内容摘要：Anna Marchenko, the daughter of a missing Ukrainian serviceman, was elated when a released POW said they had seen her father.

Anna Marchenko, the daughter of a missing Ukrainian serviceman, was elated when a released POW said they had seen her father.

and sometimes deaths. I ended up having a piece of a burning firecracker land inside my left shoe. I’m OK — it just burned a hole through my sock and left a small blister.I used a flash for some of my photos to capture people jumping through the fire, given their speed and the low light available. One picture my photo editors especially liked shows a man holding a lit firework, his face silhouetted by its bright light. Behind him, you can see the empty branches of trees in the park I shot in.

Nowruz marks the start of spring. Soon, leaves will sprout again.An Iranian woman jumps over a bonfire celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)An Iranian woman jumps over a bonfire celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

See more AP photography atNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of New Orleans to

with parades and partying, leaving behind an avalanche of waste.

At dawn Wednesday, a motley waste management crew embarked on the unenviable mission of cleaning up tens of thousands of pounds of detritus spread across the city’s historic French Quarter.There were other cancellations and service disruptions in some coastal areas, including a shutdown of the Block Island Ferry because of adverse sea conditions.

Coastal flood advisories and gale warnings were issued for many coastal areas of New England and New York on Thursday.The storm was then expected to pass, leaving light rain and patchy drizzle, on Friday.

“It’s just really a nice dose of rain for the region — not expecting much for flooding,” Pederson said.Snow was expected to be confined to mountainous areas, but accumulations there were possible.