Today in Pictures, Feb 18, 2025
Bear Festival in France, watermelon season in Sri Lanka, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A tourist posing for a photograph on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on Feb 18.
PHOTO: AFP
“Bears” preparing to catch attendees during the annual Bear Festival in Prats-de-Mollo, in south-western France, on Feb 16. Celebrating the end of winter, the folk festival features a mock hunt with men dressed as bears chasing festival attendees, while being pursued by “hunters”.
PHOTO: AFP
A man cooling off amid a heatwave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb 17. Residents and tourists were baking in scorching temperatures as the city’s crowded pre-carnival street parties swung into full gear.
PHOTO: AFP
A Delta Air Lines plane sitting on its roof after crashing upon landing at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport on Feb 17.
PHOTO: AFP
Pilgrims boarding a train at a railway station in Varanasi on Feb 17, after the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India.
PHOTO: AFP
A plane flying past the moon over Manila on Feb 17.
PHOTO: AFP
A vendor posing with his watermelons for sale at a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb 17.
PHOTO: AFP
Demonstrators rallying against US President Donald Trump at a protest in New York to mark President’s Day on Feb 17.
PHOTO: AFP
