Photo highlights of the day

I heart mum: A child plays around her mother during the Venezuela Expo Tattoo event in Caracas. Photograph: Miguel Guti Rrez/EPA

Palestinian Bedouin children enjoy a donkey ride in near the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Bedouin children enjoy a donkey ride in the Gaza Strip. Photograph: Ahmed Deeb/Barcroft Media

British consulat member Pierluigi Puglia, Meredith Kercher's sister Stephanie Kercher and brother Lyle Kercher speak to the press at the Star Hotel the day after the final verdict of the Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito retrial at the Courthouse of Florence, Italy.

British consulate member Pierluigi Puglia, Meredith Kercher's sister Stephanie Kercher and brother Lyle Kercher speak to the press at the Star hotel the day after a court in Florence upheld the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Watch the Guardian exclusive interview with Amanda Knox. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images.

United States long track speed skater Shani Davis glides around a turn as he practices in Adler Arena for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Slick slice on the ice: US long track speed skater Shani Davis glides around a turn in Adler Arena for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

Figurines of horses in the Chinese district of Binondo in Manila, Philippines.

Figurehead: Horse figurines for sale in the Chinese district of Binondo in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images

Anti-government protesters warm themselves at a fire near a barricade early morning in Kiev, Ukraine. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images

A rainbow appears over Hungerford bridge in London . Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Wailing Wall: An Israeli Jew plays horn during a mass at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

Smoke rises in the cold air above the Red Square in Moscow as the temperatures in the Russian capital dropped to -17 Celsius.

Smoke rises in the cold air above Red Square in Moscow. Temperatures in the Russian capital dropped today to -17C. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

A Seattle Seahawks fan ahead of Super Bowl XLVIII in New York. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

Chicks dyed with various colours are sold in Manila, Philippines.

Chicks dyed in various colours are sold in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images

A woman receives a rosary beads from a comrade in a barricade near Kiev's Independence Square, the focal point for the country's continued unrest, Ukraine. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

This combination of photographs shows an angry resident from the village of Thorney on the Somerset Levels, venting his frustration at the weeks of flooding the local community has endured, by hitting a vehicle he claims was driving too fast. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A father mourns the death of his son, before his burial at the Shi'ite cemetery in Najaf. The young boy was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad which claimed the lives of five civilians.

Violent unrest continues to in Iraq with tragic consequences. A father mourns the death of his son, before his burial at the Shi'ite cemetery in Najaf. The young boy was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad which claimed the lives of five civilians. Photograph: Reuters

A Palestinian protester jumps as tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers rises into the air during clashes in the Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Clashes broke out between stone-throwing protesters and Israeli soldiers, two days after Muhammad Mubarak, 21, a resident of the refugee camp was killed by Israeli soldiers who said he had opened fire on their position near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters