Saturday, February 18
A young reveller participates in the annual Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society’s Children’s Carnival Competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Palestinians wait for the arrival of their relatives at the Rafah Border Crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities to allow stranded Palestinians to return to Gaza
Refugees and migrants sail towards the Italian port of Pozzallo, after being rescued off the Libyan coast by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms vessel, Golfo Azzurro
British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn meets Margot Dallimie, aged 11 months, and her mother Libby Wilkinson, as he campaigns in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election with Labour candidate Gareth Snell
Sunday, February 19
A model is groomed backstage at the Topshop Unique catwalk show during London Fashion Week
Luisa Bodem competes during the women’s long jump event at the German indoor athletics event in Leipzig, Germany
Monday, February 20
Protesters clash with police in Portland, Oregon. Thousands of demonstrators turned out across the US to challenge President Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed Not My President’s Day
A boy flies a kite on the Red Sea beach near the Jeddah Fountain, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, February 21
Women wait for a medical check-up at a Unicef-supported mobile health clinic in Nimini village, Unity State, South Sudan
Farmers run away from tear gas fired by riot police during a protest by coca leaf farmers, in La Paz, Bolivia
Devotees gather to bathe at the banks of the Ganges, Varanasi, India
Wednesday, February 22
Members of nationalist groups at a rally to mark the third anniversary of the Maidan protests at the Ukrainian Parliament, in Kiev, Ukraine
Chinese workers shovel the steps after a snowfall on the Great Wall in Mutianyu outside of Beijing, China
Popular Mobilization Forces fire at Isis militants during a battle west of Mosul in Iraq
Police confront protesters refusing to evacuate the main opposition camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, US
Floodwaters surround a play structure in San Jose, California. Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes early Wednesday, as water inundated neighbourhoods and forced the shutdown of a major motorway
Thursday, February 23
Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, attends a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow
For the first time, abseilers clean the world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide at the ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London
Men dressed as kings arrive in Cologne’s city centre in Germany where tens of thousands revellers in carnival costumes celebrate the start of a street carnival
Iraqi forces attack Mosul airport during an offensive to retake the western side of the city from Isis jihadis
Riot police arrest a young man following clashes with demonstrators during a protest of students against police brutality, following the alleged rape of Theo in Paris, France
A Nepalese sadhu (Hindu holy man) smokes a traditional clay pipe (chillum) as a holy offering to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of creation and destruction, near the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal
A judge inspects cows taking part in the 44th edition of the “Schau der Besten” dairy cow beauty pageant in Verden an der Aller, northwestern Germany
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