Rewind: Best images in the last 48 hours

Presenting some of the most scintillating pictures from around the globe in the last 48 hours.

A rebel fighter reacts during an air strike in Ras Lanuf. Libya's army fought rebels for control of Ras Lanuf on Monday and a rebel official said Muammar Gaddafi could attack oilfields like a 'wounded wolf'.

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

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A boy bowls a ball in a street, as a crowd of people watch, in Chittagong on Tuesday. The ICC Cricket World Cup group B match between Bangladesh and England will be played on Friday in the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in the city.

Image: Philip Brown/Reuters

A person walks past a glass door damaged by bullets at the police headquarters where Marisol Valles Garcia used to work as the police chief, in Praxedis G. Guerrero. The 20-year-old female student who became the police chief in one of Mexico's most dangerous drug war towns was fired by the mayor on Monday for not showing up to work after Mexican media reported she received death threats.

Marisol Valles, a criminology student in Mexico's violent city of Ciudad Juarez, took charge of the police force in the neighboring municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas in October, sparking intense media attention after few candidates dared to apply for the dangerous job.

Image: Gael Gonzalez/Reuters

Anti-government protesters hold hands together during a rally to demand for the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside Sanaa University.

Image: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

A carnival float with papier-mache figures representing women dressed with Burkas, is pictured during the traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Duesseldorf. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the highlight of the German street carnival season.

Image: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

Injured rebel fighters walk during an air strike in Ras Lanuf. Major Libyan oil ports Ras Lanuf and Brega in the east of Libya are closed as violence in the area has hampered operations at the terminals, shipping sources said on Monday.

Image: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A boy climbs onto a sculpture in front of the West Pier on Brighton beach in southern England.

Image: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Tibetans attend New Year or "Losar" celebrations at a monastery in Kathmandu. "Losar" can be traced back to the pre-Buddhist period in Tibet when Tibetans practised the Bon religion. A spiritual ceremony would be held every winter, whereby people offered incense to appease the local spirits, deities and protectors.

Image: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

A man, whom authorities arrested for what they say are his links to a thwarted attack on Congo President Joseph Kabila's residence, gestures as he is displayed to the media with more than 100 other people for similar offences in Kinshasa.

The new official figure of more than 120 arrests is a steep rise from the 30 suspects initially held for the incident that occurred on February 27, 2011 in Kinshasa.

Image: Jonny Hogg/Reuters

A rebel fighter fires his rifle at a military aircraft loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at a checkpoint in Ras Lanuf Image: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Police car lights illuminate the face of Samantha Fanara, 6, as she falls asleep on her father's shoulders at the end of the Krewe of Endymion parade on St Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Image: Sean Gardner/Reuters