Photos of the Day: A Wooden Sculpture and Police Officers

Algiers, Algeria

Students demonstrate in the center of the capital after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would not run for another term and postponed elections due in April

Photograph: Ryad Kramdi/AFP/Getty Images

 

Deir Ezzor, Syria

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces fires a machine gun at night outside Islamic State’s holdout of Baghuz

Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images

 

Tokyo, Japan

The former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves his lawyer’s office in Tokyo

Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters