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Awesome photos of the month: February

March 02, 2015 08:34 IST

Awesome photos of the month: February Here are some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of February.

The glow of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is seen in the horizon in the Kawartha Lakes region, southern Ontario. Photograph: Fred Thornhill/Reuters

Labourers work at the installation site of a new railway track on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photograph: Jayanta Dey/Reuters

A view of a Van Gogh-inspired hot air balloon being inflated during the Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta at Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga province, north of Manila. Photograph: Erik De Castro/Reuters

People walk on the flooded St. Mark's Square during a period of seasonal high water and on the first day of carnival, in Venice. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Investigative personnel work at the scene of a cafe shooting in Oesterbro, in Copenhagen. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

Firefighters stand by a brazier as they demonstrate in London. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Pro-democracy lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung throws an object at Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang (not pictured) to demand a universal retirement protection scheme during the annual budget report at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

Herdsmen from the Kyrgyz ethnic group hold their falcons as they ride on horses during a hunting competition in Akqi county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters

Pakistan Rangers soldier gestures as he instructs a female student of Nadirshaw Eduljee Dinshaw University during a counter-terrorism training demonstration at the Rangers Shooting & Saddle Club on the outskirts of Karachi. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Patrick ‘Deep Dish’ Bertoletti competes in the 23rd annual Wing Bowl at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Mark Makela/Reuters

A girl dressed in a Hanbok, a Korean traditional costume, stands in front of a barbed-wire fence, as her parents prepare for a memorial service for North Korean family members, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters

A model swings her purse at photographers as she gets into a limo following the Tory Burch Fall/Winter 2015 collection show during New York Fashion Week. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge during extreme cold temperatures in Toronto. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters

Boys play basketball in the facilities of Belarus' Republican Clinic of Speleotherapy within a salt mine, as part of their treatment, near the town of Soligorsk, south of Minsk. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

A fighter of the Kurdish People's Protection Units fires an anti-aircraft weapon from Tel Tawil village in the direction of Islamic State fighters positioned in the countryside of the town of Tel Tamr. Photograph: Rodi Said/Reuters

A partially frozen American Falls in sub freezing temperatures is seen in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Photograph: Lindsay DeDario/Reuters

Goats jumps to cross a stream as they are driven by a herdsman at Dashiwo village, on the outskirts of Beijing. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A man climbs an artificial wall of ice in the city of Liberec February 8, 2015. Freezing temperatures hit Czech Republic over the weekend. Photograph: David W Cerny/Reuters