This is a selection of photos that will give you the information you need in order to keep you abreast of everything important that happened this day around the world, so try not to miss it. From students who 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 to racegoers who shelter from the rain during Champions Day at Cheltenham racecourse, these highlights will give you thrills.

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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

Berlin, Germany

A police officer watches as Greenpeace activists unroll a banner outside the food and agriculture ministry to mark one year of Julia Klöckner holding the ministerial post. The banner says: ‘Don’t sweep the animal suffering under the carpet, Mrs Klöckner’

Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Beijing, China

A delegate arrives for the third plenary meeting of the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People

Photograph: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images

Batangas, Philippines

A crab stuck in a plastic bag floats in Verde Island Passage near Batangas Bay. In an underwater exploration conducted by Greenpeace in Batangas, single-use plastic sachets were found between, beneath and on corals and the seabed

Photograph: Noel Guevara/Greenpeace/EPA

Valencia, Spain

Workers finish details on a wooden sculpture during preparations for Fallas, a festival held annually honoring Saint Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters

Photograph: Juan Carlos Cardenas/EPA

New Delhi, India

Police officers detain Tibetans outside the Chinese embassy during a protest held to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule

Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Cheltenham, UK

Racegoers shelter from the rain during Champions Day at Cheltenham racecourse

Photograph: Nigel French/PA