TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of the annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races outside Ripon Cathedral; master chocolatier Andrea Pedraza showing off her most well known creations – chocolate pumps done in the style of Christian Louboutin shoes and nearly 5,000 Thai contestants setting a new Guinness World Record for most people dancing with hula hoops, at Thammasat University, Pathumthani in Thailand.
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Members of the Ripon Evolve Group for young people take part in the annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races outside Ripon Cathedral
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Master chocolatier Andrea Pedraza shows off her most well known creations - chocolate pumps done in the style of Christian Louboutin shoes
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Nearly 5,000 Thai contestants set a new Guinness World Record for most people dancing with hula hoops, at Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
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A derailed train is seen on a station platform after a collision at a railway crossing in Takasago, Hyogo prefecture. A commuter train collided with a truck at a railway crossing in southern Japan injuring more than a dozen people
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French riot police officers face workers of tyre manufacturer Goodyear during a demonstration in front the firm's headquarters, in Reuil Malmaison, outside Paris. Goodyear confirmed it is to close a French plant near the northern city of Amiens, which would lead to the layoff of 1,173 jobs
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A group of young girls in Covent Gardens study a brightly painted giant Easter Egg, which is one of 100 that will be hidden in cities throughout the country from today until the 1st April, as part of the Lindt Big Egg hunt.
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A group of people dressed as Gilles of Binche, arrive to pick up their jubilee medals at the City Hall on the Grand Place, during the Carnival of Binche, in Belgium. Up to 1,000 clown-like performers known as Gilles, appear in the city centre of Binche, wearing a hat covered with ostrich feathers and a red, yellow and black medieval costume decorated with bells and with lace at the neck, wrists and ankles. The Carnival is recognized by Unesco as a masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
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Wallabies are given roses as a Valentine's treat at Twycross Zoo, Atherston, Warwickshire
