Tuesday: The day in photos

A member of the “Imperio Serrano” samba school gets a good look at a parade float -- and vice versa -- as preparations for Carnival in Rio de Janeiro are completed.  (Marcelo Sayao / EPA)

As a Pakistani man pedals, a child keeps a close eye on where they’re headed in the outskirts of Islamabad.  (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Baby Tonya gets a trunkload of attention from other elephants just after being born at the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam.  (Koen Suyk / EPA)

Bill Haas helps a silhouetted Mike Tucker install a glass display of newly liberated slaves in the David Wills House in Gettysburg, Pa. The David Wills House is the latest addition to Gettysburg National Military Park, which is marking Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday on Thursday.  (Carolyn Kaster / AP)

A Bangladeshi man sits in his shoe shop at the Burmese Market in Teknaf, Bangladesh.  (Pavel Rahman / Associated Press)

Children sleep in a shelter for flood victims in Tartagal, a small town on Argentina’s border with Bolivia. Officials say at least eight people are missing and more than 750 residents have been evacuated after the massive mudslide Monday when heavy rains flooded the main river that runs through the town and triggered landslides along its banks.  (Lisandro Mansilla / Associated Press)

Mitsuo Yoshii, 74, of Hancock Park, takes a photo of the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains and the Los Angeles skyline from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation area in Baldwin Hills.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Jewelry by Martin Katz adorns the wrist of a model during the Oscars Designer Challenge fashion show in Beverly Hills. Designers are vying to have their original evening gown worn by one of the escorts during the 81st Academy Awards on Feb. 22. For the first time, the Academy is inviting the public to vote for their favorite gown.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer arrives for the screening of the movie “Cheri” at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin. The festival takes place in the German capital from Feb. 5 to Feb. 15.  (Herbert Knosowski / Associated Press)

Supporters of Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel’s centrist Kadima party, wait for her outside a polling station in Tel Aviv. Israelis are voting in what is expected to be a tight race between Livni, the foreign minister, and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party. Likud and other right-of-center parties are expected to make major gains.  (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty Images)

Volunteers rescue a young melon-headed whale after at least 200 of the marine mammals swam into the shallow waters in Manila Bay off Orion in Bataan province of the Philippines. Three of the whales, which are small members of the oceanic dolphin group, died.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

The Army’s 1st Cavalry Division band performs during a handover ceremony in Baghdad. The 1st Cavalry assumed control of Multinational Division-Baghdad as the 4th Infantry Division heads home.  (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

High winds make walking difficult along the Atlantic Ocean in Ciboure, near Saint-Jean-de-Luz in southwestern France. A violent storm with winds reaching nearly 90 mph knocked out power to 600,000 French households, the country’s electricity distribution authority said.  (Bob Edme / Associated Press)

Schoolgirls hold Iran’s national flag during a celebration in Tehran marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would welcome talks with its longtime adversary, the United States, if they are based on mutual respect.  (Hasan Sarbakhshian / Associated Press)

Sheep find a rare bit of fodder in a burnt-out paddock after a bush fire swept through Mudgegonga in the Victoria Alps of Australia. At least 181 people have been killed and entire towns razed in the wildfires that have raged across southeastern Australia.  (Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images)

Hip-hop dancing champion Nilson Mufume, right, leads pupils in the gym of a primary school in Garbsen, Hannover, Germany. The district of Hannover presented a program promoting healthy food and daily exercises at the school.  (Holger Hollemann / EPA)

Cosmos flowers, in full bloom, attract a tiny visitor in a public garden in New Delhi.  (Harish Tyagi / EPA)

A young man visits “The Turing Tables,” an installation by German artist Franz John that assembles videos, photographs, robotic sculptures and interactive elements at the Parpallo Art Center in Valencia, Spain.  (Manuel Bruque / EPA)