Widespread flooding in Kentucky, a Russian drone attack at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, icebergs in Greenland, a lava flow atop Mount Etna, a mask festival in Latvia, blooming trees in Spain, Carnival costumes in Venice, and much more.
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Melissa Truesdale plays the fiddle before a candlelight vigil for victims of Hurricane Helene in Green Mountain, North Carolina, on February 15, 2025. #
A masked reveler poses during the first day of the Venice Carnival in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, on February 14, 2025. #
A sailboat is silhouetted against the setting sun off the coast of Treasure Island, Florida, on February 17, 2025. #
A woman swims in a hole in the ice on the frozen Neva River, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 19, 2025. #
France's Lou Jeanmonnot trains at the Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on February 14, 2025. #
France's Clement Noel competes in the men's slalom event at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach, Austria, on February 16, 2025. #
First responders work at the Delta Air Lines plane crash site at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on February 17, 2025. All 80 passengers and crew survived, but 21 sustained injuries in the crash. #
Rescuers inspect damage to the outer shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after a Russian drone attack on February 14, 2025, in Pripyat, Ukraine. #
A tourist poses on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on February 18, 2025. #
A family walks by a snow-covered model of a dinosaur outside the National Geological Museum in Bucharest, Romania, on February 16, 2025. #
A Lyle's flying fox hangs upside down in an enclosure at the Biotropica Zoological Park in Val-de-Reuil, France, on February 19, 2025. #
People spend time outside among blooming almond trees at Quinta de los Molinos Park in Madrid on February 16, 2025. #
A reveller wears a mask during the international mask festival in Vecumnieki, Latvia, on February 16, 2025. #
Eva von Bahr attends the BAFTA Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in Southbank Centre, London, on February 16, 2025. #
A vendor carries plastic canisters atop a rickshaw on the outskirts of Maidan Wardak province, in Afghanistan, on February 16, 2025. #
The shadows of children are cast on the court in a public park at a sports workshop organized by the municipality during school summer vacation in Santiago, Chile, on February 18, 2025. #
Lava flows from a fracture on Mount Etna on February 14, 2025. #
A boat sails past large icebergs near the city of Ilulissat, Greenland, on February 19, 2025. #
Children play with hockey sticks in Nuuk, Greenland, on February 16, 2025. #
Afghan horse riders compete in buzkashi ("goat grabbing"), a traditional Central Asian sport, on a field in Mazar-i-Sharif on February 19, 2025. #
Elephants return to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage after taking their daily bath in a river in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, on February 16, 2025. #
Pilgrims board a train after visiting the Kashi Vishwanath temple, at a railway station in Varanasi, India, on February 17, 2025, following their trip from the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj. #
Community members and health workers from the Congolese Red Cross look over a grave during a mass burial of 18 corpses at the Musigiko cemetery in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on February 20, 2025. The Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 swept into Bukavu over the weekend, taking control of the city with a population of approximately 1 million people in South Kivu Province. Hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern part of the DRC have been displaced as the rebel group has made swift advances against Congolese pro-government forces in recent weeks. #
With temperatures below zero, steam rises over Lake Michigan on February 18, 2025, in Milwaukee. #
A worker removes a photograph from a burning home during a rescue and support mission in a heavily flooded area in Leslie County, Kentucky, on February 18, 2025. Severe winter storms brought torrential rains that caused intense flooding in Kentucky and parts of Florida and Georgia. #
A vehicle turns around at a road closed because of flooding, along Dunbar Cave Road in Clarksville, Tennessee, on February 16, 2025. #
A man pulls a child on a sled during a snowfall in Bucharest on February 17, 2025. #
The SS United States is towed down the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, from Philadelphia, on February 19, 2025. The retired ocean liner was built in the early 1950s and retired in 1969, and has changed hands many times since, with several recent unsuccessful efforts to restore the ship. The SS United States is now headed to Florida, where it is scheduled to be sunk sometime next year, becoming a massive artificial reef off Florida's Emerald Coast. #
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