Today's best photos, from base jumping in Kuala Lumpur to Candelaria Day dancing

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

A base jumper leaps from the 300-metre high open deck of Malaysia's landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower during the International Tower Jump in Kuala Lumpur on February 3, 2023. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)

At the Kersten family costume workshop in Binche, Belgium, Quentin Kersten stands in the middle of a room full of ostrich feather hats. AP

Firefighters put out a blaze after Russian shelling hit a shopping centre in Kherson, Ukraine. AP

People walk on the staircase before Pope Francis's meeting with young people and catechists in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. AFP

The Mucajai river in the Yanomami indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil. AFP

Worshippers take part in the traditional ceremony of Iemanja, the goddess of the sea of the syncretic Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, in Bahia, Brazil. AFP

A volunteer places parts of a yurt, a traditional nomadic tent that can be used to keep people warm in freezing weather, in a truck while preparing a shipment of aid for residents of Ukraine, in the village of Kainazar in the Almaty region, Kazakhstan. Reuters

A light show during the opening ceremony of the baseball Caribbean Series in Caracas, Venezuela. EPA

A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Montana. The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over American airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials said. The Pentagon would not confirm that the balloon in the photo was the surveillance balloon. AP

Women in traditional dress dance to celebrate El Dia de la Candelaria, or Candelaria Day, in San Fernando, Chiapas, Mexico. The women are dressed in zoque dresses and charro hats for a three-day celebration involving dance to drums and reed flutes. EPA

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