A visitor tries a screen called "metaverse Service" at SK Telecom stand during GSMA's 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain February 28, 2022. REUTERS / Albert Gea TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
A visitor tries a screen called "metaverse Service" at SK Telecom stand during GSMA's 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain February 28, 2022. REUTERS / Albert Gea TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
A devotee dressed as Hindu god Shiva participates in a procession on the eve of Shivratri festival, in Jammu, India. AP Photo
A devotee dressed as Hindu god Shiva participates in a procession on the eve of Shivratri festival, in Jammu, India. AP Photo
A Ukrainian child in a car stuck in traffic, as her family drives towards the Polish border to escape the conflict in their country. AFP
A Ukrainian child in a car stuck in traffic, as her family drives towards the Polish border to escape the conflict in their country. AFP
Boys take part in an open-air training session with martial arts coach Hassan Mansour in Barada Valley, a suburb of Damascus. Reuters
Boys take part in an open-air training session with martial arts coach Hassan Mansour in Barada Valley, a suburb of Damascus. Reuters
Muslim worshippers flock as a priest displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Mohammed's beard, during Miraj-Ul-Alam (ascension to heaven) in Srinagar, Kashmir. AFP
Muslim worshippers flock as a priest displays a relic, believed to be a hair from the Prophet Mohammed's beard, during Miraj-Ul-Alam (ascension to heaven) in Srinagar, Kashmir. AFP
A family surveys a flooded street in Lawrence, 70 kilometres from the New South Wales town of Lismore, Australia. AFP
A family surveys a flooded street in Lawrence, 70 kilometres from the New South Wales town of Lismore, Australia. AFP
Anti-war protesters demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City to show support for the people of Ukraine. Reuters
Anti-war protesters demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City to show support for the people of Ukraine. Reuters
The chamber of the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, where US President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. AP Photo
The chamber of the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, where US President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. AP Photo

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Today's best photos: from the metaverse to the State of the Union

'The National’ selects the most striking pictures from across the world

The National

March 01, 2022

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Housed on the same site as the original Africa Hall, which first hosted an Arab-African Symposium in 1976, the newly renovated building will be home to a think tank and postgraduate studies hub (it will offer master’s and PhD programmes). The centre will focus on both the historical and contemporary links between Africa and the Gulf, and will serve as a meeting place for conferences, symposia, lectures, film screenings, plays, musical performances and more. In fact, today it is hosting a symposium – 5-plus-1: Rethinking Abstraction that will look at the six decades of Frank Bowling’s career, as well as those of his contemporaries that invested social, cultural and personal meaning into abstraction. 

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