Photo highlights of the day

International Women's Day is observed on Saturday. Here Lucia Mayta, 43, and her daughter Luz Cecilia, 12, pose inside their bodega in La Paz. See more in the gallery. Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters

Amna Bhatti, 60, a Pakistani brick factory worker, at the site of her work in Mandra, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Amna owes her employer 150,000 rupees (about £1,500). Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

Nigeria's Stephen Mozia prepares an attempt during the qualification for the men's shot put during the Athletics World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Gift of the Rhinoceros by the artist Mikaela Castledine is seen at the 10th annual Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe beach in Perth, Australia. Photograph: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Giant inflated stallion puppets prance and perform during the Enlighten festival in Canberra, Australia. Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

Push-me-pull-me: Indian labourers move carts in New Delhi. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Push-me-pull-you: a student stretches the back of a fellow student during a massage training course in Huaxia Liangtse, China. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signs a board as he visits the mountain Paralympic village outside Sochi, as Russia opens its first ever Winter Paralympics in the Black Sea resort. Photograph: Aleksey Nikolskyi/AFP/Getty Images

A demonstrator takes part in a protest in Altamira in Caracas, Venezuela. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media

Snow peaks: a 15-metre (50ft) snowman named ‘Granddaddy’ in Gilman, Minnesota. Photograph: Eric Miller/Reuters

An Orthodox Jewish bride, Mussie Oberlander, is surrounded by relatives during her wedding ceremony in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Bernadett Szabo/Reuters

Police officers take the ID of protesters dressed as prisoners during a demonstration against mortgage fraud in Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

The Canadian artists Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown's light installation Cloud at the iLight Marina Bay festival in Singapore. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

High on a hug: giant willow mushroom sculptures at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Parts of the United Kingdom are experiencing warm weather and sunshine. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Young dancers take part in the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games at Fisht Olympic Stadium. Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

Egyptian security forces in Alexandria detain demonstrator as Egyptians gather to protest against the deposing of former President Morsi. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Day two of Crufts and an Airedale Terrier takes his turn under the spotlight in one of the judging rings at the NEC in Birmingham, Britain. Said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, the annual four-day event, features thousands of dogs, with competitors travelling from countries across the globe to take part. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

A model presents a creation by designers New Blood for the Fall/Winter 2014/15 during Lisbon Fashion Week in Portugal. Photograph: Jose Sena Goulao//EPA

An Iditarod musher travels through a spruce forest between the checkpoints of Cripple and Ruby during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Photograph: MCT/Landov/Barcroft Media