March 01, 2014
1 Members of the main opposition Republican People's Party throw fake Euro bills into the air during an anti-government protest denouncing a corruption scandal that has shaken Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, in Ankara, Turkey.
2 A woman plays a piano in a street near Kyiv's Independence square, Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces tightened their grip on Crimea as the Kremlin vowed to help restore calm on the restive Ukrainian peninsula and Washington warned of "costs" to Moscow should it order in troops.
3 In central Kharkiv, pro-Russian protesters drag a wounded man during clashes with supporters of Ukraine's new government as pro-Russia activists tried to seize the regional governor's headquarters, Interfax news agency said.
4 Performers acting as Japanese soldiers take part in a re-enactment of the historic Independence Movement in Seoul, South Korea, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the declaration of the nation's independence from Japanese colonization on March 1, 1919.
5 People carry the coffin of Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia to the Nuestra Señora de la Palma Church in Algeciras, southern Spain. Paco de Lucia, 66, one of the world's greatest guitarists, who dazzled audiences with his lightning-speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, died in Mexico Feb. 26, 2014.
6 Mah Meri women wearing their traditional dresses perform the "Main Jo-oh" dance during the Ari Muyang festival in the village of Sungai Bumbun on Pulau Carey, some 140 km (87 miles) southwest of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
7 A hamster wears a whistle and a ribbon in Thailand's national colors as he is placed by his owner at one of the protesters' encampment in Bangkok's shopping district.
8 Dancers from the Dragoes da Real samba school perform on a float during a carnival parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
9 A boy herds ducks in a canal in Samroang Kandal village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
10 Participants march during Sydney's annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras night parade in Australia. Some 10,000 revelers on 144 individual floats marked the journey down Oxford Street, hub of the city's gay and lesbian nightlife, in a vibrant show featuring drag queens, political parodies and plenty of glitter.
March 03, 2014
1 A Ukrainian soldier stands behind a fence while unidentified armed men block the headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol.
2 An unidentified man braves the elements to run on the National Mall as snow falls in Washington, prompting area schools and the U.S. federal government to close.
3 Gold and silver bars and coins are stacked on a table in the safe deposit boxes room of the ProAurum gold house in Munich, Germany. The threat of war between Ukraine and Russia sent investors scurrying for relative safety Monday.
4 Actress Lupita Nyong'o celebrates winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role award for '12 Years a Slave' in the press room during the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, March 2, 2014.
5 Members of the African National Congress Women's League sing in front of the courthouse ahead of the trial of Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius in Pretoria.
6 Attendants serve tea before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
7 Protesters picket the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines, to protest the recent use of water cannons by Chinese coast guard to drive away Filipino fishermen off the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
8 Thai Muslim villagers prepare birds and cages for a bird-singing contest in Yala province in southern Thailand, March 2, 2014.
9 Justin Savidis dogs await lineup in the musher lot before the official restart of the Iditarod dog sled race in Willow, Alaska, March 2, 2014.
10 A dog dressed up in a panda outfit takes part in an exhibition called "Pandas on Tour" in front of the Taipei City Hall on March 2, 2014.
March 04, 2014
1 Indian women sort red chili peppers to dry at Shertha village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
2 A Tibetan Monk carries a portrait of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during festivities marking the last day of the Tibetan New Year, or Losar, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
3 U.S. President Barack Obama sits with Emily Hare as he visits 3- and 4-year olds in a pre-kindergarten class at Powell Elementary School in Washington, D.C.
4 Men with helmets are hit by oranges during the traditional "battle of the oranges" held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin, Italy.
5 Performers from the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
6 Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar Subrata Roy, with his face smeared with ink thrown by a lawyer, walks into the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The top Indian businessman faces charges of failure to return billions of dollars to investors. Roy's Sahara conglomerate is well known throughout India because it co-owns a Formula One team and sponsored the Indian cricket team until recently.
7 A large snowball fight breaks out on The Mall in Washington, D.C., Mar. 3, 2014. A powerful winter storm hit the U.S. East Coast with freezing rain, snow and arctic cold, forcing cancellation of about 2,250 flights, shutting down Washington and closing schools and local governments.
8 British parliamentarians Lord St John of Bletso (R) and Julian Huppert MP (2nd R) take part in the annual parliamentary pancake race on Shrove in central London.
9 A wrestler climbs a rope as he exercises at a traditional Indian wrestling center called Akhaara in Mumbai.
10 A stock trader dressed up as nun works at the traditional stock exchange carnival in Frankfurt, Germany.
11 A couple looks out over the partially frozen American side of the Niagara Falls during sub-freezing temperatures in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Mar. 3, 2014.
12 A model presents a creation of designer Iris van Herpen as part of her Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection during Paris Fashion Week, France.
March 05, 2014
1 A group of Nepalese Buddhist boys are seen before they attend Bratabandha, a coming-of-age ceremony, in Kathmandu.
2 A wave-like cloud looms over Sydney's Manly Beach, Australia, during an afternoon storm front. The storm, which generated little rain, was blown out to sea.
3 A petitioner is pushed to the ground by a paramilitary policeman after she ran into a cordoned off area near a national flag pole on Tiananmen Square and threw up flyers to protest her case of injustice, during a national flag raising ceremony early in the morning before the opening session of the annual National People's Congress at the nearby Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.
4 Bodyguards of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah stand guard as they listen to his speech during a campaign rally in Deh Sabz district on the outskirts of Kabul.
5 Bianca, a chihuahua, competes in the second annual Doggie Gras Parade and Fat Cat Tuesday Celebration at the Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, California, Mar. 4, 2014. Bianca won the contest and was named queen of the doggie Gras parade.
6 Oscar Pistorius leans over to speak to his legal counsel from the dock in court on the third day of his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day in 2013.
7 Wayne Garrett of Canada makes final touches to his art installation "Cloud" ,made up of 5000 new and recycled lightbulbs, along the Marina Bay in Singapore.
8 Japanese Misao Okawa, the world's oldest woman, eats her birthday cake as she celebrates her 116th birthday in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
9 A frontier soldier from the People's Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire as part of training in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, China.
10 South African sea bears play together in their compund at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany.
March 06, 2014
1 Samoyed dogs are judged during the first day of the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, central England.
2 A Dogue de Bordeaux awaits during the first day of the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, central England.
3 A drone flies in the sky as a solar halo is observed in Lima, March 5, 2014. The optical phenomenon is caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high clouds.
4 Police detain protesters during a demonstration against Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika's decision to run for a fourth term, in Algiers.
5 A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a weapon in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria.
6 A sardine is carried in a coffin during the Entierro de la Sardina (The Funeral Of The Sardine) in the Basque port town of Portugalete, Mar. 5, 2014. The ceremonial funeral and burning of a sardine figurine, representative of the excesses of the carnival season, coincides with Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent.
7 Locals and fire-fighters try to control a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But no one was in the building at the time of fire and there were no casualties, a police official said.
8 People stand around a pit to rescue a horse that fell in, in Jalandhar, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, Mar. 5, 2014. The horse was rescued from the pit, dug to erect electric poles, after a two-hour rescue operation, according to local reports.
9 New South Korean military officers salute during the joint commission ceremony of over 5,000 new military officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines at the military headquarters in Gyeryong, south of Seoul.
10 A light installation titled "Digital Wattle" which is an adaptation from Australia's floral emblem is illuminated with Singapore's financial skyline silhouetted in the background, in Singapore.
March 07, 2014
1 View of South America and portions of North America and Africa from the Mercury Dual Imaging System’s wide-angle camera aboard MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging). (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)
2 Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars, as shown in this artist's conception. These loops give off extra heat, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detects as infrared light.
3 An Indian Muslim girl performs martial arts during a function to mark International Women’s Day at a school in Hyderabad. International Women's Day will be marked on March 8.
4 Debris cover a street and flames rise from a building following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces during the Friday prayer in the Sukkari neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo.
5 An Iranian skydiver jumps from a helicopter outside Tehran.
6 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervises a flight drill of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 2620, honored with the Title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.
7 U.S. warship the USS Truxtun sails in Bosporus Strait en route to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Navy destroyer is participating in exercises with Romania and Bulgaria and is expected to be in the Black Sea for several days amid a stand-off over Russia's military incursion into Ukraine.
8 Artists in the colors of Russia perform at the Fisht Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
9 Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
10 An anti-government protester is detained by police during clashes with security forces at Altamira square in Caracas, Venezuela, Mar. 6, 2014.
11 Movie fans enjoy a hot bubble bath while watching a movie at the Hot Tub Movie Club in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mar. 6, 2014.
12 Like a frozen waterfall, a wall of ice more than 40-feet-high stretches down to the high-tide line on Otter Cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean at Acadia National Park in Maine, USA, Mar. 6, 2014.
13 A car passes a 50-foot snowman named "Granddaddy" in Gilman, Minnesota, USA, Mar. 6, 2014.
March 08, 2014
1 Mahant Trikaal Bhawanta, leader of the first group of women sadhvi, or Hindu holy women, performs evening rituals on the banks of River Yamuna in Allahabad, India.
2 A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. The Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement.
3 A Palestinian women throws a stone towards Israeli troops at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian women marked International Women's Day by marching to the checkpoint where clashes broke out with Israeli troops.
4 Participants form a female symbol as part of celebrations for International Women's Day in Manila, Philippines.
5 Bulgarian men wearing high heels run during the second edition of Bulgaria's "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes", in Sofia as part of an international awareness campaign designed to raise awareness and stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence.
6 An antique ice boat sails behind a cyclist across the frozen Hudson Raiver near, Astor Point in Barrytown, New York, Mar. 7, 2014. Ice sailors from the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club and other ice sailors on the upper Hudson river are enjoying one of the best and longest seasons of sailing in recent memory as Arctic temperatures for much of the winter in the Northeast United States have built deep ice packs allowing sailors to launch their heavy antique wooden boats.
7 A woman cries while meeting President Barack Obama at the Coral Reef High School in Miami, Florida, USA, Mar. 7, 2014.
8 A farmer falls as he tries to hold the rope of a pair of oxen as they race through a paddy field during the Kakkoor Kalavayal festival at Kakkoor village in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
9 Dave LeMote wipes down a post clock at Electric Time Company, Inc. in Medfield, Massachusetts, Mar. 7, 2014. Most Americans will set their clocks 60 minutes forward before heading to bed Saturday night, but daylight saving time officially starts Sunday at 2 a.m. local time (0700GMT).
10 Fireworks from China's Liuyang New Year Fireworks dot the sky on the fourth weekend of the 5th Philippine International Pyromusical Competition at the seaside Mall of Asia at suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines.
11 People watch a circus performance during the traditional Kaziukas fair, a large annual folk arts and craft fair in Vilnius, Lithuania, Mar. 7, 2014.
12 Hot air balloons float over Lake Burley Griffin during the Balloon Spectacular in Canberra, Australia.
13 Victor Peralta is seen during the 10th annual Buenos Aires Tattoo Show in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar. 7, 2014.
March 10, 2014
1 A Ukrainian serviceman (2nd L) shakes hand with an armed man, believed to be a Russian serviceman, at the Ukrainian military base in the village of Perevalnoye near the Crimean city of Simferopol. Crimea's pro-Russian prime minister will give people living there the choice of taking Russian or Ukrainian passports if the Ukrainian territory becomes part of Russia in a March 16 referendum.
2 A member of a youth group holds roses as he prays for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
3 A security guard checks his mobile phone beside the Baroque masterpiece 'Supper at Emmaus', by Italian painter Caravaggio, after it was installed at a gallery in Hong Kong.
4 About a dozen nuns, who were freed after being held by rebels for over three months, arrive at the Syrian border with Lebanon at the Jdaydeh Yaboos crossing, Syria.
5 Residents and Civil Defense troops salvage belongings from homes flooded by the Acre River, which continues to rise from weeks of heavy rainfall in the region including northern Bolivia and eastern Peru, in Rio Branco, Acre state, Brazil, March 9, 2014.
6 A girl jumps next to a picture of late Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez at Plaza Bolivar in Caracas. Followers of Chavez are commemorating the first anniversary of his death this week, March 9, 2014.
7 An Indian chef carves a watermelon during a fruit and vegetable carving compitition at 'Culinary Art India 2014' at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. 250 chefs come together, under one roof to show-off their culinary skills.
8 This photo released by the Polk County Sheriff's Office shows a plane nose-diving into the ground after getting tangled with a parachutist, at the South Lakeland Airport in Mulberry, Florida, Both the pilot and jumper were hospitalized with minor injuries, March 8, 2014.
9 The hands of Claudia Breidbach, right, demonstrating her bionic hand that is steerable by a mobile phone or iPod via Bluetooth to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and British Prime Minister David Cameron during the opening day of the computer fair CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.
10 Tibetian protesters hold photographs of people who have self-immolated to protest China's policy towards Tibet in a park across from the United Nations in New York.
11 A Malaysian ethnic Chinese child reacts to the camera as others light candles during a vigil for missing Malaysia Airlines passengers at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur.
12 A Crimean Tatar man prays at a mosque in Bakhchysarai, Ukraine. The arrival of Russian troops in Crimea has opened old wounds among the Crimean Tatars, who once again fear they will be unwelcome in their homeland. This time, however, some are organizing community watch patrols to protect their families and homes in what they still consider part of Ukraine.
March 11, 2014
1 Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, is helped out of the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he, Commander Oleg Kotov of the Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins of NASA, landed in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
2 Jordanian lawyers and judges burn a representation of the Israeli flag during a strike inside the Palace of Justice in Amman, protesting the killing of Jordanian judge Raed Zueter by Israeli soldiers. The protesters demand the deportation of the Israeli ambassador and the immediate release of Ahmed Daqamseh. Daqamseh is serving a life sentence for killing Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 during an outing near Jordan's northwestern border with Israel.
3 National Food Authority workers walk atop sacks of rice as they make an inventory of rice stocks at a government rice warehouse in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
4 An Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopter flies overhead as Afghan men attend the burial of the country's influential Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim during his funeral procession in Kabul.
5 A woman prays in the snowfall for the deceased of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
6 Racegoers watch horse racing on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival in Gloucestershire, western England.
7 Riot police use a water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters near the Middle East Technical University (ODTU) in Ankara, Turkey. A 15-year-old Turkish boy, who suffered a head injury during anti-government protests in Istanbul last June, died after spending months in a coma, triggering renewed clashes between police and his family's supporters.
8 'Female' robots Tessy (L) and Tess (R), wearing white stilletoes, pole dance during a demonstration on the Tobit Software stand at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, Germany, Mar. 10, 2014.
9 Two cotten top tamarins are carried by their father in their enclosure in Berlin zoo, Germany.
March 12, 2014
1 Emergency workers respond to the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York.
2 Fireworks thrown by anti-government protesters explode behind riot policemen near central Taksim square in Istanbul. Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to push back thousands of demonstrators during a protest triggered by the death of a teenager who was wounded in street clashes last summer.
3 Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy arrive for the premiere of Disney's 'Muppets Most Wanted' at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, March 11, 2014.
4 Yao Ming, former NBA basketball star and a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, looks at his phone during the closing ceremony of the CPPCC in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China.
5 A woman whose family moved to Islamabad from Sargodha in Punjab Province to look for jobs carries goats near her makeshift shelter in Islamabad Pakistan.
6 Afghan women wait in line to receive their voter registration cards in Kabul for the Afghan presidential elections scheduled for April 5.
7 A racegoer looks through his binoculars covered with race passes at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England. The four-day Cheltenham Festival is a highlight of the annual jump racing calendar.
8 Horses and riders clear the water jump during the RSA Steeple Chase at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England.
9 A staff member from Sotheby's presents the Meiyintang 'Chicken Cup' from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) during the media preview for the auction of Fine Art Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sales in Hong Kong.
10 A man clears bottles at a barricade near the entrance to the stadium of Dynamo Kyiv soccer club in Ukraine.
11 A N. Korean soldier (top center) looks at the southern side as three S. Korean soldiers guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, S. Korea.
12 Ukrainian sailors from naval ship Ternopil moor a boat to the pier in Sevastopol bay. Ukraine will not intervene militarily in the separatist peninsula of Crimea to avoid exposing its eastern border, Ukraine's acting president said in an interview.
13 People look at an inflatable pig on display on Republic Square in Paris to protest against pig farming conditions.
March 13, 2014
1 Hindu priests throws colored powder at the devotees during Holi celebrations at Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colors, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
2 Mahouts pray while sitting on top of elephants during Thailand's National Elephant Day in the ancient Thai capital Ayutthaya.
3 Visitors read books during the Leipzig International Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany. More than 2,000 exhibitors from 42 countries present their novelties from March 13 until March 16, 2014.
4 Daniel Davis is covered in snow and ice while clearing a sidewalk during a snowstorm in Detroit, Michigan, USA, Mar. 12, 2014.
5 Armenia's Mher Avanesyan (LW 5/7-1) competes in the Men's Alpine Skiing Slalom Standing during the XI Paralympic Olympic Games at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center near Sochi, Russia.
6 An anti-government protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask gestures behind a barricade that they set on fire during a demonstration in Ankara, Turkey, Mar. 12, 2014. Riot police clashed with demonstrators in several Turkish cities for a second day as mourners buried a teenager wounded in protests last summer.
7 U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama greets Kermit the Frog as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey introduces a showing of the new movie "Muppets Most Wanted" at the White House in Washington, Mar. 12, 2014.
8 People walk past a row of Volkswagen e-Golf cars during the company's annual news conference in Berlin, Germany.
9 Cast members Ryan Hansen (left), Kristena Bell (Center), and Jason Dohring (right) pose at the premiere of "Veronica Mars" in Hollywood, California, Mar. 12, 2014.
10 Dancers of the State Opera Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the State Opera in Vienna, Austria.
March 14, 2014
1 Military pallbearers carry the casket of British World War I soldier William McAleer during a reburial service at the Loos British World War I cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France. Private William McAleer of the 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers was killed in action on Sept. 26, 1915 during the Battle of Loos. His body was found and identified in 2010 during routine construction in the area and is being reburied with full military honors along with 19 unknown soldiers.
2 A civilian tries to put out a fire caused by the Muslim Brotherhood supporters during clashes near the Giza Pyramids in Giza, Egypt.
3 A woman stands in front of the painting "Connections painting (2007)" in the exhibition "Magazine and Encyclopedia" of New Leipzig School artist Paule Hammer in the City Museum in Jena, central Germany.
4 Revelers in costumes are sprayed with foam during a parade for the Jewish holiday of Purim outside Bialik Rogozin school in south Tel Aviv, Israel. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.
5 Young children of foreign migrant workers wear costumes during a Purim party in Tel Aviv, Israel.
6 Passengers evacuate U.S. Airways Flight 1702 after the pilot was forced to abort takeoff shortly after 6 p.m., after a tire on the front landing gear blew out in Philadelphia, Mar. 13, 2014. The Airbus A320 jet, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was carrying 149 passengers and five crew members, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said.
7 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are seen before their meeting at Winfield House, the home of the U.S. ambassador in London.
8 National police detains an anti-government protester during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, Mar. 13, 2014.
9 Heath Calhoun of the U.S. skis during the men's alpine skiing Super-G sitting event of the Super combined at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center, Russia.
10 Local artists paint a two-meter-high Easter egg in the northern Croatian town of Koprivnica, Mar. 13, 2014.
11 A street artist levitates in downtown Paris, France.
12 Two hundred paper Formosan black bears are surrounded by paper pandas at an exhibition called "Pandas on Tour" at the Liberty Square of National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
13 A cosplayer looks into the camera with colorful contact lenses at the Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany.
March 15, 2014
1 Syrian citizens walking in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometres northeast of Damascus.
2 Devotees react as Buddhist monks spray holy water during the annual Magic Tattoo Festival at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Prathom province, Thailand.
3 A woman writes a message for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Investigators concluded that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing plane, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said.
4 Italy's Michele Campagnaro loses his shoe during the Six Nations rugby union match against England at Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy.
5 Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain controls his car on turn two during the qualifying session at Albert Park ahead of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne.
6 A worker carries a bag containing coals to sell at one of the charcoal sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
7 Anti-government protesters run away from a water cannon shot by the national guard during a protest at Altamira Square in Caracas, Venezuela, Mar. 14, 2014.
8 Riders compete on the frozen Yenisei River during the 44th Ice Derby amateur horse race near the settlement of Novosyolovo, some 250 km (155 miles) south of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
9 The Chicago River is dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
10 A cosplayer dressed in a fantasy costume performs during the Manga-Comic-Convention at the Leipzig International Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany.
11 A Palestinian shepherd leads his goats near the West Bank city of Jenin.
March 17, 2014
1 Snow is plowed behind a jogger running on the Washington Monument grounds in Washington. Snow fell in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast as winter-weary motorists faced another potentially treacherous commute, just days before the start of spring.
2 Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) strokes the regimental mascot Irish Wolf Hound dog as she attends St Patrick's Day parade with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in Mons Barracks in Aldershot.
3 Students gather around a three dimensional artwork, based on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, that was painted on a school ground in Makati city, metro Manila, Philippines.
4 Green, white and red smoke in the colours of the Italian flag are left in the sky of Rome by the Italian Air Force aerobatic unit 'Frecce Tricolori' marking the anniversary of Italian national unification in Rome.
5 South Korean soldiers wrap the remains of Chinese soldiers during rites of placing them in coffins at a South Korean Army base in Paju, north of Seoul.
6 A combination of two pictures shows the leaning tower of Pisa at night (top) and the leaning tower of Pisa colored in green to celebrate Ireland’s national holiday on the eve of the St Patrick’s Day, March 16, 2014.
7 A girl looks at planes through the window of the departure hall at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia.
8 National Guards advance on anti-government protesters during clashes with police at Altamira square in Caracas. Opponents of Venezuela's socialist government marched to protest against alleged Cuban interference in the armed forces, with clashes breaking out afterwards in a Caracas square, March 16, 2014.
9 A Hindu woman prays while lying on the floor of a temple during Holi celebrations in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colors, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India.
10 An Afghan woman receives her voter registration card from an employee of the Afghan Independent Election Commission at a women's voter registration center in Kabul.
11 Picture shows cranes and part of the wreckage of the Spanish cargo ship 'Luno' in Anglet, southwestern France, during the dismantling of the ship which broke into three sections after a shipwreck in February 2014. The 20-year-old Spanish vessel split in two when winds and waves smashed it up against an artificial breakwater on February 5. The crew of 11 were rescued by helicopter in perilous conditions.
12 A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an armored vehicle at a military camp near the village of Michurino, Ukraine.
13 This handout image by the ESA and taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the Monkey Head Nebula or NGC2174, celebrates its 24th year in orbit. NGC 2174 lies about 6400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Hubble prepreviously viewed this part of the sky back in 2011 — the colorful region is filled with young stars embedded within bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust.
14 A performer poses in front of messages expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. An investigation into the pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 intensified after officials confirmed that the last words spoken from the cockpit came after a key signalling system was manually disabled.
March 18, 2014
1 In this image made from video provided by KOMO-TV, smoke rises from the scene of a news helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle, Washington. The station said the chopper was apparently coming in for a landing on its rooftop when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down, hitting several vehicles.
2 Restoration workers peel off loose gold foil as part of a restoration project for an 800-year-old Thousand-Hand Guanyin Buddhist statue on Mount Baoding in Chongqing municipality, China. The stone statue, which takes up about 88 square meters on the mountain, dates back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).
3 A Cambodian man walks on a 5-meter- (16.5 feet) long bamboo pole spanning across two tall palm trees as he collects palm juice to make palm sugar during its harvest season in Samroang village, Kampong Chhnang province, northwst of Phnom Penh.
4 Yemeni pro-democracy protesters chant prayers as they stand around mock coffins to commemorate those who were killed on March 18, 2011, during a rally against the rule of the country's former President Saleh in Sana'a.
5 People stand along 5th Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York, Mar. 17, 2014.
6 Anti-government protesters dismantle the sandbag barriers, blocking the overfly on the street near their protesting site of Lumpino park in Bangkok, Thailand's government is lifting a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas after violence related to the country’s political crisis eased.
7 Egyptian conservators clean a female mummy dated to Pharaonic late period (712-323 BC) in the conservation center of Egypt's Grand museum under construction, just outside Cairo, Mar. 17, 2014.
8 Indian Sikh youths perform fire-breathing as they demonstrate Gatka martial arts skills while welcoming the unseen Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and candidate for Amritsar's parliamentary seat Arun Jaitley to an event in Amritsar.
9 Bangladesh spectators sit inside a scoreboard as they watch the ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament warm-up match between England and the West Indies at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah on the outskirts of Dhaka.
10 Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon’s north polar region. The six-and-a-half feet (two-meters)-per-pixel images cover an area equal to more than one-quarter of the United States. (Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)
March 19, 2014
1 Twin polar bear cubs play outside in their enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich, Germany.
2 An Indian farmer rests among watermelons at his fruit stall prior to auctioning them at the Gaddiannaram wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
3 A protester shouts as police try to remove the chairs from the entrance of the Taiwanese Parliament in Taipei occupied by activists to protest against moves by the ruling Kuomintang party to ratify a contentious trade agreement with China.
4 Riot police attempt to break open the entrance of the al-Azhar University Campus during clashes with female university students, who are supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, in Cairo's Nasr City district.
5 Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai try to catch leaflets during an election campaign in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan.
6 A man carries an injured anti-government protester during a protest against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government in San Cristobal, Mar. 18, 2014.
7 A humanoid robot from IIT is displayed during the Innorobo 2014 fair (Innovation Robotics Summit) in Lyon, France, Mar. 18, 2014. Innorobo is an annual venue for companies and research centers to present their latest technologies in robotics.
8 An Iranian man plays with a firework in the Pardisan Park in Tehran, Mar. 18, 2014, during Chaharshanbe Souri, or Festival of Fire. Iranians jump over burning bonfires and throw firecrackers celebrating arrival of the spring which coincides with their new year, or Nowruz, which begins on March 21.
9 Motorbikes of the Dutch motor brigade are parked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, Netherlands. The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is scheduled to be held on March 24 and 25.
10 Easter eggs adorn an apple tree in the garden of the summerhouse of German pensioners Christa and Volker Kraft, in the eastern German town of Saalfeld. Each year since 1965 they spend up to two weeks decorating the tree with their collection of 10,000 colourful hand-painted Easter eggs in time for Easter celebrations.
11 Canada's skip Rachel Homan delivers a stone during her draw against Germany at the World Women's Curling Championships in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
12 A worker decorates lanterns to celebrate Buddha's upcoming birthday on May 6 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea.
March 20, 2014
1 Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah arrive for an election gathering in Charikar. Afghanistan's April 5 election is the third presidential poll since the fall of the Taliban with 11 candidates contesting the polls.
2 People enjoy the sunny weather as they sit on the Sechselaeutenplatz Square in front of the opera house in Zurich, Switzerland.
3 The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment parades in Hyde Park in London. The regiment was undergoing their annual inspection to validate their ability to conduct state ceremonial duties for the year.
4 A man enjoys a bath at the hot springs of the famous Thermopylae ( 'the hot gates') in central Greece, Mar. 19, 2014.
5 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford laughs in front of a "Keep Calm and Carry On" sign at City Hall in Toronto, Canada, Mar. 19, 2014. Ford, who made global headlines last year after admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, was caught up in fresh controversy after a new video showed him agitated and apparently swearing outside city hall.
6 A member of Iraqi security forces fires a cannon during clashes with the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Jurf al-Sakhar south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Mar. 19, 2014.
7 A woman writes a message for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, on a glass wall at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
8 Peter Norbot and Kris Hamilton (L), dressed up as fictional comic book superhero Spider-Man, look through a magazine as they wait for their turn to audition to be a part of a promotional campaign for the upcoming release of the new movie "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in Chicago, USA, Mar. 19, 2014.
9 A bodyboarder rides a wave during Sumol Nazare Special Edition in Nazare, Portugal, Mar.19, 2014.
10 Satirical sculptures burn during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, Mar. 19, 2014. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph that ends in the midnight of March 19, burning large satiric figures displayed around the streets of the city.
11 A man walks on a sand dune with his camels in Mhamid el-Ghizlane, in the Moroccan southern Sahara desert.
March 21, 2014
1 This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over 150 million light years away in the constellation of Libra. This galaxy has two particularly striking features: a beautiful dust lane and an intensely bright center — much brighter than that of our own galaxy, or indeed those of most spiral galaxies we observe. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Perlman (Florida Institute of Technology))
2 Keepers bottle-feed the saved sloth bear cub at the zoo in Washington, D.C. Animal keepers at the National Zoo have saved the cub after two others were eaten by the mother. The three cubs were born in December to a mother named Khali. One was eaten within 20 minutes, and a second cub was eaten after seven days. The zoo says it's not uncommon for carnivores to eat their young if they're compromised somehow.
3 U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama plays table tennis as Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and others watch her during their visit to the Beijing Normal School, a school that prepares students to attend colleges overseas in Beijing, China.
4 Wearing their traditional costumes Kyrgyz women and a man take part in the celebrations of Nowruz (New Year) in the outskirts of the Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek. Nowruz, "The New Year" in Farsi, is an ancient festival marking the first day of spring in Central Asia.
5 Iraqi Kurds with a giant banner in the colors of the Kurdish flag celebrate Nowruz, or the New Year, in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq.
6 A staff member helps to set up the installation "Stools" of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made of 6000 stools in the atrium of the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall in Berlin, Germany.
7 A visitor takes pictures of trophies displayed at the "Reiten-Jagen-Fischen" (riding-hunting-fishing) trade fair in Erfurt, eastern Germany.
8 Anti-government protesters run from police water cannon in Caracas, Mar. 20, 2014. Venezuelan intelligence agents arrested one opposition mayor accused of stoking violent protests, while another was jailed for 10 months in the latest moves against rivals of President Nicolas Maduro.
9 An Indian woman carries a bucket filled with drinking water as she walks on dry mud against blowing sand, along the Brahmaputra River on the eve of World Water Day in Gauhati. World Water Day is observed annually on Mar. 22 to recognize the global need to save, conserve and manage water resources for future generations.
10 Ballet dancers Vladimir Malakhov (R), Elisa Carrillio Cabrera (top) and Mikhail Kaniskin (L) perform "Clear", with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, during a dress rehearsal at the Schiller theatre in Berlin, Germany, Mar. 20, 2014.
March 22, 2014
1 A boy takes a bath along a pavement in the southern Indian city of Chennai. World Water Day is celebrated on March 22.
2 Poland's Piotr Puszkarski, left, crashes while competing against Poland's Jan Szymanski in the men's 500-meter race during the World Championship All-Round Speed Skating Championship at Thialf skating arena in Heerenveen, northern Netherlands.
3 People watch fireworks at the central Lenin Square in Simferopol, Crimea, Mar, 21, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea, signing a law making the Black Sea peninsula part of Russia.
4 Workers clean windows of an office building in Seoul, South Korea.
5 A sky writer draws a smiley face in the sky at the start of the Los Angeles County Air Show at General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California, Mar. 21, 2014.
6 Graduating cadets toss their caps in the air during the commencement ceremony at Japan's National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, near Tokyo.
7 A pod of dolphins is seen from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean.
8 A man carrying his son walks in front of a landfill near Manila Bay, Philippines.
9 A man, his wife and their child use a zip-line to cross the Nujiang River in Lazimi village of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, China. Residents have been using the zip-line for years to cross the river as there is no bridge nearby, local media reported.
10 A member of the Albanian Dervish community takes part in a ritual to celebrate Nowruz Day in the town of Gjakova, west of the Kosovo's capital Pristina, Mar. 21, 2014.
11 The China National Acrobatic Troupe performs at the Spring of Culture concert in Manama, Bahrain.
March 24, 2014
1 U.S. President Barack Obama smiles in front of Dutch master Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting during a visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2 Members of the pro-government "red shirt" movement attack a Buddhist monk outside the National Anti-Corruption Commission office in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand.
hearing that the missing plane is assumed to have crashed in the southern Indian ocean.
4 Ana Luiza, wearing contact lenses in the colours of the Brazilian national flag, poses on a street in Sao Paulo, March 23, 2014.
5 The Tennessee Volunteers bench celebrates in the closing second against the Mercer Bears in a men's college basketball game during the third round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament at PNC Arena in Raleigh, NC, March 23, 2014.
6 U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (c) dances with performers during her visit to Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing with her daughters Malia (2nd left), and Sasha (r).
7 A U.S. secret service officer checks a Chinese performer dressed as an ancient warrior as U.S. first lady Michelle Obama visits a nearby city wall in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi province.
8 A Chicago Transit Authority train car rests on an escalator at the O'Hare Airport station after it derailed.
9 An Indian doctor examines a tuberculosis patient in a government TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Allahabad, India. India has the highest incidence of TB in the world, according to the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2013.
10 A donkey belonging to an Afghan refugee family whose mud house was destroyed by the Capital Development Authority for being built on illegal lands, shelters itself from rain under a wooden-cart in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
11 Supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a demonstration inside Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. A court in Egypt sentenced to death 529 supporters of Morsi on charges of murdering a policeman and attacking police.
12 Egyptian security forces members demonstrate their skills during a ceremony in Cairo. Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim observed a parade, feasts and training strategies used by security forces during the ceremony, March 23, 2014.
13 Hanging bird cages are displayed on poles during a bird-singing contest in the Rueso district in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat. Hundreds of bird owners from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore took part in the traditional contest held every year, March 23, 2014.
14 A boy stands on the ruins of his school which was bombed by militants of the Shi'ite al-Houthi group during recent conflicts against local tribes in the Hamdan area west of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, March 23, 2014.
15 Mushon, 45, a Sumatran Orangoutang plays with a piece of bamboo and a tin can in the Tel Aviv Ramt Gan Zoological Center near Tel Aviv, Israel, March 23, 2014.
16 Iowa State's DeAndre Kane (l) makes the winning shot over North Carolina's Jackson Simmons (r), in the final seconds of the second half of a third-round game in the NCAA college basketball tournament in San Antonio. Iowa State won 85-83, March 23, 2014.
March 25, 2014
1 A member of staff at satellite communications company Inmarsat works in front of a screen showing subscribers using their service throughout the world, at their headquarters in London. Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyze the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.
2 A family member of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries as he shouts slogans during a protest in front of the Malaysian embassy in Beijing, China.
3 A worker pulls a roll of flags of India's ruling Congress party, kept for drying at a flag manufacturing factory, ahead of the 2014 general elections in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
4 A young boy shouts in front of a street painting in central Athens during a ceremony marking the Greek Independence Day.
5 Afghan policemen stand guard at an election commission office after an attack by suicide bombers and gunmen in Kabul.
6 Children look at the fin of a mortar projectile that was found at the Al-Abassi camp for internally displaced persons, after an attack by rebels, in Mellit town, North Darfur, Sudan.
7 People lay down in a pedestrian zone as part of an art project in remembrance of the 528 victims of the "Katzbach" Nazi concentration camp, in Frankfurt, Germany, Mar. 24, 2014. The inmates of the Katzbach concentration camp, a part of the former Adler industrial factory, were forced into a death march to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau on Mar. 24, 1945. Some 528 victims of Katzbach are buried at Frankfurt's central cemetery.
8 Swans swim on a side canal of the river Alster after they were released from their wintering grounds in Hamburg, northern Germany.
9 A shoe-shiner polishes the boots of a policeman who is standing guard during a protest organized by artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Lima, Peru, Mar. 24, 2014.
10 German Chancellor Angela Merkel, laughs talking to Finland's President Sauli Niinisto as they attend an informal plenary session on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands.
11 Ulrike Kaiser, director of the foundation Leuchtenburg, cleans bowls in the exhibition 'Porcelain Worlds' at Leuchtenburg castle near Kahla, Germany.
12 Visitors stand on a line of trees at Shinjuku Gyoen park in Tokyo, Japan.
March 26, 2014
1 People fish on a pier at the port of Mariupol, located on the north of the Sea of Azov in eastern Ukraine.
2 A woman tries out the Virtual Style Pod/Fashion 3D system at the FLux Innovation Lounge in east London. The technology uses body mapping software to superimpose items of clothing onto the customers body so that he or she can try on different styles without having to change clothes. The cameras track the customers movement, allowing them to see how the clothing moves from all sides and angles.
3 Antonio Lazza, a 60 year old pilgrim from Italy, walks alongside the road of Saint James's Way during a snow fall on a Spring morning near the Pyrenees town of Erro, northern Spain. The Saint James Way is a pilgrimage route ending in Santiago de Compostela that attracts people from all over the World.
4 A Pilatus PC-9/A comes in for a landing at RAAF Base Pearce in Perth, Australia. RAAF Pearce is accommodating six nation that have joined Australia, New Zealand, U.S., Japan and Korea making this join venture one of the largest maritime search operations in history to find debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 .
5 Russia's Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov compete during the pairs short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Japan.
6 An eagle owl fluffs out its feathers as it sits on one foot on a branch in its enclosure at the Grugapark in Essen, Germany.
7 Wind-driven waves come ashore in Scituate, Massachusetts. Cape Cod and the islands were expected to bear the brunt of the spring storm that struck full force.
8 A man wearing a mask exercises on a hazy morning in Fuyang, Anhui province, China.
9 A searcher uses a small boat to look through debris from a deadly mudslide in Oso, Washington, USA, Mar. 25, 2014. At least 24 people were killed in the 1-square-mile slide that hit in a rural area about 55 miles northeast of Seattle on Mar. 23. Several people also were critically injured, and homes were destroyed.
10 U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, left, and her mother Marian Robinson, right, feed an apple to giant pandas during their visit at Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.
11 Russian Soyuz-FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft and a crew of U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev aboard, blasts off from a launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
March 27, 2014
1 NASA’s Super Guppy, a wide-bodied cargo aircraft, landed at the Redstone Army Airfield near Huntsville, Alabama with a special delivery: an innovative composite rocket fuel tank, Mar. 26, 2014.
2 The images - before and after filtering - comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, at a distance of 353 million miles from Earth as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute)
3 A Russian soldier (L) guides a Ukranian tank which will be loaded onto a train in northern Crimea.
4 A young girl walks on the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe.
5 Pope Francis and U.S. President Barack Obama smile as they exchange gifts, at the Vatican.
6 French climber Alain Robert, also known as "Spiderman", scales the 152-meter Ariane Tower at La Defense financial and business district outside Paris, France
7 Tourists admire fields of blossoming daffodils and tulips from a barge as they pass near Lisse, western Netherlands.
8 South Korean army soldiers hold caskets containing the remains of Chinese soldiers to be transported to Incheon International Airport, at the temporary columbarium in Paju. The remains of 437 Chinese soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War were transferred from the temporary columbarium in South Korea to the airport to be returned to China.
9 A woman stands on the rocks at the Giant's Causeway situated on the north coast of Northern Ireland.
10 Members of Saudi special forces aim their guns during a training session in Darma, west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
11 Visitors walk under the umbrellas symbolizing the earth's environment and peace along the Cheonggye stream in Seoul, South Korea.
12 A woman walks past a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
13 Harfan, a male Sumatran tiger born in 2008, is presented to the public for the first time at Berlin's Tierpark zoo, Germany.
March 28, 2014
1 Foreigners are evecauated by police from the site of an attack in Kabul. A group of Afghan Taliban insurgents forced their way into a guesthouse used by foreigners in an upscale residential part of the capital, police said.
2 Members of a South Korean honor guard throw their rifles in the air during a weekly demonstration at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.
3 Tourists ride on camels at the Genipabu dunes in Natal, northeastern Brazil. Natal is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil.
4 A rescuer stands on a flooded Highway 530 as search work continues in the mud and debris from a massive mudslide that struck Oso near Darrington, Washington, USA, Mar. 27, 2014.
5 An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter hovers over the site where an IAF cargo plane crashed near Karauli village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. C-130J Hercules plane inducted into service just last year crashed during a training mission, killing all five crew members.
6 Canada's Jennifer Kish, left on the ground, is tackled by France's Jade Le Pesq, right, during the final match of Women's Invitational Cup at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament.
7 Actress Drew Barrymore celebrates receiving the Female Star of the Year award at the CinemaCon 2014 Big Screen Achievement Awards in Las Vegas, USA, Mar. 27, 2014.
8 Two stray dogs from Sochi, Russia, interact in front of a group of journalists after arriving at the Washington Animal Rescue League shelter in Washington, D.C., Mar. 27, 2014. The league partnered with Humane Society International to bring 10 rescued dogs from Sochi displaced during the Winter Olympics and find homes for the animals in the United States.
9 Lithuania's Isabella Tobias and Deividas Stagniunas compete during the ice dance short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Japan.
10 Would-be immigrants of the Center for Temporary Stay of Immigrants (CETI) cheer other ones who want to cross the fence near Beni Enza, into the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Several hundred people attempted to cross into the Spanish city, which lies on the northern tip of Morocco.
11 A man climbs an ice column at the Climbing Club of St. Boniface in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Mar. 27, 2014.
12 A woman wears large sunglasses with a message during a rally in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., to call for an end to government surveillance.
13 A Balinese man in a trance stabs himself with a "keris" traditional dagger as he attends a Melasti prayer ceremony at Petitenget beach in Kuta on Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Melasti is a purification festival which is held several days before "Nyepi", a day of silence, when Hindus on the island of Bali are not allowed to work, travel or take part in any indulgence.
14 Ethnic Dong women work at a tea leaf processing factory in Liping county, Guizhou province, China. Liping county's tea plantations attracted more than 60,000 women workers from nearby villages this spring and each tea picker earns around 100 yuan ($16.10) per diem.
15 Ethnic Dong women wearing traditional costumes pick tea leaves during a ceremony marking the start of tea picking season in spring, at a tea plantation in Liping county, Guizhou province, China.
March 29, 2014
1 An elementary school boy acting as an young woman performs during a show of an amateur children kabuki theatrical company in Tokyo, Japan.
2 Palestinians, a man holding a Palestinian flag and a woman carrying an olive tree, walk through rows of greenhouses on "Land Day" during which people notably plant olive trees near the Israeli border in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
3 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is seen plunged into darkness for the Earth Hour environmental campaign, among the first landmarks around the world to dim their lights for the event. Lights will go out in some 7,000 cities and towns from New York to New Zealand for Earth Hour which this year aims to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for green projects.
4 A child looks up as he tries to climb the stairs of the Paul VI Hall prior to the start of Pope Francis' meeting with members of associations that assist blind, deaf and mute persons, at the Vatican.
5 Children dressed as spiderman throw "spider thread" for the count down of the Earth Hour environmental campaign event in suburban Tokyo, Japan.
6 Cranes fly in front of planes during the sunrise near the village of Lyubcha, 120 km ( 75 miles) west of Belarusian capital Minsk.
7 Jockeys compete in the Dubai Kahayla Classic race held on Dubai World Cup Day at Meydan racecourse in Dubai, UAE. A cosmopolitan gathering of horses from seven different countries contest the U.S. $10 million Emirates Dubai World Cup.
8 France's Loic Collomb-Patton competes on Bec de Rosses mountain during the Xtreme Freeride World Tour final above the Swiss Alps resort of Verbier.
9 Two Thai boys perform acrobatics to entertain anti-government protesters during a rally at the Royal Plaza in Bangkok, Thailand. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched through the streets of the Thai capital, reviving their campaign to force the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and seeking the country to reform before the election.
March 31, 2014
1 An image taken from a Royal New Zealand P-3 Orion shows a piece of unknown debris floating just under the water while the plane was searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, Australia.
2 Chinese relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 look from inside a bus as they arrive at a hotel in Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
3 A woman and a man look at cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo, Japan.
4 Amphibious assault vehicles of the South Korean Marine Corps fire smoke bombs as they move to land on shore during a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang.
5 Rescue dog Tryon, muddied from the day's work, stands with his handler near the west side of the mudslide on Highway 530 near mile marker 37 in Arlington, Washington, March 30, 2014.
6 Ukrainian tanks are placed on freight cars before their departure from Crimea to other regions of Ukraine in the settlement of Gvardeiskoye near the Crimean city of Simferopol.
7 Luxury toilet paper with 24 carat gold motifs is displayed at the Tissue Design workshop of Fritz Loibl in Grafenau, Germany. Each gold embossed toilet roll, handcrafted by owner Fritz Loibl with customized designs, costs 179 Euros or $246.
8 People help a fisherman to load a swordfish, caught from waters of the Indian Ocean, on his back as he makes his way to the market in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Somalia.
9 A man carries dried mien, or vermicelli made of cassava, after drying at Cat Que village outside Hanoi, Vietnam. Mien is used in several popular dishes containing chicken, beef, pork or seafood.
10 Fans of Johnny Depp hold banners as he attends a red carpet event to promote his new movie "Transcendence" on his first visit to Beijing, China.
11 Catherine Barclay looks at photographers as a tropical butterfly rests on her nose during a media call for a butterfly exhibition outside the Natural History Museum in London, England.
