Rewind: BEST images in the last 24 hours

We bring you some of the best pictures from around the globe in the last 24 hours.

A defected soldier, supporting anti-regime protesters, stands guard as women queue at a polling station during presidential elections in Al Hasaba neighborhood in Sanaa, Yemen. 

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A reveller lies on the sidewalk during Jouvert celebrations, a revellery of mas, music, mud and paint which marks the start of the two-day Trinidad Carnival street parade, in the capital city Port of Spain.

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Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge smiles as she leaves after her visit to the Rose Hill Primary School in Oxford, southern England. 

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Photographs, which were washed away by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are hung to dry after cleaning in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture. 

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Senegalese music star and political activist Youssou N'dour attends an opposition protest in Senegal's capital Dakar.

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A Russian police officer walks past a cordon of activists from the opposition movement "Another Russia", who threw a smoke bomb during a protest outside the central election commission headquarters in Moscow.

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A donkey has its coat trimmed along a roadside in Lahore, Pakistan. 

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Ethnic Tibetan women pray around the Labrang Monastery ahead of the Tibetan New Year which starts on Wednesday in Xiahe county, Gansu Province. 

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A Christian pilgrim from Latin America is baptized in the Jordan River during a ceremony at the Yardenit baptismal site near the northern Israeli city of Tiberias, Israel. 

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The Gilles of Binche parade during the carnival event in Binche.

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Nepalese Army personnel douse a fire that engulfed a house belonging to resident Tulshi Maiya Joshi at the residential area of Balkumari, Ashon in Kathmandu. 

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A boy wearing a uniform similar to usually worn by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavas, and two girls, play during a carnival parade in Caracas. 

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Koshi Kikuta, a sake-brewer of Kakuboshi Co, a sake-maker since 1902, mixes malted rice during a new sake-brewing process in Kesennuma, which was affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Miyagi prefecture. 

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Performers pause before a religious ceremony, known as "Da Gui" or beating ghost, to celebrate the upcoming Tibetan New Year which starts on February 22 at Yonghegong Lama Temple. 

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Chen Ruolin of China dives in the semi-final of the women's 10m Platform competition at the FINA Diving World Cup at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London. 

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Revellers participate in a masked ball during celebrations for the "Carnival of All Colors" in Maragojipe city, northeastern Brazil.

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An anti-government protestor carries another injured protestor during clashes with police in Senegal's capital Dakar.