SOMBRE SEARCH: Garda divers at Ardreigh Lock, River Barrow, outside Athy, Co Kildare, where a search has resumed for a man who went missing on Sunday during the rescue of a young child in a kayaking incident. The alarm was raised after the man and child got into difficulty when a kayak overturned. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
OASIS OF CALM: Friends Catherine O'Dea and John O'Flynn sit and enjoy lunch at the Arbour Hill Memorial garden, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
FOGGY DUES: Pedestrians make their way across Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge amid early morning fog. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
CORNER OF HEAVEN: Taking in a newspaper while sitting beside the River Dodder in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
CREATIVE ENTHUSIASM: Teddy Duggan (8), from Terenure, Dublin, with one of his painted stones, which won the 8-11 year-old category of the RTÉ Creative Ireland This Is Art! initiative. Almost 9,000 young people responded with creativity and enthusiasm to the initiative. See rte.ie/thisisart . Photograph: Mark Stedman
ORDEAL OVER: Students who were among a group of some 279 who had been abducted last week from a boarding school in Zamfara state, Nigeria, after their release. The students, pictured awaiting a medical check-up, were abducted by gunmen, from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP Photo
TEAR-GAS READY: Anti-coup protesters prepare to clash with riot police in Yangon, Myanmar. The military government has intensified a crackdown on protesters in recent days, using tear gas and live ammunition, charging at and arresting protesters and journalists. At least 18 people have been killed so far, according to monitoring organisations. Photograph: Hkun Lat/Getty
BOTTLED UP ANGER: Indian Youth Congress activists, some carrying gas cylinders, shout slogans as they protest against a hike in fuel prices, in New Delhi, India. Youth Congress activists were protesting against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over a hike in fuel prices which they say will affect costs of other essential commodities across India. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA
BALLED OF READING GAOL? People pause to look at an artwork bearing the hallmarks of street artist Banksy which has appeared on the side of Reading Prison in Reading, west of London. The picture shows a prisoner, possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde, escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter. The work has not yet been claimed by Banksy. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty
WARMING UP: Swimmers look to warm themselves in the sun against a wall of Peter and Paul fortress on the bank of the Neva River in St Petersburg, Russia, as snow lies on the ground. The air in St Petersburg warmed up to 4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo
PROTEST FLARES: Workers from French water and waste utility groups Veolia and Suez wave trade union flags and smoke flares during a demonstration outside the Veolia administrative offices, in Paris, France. Suez group workers were protesting over Veolia's initiative to acquire Suez, which would jeopardise 3,000/4,000 jobs, the unions say. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA
