Thursday: The day in photos

Rohingya boat people wait for lunch in Aceh province on Sumatra island, Indonesia. Approximately 200 Rohingya Muslim refugees continue to receive treatment after being rescued from boats drifting at sea for up to three weeks.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

Aromatic plants and fengma, papers symbolizing good wishes, are scattered during a ceremony to worship Anilari mountain god, the village’s protective deity, in Qinghai Province, China. During the annual ceremony, villagers participate in folk activities including dance and the burning of aromatic plants to pray to the god for good luck in the new year.  (China Photos / Getty Images)

Snow lines the road as a motorist drives with mattresses strapped to the top of his vehicle in Buffalo, N.Y. Wind gusts topping 60 mph knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and disrupted travel from the Great Lakes to the East Coast.  (David Duprey / Associated Press)

Actor Bill Murray reacts to a missed putt by his playing partner, professional golfer Tim Herron, on the ninth hole during the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament at the Spyglass Hills golf course in Pebble Beach, Calif.  (Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns the ball to Grigor Dimitrov from Bulgaria at the ABN Amro tennis tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands.  (Ermindo Armino / Associated Press)

Germany’s Frank Rommel starts his run in the World Cup men’s skeleton race at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah. He finished in third place.  (Douglas C. Pizac / Associated Press)

A U.S. National Park ranger puts a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. Today marks the 200th birthday of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.  (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

The eyes of actress Penelope Cruz are on two men working on a streetlamp in Berlin. Cruz is nominated for an Oscar in the best supporting actress category for her role in Woody Allen‘s “ Vicky Cristina Barcelona”.  (Michael Kappeler / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman carries her two babies at a railway station in Dongguan, China. China’s one-child policy, introduced 30 years ago, has been relaxed in recent years, expanding the number of people allowed to have more than one child.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

Rohingya boat people line up for lunch on Sumatra island in Indonesia. About 200 Rohingya refugees continue to receive treatment after being rescued from boats drifting at sea for up to three weeks. The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, where the ruling generals have been accused for years of oppressing them.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

A wreath of plants from Charles Darwin’s garden lies on his grave at London’s Westminster Abbey on the 200th anniversary of his birth. The Helleborus and Berberis Darwinii (discovered in South America in 1885 by Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle) placed on the grave of Darwin in the abbey were taken from the garden of Down House in Kent, where he researched and wrote “On the Origin of Species,” published in 1859.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

The pack cycles during the fifth and last stage of the Mallorca Challenge race, on the island of Majorca, Spain.  (Jaime Reina / AFP / Getty Images)

A man carries his wife in the second annual wife carrying competition at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The game in which a male contestant carries his wife or lover through an obstacle race in the shortest possible time originated in Finland. Eight contestants competed in the pre-Valentine’s Day event.  (Mike Clarke / AFP/Getty Images)

Micah Stanek, in veil, and Mitch Day walk away after being turned down for marriage license at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Their request and others that are part of the 12th annual Freedom to Marry Week are considered to be more important than ever this year because they come just as New Yorkers look to their state Senate to pass legislation that could legalized gay marriage.  (Richard Drew / Los Angeles Times)

Israeli election workers show a blank vote with the name of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit written on the envelope as they count the remaining votes received from Israeli soldiers and absentee ballots in the Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem. Final results of the elections are due to be announced today.  (Oliver Fitoussi / EPA)

Palestinian women prepare red carnations for export at a flower farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel granted special approval for the export of 25,000 Palestinian flowers from the Gaza Strip to the Dutch market for Valentine’s Day.  (Said Khatib / AFP/Getty Images)

Romanian shepherds shout anti-governmental slogans in front of the Romanian National Sanitary-Veterinary Agency in Bucharest, Romania. About 100 shepherds and cheese producers gathered in the protest against a new regulation set by government agency, which according to the farmers, is designed to eliminate small cheese producers from the market.  (Daniel Mihailescu / AFP/Getty Images)