World in Pictures, February 27, 2013: Fire in India, Madness’ new album cover and Mindy McCready’s funeral (GALLERY)

Feb 27 2013 By Cheryl Mullin

TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of smoke rising after a fire broke out early in the morning at an illegal six-story plastics market in Kolkata, India; Sir Peter Blake on the cover of Madness’ new album Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da and a mourner standing over the casket of country music star Mindy McCready during her funeral ceremony at the Crossroads Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Florida.

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Smoke rises after a fire broke out early in the morning at an illegal six-story plastics market in Kolkata, India
Artwork for the new Madness album, Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da.
Jill Stancel places her hand on the casket of country music star Mindy McCready during the funeral ceremony at the Crossroads Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Florida
Skiers in historic costumes and on historic skies ski down the slope of the Nara ski ressort near Acquarossa in the Blenio valley, southern Switzerland
Japan's 114-year-old Misao Okawa, center, poses with her 2-month-old great-grandson Hibiki Okawa along with the Guinness World Records certificate at a nursing home in Osaka, western Japan
Gregg Wallace at the launch of Remember A Charity's pop-up restaurant Café de Mort at The Crypt at St Andrew Holborn Church in London
Models walk the catwalk as they wear designs by Mariana Dappiano during the 2013 Buenos Aires Fashion Week in Buenos Aires Argentina
A U.S. soldier with the NATO- led forces walks at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan