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Our world in photos: February 22

February 22, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
KOLKATA — Living with bright colors, a national trait: Vendors with marigold garlands await customers at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.Photo: Bikas Das/AP
KOLKATA — Living with bright colors, a national trait: Vendors with marigold garlands await customers at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.
Photo: Bikas Das/AP
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VENEZUELA — Mourning family loss in a mine collapse: A sister of miner Santiago Mora, left, cries with other relatives as he is buried at the cemetery in La Paragua, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped.Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP
VENEZUELA — Mourning family loss in a mine collapse: A sister of miner Santiago Mora, left, cries with other relatives as he is buried at the cemetery in La Paragua, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped.
Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP
COLOMBIA — ‘Is that Philippe Petit? Nahhh…’: A tourist rides a bungee jump in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces, and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction.Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP
COLOMBIA — ‘Is that Philippe Petit? Nahhh…’: A tourist rides a bungee jump in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces, and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction.
Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP
TEXAS — Unbearable grief on a face so young: Kristlyn Wood, a cousin of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, reacts during a vigil in Cunningham's honor, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Livingston, Texas. Cunningham's family reported her missing Thursday, Feb. 15, when she failed to return to her Livingston home after school. On Tuesday, Feb. 20, search teams found her body in the Trinity River in a rural area north of Houston about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from her home, according to the capital murder criminal complaint filed Tuesday against Don Steven McDougal, a family friend accused of killing the young girl.Photo: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP
TEXAS — Unbearable grief on a face so young: Kristlyn Wood, a cousin of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, reacts during a vigil in Cunningham’s honor, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Livingston, Texas. Cunningham’s family reported her missing Thursday, Feb. 15, when she failed to return to her Livingston home after school. On Tuesday, Feb. 20, search teams found her body in the Trinity River in a rural area north of Houston about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from her home, according to the capital murder criminal complaint filed Tuesday against Don Steven McDougal, a family friend accused of killing the young girl.
Photo: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP
MANILA — Headband antennae art making a political statement: A protester looks at the crossed-out images of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., left, and Vice-President Sara Duterte as he joins a protest on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Manila, Philippines. They protested against a plan by some lawmakers to change parts of the constitution.Photo: Aaron Favila/AP
MANILA — Headband antennae art making a political statement: A protester looks at the crossed-out images of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., left, and Vice-President Sara Duterte as he joins a protest on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Manila, Philippines. They protested against a plan by some lawmakers to change parts of the constitution.
Photo: Aaron Favila/AP
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Going airborne against the ball and losing: Cavalry FC goalkeeper Marco Carducci allows a goal to Orlando City's Facundo Torres, not seen, during the first half of a CONCACAF Champions Cup soccer match in Langford, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Going airborne against the ball and losing: Cavalry FC goalkeeper Marco Carducci allows a goal to Orlando City’s Facundo Torres, not seen, during the first half of a CONCACAF Champions Cup soccer match in Langford, British Columbia, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024.
Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP
ALABAMA — With all the grim sadness in the world, it’s good to see sports bringing joy: Alabama guard Aaron Estrada (55) celebrates with fans after the team's win over Florida in overtime in an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, AL.Photo: Vasha Hunt/AP
ALABAMA — With all the grim sadness in the world, it’s good to see sports bringing joy: Alabama guard Aaron Estrada (55) celebrates with fans after the team’s win over Florida in overtime in an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Photo: Vasha Hunt/AP
ARGENTINA — If anything could mess it up, it would be a municipality: Coffins fill a flooded room of niches at the municipal cemetery in La Plata, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. A criminal investigation was opened after the new municipal government found hundreds of coffins and bags with human remains in disarray, many unidentified.Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP
ARGENTINA — If anything could mess it up, it would be a municipality: Coffins fill a flooded room of niches at the municipal cemetery in La Plata, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. A criminal investigation was opened after the new municipal government found hundreds of coffins and bags with human remains in disarray, many unidentified.
Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP
VATICAN — Big budget item in religious restoration: A view of scaffolding around the 17th century, 95ft-tall bronze canopy by Giovan Lorenzo Bernini surmounting the papal Altar of the Confession in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Works have started for the year-long, 700,000 euro restoration of the monumental Baldacchino, or canopy, of St. Peter's Basilica, pledging to complete the first comprehensive work on Bernini's masterpiece in 250 years before Pope Francis' big 2025 Jubilee.Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP
VATICAN — Big budget item in religious restoration: A view of scaffolding around the 17th century, 95ft-tall bronze canopy by Giovan Lorenzo Bernini surmounting the papal Altar of the Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Works have started for the year-long, 700,000 euro restoration of the monumental Baldacchino, or canopy, of St. Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the first comprehensive work on Bernini’s masterpiece in 250 years before Pope Francis’ big 2025 Jubilee.
Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP
LOS ANGELES — Mudslide prevention in the City of Angels: The Los Angeles skyline is seen from the Kenneth Hahn State recreation area in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest winter storm blows through, but so far, the state has escaped the severity of damage spawned by a recent atmospheric river.Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP
LOS ANGELES — Mudslide prevention in the City of Angels: The Los Angeles skyline is seen from the Kenneth Hahn State recreation area in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest winter storm blows through, but so far, the state has escaped the severity of damage spawned by a recent atmospheric river.
Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP

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