Specialists do cleaning work to remove the oil from an oil-tainted cormorant affected by the oil spill happened when an Italian-flagged tanker, the “Mare Doricum”, was unloading oil at the La Pampilla refinery, at the Parque de las Leyendas Zoo in Lima, on February 02, 2022. The spill, described as an “ecological disaster” by the Peruvian government, happened when a tanker was unloading oil at a refinery owned by Spanish company Repsol. It polluted beaches, killed wildlife and robbed fishermen of their livelihood. (Photo by Ernesto Benavides/AFP Photo)





The King of Carnival float is paraded during the 137th edition of Nice's Carnival, which theme is “King of Animals”, in Nice, France, February 12, 2022. (Photo by Eric Gaillard/Reuters)





Daniel Lismore, Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken, an Exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry – as part of it as UK City of Culture in Coventry on February 17, 2022. The exhibition features the major installation “An Army of My Life”, which takes inspiration from the Terracotta Army, and features 50 sculptures each modelled on the artist, including a cast of his face – manifesting Lismore's life living as sculpture. (Photo by Guy Bell/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Children, with mushroom headdresses, pose for photos as they parade through the streets of Brixton, in Johannesburg during the Light Festival, Sunday, February 6, 2022. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/AP Photo)





Flowers are placed at Monica Vitti’s coffin before her funeral at the Capitolium in Rome, Italy on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Riccardo De Luca/AGF/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Nepalese protesters opposing a proposed U.S. half billion dollars grant for Nepal clash with police outside as the parliament debates the contentious aid in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, February 20, 2022. Opposition to the grant comes mainly from two Communist parties that are part of the coalition government who claim the conditions in the grant agreement will prevail over Nepal's laws and threaten the country's sovereignty. (Photo by Niranjan Shreshta/AP Photo)





A girl walks inside a room as she visits the “Tel Aviv Pop-Up Museum”, a temporary art museum in two condemned Tel Aviv residential buildings where the works of 150 artists and designers are displayed, before the buildings are demolished in Tel Aviv Israel on February 1, 2022. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)





A face mask, used as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, lies on the ground on a beach near Barbate, in Cadiz province, south of Spain, Saturday, February 5, 2022. Spain's government announced Tuesday it is scrapping a mandate to wear masks outdoors, as COVID-19 infection rates drop and hospitals report lower admissions. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





Members of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade at the “Opening of Carnival 2022” event, at the Cidade do Samba, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27 February 2022. The event is a preview of the parades of the Samba Schools of the Special Group, postponed to April due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. (Photo by Andre CoelhoEPA/EFE)





ROC athlete Yelena Nikitina is seen after competing in the women's skeleton event at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre in Beijing, China on February 12, 2022. (Photo by Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS)





Foreigners and Brazilians practice with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, February 3, 2022. Many of foreign students will return home without participating in the official Carnival parade after it was postponed to late April, instead of late Feb, due to a rise in COVID-19 infections. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A woman from Ukraine looks on as she takes part in an anti-war protest after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Bangkok, Thailand on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A teacher and pupils celebrate carnival at a school in Heerlen, Netherlands on February 25, 2022. (Photo by Marcel van Hoorn/ANP via AFP Photo)





The Mystic Krewe of Barkus parade takes place in the French Quarter on February 20, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 2021 Mardi Gras parades were cancelled in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images)





Indian police personnel detain a Tibetan woman living-in-exile in India as she takes part in a protest march against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in New Delhi, India, 04 February 2022. India announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over a Chinese soldier as an Olympics torchbearer who was involved in Galwan valley clash in 2020. (Photo by Rajat Gupta/EPA/EFE)





On February 13, 2022, a spring snow came to Beijing, and the silver-clad Forbidden City had a different flavor. Tourists go to every corner of the Forbidden City one after another to appreciate the unique beauty of the Forbidden City in the snow. (Photo by Sipa Asia/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People celebrate the traditional Fiesta de las Aguedas on February 6, 2022 in Andavias, Zamora, Castilla y Leon, Spain. This celebration, also known as “El dia de las mujeres”, is a deep-rooted tradition in Castilla y Leon, especially in rural areas. The day of the Aguedas has its origin in the cult of Santa Agueda, and is celebrated every February 5. During this day, women are the protagonists and take over the city. For their part, the town councils give them the baton as a sign of authority. Around seven days of festivities are celebrated where the attendees dance, eat, sing, and even jump over a bonfire. (Photo By Emilio Fraile/Europa Press via Getty Images)





A heart-shaped clearing can be seen in woodland where Winston Howes planted 6,000 oak trees in a six-acre field on his farm, leaving the clearing in the middle as a tribute to his late wife Janet to whom he was married for 33 years, in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, Britain, February 11, 2022. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)





A worker in a hazmat suits works in a bar at a hotel restaurant, which is part of the closed-loop Winter Olympics Accommodation Allocation Agreement (AAA) on February 10, 2022 in Beijing, China. As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics gets underway in earnest, interest remains high in seeing how the country will run one of the world's premier sporting events in the midst of a global pandemic. To try and maintain China's zero-covid approach, the games will take place in a closed bubble with strict daily testing requirements. (Photo by Annice Lyn/Getty Images)