World in focus — best photos for February 10, 2017

UCLA guard Aaron Holiday celebrates after scoring during the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Oregon in Los Angeles. UCLA won 82-79. Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press / February 9, 2017,

A couple wearing Japanese traditional kimonos pose for a wedding photo by a canola field at Hamarikyu Garden in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press / February 10, 2017

People walk past a display celebrating the Lantern Festival at a park in Beijing. Saturday is the Lantern Festival in China, the final day of the annual celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press / February 10, 2017

A man walks by container housing at a refugee camp, where about 3,200 refugees and migrants are living in the western Athens’ suburb of Skaramagas, Friday, Greece’s government says more than 60,000 refugees and migrants remain stuck in the country following the border closures. Thanassis Stavrakis / Associated Press / February 10, 2017

A Kashmiri man crosses barbed wire carrying his sick daughter on his shoulder during a curfew in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Authorities imposed a curfew in some parts of the city to prevent a protest march to the disputed Himalayan region’s office of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. The protest was called by separatist leaders seeking an end to Indian rule. Dar Yasin / Associated Press / February 10, 2017

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands greets a child in Dutch costume in front of Oranienbaum Castle, in Oranienbaum, Germany. The Dutch royal couple is on an official four-day visit to Germany. Filip Singer / EPA / February 10, 2017

Iranians celebrate the 38th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution at the Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran. The revolution began with the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Iran from exile in Paris, toppling the monarchy system and forming the Islamic republic. Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA / February 10, 2017

A coach on a ladder watches the women alpine combined race at the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships in St Moritz, Switzerland. Gian Ehrenzeller / EPA/ February 10, 2017

Volunteers attend to some of the hundreds of stranded pilot whales in Golden Bay, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, while one lies on a sandbank marked with an ‘X’ to indicate it has died. The country is coping with its largest recorded mass whale stranding. Anthony Phelps / Reuters / February 10, 2017

Lara Gut of Switzerland competes in the women’s alpine combined event of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championshipsin St Moritz, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse / Reuters / February 10, 2017

A look at some of the best photos from around the world today.