Today in Pictures, March 1, 2023
Japanese ornamental dolls displayed on the stone steps at Tomisaki shrine during the Katsuura Big Hinamatsuri festival in Japan; Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience opens in Singapore, marking its debut launch in South-east Asia,and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Traditional Japanese ornamental dolls known as hina dolls displayed on the stone steps at Tomisaki shrine on Tuesday, during the Katsuura Big Hinamatsuri festival in Katsuura city, Chiba prefecture.
PHOTO: AFP
The world as Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh might have seen it is on show at Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience, which made its South-east Asian premiere on Wednesday at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. The exhibition includes a 360-degree digital projection onto 10m-high screens, with the artist’s masterpieces like The Starry Night recreated to give insight into the mind of an artist some called a genius, and others thought should have been in an asylum.
ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
Devotees covered in coloured powder celebrating the Hindu spring festival of Holi on Monday at Shreeji temple in Barsana town, Mathura district, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
PHOTO: AFP
A man in a snow-covered forest in Tallman Mountain State Park during a winter storm on Tuesday. The park is in the suburban town of Sparkill, in New York state.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Illegally harvested sandalwood set ablaze on Tuesday after being confiscated by Kenya's multi-agency security teams, at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations offices in Nairobi, Kenya. The authorities burned the wood to curb the trade in its essential oil, which is extracted to manufacture medicines and cosmetics.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Police officers combing through garbage at a landfill site in Hong Kong on Tuesday, searching for the remains of murdered model and influencer Abby Choi. Ms Choi's gruesome killing came to light last week after police found two severed legs, believed to be hers, inside a flat in the city, followed by a skull and several ribs in a large soup pot seized from the property.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Members of the British Army's Household Cavalry riding past daffodils in bloom in London on Tuesday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Firefighters working to extricate passengers on Wednesday, after the collision of two trains near the central Greek city of Larissa. A passenger train travelling from Athens to Thessaloniki, and a cargo train from Thessaloniki to Larissa, collided head-on outside Larissa. At least 36 people were killed and 85 injured.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
