Today in photos (Feb. 17)

The mythical jester figure who reigns over Carnival, this year’s King Momo; the crowned and costumed Milton Junior and Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes hold up the key of the city at the official ceremony kicking off the five-day bash, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday Feb. 17, 2012. Merrymakers are expected to spend $640 million and generate 250,000 jobs, according to the city’s economic development department. (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

A model displays a creation by designer Corrie Nielsen during a fashion show at London Fashion Week, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)

Relatives prepare graves for their family members who died in a prison fire, in Comayagua, Honduras, Friday Feb. 17, 2012. As workers cleaned up the rubble of the century’s deadliest prison fire whose death toll rose to 356 Friday, a collective rage built among relatives who gathered at the morgue and said the official explanation of a crazed inmate who set fire to his bedding was absurd. (Estbean Felix / Associated Press)

Gabe Watson, left, talks with his attorney Brett Bloomston during his trial at the Mel Bailey Criminal Justice Center in Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 17, 2012. Watson is accused of killing his newlywed bride Tina Thomas Watson during a honeymoon scuba dive in Australia just days after their wedding in October 2003. (Dave Martin / Associated Press)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits a science and technology exhibit in Novosibirsk, about 2800 kilometers (1,750 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (Alexei Druzhinin / Ria Novosti Russian Government)