The Week in Pictures | February 22 - 28

A man plays hockey on Lake Ontario at sunset in Kingston, Canada.

Scenic artist Dena D’ Angelo, right, and Virginia Belloni, left, work to touch up a giant Oscar statue on the Oscars Hollywood red carpet at the entrance to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

A surfer gets tubed in big waves in Redondo Beach.

A Syrian rebel fighter from the Islamist Failaq al-Rahman brigade comes out of a hiding position on the frontline against regime forces in the town of Arbin on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A partial ceasefire between Syria’s regime forces and non-jihadist rebel fighters is due to take effect at midnight local time.

Japanese college graduates watch cheerleaders on stage during a job hunting rally at a park in downtown Tokyo. Some 1,500 college graduates from various Japanese vocational schools attended the pep rally in an effort to gain positive enthusiasm for the upcoming job hiring season in Japan.

Israeli border police frisk a suspected Palestinians youth next to the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli police have taken several security measures in the old city to limit the stabbing attacks against Israelis.

Baby polar bear twins head outside for the first time, at the Dierenrijk Zoo, in Nuenen, The Netherlands. The twin brothers were born in November 2015.

French President Francois Hollande arrives aboard a boat in Taputapuatea, during a two-day visit in the overseas territory of French Polynesia.

Iraqi supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wave the national flag as they listen to his speech during a demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, calling for governmental reform and elimination of corruption.

Police scuffle with activists as they try to reach the EDSA Shrine during a protest along a highway in Manila, commemorating the 30th anniversary of a bloodless popular revolt that ended the iron rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

Iranian women sit at a bus station decorated with electoral posters of the upcoming parliamentary elections in downtown Tehran.

A general view shows a built up pile of waste on a street in Beirut’s northern suburb of Jdeideh. Lebanon canceled a plan to export its waste to Russia, sending Beirut’s six-month garbage crisis back to square one as mountains of trash choke the city’s air and streets.

Bicycle riders participate in a night carnival in commemoration of the 6 years of Bicycle World Forum in Santiago, Chile.

Nick Mobley helps clean up a house owned by a family friend after a storm hit Appomattox County, Va. A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region.

British singer Adele performs on stage during the BRIT Awards 2016 in London.

Visitors visit the upside-down family size house in Taipei, Taiwan. The three story upside-down family size house attracts hundreds of visitor’s who are amused with the exhibit.

Models wait for their turn during an audition for the upcoming Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2016 in Mumbai, India. Around 100 national and international female models participated in the audition from which five got selected.

People gather in Bronson Park in Kalamazoo, Mich. for a candlelight vigil for the victims of a series of random shootings in the Kalamazoo area over the weekend. Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo Township was charged with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shootings and then arraigned on the charges.

Fighters loyal to Libya’s internationally recognized government celebrate as they come close to seizing the centre of the eastern coastal city after a string of gains against Islamist militias including the Islamic State group.

An Iranian woman shows her inked finger after casting her vote in the parliamentary and Experts Assembly election at a polling station at Ershad Mosque in Tehran, Iran.

A model wears a creation for Diesel Black Gold women’s Fall-Winter 2016-2017 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Italy.

Oppositions lawmakers released tear gas in Kosovo’s parliament today trying to prevent the election of a new president, while crowds of anti-government protesters rallied outside the building.

A car covered in snow standing in a parking lot in a wintery landscape near Rettenberg, Germany.

A visitor of the Sonnenbad public pool swims during the season opening in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Migrants shoes are set at the entrance of a mosque during Friday prayer in a makeshift migrants camp near Calais, France.

A stray dog stands among outboard motors that were used by refugees and migrants to reach the Greek northern island of Lesbos.

A passenger train derailed in the Netherlands after it collided with a hydraulic crane, leaving the train driver dead and seven people injured.

Indian residents of the eastern New Delhi neighborhood of Sanjay Camp use hoses to fill water jugs from a water distribution truck, which arrives daily in the neighborhood to supply the low income colony with water.

A nurse attends to a patient at the Yanda Hospital in the Hebei Province of China. The privately owned Yanda hospital, situated 34 kilometres east of Beijing city, is part of a co-ordinated development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area.

A small, fixed-wing plane struck several parked vehicles as it crashed near Whiteman Airport in Pacoima. No one on the ground was injured.

An Afghan refugee throws a child in the air at the transit center for refugees near the northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, while waiting for a permission to cross the border into Serbia. More than 600 Afghan refugees were stranded at the transit center in Tabanovce in northern Macedonia.

One of seven fishing boats is blown up by the Indonesian government in Batam. Indonesia sank 27 impounded foreign boats as the world’s largest archipelago nation stepped up a campaign against illegal fishing in its waters.

A Buddhist novice holds a candle during a ceremony at the Dhammakaya Temple in Bangkok on the occasion of Makha Bucha day. The Makha Bucha festival is observed in Thailand on the full moon of the third lunar month and commemorates the day when 1,250 monks gathered to be ordained by the Buddha.

A photo taken from the Macedonian side of the border shows a man holding a baby as migrants from Afghanistan gather behind a fence and barbed wire at the Greek-Macedonian border, near Gevgelija.

Damage at a service station after Cyclone Winston hit Fiji.

A member of the community prays before the start of the Kalamazoo Community Prayer Service at Centerpoint Church in Kalamazoo, Mich. A gunman who seemed to choose his victims at random opened fire outside an apartment complex, a car dealership and a restaurant in Michigan, killing six people in a rampage that lasted nearly seven hours.