From left: Italy's Massimiliano Blardone and American Ted Ligety compete during the nations team event at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Kerstin Joensson/AP
Pfc. Benjamin Brickman from Albany, N.Y., of the First Battalion Eighth Marines, Alpha Company, is reflected in a cracked and discarded vehicle mirror as he practices on a guitar at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
A girl yawns as she waits with other children to greet Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski during his meeting with the Polish community in Maisiagala, Lithuania. Ints Kalnins/Reuters
An Egyptian man delivering bread from a bakery drops a loaf as he cycles past closed shops in the normally bustling but now empty tourist area of Khan al-Khalili in Cairo. Labor unrest unleashed by the ousting of Hosni Mubarak flared again despite a warning by the ruling military that protests and strikes were hampering efforts to improve the economy and return life to normal. Ben Curtis/AP
People cover their ears as fireworks explode during a procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, or the birthday celebrations for the prophet Muhammad, in Mumbai, India. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A Bahraini antigovernment protester drinks tea in a tent at the Pearl Square roundabout in Manama, Bahrain. Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain's rulers held their ground in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital's landmark square, staging a third day of demonstrations that have brought unprecedented pressures in one of Washington's most strategic allies in the Gulf. Hasan Jamali/AP
A young resident from a shantytown settlement watches the demolition of an illegal building from inside a car on the outskirts of Madrid. The local government demolished about 50 illegal buildings housing about the same number of families. Andrea Comas/Reuters
Musher Dallas Seavey, from Rookie Willow, Ala., congratulates his lead dogs, Beetle and Diesel, upon winning the 2011 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race just after midnight in Fairbanks, Alaska. The 1,000-mile trail starts at Whitehorse and traces the routes of prospectors during Alaska's gold rush in 1899. Twenty-three teams began the race Feb. 5 in Canada's Yukon territory. John Wagner/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner/AP
A British Airways passenger jet flies past the full moon as passengers travel on the London Eye Ferris wheel. Toby Melville/Reuters
People walk under lanterns at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China. The lantern festival marks the last day of the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations and falls on Feb. 17 this year. Aly Song/Reuters
A woman walks along a bridge in downtown Moscow on an especially cold winter day. Misha Japaridze/AP
A supporter of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), with his body painted yellow, attends the last presidential campaign rally in the capital, Kampala. Ugandans will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on Friday. Museveni is expected to win despite a fierce challenge from former ally Kizza Besigye. James Akena/Reuters
Actor Michael Douglas watches as models present creations from the Michael Kors Fall/Winter 2011 collection during New York Fashion Week. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
2011 Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show winner, Hickory, a Scottish deerhound, poses for photographers as she visits the observation deck on the 86th floor of New York's Empire State Building. Mike Segar/Reuters
A Kosovo-Albanian girl carries an Albanian national flag in the town of Kacanik, southeast of Kosovo's capital, Pristina. Kosovo celebrates the third anniversary of its declaration of independence from Serbia on Feb. 17. Hazir Reka/Reuters
Afghan boys attend an outdoor class to learn the Koran at a makeshift school established and guarded by US Marines from the First Battalion Eigth Marines Alpha Company near their outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
A pedestrian walks up Mt. Oread on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan. Orlin Wagner/AP
A group of Islamic school students playing cricket pose in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The International Cricket Council's World Cup jointly hosted by India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, is scheduled to kick off in Dhaka on Feb. 19. Pavel Rahman/AP
From left: Cyprien Richard, Thomas Fanara, Anemone Marmottan and Tessa Worley of France celebrate the gold medal they won in the nations team event at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone/AP
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Greece is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese investors as a means of stabilizing its shaky economy.
Officials in Brussels and Washington may view China’s global shopping spree with alarm, as the Asian power house continues to buy up companies, sovereign debt, ports, and bridges around the world. But the Greeks are already dusting off the red carpet.
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