Pictures of the Day - Feb. 11, 2016
DJ duo Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers perform onstage at Create in Hollywood, California. (Christopher Polk / Getty Images)
Jackeline, 26, holds her infant son who was born with microcephaly, at their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil. The Zika virus outbreak is causing more children to be born with the condition. (NACHO DOCE / Reuters Photo)
A Shi’ite woman walks to a classroom at an Islamic school in Zaria, Nigeria, where sectarian tensions are rising in the country’s Muslim north. Hundreds of Shi’ites in Zaria were killed in clashes with the army in December. (AFOLABI SOTUNDE / Reuters Photo)
An inmate shouts and makes a hand sign from behind his barred window at the Topo Chico prison, after a riot broke out around midnight in Monterrey, Mexico. (Emilio Vazquez / AP)
A police officer walks on a vehicle parked at the entrance of the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico. Fifty-two people were killed and twelve people were wounded in the uprising. (DANIEL BECERRIL / Reuters Photo)
A woman faints as a crowd of inmates’ relatives waits outside the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico, after a riot that led to the deaths of at least 52 prisoners. (Julio Cesar Aguilar / AFP/Getty Images)
Tom Wagner, a self-described supporter of the movement against the federal government, takes a smoke break near where the last protesters holed up at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge surrendered, ending the weeks-long armed siege. (ROB KERR / AFP/Getty Images)
A child lays in a bucket to be weighed by nurses in Bangui, Central African Republic. The U.N.estimates that nearly half the country’s 2.5 million people face hunger as two years of violence has hurt the C.A.R.’s agriculture and health care sectors. (Jerome Delay / AP)
A girl begs a passerby for help to pay a medical bill as her father sits in his wheelchair in Damascus, Syria. Shahrour, 54, developed diabetes at the beginning of the war in Syria. His right foot was amputated. He can no longer work and his family’s bills go unpaid. (BASSAM KHABIEH / Reuters Photo)
A Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) technician inspects one of a pair of twin sensors that have for the first time detected minute gravitational waves in a discovery that opens a new window for studying the cosmos. (HANDOUT / Reuters Photo)
LIGO spokesperson Gabriela Gonzalez holds up a scarf depicting gravitational waves for photographs after a news conference announcing that scientists have finally detected the waves that Einstein predicted a century ago. (Andrew Harnik / AP)
The collision of two black holes holes - a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO - is seen in this still image from a computer simulation. (HANDOUT / Reuters Photo)
A woman takes photos of images of murdered journalists during a demonstration against the murder of journalist Anabel Flores outside the Veracruz government building in Mexico. Flores was kidnapped and found dead on Feb. 9. (EDGARD GARRIDO / Reuters Photo)
Rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang reacts as the verdict is read during his trial on charges in the shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley, who was gunned down in a Brooklyn housing project. Liang was convicted Thursday of manslaughter. (Mary Altaffer / AP)
Cargo on an overloaded vehicle slumps off to the side after leaving the Kaesong joint industrial zone after North Korea ordered the immediate expulsion of all South Koreans from the jointly-run industrial zone and the seizure of their assets. (YONHAP / AFP/Getty Images)
An exiled Tibetan climbs a tall post to tie multicolor prayer flags called wind horse or ‘lungta’ on the third day of the Tibetan New Year, in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe the prayers printed on these flags are spread on wind. (Ashwini Bhatia / AP)
Pilgrims carrying images of the Virgin of Guadalupe on their backs arrive at the Basilica of Guadalupe ahead of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Mexico City. (CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS / Reuters Photo)
South Sudanese runners train in the open field of the Buluk Athletics Track in Juba. South Sudan is expected to compete in the Olympics for the first time since the independence of the country in 2011. (ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN / AFP/Getty Images)
Members of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters party leave the parliamentary chamber as South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma delivers his State of the Nation address in Cape Town, South Africa. (POOL / Reuters Photo)
Workers hold a giant figure showing the King of Carnival during preparations for the carnival parade in Nice, France. The 132nd Carnival of Nice will take place from February 13 to 28 and will celebrate the “King of Media”. (ERIC GAILLARD / Reuters Photo)
19-month-old Curtis Ray Jeffery II, of Louisiana, wears a pacifier with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s image on it before a rally in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Photo)