Today in Pictures, Feb 24, 2016

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a town hall meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, funeral of the late Italian novelist Umberto Eco in Milan, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Feb 24, 2016, 04:10 PM

Sybrina Fulton (L), mother of shooting victim Trayvon Martin, endorses US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a town hall meeting at Central Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, Feb 23, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST

Men carry the coffin of late Italian novelist Umberto Eco at the end of a civil ritual, on Feb 23, 2016, at the Sforza Castle in Milan. PHOTO: AFP/TIZIANA FABI

About a dozen protestors demonstrated outside the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover headquarters in support of Apple and against a move by the federal government to force the computer company to create a "backdoor" to the iPhone Feb 23, 2016, in Washington, DC. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP/CHIP SOMODEVILLA

A view of packed garbage bags in Jdeideh, Beirut, Lebanon Feb 23, 2016. Six months ago, the authorities shut the main landfill site for garbage from the capital, without providing an alternative. Since then, rubbish collection has halted and festering trash has piled up in the city streets. PHOTO: REUTERS/ HASAN SHAABAN

Part of the damaged building is visible at Didcot Power Station, Didcot, Oxfordshire, Britain, Feb 23, 2016. At least one person died after a building collapsed, following a possible explosion at the power station. PHOTO: EPA/HANNAH MCKAY

Christopher Forbes, vice-chairman of Forbes, unpacks the uniform worn around 1869-1870 by the crown Price, son of Napoleon III, before a preview show at the Paris Opera Garnier, France, Feb 23, 2016. Mr Forbes will be selling his vast collection of French Second Empire art and memorabilia at an auction in Fontainebleau, on March 6, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAU

Workers set up the frame of a scene, painted in 1868 by Emile Boukerche, during a preview show at the Paris Opera Garnier, France, Feb 23, 2016. Mr Christopher Forbes, vice-chairman of Forbes, will be selling his vast collection of French Second Empire art and memorabilia at an auction in Fontainebleau, on March 6, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/CHARLES PLATIAU

A cat mews as it sits near an old fan in downtown Havana, Feb 23, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI

Jennifer Abel of Canada competes in the women's 3m springboard final during the 2016 Fina Diving World Cup at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb 23, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/SERGIO MORAES

Peruvian surfer Carlos "Huevito" Areola rides a reed board, or "caballito" (little horse), into a wave at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Feb 24, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS/JASON REED

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