A reveler from the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school performs during the second night of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 20, 2023. #

On February 20, 2023, an emergency-service worker stands amid rubble at the site of a collapsed building in Hatay, Turkey, that killed three people after a new earthquake rattled the region. The latest 6.4-magnitude earthquake came two weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake struck the same area, killing more than 44,000 people in Turkey and Syria. #

A bridge-deck section is hoisted at the construction site of Lingdingyang Bridge in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on February 22, 2023. As part of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, the eight-lane-wide bridge is expected to open to traffic in 2024. #

A bridge sits partially submerged in the Vaal de Grace Golf Estate outside Parys, South Africa, on February 19, 2023, after heavy rainfall caused the Vaal Dam to exceed maximum capacity. #

An aerial view shows mudslides after torrential rain in the Juquehy district in São Sebastião, São Paulo state, Brazil, on February 20, 2023. Flooding and mudslides claimed at least 36 lives over the weekend in southeast São Paulo state, authorities said. #

California poppies (Eschscholzia californica), the official state flower of California, bloom near Steele Peak as the spring wildflower season approaches, near Perris, California, on February 20, 2023. Powerful storms brought heavy rains across much of the state in January, leading many people to hope for another so-called superbloom of wildflowers like that of the spring of 2017. #

Kawazu-zakura cherry trees are in bloom along a river in Kawazu, Japan, on February 20, 2023. In this small town on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula, the Kawazu-zakura, which begins to flower two months earlier than other cherry blossoms, will be in full bloom at the end of February. #

An aerial view of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, seen from Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on February 16, 2023. Mexico is to the right, and the U.S. is to the left. #

Thousands of knots, small wading birds, gather on a lagoon during the Snettisham Spectacular in Snettisham, Norfolk, England, on February 22, 2023. The Snettisham Spectacular is a time when particularly high tides push thousands of waders, including knots, oystercatchers, sanderlings, and plovers, to take flight and move up the mud flats in search of food. #

People take part in the Shrovetide Football Match in Ashbourne, England, on February 21, 2023. Played since the 17th century, the annual match sees teams from opposite ends of the Derbyshire town of Ashbourne aim to get a ball into one of two goals that are positioned three miles apart at either end of Ashbourne. The game has no rules and can sometimes end in injury and damage to property, although volunteer stewards keep watchful for any serious foul play or possible damage. #

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery during an unannounced visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2023. #

Anna Kerdman, along with her children Vsevolod, Vladyslav, Angelina and family friend Yulia Pesth Kolorova, visits the grave of her husband, Ivan Kerdman, in the Field of Mars cemetery, where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who have died over the past year are buried, on February 23, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. Ivan was a junior sergeant in the Ukrainian armed forces and was killed in June 2022. A commemoration event with a light installation marks the first anniversary of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. #

Livestreamers sing and chat with their audiences through their mobile phones while sitting on an overpass bridge at night in Guilin, in southern China's Guangxi province, on February 20, 2023. Many of these outdoor livestreamers hope to catch the attention of local (geolocated) viewers who might give them donations for their efforts. #

Tourists watch the sun rise at a scenic tourist spot on Xianggong Mountain, on the west bank of Li River in Yangshuo city, in southern China's Guangxi province, on February 21, 2023. #

Members of the Thai Department of Marine and Coastal Resources gather emerging hatchlings of leatherback turtles prior to releasing them in the sea on Bang Khwan beach in the coastal Thai province of Phang Nga on February 20, 2023. #

A pet leopard, captured in a residential area, reacts inside an enclosure in a former zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, on February 17, 2023. The leopard escaped from a house and roamed the streets for hours before being shot with a tranquilizer dart, wildlife officials said. #

A U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot takes a selfie while looking down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it floated over the central continental United States on February 3, 2023, before later being shot down by the Air Force off the coast of South Carolina, in this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on February 22, 2023. #