Today's best photos: from Muay Thai Guinness record to a carnivorous plant

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

Muay Thai boxers perform the "Wai Khru" to set a Guinness World Record during a Thai martial art festival at Rajabhakti Park in Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand, February 6, 2023. REUTERS / Athit Perawongmetha TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A man holds his pet fox as people wait for a bus in Kyiv, Ukraine. AP

Senior pupils clad in traditional attire bow during a joint graduation and coming-of-age ceremony at the Dongmyung Girls' High School, in Seoul, South Korea. AP

Smoke billows from the port as rescuers work at the scene of a collapsed building in Iskenderun, Turkey. Getty Images

A long-exposure image shows the US Capitol building before President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, during the State of the Union address, in Washington. Reuters

Activists of the environmental non-profit Greenpeace take part in a protest on a Shell platform. The rig was on its way to the North Sea, to expand an existing oil and gas field. AFP

A man transports chickens on a scooter to a market in Kathmandu, Nepal. Cases of bird flu have been confirmed in three places in the Kathmandu Valley. EPA

Women cry near the rubble after an earthquake in Hatay, Turkey. Reuters

A woman looks at a plastic bottle used to provide light in her shack in an informal settlement, in Centurion, South Africa. It contains a solution of water and and household bleach, which also disinfects the water. Scheduled blackouts have burdened Africa's most industrialised economy for years. AFP

Waste collectors paddle polystyrene boats as they look for plastic and glass to recycle in a creek in Yangon, Myanmar. AFP

A man naps by a life-size statue of the Predator film character at a mall in Beijing. AFP

A yellow-vented Bulbul eats a worm from a carnivorous tropical pitcher plant, on the outskirt of Melaka town, Malaysia. AP

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