This Week in Pictures: 8 - 15 February

A model presents a creation from the Chromat collection during the New York Fashion Week in New York, US, 12 February 2019.

Spanish pro-union rally demonstrators gather at the Plaza de Colon in Madrid.

Participants at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi.

An ethnic Miao woman poses with ethnic Miao men dressed as "Manghao" during an event to celebrate the Manghao Festival in the Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 13 February 2019.

Police officers and Yellow Vests protester in Paris.

Models wait backstage during the 2019 International Flamenco Fashion Show (SIMOF) in Seville on 10 February 2019.

Cars on a street in Aleppo.

Venezuelan migrants climb onto a truck on the road from Cucuta to Pamplona, in the Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, on 10 February 2019. Opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognised by some 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, warned the military on Sunday that blocking humanitarian aid from entering the country is a "crime against humanity".

61st Grammy Awards - Show in Los Angeles, California, US, 10 February 2019. St Vincent performs with Dua Lipa.

A Mexican indigenous man takes part in a ceremony of purification on Zocalo Square, Mexico City, on 10 February 2019.

A fully veiled woman walks with her daughter as civilians fleeing the Islamic State's group embattled holdout of Baghuz gather in a field on 13 February 2019, during an operation by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to expel the Islamic State group from the area, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. Syrian fighters, backed by artillery fire from the US-led coalition, fought a fierce jihadist counteroffensive as they pushed to retake the last speck of territory Daesh in an assault that lasted days. More than four years after the extremists declared a "caliphate" across large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, several offensives have whittled it down to a tiny scrap of land in eastern Syria.

A protester jumps over a burning barricade during a protest against the government in the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 10 February 2019.

Russian model Irina Shayk poses on the red carpet upon arrival at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 10 February 2019.

A fox is pictured on a snow-covered field in Erkenbollingen, southern Germany, on a cloudy day on 10 February 2019.

Members of the Chinese community celebrate the Chinese New Year, marking the beginning of the zodiacal Year of the Pig with a traditional parade in via Paolo Sarpi in Milan, on 10 February 2019.

African penguins compete for a heart-shaped valentine handed out by aquarium biologist Piper Dwight at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Tuesday, 12 February 2019. The hearts were handed out to the penguins, which naturally use similar material to build nests in the wild.

A group of Indonesian Muslim students take part in an anti-Valentine's Day rally in Surabaya on 14 February 2019. Anti-Valentine's Day rallies are not uncommon in Indonesia, with some conservative Islamic groups denouncing the day as un-Islamic, and as promoting promiscuity, casual sex and consumption of alcohol, while other groups have described the day as a foreign cultural influence.

Police detain an alleged thief in Lagos' Tafawa Balewa Square, where the official People's Democratic Party (PDP) opposition party is holding a rally, on 12 February 2019. Nigerians will cast their ballots on 16 February in presidential and legislative elections. The presidential contest will see incumbent Muhammadu Buhari seek to win a second four-year term against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in what is expected to be a close race.

A worker cleans a window of a store at a shopping mall in central Bangkok on 12 February 2019.

People run down the streets towards the West Side Highway as they take part in the Cupid's Undie Run on 9 February 2019 in New York. Participants make the one-mile run in their underwear to help find a cure to Neurofibromatosis (NF).

A Naga sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, stands after taking a dip during the third "Shahi Snan" (grand bath) at "Kumbh Mela", or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, previously known as Allahabad, India, 10 February 2019.

Clothes sellers exchange money in Marina, in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, 11 February 2019.

Indian labourers pick “Mosambis” fruits, also called sweet oranges, at the Gaddiannaram fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad on 11 February 2019.

Don Smith reacts as Cap'n Crunch, the Great Dane, yawns during the Meet the Breeds event ahead of the 143rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, US, on 9 February 2019.

A paramilitary officer stands guard in front of a portrait of the late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong amid snowy weather at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on 12 February 2019.

The Clermont Twins present creations from The Blonds Autumn/Winter 2019 collection during the New York Fashion Week in New York, US, 12 February 2019.

A couple poses for a wedding photo shoot amid snowfall at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in Beijing, China, on 12 February 2019.