Passengers get off a gondola docked along a canal during a low tide in Venice, Italy. Some of Venice's secondary canals have practically dried up lately due a prolonged spell of low tides linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system.
Kashmiri Muslim women pray as the head priest displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Art students demonstrate in Athens, Greece, during a protest against legislative changes that put them on a par with school leavers for state pay and qualifications.
Afghan vendors selling roses wait for customers on the occasion of Valentine's Day in the Shar-e-Naw area of Kabul. Florists with wilting bouquets of red roses and street vendors clutching unsold balloons were heart-broken, after the Taliban morality police banned Valentine's Day celebrations.
A forest fire nears the town of Chiguayante, in the province of Concepcion, Chile. More than 5,600 local firefighters, with backup from Mexico, Colombia and Spain, were actively battling 89 fires out of a total of 311 burning a week into the disaster, officials said.
Volunteers give out aid to people in Antakya, southern Turkey. Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night into Wednesday, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings downed in Turkey and Syria by a massive earthquake.
Protesters walk on the Catalans' bridge as they take part in a demonstration on the third day of nationwide rallies against deeply unpopular pension changes, in Toulouse, southwestern France.