A woman makes her way through falling snow in Balloch, Scotland, on March 1, 2018. An extreme cold snap swept across Europe, claiming lives and forcing the closure of airports in Scotland, Switzerland, France and Ireland and left hundreds of drivers stranded on snowy highways.
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North Korean members of the joint inter-Korean women's ice hockey team bid a tearful farewell to their South Korean companions as they leave the Olympic Village in Gangneung, a sub-host city of the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea on Feb. 26.
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Great tits flutter in the snow near Pomaz, Hungary, on Feb. 27.
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A Christian worshipper holds a wooden cross during a protest outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem on Feb. 27. Christian leaders said Tuesday they would reopen the famed church after Israeli officials suspended a plan to impose taxes on church properties in the holy city.
— Atef Safadi / EPA
Karen Pence, Vice President Mike Pence, first lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump attend a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol honoring Billy Graham on Feb. 28. Graham died at age 99 on Feb.22.
The nation's political leaders bowed their heads for a solemn salute to Graham, paying tribute to a man who ministered to presidents and other Americans of both parties.
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Visitors pay their respects as the casket of Billy Graham lies in honor in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 28. The pastor transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to a dozen presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history.
— Jacquelyn Martin / AP
A parishioner holds her AR-15 rifle during a blessing ceremony where couples were encouraged to bring the weapons to exchange or renew wedding vows at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 28.
With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, the couples brought dozens of unloaded AR-15s for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.
— Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA
People walk on the Pilat sand dune after snowfall in La Teste-de-Buch, France, on Feb. 28.
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The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin descends beneath a parachute near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Feb. 28.
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Revelers wearing motorcycle helmets get sprayed by firecrackers during the Beehive Firecracker festival in Tainan, Taiwan, on March 1.
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