Dog Lily sits in front of dog paintings during a Christie's pre auction photo call on English country House contents in London, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. Christie's auction house is presenting an opulent reinterpretation of the traditional country house style, the sale comprises 266 lots spanning 19th century and Old Master paintings, including a notable group of dog paintings, fine furniture, clocks, porcelain, silver, soft-furnishings and lighting. Many works boast illustrious provenance, coming from important English, European and American collections such as that of Alberto Bruni Tedeschi and those of the Lords Hesketh at Easton Neston and the Sackville family at Knole. Estimates range from £600 up to £600,000. (Photo by Frank Augstein/AP Photo)





A view of part of the wreckage of a capsized boat that was washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Monday, February 27, 2023. Rescue crews searched by sea and air Monday for the dozens of people believed still missing from a shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast that drove home once again the desperate and dangerous crossings of migrants seeking to reach Europe. (Photo by Paolo Santalucia/AP Photo)





Sequoia National Forest firefighters conduct prescribed pile burning near young giant sequoia trees on February 19, 2023 in Sequoia National Forest, California. According to the Forest Service, wildfires have destroyed nearly 20 percent of all giant sequoias in the past three years amid hazardous fuel (vegetation) buildup. The Forest Service began emergency action last year to reduce the fuels in 12 giant sequoia groves in the Sequoia National Forest, including prescribed pile burning to reduce wildfire risk. The massive trees can live for over 3,000 years and average between 180 to 250 feet in height. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)





Fatos Baruc, who lives in Germany and whose mother-in-law survived the earthquake, sits on a chair as she waits for her belongings to take away from a damaged building in Pazarcik, Turkey, Monday, February 13, 2023. Thousands left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago packed into crowded tents or lined up in the streets for hot meals Monday, while the desperate search for anyone still alive likely entered its last hours. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)





NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev poses for a family photo as the crew departs for the launch pad before launch to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 26, 2023. (Photo by Steve Nesius/Reuters)





Locals dress up as Mazcaras to celebrate Entroido on February 21, 2023 in A Xironda, Spain. Entroido is an ancient rural carnival celebrated in Galicia during the previous days of Ash Wednesday. Each town has its traditional characters and costumes. In the small village of A Xironda, locals dress up as Mazcaras with their characteristic masks, cowbells at the waist and whips, and then run through the streets. (Photo by Brais Seara Fernandez/Getty Images)





A demonstrator holds a red flare during the third day of large-scale strikes and demonstrations in Paris on February 7, 2023, to protest the French government's bill to reform the pension system by changing the retirement age from 62 to 64 and increasing the minimum contribution years from 42 to 43. The majority of the French population is opposed to this. (Photo by Norbert Scanella/Avalon)





A model has make-up applied backstage ahead of the Thom Browne collection presentation during Fashion Week, Tuesday, February 14, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)





Revellers hold up orange flares as they take part in a traditional “Flour War” marking the Clean Monday ( or Ash Monday) in the town of Galaxidi, central Greece on February 27, 2023. The annual custom, holding from 19th century at the end of the canival season, always falls on the Clean Monday, a national holiday that marks the beginning of the 40-day fasting period leading up to Easter. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP Photo)





Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle (L), holds up the helmet of one of the most successful Ukrainian pilots, inscribed with the words “We have freedom, give us wings to protect it”, which was presented to him by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he addressed parliamentarians in Westminster Hall on February 8, 2023 in London, England. The Ukrainian President makes a surprise visit to the UK today in his second visit outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion nearly a year ago. The UK will offer further support in the form of training, equipment and Russian sanctions. (Photo Stefan Rousseau-by WPA Pool/Getty Images)





A giant statue of “Mother of the Homeland” is seen atop the memorial site on Mamayev Hill illuminated for marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad, Russia, Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The battle of Stalingrad turned the tide of World War II and is regarded as the bloodiest battle in history, with the death toll for soldiers and civilians estimated at about 2 million. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





An Aymara woman waits for tourists at Rainbow Mountain, also known as Siete Colores and Vinicunca, in Cusipata, Peru, February 5, 2023. The mountain is a bustling destination for international tourists but the number of visitors has fallen due to the political unrest following President Pedro Castillo's impeachment and arrest for trying to dissolve Congress in December. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Dressed revellers waits for the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday, February 20, 2023. The foolish street spectacles in the carnival centers of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne, watched by hundreds of thousands of people, are the highlights in Germany's carnival season on Rosemonday. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





Revellers dance in front of the Cologne Cathedral at the start of the street carnival in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, February 16, 2023. Hundreds of thousands will celebrate the carnival without any coronavirus restrictions in the streets of the German carnival capital. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





A woman takes photos with lanterns during the Lantern Festival, marking the end of the Chinese lunar New Year celebrations, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, February 13, 2023,. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying/AP Photo)





In this photo released by the official Syrian state news agency SANA, Syria's first lady Asma Assad, left, wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, visits a wounded survivor of devastating earthquake, at a hospital in Aleppo province, Syria, Friday, February 10, 2023. Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria. (Photo by SANA via AP Photo)





Parade goers prepare ahead of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade as part of Sydney WorldPride on February 25, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade returns to Oxford Street in celebration of the event's 45th anniversary. The parade began in 1978 as a march to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York and has been held every year since to promote awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered issues. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)





Boats are docked along a canal during a low tide in Venice, Italy, Monday, February 20, 2023. Some of Venice's secondary canals have practically dried up lately due a prolonged spell of low tides linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system. (Photo by Luigi Costantini/AP Photo)





A devotee dressed as Hindu goddess Kali participates in a procession on the eve of Shivratri festival in Jammu, India, Friday, February 17, 2023. The festival dedicated to the worship of Shiva, will be marked across the country on Saturday. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)