PHOTO: Day in Photo: February 19, 2009

The Japanese and Philippines are practicing operations in order to stop modern pirates that are becoming a 21st century problem.

February is carnival month, so people all around the world are putting masks on their faces and going out on the streets to make passers by happy.

Whilst parts of Europe including the Croatian cities of Dubrovnik, Split and Korcula were covered white in a snow storm, people in the southern hemisphere are lying on the beach absorbing the warm summer sun.

The Japanese and Philippines are practicing operations in order to stop modern pirates, and a girl in Manila holds a guitar in her hands and makes fellow citizens happy.

It is said that football is the most important pastime in the world. Fast cars are the dream of every man. What would happen if you combined the two? You would get car football which has become popular in the east, and a tournament is currently being played in Hong Kong.

Take a look at how February 19 was like in the photo gallery: Day in Photos: February 19, 2009.