As the February goes past the equator, take a moment to soak up some of the most important and striking visuals captured by photographers around the world.
Evgenia Medvedeva performs in the women's figure skating short program at the XXIII Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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Race-winner Katie Godof, right, with a time of 1 minute 11.4 seconds, runs en-route to winning the annual Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race in the town of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, England, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018.
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Parents waiting for news after reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.
A view of the site where two trains collided in Niklasdorf, Austria, February 12, 2018.
Revellers celebrate during the "Bloco da Lama", a mud carnival, in Paraty, Brazil, on February 10, 2018.
A reveler releases a chicken from a cage after climbing a greased pole during the Faquetaique Courir de Mardi Gras celebration in Eunice, Louisiana, U.S., February 13, 2018.
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Aeroflot stewardesses at the Russian Investment Forum (RIF-2018) in Sochi.
Reenactment of the first train arrival at the Victory Road in Leningrad, commemorating the 75-year anniversary since ending the Siege.
Chinese Dancers perform during an event celebrating the Spring Festival to welcome the Lunar New Year of the Dog in Kolkata on February 12, 2018.
Members of rival teams fight with oranges during an annual carnival battle in the northern Italian town of Ivrea, Italy, February 11, 2018.
Model Gigi Hadid is prepared backstage before the Brandon Maxwell Fall/Winter 2018 collection presentation at New York Fashion Week on February 11, 2018.
Children playing foosball in the Mindara neighbourhood in Bissau on Mardi Gras on February 13, 2018.
Kim Jong Un impersonator posing beside North Korean cheerleaders at the Unified Korean ice hockey team game against Japan during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung on February 14, 2018.
Revellers named "Son de Negro" pose before the Carnival parade in Barranquilla, Colombia on February 11,2018.
A Geoffroy's Monk Saki is seen at the Parque de Las Leyendas zoo in Lima, Peru, February 14, 2018.
Police inspecting the site of a new explosion occurred in Oruro, Bolivia, February 14, 2018.
Hawaiian big wave surfer Kai Lenny endures a wipeout during the final of the WSL Nazare Challenge at Praia do Norte in Nazare, central Portugal, on February 11, 2018.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a beer cup during the traditional Ash Wednesday meeting of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) in Demmin, Germany February 14, 2018.
A child jumps from a promenade after attempting to sell heart-shaped balloons to a couple on Valentine's Day in Mumbai, India February 14, 2018.
Townswomen dressed as Lamia, with their faces painted white and eyes darkened, sing and dance on Carnival Sunday, in the Basque coastal town of Mundaka, northern Spain, February 11, 2018.
People throw talcum powder during the street carnival 'Los Indianos' in Santa Cruz de la Palma, on the Spanish Canary island of La Palma, on February 12, 2018.
Drum queen Bianca Monteiro from Portela Samba school performs during the second night of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 12, 2018.
A man poses for a picture on the "Ponton du ciel", a 12-meter-long platform atop the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, one of France's tallest mountains, in the French Pyrenees, during its inauguration on February 10, 2018.
Russian Emergency Ministry officers in the Ramensky District of the Moscow Region, where the An-148 passenger plane of the Saratov Airlines Flight 703 traveling from Moscow to Orsk crashed on February 11, 2018.
