Comforting a lonely penguin — and other news in pictures
, The Times
Andrian Melka, a figurative sculptor in North Yorkshire, works on a 2m figure in clay for a private client which will be positioned at the edge of a forest to symbolise human connection with nature
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
The Monastery of Santa María de la Vid is filled with floodwaters after the Duero River overflowed its banks in Burgos, Spain
PACO SANTAMARIA/EPA
Racehorses named Nora the Xplorer and Kemboy visit Chinatown in Liverpool to celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Horse
JAMES SPEAKMAN/PA
A sun halo at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. This phenomenon appears when sunlight is refracted by millions of tiny ice crystals suspended in thin, high-altitude cirrus clouds
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The 3,000-year-old coffin of Ramses II at Neon in Battersea Power Station for what is described as its first and only exhibition in Britain. The coffin, newly unboxed, is one of 180 antiquities loaned from the Egyptian Museum
MATT ALEXANDER/PA
Pelicans hunt for sardines in Magdalena Bay, Mexico
TIMO DERSCH/TWOPOINTO MEDIA
The King and Idris Elba, an alumnus and ambassador of The King’s Trust, visit Barking & Dagenham College in east London
IAN VOGLER
The Lost Tribe perform at Trinidad & Tobago’s two-day carnival in the capital, Port of Spain
ANDREA DE SILVA/EPA
Serbian farmers block roads in the town of Bogatic to demand more government support and limits on agricultural imports
ZORANA JEVTIC/REUTERS
Window-cleaning is not for the faint of heart in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
ALTAF QADRI/AP
Eugene the giraffe calf at Toledo Zoo in Ohio has become a social media celebrity for his tuft of hair
TOLEDO ZOO AND AQUARIUM/SWNS
Hay is transported by a tractor with what appears to be impressive suspension in Sukkur, Pakistan
SHAHZAIB AKBER/EPA
A kestrel is taunted by a wasp as it tries to eat its meal in Tong, West Yorkshire
ELLIOT YOUNG/TWOPOINTO MEDIA
A road to nowhere by the River Sarthe after months of rainfall near Angers, western France
STEPHANE MAHE/REUTERS
Lunch time for a great egret in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City
MARCO UGARTE/AP
Luxmuralis, a cosmic light and sound show, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
GUY BELL/ALAMY
The Brazilian TV presenter Sabrina Sato leads the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school as its “queen of drums” at Rio Carnival
TITA BARROS/REUTERS
A lioness carries her cub as the pride moves from the open to their den in the Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya
MARY SCHRADER/SOLENT NEWS
Livia Kaiser of Switzerland in the singles skating competition at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina
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Team USA practises for the women’s team pursuit speed skating semi-final, which was ultimately lost to the gold medallists Canada
BEN CURTIS/AP
Canada’s Mark McMorris crashes during the men’s snowboarding slopestyle finals, missing out on a bronze at his fourth consecutive Games
LINDSEY WASSON/AP
Official cameras capture Nazgul the Czechoslovakian wolfdog crossing the finish line in a women’s cross-country skiing qualifier
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