Day in pictures: 20 February 2015

Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours.

Young people play with big sea waves due to the Tropical Cyclone Marcia, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 20 February 2015. Tropical cyclone Marcia made landfall near the city of Rockhampton on the north-east coast of Queensland state with gusts of up to 295 kph, media reports said on 20 February

Young people tackle the enormous waves caused by Tropical Cyclone Marcia, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Italian Carabiniere give instructions to migrants as they are transferred to another immigration centre by a ferry boat on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa

Italian national police overseeing migrants mainly from Africa and the Middle East being transferred by ferry to a centre on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Rescue workers inspect the site of a train crash at the train station of Rafz, northern Switzerland

A rush-hour intercity train in Switzerland that collided with a suburban service at Rafz, between Zurich and the German border. Several people were injured, police said.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City as snow falls

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a snowfall near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Swimmer Lewis Pugh is pictured off the coast of Cape Adare in the Antarctic Ocean.

Swimmer Lewis Pugh off the coast of Cape Adare in the Antarctic Ocean on his way to completing the most southerly swim ever. The event, in temperatures as low as -1.7C (29F), is part of a series of five swims by the Briton in a campaign for a vast protected area in the Ross Sea.

Chinese tourists watch a soldiers parade during a changing of the guard ceremony at the National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine in Taipei, Taiwan

Chinese tourists watch soldiers on parade during a changing of the guard ceremony at the National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine in Taipei, Taiwan.

People walk past a building with graffiti depicting two hands praying towards the ground in Athens, Greece

Graffiti on a building in Athens, the Greek capital, of praying hands pointing to the ground. Negotiations are continuing between the anti-austerity government and the EU on an extension to the country's loan arrangements.