDonald, dressed as Elvis, performs at a ceremony for couples to renew their vows at the Opium Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla.

C.W. Griffin / AP

Feb. 14, 2012

Children look at Changmao the ram and Chunzi the doe during a cross-species wedding ceremony at Yunnan Wild Animal Park on Valentine's Day in Kunming, China.

China Daily / Reuters

Feb. 14, 2012

A worker places a heart-shaped praline on a chocolate high-heel shoe for Valentine's Day in a Wittamer chocolate boutique in Brussels.

Francois Lenoir / Reuters

Feb. 13, 2012

The statue titled “Unconditional Surrender” stands tall in the parkway along the waterfront in San Diego. The statue, which was modeled after a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt taken in Times Square on V-J Day at the end of World War II, is scheduled to be moved at the end of the month.

Lenny Ignelzi / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

FedEx worker Johnny Brown sorts some of about 25,000 boxes of flowers from Pro Flowers at the FedEx airport facility at the Oakland Airport in Oakland, Calif., in time for delivery on Valentine's Day. The flowers were grown in different parts of Northern California and will be delivered to customers across the United States.

Paul Sakuma / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

Thousands of Love Hearts wait to be sorted and packaged on the production line at the Swizzels-Matlow factory in New Mills, England. The sweets were first produced in 1954 as novelty gifts in Christmas crackers and now feature more than 200 different messages.

Phil Noble / Reuters

Feb. 13, 2012

Pauline Hayes sings Whitney Houston's hit "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" at a memorial for Houston outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Houston was found in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub on Saturday and pronounced dead shortly thereafter, police said Monday, as the singer's family prepared to send her body to her native New Jersey for a funeral.

Damian Dovarganes / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

President Obama hugs actor Al Pacino before awarding him with the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Pacino was honored for his contributions to American film and theater as an actor and director. Obama awarded medals to recipients of both the National Medal of Arts and National Medal of Humanities at the ceremony.

Linda Davidson / The Washington Post

Feb. 13, 2012

President Obama greets members of the audience after speaking about his fiscal year 2013 federal budget and education initiatives at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale.

Susan Walsh / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

Lucia Gatta, 44, receives a kiss from her daughter, Lucia Tressel, 5, after Gatta became a U.S. citizen following a naturalization ceremony at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Palm Beach, Fla. Gatta is originally from Chile but has lived in the United States since 2001. "In celebration of Valentine's Day, we wanted to keep families together," said immigration services officer Tonia Malaniak. "That's what U.S. immigration is all about."

Allen Eyestone / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

People form a human chain on the 67th anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden during World War II in Dresden, Germany. British and U.S. bombers on Feb. 13 and 14, 1945, destroyed Dresden's centuries-old baroque city center. The chain was formed to protest against neo-Nazis, who use the memorial day to spread their ideology by demonstrating in Dresden.

Jens Meyer / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

People light candles to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden in front of the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, Germany. A massive bombing raid by Allied forces on Dresden beginning on Feb. 13, 1945, sparked a firestorm that destroyed much of the historical center of the city. A few thousand far-right extremists are expected to conduct a "funeral march" through the city, opposed by thousands of activists who form a human chain as a protest against the neo-Nazis.

Robert Michael / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Neo-Nazis and their sympathizers march with torches to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden in Dresden, Germany.

Robert Michael / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

An injured person is carried from a burning car belonging to the Israeli Embassy following an explosion in New Delhi. The wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured in the explosion, the same day as an Israeli Embassy staffer in Georgia found a bomb underneath his car, which was dismantled before exploding, according to Indian and Israeli media reports.

Joji Thomas / AP

Feb. 12, 2012

Protesters clash with riot police in front of Parliament in Athens. Greek police on Sunday used tear gas on gasoline bomb-throwing protesters outside Parliament, where lawmakers were debating a new austerity plan aimed at staving off bankruptcy. Police said some 25,000 protesters gathered outside the building and at nearby Omonia Square, with some 3,000 police deployed and more protesters arriving.

Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 14, 2012

Pensioners demonstrate during an anti-austerity rally in Athens. Greece has admitted it still faces a tough job in persuading the European Union and IMF to save it from bankruptcy, even after parliament approved extra budget cuts, provoking a night of looting and burning in central Athens.

John Kolesidis / Reuters

Feb. 14, 2012

Workers remove debris from a cinema in the aftermath of widespread rioting that led to the destruction of dozens of buildings in central Athens. The euro zone insists that Greece must stick to hugely unpopular austerity measures agreed in return for an E.U.-IMF debt bailout, with no wiggle room allowed at talks on nailing down its commitments.

Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Pakistani men cross a bridge over a canal filled with garbage in the old town of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Anja Niedringhaus / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

Kuwaiti men sit in a Bentley Continental GTC 2012 convertible automobile at a showroom in Kuwait City.

Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Blacksmith Dora Kolchina works in her shop in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Kolchina, 29, is the only female blacksmith in the region.

Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Feb. 13, 2012

Supporters of Unified Communist Party of Nepal carry portraits of former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong during a rally marking the 17th anniversary of the "People's War" in Kathmandu, Nepal. According to local media, thousands of communist supporters gathered for a mass meeting at the Open Air Theatre. The UCPN-Maoist party started the war on Feb. 13, 1996, demanding the end of the monarchy, as well as for an election to the Constituent Assembly.

Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

Feb. 13, 2012

Indian villagers and wildlife park officials stand near a dead female wild elephant in Madhuban Forest at Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary near Siliguri, India. Indian wildlife park officials found the same wild elephant with a bullet wound on Sept. 9, 2011, near the India-Nepal border after its herd was attacked by Nepalese villagers.

Diptendu Dutta / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 14, 2012

A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, smears ashes on the back of his friend at their ashram in Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hindu holy men from Nepal and India come to this temple to take part in the Shivaratri Festival, one of the biggest Hindu festivals dedicated to Lord Shiva and celebrated by devotees all over the world, with holy men smoking marijuana and some smearing their bodies with ashes and praying.

Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

Feb. 14, 2012

A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, basks in the sun at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters

Feb. 13, 2012

Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, seated, raises her arms as legislators and supporters cheer behind her after she signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Olympia, Wash. Gregoire handed gay rights advocates in Washington state a major victory with her signature, making it the seventh in the nation to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. The law takes effect June 7, but opponents are already mounting challenges on multiple fronts.

Elaine Thompson / AP

Feb. 12, 2012

A dog named Lucky runs through the snow on the frozen lake Helenesee near Frankfurt, Germany. Temperatures remain cold in Germany as the death toll from Europe's big freeze rose past 550.

Patrick Pleul / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Lane Franklin sleds down an embankment with his sons, Tyson and Kyzer, in Enid, Okla., as Oklahoma received its first measurable snowfall of the season.

Billy Hefton / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

A Hot Springs police officer arrives on the scene of a one-vehicle accident on the westbound lane of the Martin Luther King Expressway in Hot Springs, Ark. The driver of the vehicle lost control while crossing a snow-covered overpass about 8:30 a.m.

Richard Rasmussen / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

Sophie, a standard poodle, is groomed before her showing at the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.

Craig Ruttle / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

Ibizan hounds are shown the ring at the 136th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.

Craig Ruttle / AP

Feb. 13, 2012

A U.S. Marine drinks cobra blood during a jungle survival program as part of the annual Cobra Gold 2012 combined military exercise at a navy base in Sattahip, Thailand. About 13,000 military personnel from seven nations, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Singapore, Japan and Malaysia are involved in the exercise.

Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

A U.S. Marine eats insects during a jungle survival program as part of the annual Cobra Gold 2012 combined military exercise at a navy base in Sattahip, Thailand.

Pornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP/Getty Images

Feb. 13, 2012

Mexican chemical engineer and inventor Sergio Rico displays his "Solid Rain" product after it is mixed with water during an interview with Reuters at his office in Mexico City. Farmers in drought-stricken Mexico are hailing a new, locally developed water technology that's keeping their crops alive during conditions that would normally kill them. The system, called "Solid Rain," conceived and developed by Rico, employs similar technology to that used in modern diapers. The initial success of Rico's invention has earned him a nomination for Stockholm's prestigious Water Prize for 2012.

Henry Romero / Reuters

Feb. 12, 2012

The double-barreled sunspot active region 1416, which has been doubling in size over the past couple of days and now has the potential to shoot significant eruptions in Earth's direction, is pictured here.

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