Todayβs top pics: Kirk Douglas and more
APTOPIX Hong Kong China Outbreak
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A passenger shows a note from the World Dream cruise ship docked at Kai Tak cruise terminal in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. A Hong Kong official says more than 3,600 people on board the cruise ship that was turned away from a Taiwanese port will be quarantined until they are checked for a new virus. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
APTOPIX Britain Brexit
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Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporter Steve Bray, second left, protests outside the Houses of Parliament to coincide with the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. If there is no post-Brexit trade deal by the end of 2020, and the U.K. refuses to extend the negotiating period, Britain faces an abrupt, disruptive economic break from the bloc β with tariffs and other obstacles to trade imposed immediately between the U.K. and the EU. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
APTOPIX Turkey Avalanche
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Emergency service members work in the snow around overturned vehicles, near the town of Bahcesaray, Van province, eastern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in the province, which borders Iran, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find two people missing in an earlier avalanche. (Yilmaz Sonmez/IHA via AP)
APTOPIX Britain Royals
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Britain's Prince William, centre right, reacts as his team win a table football match in London, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. The prince who is President of the Football Association (FA), attended a special event in London to launch The Heads Up Weekends, which will see every football team from all the leagues dedicate their matches to Heads Up, to highlight the importance of talking about mental health. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)
APTOPIX Election 2020 Bernie Sanders
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., kisses his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders, left, at the start of a campaign rally, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
APTOPIX Iraq Protests
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An injured protester is rushed to a hospital in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Iraqi officials and activists say multiple anti-government protesters have been shot dead and dozens wounded in clashes with followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
APTOPIX Trump Impeachment
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, looks out from an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
APTOPIX Mexico Violence
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A coffin containing the remains of one of three children shot dead in a video-game arcade, is lowered into a freshly dug grave in Uruapan, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Relatives gathered in a driving rain Wednesday to mourn and bury three children, a 17-year-old and five adults shot to death in an attack on a video-game arcade in western Mexico. Authorities havenβt yet said whether the brutal killings were related to the drug violence that has swept Michoacan state.Β (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
APTOPIX Britain Soccer FA Cup
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Southampton's goalkeeper Angus Gunn fouls Tottenham's Son Heung-min, right, in the box to give away a penalty shot during the English FA Cup fourth round replay soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
APTOPIX Japan China Outbreak
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Some passengers are seen on the Diamond Princess as the cruise ship is anchored at Yokohama Port for supplies replenished in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. The 3,700 people on board faced a two-week quarantine in their cabins. Health workers said 10 more people from the Diamond Princess were confirmed sickened with the virus, in addition to 10 others who tested positive on Wednesday. The 10 will be dropped off as the ship docks and transferred to nearby hospitals for further test and treatment. (Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Kyodo News via AP)
APTOPIX Obit Kirk Douglas
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Flowers are placed on actor Kirk Douglas' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Douglas, the muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films and helped fatally weaken the Hollywood blacklist, has died at 103. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
APTOPIX South Korea China Outbreak
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Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant as a precaution against a new coronavirus at a theater in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and the World Health Organization appealed for more funds to help countries battle the spread of the disease. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
APTOPIX Wake Forest Louisville Basketball
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Louisville forward Quinn Slazinski (11) and forward Aidan Igiehon (22) react to a dunk during the second half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Wake Forest on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Louisville won 86-76. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
APTOPIX Germany Daily Life
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A bus passes by with the buildings of the banking district in background in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
APTOPIX Russia Weather
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People walk in snowfall past one of the four famous horse sculptures of the Anichkov Bridge on the Fontanka River in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. A cyclone has caused snowfall in St. Petersburg. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
APTOPIX Britain Orchid Festival
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A florist points to a rare and special orchid named 'Paphiopedilum primulinum' during a press preview of Kew gardens 25th annual Orchid Festival in London, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. The first festival with an Indonesian theme has over 5000 orchids on display. The show opens to public on Saturday Feb. 8, 2020 and lasts until March 8,2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
APTOPIX Pakistan India Kashmir
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Protesters burn an effigy of Indian prime minister during a rally to express solidarity with Indian Kashmiris struggling for their independence, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Pakistan's prime minister urged the international community to live up to its obligation and ensure the freedom of the Kashmiri people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
APTOPIX Turkey Plane
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Rescue members and firefighters work around the wreckage of a plane after it skidded off the runway at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday at Istanbulβs Sabiha Gokcen Airport, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces. Passengers were seen evacuating through cracks in the plane and authorities said dozens have been injured. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)
APTOPIX Germany Soccer Cup
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Bayern's Thomas Mueller, right, celebrates after scoring his side's second goal, during the German soccer cup, DFB Pokal, match between FC Bayern Munich and TSG Hoffenheim in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
APTOPIX Italy Kobe Bryant
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Spectators pay tribute to basketball legend Kobe Bryant prior to the start of the Italian Basketball second division match between Rieti and Scafati in Rieti's PalaSojourne, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Bryant spent seven years of his childhood in Rieti, where his father, Joe Bryant, made his Italian basketball debut in 1984 when Kobe was 6 years-old. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
APTOPIX US Canada Hockey
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United States' Hilary Knight celebrates her goal against Canada during the third period of a Rivalry Series hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
APTOPIX Italy Train Derailed
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A firefighter inspects a derailed train carriage, near Lodi, northern Italy, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Italian authorities say a high-speed passenger train has derailed in northern Italy, killing two railway workers and injuring 27 people. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
APTOPIX Netherlands International Criminal Court Ivory Coast
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Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo talks to his members of his legal team at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. The ICC hears an appeal by Gbagbo against conditions imposed on him and a former government minister during their release from custody pending prosecutors' appeal against their acquittals on crimes against humanity charges. (Jerry Lampen/Pool photo via AP)
APTOPIX Ukraine Land Reform
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A protester looks on during a rally in front of the parliament building to protest against changes to laws governing the sale of farmland, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Scuffles broke out inside parliament as lawmakers debated changes to laws restricting sales of farmland. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
APTOPIX France Strikes
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Protesters march with flares during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Protesters marched in Paris and across the country against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the pension system. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
APTOPIX Italy Train Derailed
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A derailed train engine car is seen at left as the train passenger carriages are seen at right after a high-speed train derailed in the countryside near the town of Lodi, northern Italy, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Authorities say the engine car completely detached and kept hurtling ahead for some 100 meters (yards), hitting a parked train service car on an adjacent track and ripping off part of an exterior wall of an unoccupied railway building, killing two train engineers and injuring 28 people. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
APTOPIX Trump
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President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper with the headline that reads "Trump acquitted" during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
