The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
Philadelphia firefighters work the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia, where ice has formed from the water used to fight the fire. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
A Philadelphia firefighter works the scene of an overnight blaze in west Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
A young Chinese traveler wheels her bag as others wait in the departure area for a train at a local railway station in Beijing, China. Millions of Chinese will travel home to visit families in mass during the Spring Festival holiday period that begins with the Lunar New Year on February 19. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Penguins dressed in Chinese traditional costumes walk at Harbin Polar Land decorated with Chinese Lunar New Year theme in Harbin in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province Monday. (AP Photo)
Forest ranger Stefan Wichmann checks the gigantic icicles and the ice walls during his inspection tour along the dragon canyon (Drachenschlucht) at the Thuringian Forest near Eisenach, Germany, Monday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
A Hindu holy man smokes marijuana sitting at the courtyard of the Pashupatinath temple as devotees start arriving on the eve of “Shivaratri” festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Revelers of the Vila Isabel samba school perform during the first day of carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty
People wait for the carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images
Ukrainian servicemen sit on an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) at a checkpoint near the town of Svitlodarsk, Donetsk region. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to drive in the direction of the embattled town of Debaltseve in Artemivsk, Ukraine. A ceasefire that went into effect two days ago has been generally respected aside from Debaltseve, where pro-Russian rebels claim to have surrounded thousands of Ukrainian fighters and the battle continues. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Syrian children wearing orange jumpsuits stand inside a cage placed near the debris of a building destroyed in bombardment by Syrian government forces on the rebel-held Damascus subrb of Douma, during a protest to denounce the continuing killing of civilians in the Syrian conflict and the failure of the international community to stop the carnage. During the protest organised by Syrian activists, the children were immitating Jordanian air force pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh, who was reportedly burned alive by jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group, an act that was condemned by Muslim and Western leaders. ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images
A man is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, outside of the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Egyptian Coptic men mourn for 21 Coptic Egyptian men seized by Islamic State militants in the central city of Sirte, Libya, more than a month ago at the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State (IS) group militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news on February 16, 2015 in the village of Al-Awar in Egypt’s southern province of Minya. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images
Flowers are pictured in front of the cultural center Krudttonden in Copenhagen, Denmark. Shots were fired during a debate on Islam and free speech on February 14, 2015, and killed one person and wounded several police officers after opening fire. A alleged offender to Saturday’s shooting attacks was killed by police yesterday. The 22-year old killed Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein are suspicious of two shootings in the city at a freedom of expression event and a synagogue which killed two people and wounded five. SOEREN BIDSTRUP/AFP/Getty Images []
