Today in Pictures, Feb 5, 2026
Heavy flooding in Portugal, sumo wrestlers training in Japan, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Nuns looking out from a doorway protected by sandbags as flood waters cover the street in Alcacer do Sal, south of Portugal, amid Storm Leonardo on Feb 4, 2026. The storm unleashed up to 35cm of rain in 24 hours, battering the Iberian Peninsula and causing massive havoc.
PHOTO: AFP
Sumo wrestlers practising during a training session at Ajigawa stable, home to Ukrainian-born sumo wrestler Aonishiki Arata, in Tokyo on Feb 4, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Tourists riding shikaras, or traditional boats, on Dal Lake on a cold winter day in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, on Feb 4, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Canada’s Juliette Pelchat in action during women’s snowboard big air training at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics at Livigno Snow Park in Livigno, Italy, on Feb 04, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Snow covering the roofs of the half-timbered town of Stolberg in the southern Harz Mountains in eastern Germany on Feb 4.
PHOTO: AFP
Palestinian musical instrument maker Shehada Shalalda assembling a violin at his workshop in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Feb 4, 2026.
PHOTO: AFP
A man feeding birds on the banks of the Yamuna River on a foggy morning in New Delhi on Feb 4, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An ice block floating in the seawater near a cemetery in Nuuk, in a photo released on Feb 4, 2026.
PHOTO: REUTERS
