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February 8, 2011
 
 
 
February 8: Former SAC Capital Advisers employee Donald Longueuil covers his face as he is led by his lawyer from the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City. Two people, including Longueuil, who once worked for billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers were charged with insider trading, drawing the $12 billion hedge fund firm further into a high-profile investigation.
 

February 8: Former SAC Capital Advisers employee Donald Longueuil covers his face as he is led by his lawyer from the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City. Two people, including Longueuil, who once worked for billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers were charged with insider trading, drawing the $12 billion hedge fund firm further into a high-profile investigation.

Photograph by: Brendan McDermid, Reuters

 
February 8: Former SAC Capital Advisers employee Donald Longueuil covers his face as he is led by his lawyer from the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City. Two people, including Longueuil, who once worked for billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers were charged with insider trading, drawing the $12 billion hedge fund firm further into a high-profile investigation.
February 8: Peru's goalkeeper Erick Delgado reacts after getting injured during a friendly soccer match against Panama in Moquegua, Peru.
February 8: A fire bomb explodes in front of a group of riot police during street clashes in Keratea, a town about 50 kilometers southeast of Athens, Greece. Three people were arrested and two policemen were injured during riots that broke out between police and local residents demonstrating against the construction of a new landfill close to the city.
February 8: North Korean Colonel Ri Son-kwon (front R) and other North Korean officers walk south of the truce village of Panmunjom in Paju, north of Seoul, before their talks with South Korean officers. Military officers from North and South Korea met at their heavily fortified border on Tuesday for the first inter-Korean talks since tension peaked on the peninsula late last year.
February 8: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talks to the media as he leaves Belmarsh Magistrates Court, in east London. Assange, who has infuriated the U.S. government by releasing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, is wanted in Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct made by two WikiLeaks volunteers during a visit there last August.
February 8: Protesters chant anti-Mubarak slogans next to a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir square in Cairo. Egypt has a plan and timetable for the peaceful transfer of power, the vice president said on Tuesday, as protesters called more demonstrations to show their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak remains potent.
February 8: Exterior view of the "Muppet Workshop" townhome in in Manhattan's plush Upper East Side. Formerly owned by Muppet creator Jim Henson, the townhome has been put up for sale by current owner Edgar Bronfman Jr.
February 8: Caiapo's chief Raoni attends a protest in Brasilia against the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazonian Xingu River on February 08, 2011.
February 8: Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects at the Sikh Shrine Gurdwara Chheharta Sahib, some 7kms west of Amritsar, on February 8, 2011, on the occasion of Basant Panchami. Basant Panchami is celebrated during February-March, at the end of winter to welcome spring.
February 8: A worker sweeps after firecrackers were lit outside a company's building on the first day back at work after the Chinese New Year holidays in Taipei February 8, 2011.
February 8: A resident walks near burning oil tankers which were set ablaze by an bomb explosion in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan February 8, 2011. Four trucks carrying fuel supplies for NATO in Afghanistan caught fire after small bombs planted underneath them exploded in a market on the outskirts of Peshawar, witnesses said. There were no casualties.
February 8: Former Jaguar E-Type test driver, Norman Dewis (L) and former F1 World Champion John Surtees (R) pose for photographers with an 1961 E-Type 77 RW Jaguar sports car to mark its 50th anniversary at the Design Museum in central London on February 8, 2011. An original E-Type will be on display at the Design Museum until March 6, 2011.
February 8: A Thai child walks between tents after being evacuated from the Cambodian border, in the Kathararak district of Thailand's Si Sa Ket province on February 8, 2011. Cambodian and Thai troops clashed briefly for a fourth straight day, Phnom Penh said, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for "maximum restraint" in a border dispute that has claimed six lives.
February 8: College students raise their fists and shout during a job hunting ceremony in Tokyo on February 8, 2011. Some 1,500 students, who will graduate from schools in March 2012, attended the annual ceremony to encourage themselves for job hunting.
FEBRUARY 8 - Six former air hostesses of Mexicana Airlines pose during a news conference before taking part in a private session for Playboy magazine in Mexico City. <a href="http://www.canada.com/news/Gallery+Mexicana+Airlines+goes+Playboy/4242719/story.html"><b>See more of the photo shoot</b></a>.Heavily indebted Mexicana, one of the world's oldest airlines, suspended all flights in August 2010 but plans to resume operations in 2011.
FEBRUARY 8 - Workers remove stalks from red chili at a farm in Shertha village on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
February 7: A man walks along the border of the cemetery of Leogane, 60 kilometers west of Puerto Principe, Haiti on February 7, 2011. Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier said in a radio interview aired February 7, 2011, that he dreams of "national reconciliation" led by all of Haiti's former presidents. The Haitian government said it has issued a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, enabling him to end his exile in South Africa and return to Haiti, a government official said, February 7, 2011.
February 7: A young Egyptian anti-government demonstrator holds her national flag in Cairo's Tahrir square on February 7, 2011 on the 14th day of protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
February 7: Indian school girls, dressed with Punjabi traditional folk Giddha outfits, dance on the eve of Basant Panchami, the Festival of Spring in Amritsar on February 7, 2011. Kite-flying is the major and most colourful event of the festival which is characterised by the colour yellow which dominates the festival.
February 7: Bangladeshi riot police stand guard outside the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) office during a nationwide strike in Dhaka on February 7, 2011. Thousands of riot police patrolled the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Monday as a nationwide strike called by the main opposition party paralysed much of the country. At least eight buses were set on fire on the evening of February 6, 2011, police said, just hours before the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) enforced the strike to protest controversial plans for a new airport and sky-rocketing food prices.
February 7: A veiled Malaysian woman waits at an immigration counter at the VVIP terminal in Kuala Lumpur on February 7, 2011. More then 1000 Malaysian nationals, mostly students, flew back home following the continuation of mass protects across Egypt.
February 7: Two Afghan children carry water as snow covered mountains are seen in the background in Kabul on February 7, 2011.
February 6: Members of the Anima Naturalis organization lay covered with fake blood, during a protest against bullfighting in front of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City, on February 6, 2011.
Fergie and Taboo (R) of the Black Eyed Peas perform during half-time of the NFL's Super Bowl XLV football game in Arlington, Texas, February 6, 2011.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson (87) celebrates after crossing the goal line to score a touchdown against Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback William Gay (22) in the first quarter during the NFL's Super Bowl XLV football game in Arlington, Texas, February 6, 2011.
Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan (C), Chairman of the Reagan Foundation Fredrick Ryan, Jr. (3rd L) and U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General George Flynn (2nd R), stand below an image of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan during his posthumous 100th birthday celebration at the President Reagan Memorial Site at Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. February 6, 2011.
A lion dancer (L) looks on while waiting for the annual Lunar New Year parade to begin in New York's Chinatown February 6, 2011. The Lunar New Year began on February 3 and marks the start of the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac.
Protesters gather around army vehicles just after the army fired shots in the air at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 6, 2011, as the demonstrators tried to prevent the army from moving towards the square and placing barbed wires. Demonstrators camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square, which has become an epicentre for protest, vowed to intensify their battle to oust Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak but the 82-year-old president has said he will stay until September elections because the alternative is chaos.
Anti-government protesters spell out their feelings towards Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak with stones left over from the recent rioting at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 6, 2011. Demonstrators camped out in Tahrir Square, which has become an epicentre for protest, and vowed to intensify their battle to oust Mubarak, but the 82-year-old president has said he will stay until September elections because the alternative is chaos.
February 6: Sunshine is filtered through particulants, as seen from Kowloon Peak, hanging over Hong Kong. According to the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) the pollution in Hong Kong ranged from medium to very high, with the pollutants such as respirable suspended particulates, nitrogen dioxide and ozone affecting the air quality.
February 6: Models present fashion of German label "holyGhost" during the CPD Signatures Fashion days 2011 in the western German city of Duesseldorf. The CPD Signatures fashion trade show runs until February 8, 2011.
February 6: A supporter of Yani Tseng of Taiwan holds up the island's flag after the golfer won the Women's Australian Open golf tournament in Melbourne. Taiwan's three-time major winner Tseng won the event with a score of 16 under, seven strokes ahead of Ji Eun-Hee of South Korea, her compatriot Jiya Shin and Melissa Reid of England, who all finished in equal second place.
February 6: Lazio's Brazilian midfielder Anderson Hernanes (R) flips next to his teammate Swiss defender Stephan Lichsteiner after scoring against Chievo during their Italian Serie A football match at Rome's Olympic stadium.
February 6: Egyptians pray in Cairo's Tahrir Square following nearly two weeks of unprecedented demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
February 6: An Egyptian anti-government demonstrator holds his national flag bearing the arabic writing "we are steadfast" as others sit in front of an army M-113 armoured personnel carrier (APC) in order to prevent it from moving at Cairo's Tahrir squareon the 13th day of protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
February 6: An Egyptian demonstrator waves his national flag in Cairo's Tahrir square on the 13th day of protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
February 6: Paramilitary police commandos secure a house in the San Carlos shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the Rio II operation to control the drug traffickers' 'bunkers' (strongpoints). At this time the deployment has occurred peacefully without a single bullet fired in anger so far.
February 6: Participants wind their way in a reenactment of a procession honouring Confucius by the top student in the ancient civil service examination at a Beijing street fair on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year as people celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. The teachings of China's most famous philosopher, born in 551 BC, centred on peace, harmony and each citizen's duty to respect their superiors morphing into a virtual state religion only to be denounced as feudal and banned under Mao's communist regime, particularly during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), but Confucius' teachings have enjoyed an officially-sanctioned rehabilitation under the current Communist Party leadership amid the wholesale abandonment of Maoist thought.
February 4: Dancers perform to candombe music played by a comparsa, an Uruguayan carnival band, during the second night of the Llamadas parade in Montevideo. The Llamadas, which is Spanish for 'call', originated during the colonial times when slaves played drums to keep in touch with relatives and friends.
February 4: The Royal Saudi Hawks, the aerobatic team of the Royal Saudi Air Force, perform during the Al-Ain International Aerobatics Show at the Gulf emirate's airport.
 
 
 
 
 

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