SpaceX launch, New York snow, Notre-Dame reconstruction and more: Top 10 pictures of the week

A selection of top news pictures from US, Asia, Europe and around the globe

Published: February 16, 2024 20:50 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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James Hendrix of Guam competes in the men's 100-meter freestyle heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Image Credit: AP

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Visitors look at a giant inflatable heart called 'Chubby Hearts', an installation by designer Anya Hindmarch, on Valentine's Day in Hong Kong, China February 14, 2024. Image Credit: Reuters

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A dragon dancer performs at a temple fair on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon in Beijing on February 15, 2024. Image Credit: AFP

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An aerial image shows homes along Scenic Drive standing on the edge of a cliff above the Pacific Ocean after a landslide following heavy rains in Dana Point, California, on February 15, 2024. Multi-million-dollar homes crouched on a California clifftop got a little bit closer to the edge when a landslide brought tons of rock and soil crashing into the sea. Image Credit: AFP

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Waves hit the shore in the port of Le Guilvinec, western France on February 10, 2024. The seafront of Britany will be in orange alert for flooding on February 11, 2024, due to the storm Karlotta in the UK. Image Credit: AFP

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People walk through the falling snow in Central Park in New York City on February 13, 2024. Millions of people in the northeastern US were engulfed by snow on February 13 as a powerful winter storm battered the region causing flight cancellations and closing schools. Image Credit: AFP

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People work on the reconstruction site of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on Febuary 14, 2024 in Paris as the authority charged with restoring the monument after a devastating 2019 fire said the scaffolding around the spire of Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral has begun to come down. Image Credit: AFP

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A regional train approaches the station of Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on a misty Tuesday morning, Feb. 13, 2024. Image Credit: AP

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center with the Intuitive Machines' Nova-C moon lander mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 15, 2024. The IM-1 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program to understand more about the Moon’s surface ahead of the coming Artemis missions. Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander would be the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in over 50 years. It is expected to land near the south pole of the moon on February 22. Image Credit: AFP

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This photograph taken in Paris on February 14, 2024 shows the rehearsal of the 'Luminiscence' show held in the Saint-Eustache church. Image Credit: AFP

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