Taylor Davis, 13, a Senate Page from Norfolk, Va, works at the reception desk inside the General Assembly Building in Richmond, Va., Monday. Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch/AP
Police in riot gear stand by as they allowed a small group of anti-government protesters to hold a brief, peaceful gathering, in Sandaga Market in central Dakar, Monday. Senegal is less than a week away from a crucial presidential poll and unrest is growing, after days of clashes between anti-government supporters and the police. Rebecca Blackwell/AP
New York Yankees' Phil Hughes (from left,) Boone Logan, and CC Sabathia stretch during practice at baseball spring training, Monday, in Tampa, Fla. Matt Slocum/AP
Nicholas Brown casts a long shadow on the basketball court Monday afternoon, in Delano Park, Decatur, Ala. Schools were closed Monday for President's Day. Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily/AP
Lewis Bliss, 10, of Burke, Va., dressed in a musicians outfit from the revolutionary war era, meets George Washington, portrayed by Dean Malissa, during Presidents Day activities at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate in Mount Vernon, Va., Monday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Firefighters lower a huge flag following a funeral procession for Lance Cpl. Osbrany Montes De Oca in North Arlington, N.J., Monday. Montes De Oca, 20, was killed Feb. 10 in the Helmand province of Afghanistan 10 days after having been promoted. Mel Evans/AP
Revellers participate in a masked ball during celebrations for the "Carnival of All Colors" in Maragojipe city, northeastern Brazil. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
A Somali child is held by another as they watch from a short distance as Kenyan army soldiers speak to other villagers, in Tabda, inside Somalia Monday. Kenya's military has been fighting inside Somalia in an ongoing offensive against militant group al-Shabab since October, when Somali gunmen carried out several kidnappings in Kenya. Ben Curtis/AP
Carolina Mendoza of Mexico dives in the Women's 10m Platform preliminary round at the FINA Diving World Cup at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London, Monday. Andrew Winning /Reuters
A child stands with his father as they wait to receive blankets and winter jackets from Welthungerhilfe, a German NGO, during a snow fall at a camp for internally displaced Afghans in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years, an Afghan health official said Monday. Musadeq Sadeq/AP
Army soldiers stand guard on a mountain overlooking the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Security and army forces are on alert in Aden to secure election centers as the country gears up for the presidential elections in which Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi will be the sole candidate as part of a deal to ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office and pull the country back from the brink of civil war. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
Soldiers stand guard on the beach in front of the hotel where US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is staying, in Los Cabos, Mexico, for the G20 foreign ministers summit. Charles Dharapak/Reuters
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing with skipper Ian Walker from the UK, on the helm, chases Team Sanya, skippered by Mike Sanderson from New Zealand, during the start of leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Sanya, China, to Auckland, New Zealand. Race organizers will hold the six boats in Sanya to allow enough time for dangerous conditions to clear, with fears that waves of up to eight meters could wreak havoc with the fleet. Ian Roman/AP
A protester of the 15M movement, known as Indignants, with a Greek flag painted on her face shouts slogans during a protest against labor reforms imposed by the Spanish government in Malaga, southern Spain. Jon Nazca/Reuters
Riders cycle during the 81 miles sixth and last stage of the third Tour of Oman cycling race, from al-Khaud village in wilayat al-Seeb to al-Samka in wilayat Matrah. Sultan Al Hasani/Reuters
Japanese evacuees from the towns inside the nuclear exclusion zone bow as Shinto priests hold a memorial ceremony in the abandoned and irradiated town of Namie in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. A group of former residents returned to the area for the day to hold the ceremony at the site of the ancient Kusano shrine that was destroyed by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. David Guttenfelder/AP
People celebrate Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, in the village of Ozertso, outside Minsk. People celebrate Maslenitsa to mark the end of winter, which the Orthodox Church has said is a week of feasting before Lent. Vladimir Nikolsky/Reuters
A Hindu holy man ties his turban in the courtyard of the Pashupatinath Temple in Katmandu, Nepal. Hindu holy men from Nepal and India have started arriving at the temple ahead of the Shivaratri festival dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
Endangered Dalmatian pelicans gather together to warm themselves at a shipyard near Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a Russian province on the Caspian Sea during an unusually cold winter. Hundreds of endangered Dalmatian pelicans have sought shelter at a shipyard near Makhachkala, Dagestan, a Russian province. Sergei Rasulov/AP
A child reacts to the camera while sitting in a wheelbarrow near her family house on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan. Naseer Ahmed/Reuters
A boy feeds a swan on the partially frozen Danube river in Belgrade. People visited its river banks on the first sunny day after weeks of freezing temperatures. Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters
A dancer performs during the parade of Vai-Vai samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Andre Penner/AP
Female defendants cover their faces in their trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran. A court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants in a $2.6 billion bank fraud. The charges involve the use of forged documents to get credit at one of Iran's top financial institutions to purchase assets including major state-owned companies. Houshang Hadi/AP
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (c.), and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (r.) talk with California Governor Jerry Brown (l.), as they attend the Phoenix Suns, Lakers NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, California February 17. Vice President Xi, China's leader-in-waiting to President Hu Jintao, is wrapping up a five-day visit to the United States with a two days of business talks in Los Angeles. Alex Gallardo/Reuters
Cardinals attend a consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI installed 22 new Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world on Saturday. Tony Gentile/Reuters
Members of the media stand in a mass group on Sussex Street near the New Hope Baptist Church where the funeral service for the late singer Whitney Houston was to take place, in Newark, New Jersey. Mike Segar/Reuters
Nine-year-old Rahul gets his make-up done to look like a demon before the start of a religious procession ahead of the Mahashivratri festival in Jammu. Hindu women across the country celebrate Mahashivratri, better known as Lord Shiva's wedding anniversary, so that their husbands will be blessed with long lives. Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
A model eats as her hair is prepared before they display creations by designer Aquascutum a during a fashion show at London Fashion Week. Joel Ryan/AP
People hide from rain next to a mosque in the mixed Arab Jewish neighborhood of Jaffa, part of Tel Aviv, Israel. Heavy rain and fierce winds pummeled across the country. Oded Balilty/AP
A demonstrator carries a poster reading: "For Putin, no doubt!" during a rally in support of Putin's candidacy to the presidency in the March 4th election, in St.Petersburg, Russia. Putin runs to reclaim the presidency in March's election. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
A cyclist disguised as French fries rides his bike on a ski slope in the alpine resort of Villars, Switzerland, during the GP St-Sylvestre, a mountain bike snow race. Nearly 50 cyclists rode the 5 kilometer track on snow at a difference in altitude of 800 meters. Laurent Gillieron/AP
A waning moon is seen in the sky over a building crane decorated with illuminations in Minsk, Belarus. Sergei Grits/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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