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Pascal Wehrlein of Germany, a Formula One racecar driver, drove during winter testing at Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain: photo by Dan Istitene via The New York Times, 23 February 2016

 

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 Robert Creeley (1927-2005): Was, from Places, 1990

 

Visitors made their way around the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Spain: photo by Manu Fernandez/Associated Press, 23 February 2016

A Palestinian child ran to take cover during an outdoor school lesson as rain fell in the West Bank city of Al-Azariya. The Israeli Army dismantled the prefab classrooms there.: photo by Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse, 23 February 2016
 

Emergency services personnel responded after a train derailed when it hit a hydraulic crane near Dalfsen, the Netherlands, killing one and injuring seven: photo by Bram Van De Biezen/Agence France-Presse, 23 February 2016
 

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia attended a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall on Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow: photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/Agence France-Presse, 23 February 2016

Migrants near Idomeni, Greece, stood behind a fence at the Greek border with Macedonia, where they have been stranded by travel restrictions: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 23 February 2016

Clothes belonging to migrants were left on a beach of Siculiana, Sicily. Two migrants drowned off the coast of Sicily, Italy’s coast guard said.: photo by Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters, 19 February 2016

A migrant waited to enter Macedonia from Greece near Gevgelija, Macedonia.  No word on whether he was allowed to enter.: photo by Ognen Teofilvovski/Reuters,19 February 2016

A model backstage with a creation from the 2nd Skin Company’s Fall/Winter 2016 collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid: photo by Susana Vera/Reuters, 22 February 2016

Buddhist monks prayed during Makha Bucha Day in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to honor Buddha and his teachings on the day of the full moon in the third lunar month: photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters, 22 February 2016

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem mourned Rabbi Yochanan Sofer of the Erlau dynasty, a Holocaust survivor who died at age 93: photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press, 22 February 2016

 A sleeping Syrian child and a Syrian girl who had been begging on the streets of Istanbul: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 22 February 2016

A man walked by a sleeping Syrian child and a Syrian girl who had been begging on the streets of Istanbul: photo by Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse, 22 February 2016

 

Four Vietnamese fishing boats were destroyed by Indonesia’s navy in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, after their captains were accused of fishing illegally in Indonesian waters: photo by Antara Foto/Reuters, 22 February 2016

A young girl who arrived with other refugees and migrants in Mytilene, a port on the Greek island of Lesbos: photo by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 22 February 2016

 

Refugees and migrants waiting to be allowed to cross the Greek border into Macedonia slept next to shipping containers near the city of Polikastro, Greece: photo by Aris Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters, 22 February 2016

Refugees and migrants waiting to be allowed to cross the Greek border into Macedonia slept next to shipping containers near the city of Polikastro, Greece: photo by Aris Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters, 22 February 2016

A worker from the capital development authorities attaches a billboard to poles over a highway in Islamabad, Pakistan: photo by Anjum Naveed/AP, 23 February 2016

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow: photo by Natalia Kolesnikov/AFP, 23 February 2016

 
Monir polishes a pot at an aluminium factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by Abir Abdullah/EPA, 23 February 2016

A full moon rises over the Statue of Liberty, seen from the Port Liberte neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J.: photo by Julio Cortez / AP, 23 February 2016

 

A group of students pose for a photograph as they tour the Naksan ‘art village’ wearing 1970′s style school uniforms as part of an educational initiative, in Seoul: photo by Ed Jones/AFP, 23 February 2016

Supporters of US Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Mike Nelson / EPA, 23 February 2016

 

Supporters of US Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Mike Nelson / EPA, 23 February 2016

 

Four of eight confiscated Vietnamese fishing boats are destroyed in Mempawah Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, together with the Indonesian Navy, destroyed 30 foreign fishing vessels in different locations across the country, which were seized earlier for illegal fishing in Indonesian waters.: photo by Reuters, 23 February 2016

A view beyond the observation tower of the Marina Bay Sands towards public and private residential apartment buildings in Singapore: photo by Edgar Su/Reuters, 22 February 2016

 
People look out from the observation tower of the Marina Bay Sands amongst public and private residential apartment buildings in Singapore: photo by Edgar Su/Reuters, 22 February 2016

 

Refugees from Afghanistan sit beside railway tracks near a transit center for refugees at the Macedonian-Serbian border in the northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce today. More than 600 Afghan refugees were stranded since Saturday at the transit centre while waiting for a permission to cross the border into Serbia. Serbia says the decision to block refugees from Afghanistan from passing through the so-called Balkan migrant corridor has been made by Austria and Slovenia: photo by Boris Grdanoski/AP, 22 February 2016