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Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Afghan workers prepare 'Jelabi,' a traditional sweet, in a factory in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 13, 2014. The war-torn country faces the challenges of poverty, unemployment and a lack of infrastructure. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man and woman walk under the moon along a path at Great Meadow Park at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Friday, March 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Lead vocalist Win Butler performs with his band Arcade Fire at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Chinese delegate takes a photo with his mobile phone camera as Chinese police officers drive past by on motorized platforms on Tiananmen Square near the Great Hall of the People where a session of the National People's Congress is held in Beijing, China, Monday, March 10, 2014. Delegates listened to work reports delivered by the head of China's Supreme People's court and the head of the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Monday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Indonesian woman collects water for her shower from a well at a slum under a flyover in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Endemic poverty in the country of more than 240 million people remains a major problem and is expected to be a key issue in the presidential election that will be held later this year. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An art piece titled ?Mil grullas de papel,? or "A Thousand Paper Cranes," hangs in the Museo del Objeto del Objeto, MODO, during the inauguration of the traveling exhibit, ?The Museum of Broken Relationships,? in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The exhibit is a collection of donated objects symbolic of broken relationships. The paper birds were donated by a Mexican student who received them from her ex-boyfriend as a parting gift to wish her luck, two days after they broke up. (AP Photo/Isaac Garrido)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A civilian tries to put out a fire made by the Muslim Brotherhood supporters during clashes near the Giza Pyramids, in Giza, Egypt, Friday, March 14, 2014. Supporters of Egypt's ousted president, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, set fire to a clothes shop during clashes with Morsi opponents. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Syrian refugee boy reaches for his heart-shaped balloon during an event marking the third anniversary of the Syrian conflict, at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan, Thursday, March 13, 2014. The Syrian conflict, now entering its fourth year, has killed more than 140,000 people, sent more than 2.5 million fleeing for neighboring countries and destroyed entire blocks in opposition-held areas of the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk inside their tent camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter?s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country?s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Firefighters respond to a fire on 116th Street in Harlem after a building exploded in huge flames leading to the collapse of at least one building and several injuries, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio part ways following a St. Patrick's Day luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2014. The political rivals came together to host a gathering for Taoiseach Enda Kenny of Ireland. They are flanked by House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, left, and Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Afghan refugee girl and her younger sister sit on the ground playing in an alley of a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, March 14, 2014. For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world?s largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country. Since the 2002 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the U.N.?s refugee agency. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Eduardo, a street vendor who sells snacks to beach goers, strikes a pose on the shore of La Herradura beach in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Some street vendors in Lima will dress to achieve a voluptuous body type using balloons and banter with potential customers to attract attention, in hopes of increasing their sales. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Passengers evacuate US Airways Flight 1702 after the pilot was forced to abort takeoff shortly after 6 p.m., after a tire on the plane's front landing gear blew out, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Airbus A320 jet, bound for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was carrying 149 passengers and five crew members, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said. All were rescheduled on departing flights Thursday night, she said. (AP Photo/Dennis Fee)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
The flame burns at the Olympic Park before the ice sledge hockey match between Czech Republic and Italy at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 14, 2014. Czech Republic won 3-0. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Svetlana Kalisetskaya, chairman of polling committee, checks a voting cabin after completing preparations for Sunday's referendum at a polling station in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Daniel Davis is covered in snow and ice while clearing a sidewalk during a snow storm in Detroit Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The storm will likely move the Detroit area close to the seasonal snow total of 93.6 inches set in 1880-1881, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
"Muppets Most Wanted" cast member Ricky Gervais photographs himself with fellow cast members, from left, Constantine, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog at the premiere of the film on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Russia's Vladimir Kononov competes during the Men's Cross Country 20 km Classic Standing at XI Paralympic Olympic games in the Rosa Khutor stadium near Sochi on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Thousands of Orthodox Jews gather on Water Street in lower Manhattan March 9, 2014 to pray and protest against the current effort by the Israeli government to pass a law to draft religious Jews into its army. The gathering is intended as a show of solidarity with the Orthodox Jews in the State of Israel, who gathered last Sunday at the entrance of Jerusalem in the what some have called the largest protest of its kind in recent history. Most estimated the crowd there at over 600,000 men, women and children. AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Nepalese riot police arrest Tibetan protesters in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on March 10, 2014, during a protest marking the 55th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. The Tibetan government-in-exile has branded Beijing's "hardline policy" towards the troubled region a failure and urged China's next leaders to hand greater autonomy to Tibetans. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A reveller carries a "Chienbaese", made of burning bundles of pinewood chips, during the traditional Swiss "Chienbaese" celebration on March 9, 2014 in the streets of Liestal, near Basel. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pro-Kremlin activists rally in support of ethnic Russians in Ukraine in central Moscow, on March 10, 2014. Ukraine sought today urgent Western backing after Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Crimea had the right to join his country even while hinting at a readiness for dialogue. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Malaysian ethnic Chinese child reacts to the camera as others light candles during a vigil for missing Malaysia Airlines passengers at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur on March 10, 2014. Malaysia has expanded its search area for a missing jet after three days of scouring the sea failed to bring forth any confirmed sightings of wreckage, an official said. He added that besides searching in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam, authorities were also searching on land in Malaysia and off western Malaysia. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A young painted during the "Los Pintados" (The Painted ones) carnival, in San Mateo Ozolco community, Puebla State, Mexico on March 09, 2014. Los Pintados is a 62-year old tradition during which young people paint their bodies and "threaten" locals and tourists to paint them if they refuse to give them a coin. AFP PHOTO/Alfredo Estrella
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
This handout picture released on March 10, 2014 by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis (2ndR) on March 9, 2014 during a retreat in Ariccia near Rome. Pope Francis left the Vatican on Sunday ahead of the first anniversary of his papacy, which he will pass with the Roman Curia on a Lenten spiritual retreat held outside the city state for the first time in decades. AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO/HO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Men hold their hands up on their heads as they are searched by pro-Russian servicemen at Chongar checkpoint blocking the entrance to Crimea on March 10, 2014. Russia vowed on March 10 to unveil its own solution to the Ukrainian crisis that would run counter to US efforts and would appear to leave room for Crimea to switch over to Kremlin rule. The unexpected announcement came as Ukraine's new pro-European leaders raced to rally Western support in the face of the seizure by Kremlin-backed forces of the strategic Black Sea peninsula and plans to hold a Sunday referendum on switching Crimea's allegiance from Kiev to Moscow. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ALISA BOROVIKOVA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Kaleidoscopic mirrors reflect slogans and fair visitors at the stand of German software giant SAP at the 2014 CeBIT computer technology trade fair on March 10, 2014 in Hanover, central Germany. Great Britain is partner country of the fair considered as the world's biggest high-tech fair running from March 10 to 14, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/JOHN MACDOUGALL
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pakistani children play during a dust storm on the banks of the Ravi River on the outskirts of Lahore on March 10, 2014. Heavy rain and stormy weather has hit parts of northern Pakistan. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Nuns who were among a group freed after being held hostage by Islamist rebels in Syria, pray during a mass to celebrate their release at the Church of the Holy Cross in Damascus, on March 10, 2014. The group of nuns kidnapped by rebels in the Syrian town of Maalula in December were released early today thanks to Lebanese-Qatari mediation and handed to the Syrian authorities. A monitoring group said the release was secured in exchange for some 150 women prisoners who were being held in Syria's regime jails. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/LOUAI BESHARA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Japan's midfielder Rumi Utsugi controls the ball during the Algarve Cup football match Japan vs Sweden at Algarve stadium in Faro on March 10, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/FRANCISCO LEONG
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Syrian woman holds her dead baby as she screams upon seeing her husband's body being covered following an airstrick by regine forces on the town of Azaz, near the northern restive Syrian city of Aleppo, on August 15, 2012. As Syria's conflict enters its fourth year, ravaging the country and creating a massive humanitarian crisis, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is on the offensive to regain territory from a divided opposition, on March 11, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/VEDAT XHYMSHITI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A family and tsunami survivors visit the seashore in Arahama district to pray for tsunami victims in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Japan marked the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster, which swept away 18,000 victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked a nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A visitor looks at pictures discovered in Sendai city after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at a gymnasium in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2014. About 170,000 pictures will be displayed until March 16. Japan marked the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster, which swept away 18,000 victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked a nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Pakistani child affected by famine is treated at a government hospital in Mithi, the capital of Tharparkar district, some 300 kilometres from Karachi on March 11, 2014. At least 62 children have died in a district of southern Pakistan where thousands are suffering from malnutrition, officials said. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
This picture taken aboard a Vietnamese Air Force Russian-made MI-171 helicopter shows a crew member checking a map during a search flight some 200 km over the southern Vietnamese waters off Vietnam's island Phu Quoc on March 11, 2014 as part of continued efforts aimed at finding traces of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. Malaysian police said on March 11 one of two suspect passengers who boarded a missing passenger jet was an Iranian illegal immigrant, as relatives of some of the 239 people on board said they were losing hope for a miracle. AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH NAM
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pakistani villagers wait to receive relief supplies outside a military camp in Mithi, the capital of Tharparkar district, some 300 kilometres from Karachi on March 11, 2014. At least 62 children have died in a district of southern Pakistan where thousands are suffering from malnutrition, officials said. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man rides a bicycle on the Esplanade du Trocadero in front of the Eiffel tower, on March 11, 2014 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / LUDOVIC MARIN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Norway's Kjetil Jansrud competes in the men downhill training session at the FIS alpine skiing World Cup finals on March 11, 2014 in Lenzerheide. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Afghan supporters carry a poster bearing the image of former Afghan Vice-President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim (C), formerly one of the country's most feared warlords, during his funeral on a hilltop in Kabul on March 11, 2014. Afghan Vice-President Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim died of natural causes after a turbulent life that reflected the country's recent past. Fahim, a leader of the Tajik ethnic minority, was senior vice-president under President Hamid Karzai, who will step down at elections next month as US-led combat forces pull out of Afghanistan after 13 years of fighting the Taliban. AFP PHOTO/Wakil Kohsar
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man stands at the Atocha railway station memorial for the victims of the Madrid train bombings in Madrid on March 11, 2014 marking the10th year anniversary of the attacks that claimed 191 lives and injured more than 1800 others. On March 11, 2004 at 7:40 am, 10 bombs exploded on board four packed commuter trains in Madrid in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda terror network, which said they were punishment for Spain's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. AFP PHOTO/ PIERRE -PHILIPPE MARCOU
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Groundsmen pull a plastic sheet to cover the pitch as rain interrupts the second T20 match between England and West Indies at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown on March 11, 2014. England won the toss and elected to bat first. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Georgian dancers pose for a picture during the Arbil Festival, in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Arbil on March 11, 2014, which marks the 23rd anniversary of the uprising against the regime of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
US President Barack Obama greets wellwishers after arriving on Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, March 11, 2014. Obama is traveling to New York City for Democratic fundraising events. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Bayern Munich's midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (C) scores past Arsenal's Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski (R) during the UEFA Champions League last 16 second-leg football match FC Bayern Munich vs FC Arsenal in Munich, southern Germany, on March 11, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ODD ANDERSEN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Rose Elia, 23, rests together with her new-born baby after giving birth in a ward of the public hospital of Yambio, in the south of South Sudan, on March 11, 2014. A team of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, doctors without borders) helps the staff of the hospital in order to reduce the rate of maternal mortality, the highest in the country. As ongoing fighting in South Sudan shatters any pretense of a ceasefire between government troops and rebels, analysts fear the conflict could engulf the region, as former foes fight old wars in a new country. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / JM LOPEZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A boy stands between Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, during the funeral of their three comrades in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, on March 11, 2014. The Israeli army confirmed the strike, saying the air force had targeted Islamic Jihad militants who had fired at troops. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Mourners carry the body of Shaher Abu Shanab (C), one of three Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 11, 2014. The Israeli army confirmed the strike, saying the air force had targeted Islamic Jihad militants who had fired at troops. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Chilean new President Michelle Bachelet waves during her inauguration ceremony at the Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, on March 11, 2014. Socialist Michelle Bachelet took the oath of office as president of Chile Tuesday, returning to power after four years with a reform agenda to reduce social disparities in this prosperous South American country. At left Spanish Prince Felipe de Borbon. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Children look on at a brick factory on the outskirts of Yangon on March 11, 2014. Myanmar was once known as the "rice bowl of Asia" because of its agricultural riches. But economic mismanagement during nearly 50 years of direct military rule left the country deeply impoverished. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
US President Barack Obama holds up a shirt as he shops for clothing for his family alongside store employee Susan Panariello (R) during a visit to a Gap clothing store in New York City, March 11, 2014, to highlight his proposal to raise the federal minimum wage. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A protester reacts during clashes with police in Kadikoy, Anatolian side of Istanbul, on March 11, 2014. Turkish riot police fired tear gas on March 11 at protesters massed outside a hospital after the death of a teenage boy wounded during anti-government protests last year and left comatose. Berkin Elvan, 15, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died on March 11, his family announced via Twitter. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A protestor throws a stone at riot police lined up to hide behind shields during clashes with police in Kadikoy, Anatolian side of Istanbul, on March 11, 2014. Turkish riot police fired tear gas on March 11 at protesters massed outside a hospital after the death of a teenage boy wounded during anti-government protests last year and left comatose. Berkin Elvan, 15, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died on March 11, his family announced via Twitter. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A group of cleaners clean the ground as they ride tricycles after the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 12, 2014. China has banned delegates to its annual rubber-stamp parliament from holding banquets, an official said as the government tries to improve its image following regular corruption scandals. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Atletico Madrid's Brazilian-born forward Diego da Silva Costa jumps to score during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid vs AC Milan at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on March 11, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ JAVIER SORIANO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Swedish air-acrobatics perform during the Arbil Festival, in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Arbil, on March 11, 2014, which marks the 23rd anniversary of the uprising against the regime of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
One World Trade Center is seen thorugh buldings on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan March 11, 2014 in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Tribesmen loyal to the Shiite Muslim Huthi movement hold their weapons as they gather in Haz, west of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on March 12, 2014. Last month Shiite Huthi rebels overran strongholds of powerful tribes in northern Yemen in a major advance following a month of combat that has killed scores of people. The rebels have been pushing out from the mountains of the far north to areas closer to Sanaa to expand their hoped-for autonomous unit in a promised federal Yemen. AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Indian Hindu devotee performs with fire as he participates in a procession ahead of the Holi festival in Amritsar on March 12, 2014. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month and will be celebrated on March 16 this year. AFP PHOTO/NARINDER NANU
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Ukrainian sailors parade on the ship Ternopil in Sevastopol bay on March 12, 2014. Ukraine will not intervene militarily in the separatist peninsula of Crimea, in order to avoid exposing its eastern border, Ukraine's acting president told AFP Tuesday in an exclusive interview. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Russia's Roman Petushkov (C) celebrates his victory at the end of the Men's 1 km Sprint Sitting at XI Paralympic Olympic games in the Laura stadium close to city of Sochi on March 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Members of the European Parliament hold up a mask depicting US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden during a voting session as part of a plenary session at the European Parliament, on March 12, 2014 in Strasbourg, eastern France. AFP PHOTO/FREDERICK FLORIN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Afghan soldier holds explosives and money as security personnel inspect the body of a suicide bomber in Kandahar on March 12, 2014. Three insurgents were killed during a gunfight as the suicide bombers attacked an National Directorate of Security (NDS) compound in southern Kandahar. AFP PHOTO/Javed Tanveer
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Congolese soldiers from Misca (African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic), Centrafrican Gendarmerie and police members stand on March 12, 2014 in Bangui as students demonstrate to ask for the payment of their arrears of scholarships. Top UN officials said last week that a peacekeeping mission is essential to stabilize the Central African Republic -- but there will be no "quick fix" and the cost will be significant. .AFP-PHOTO/ SIA KAMBOU
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Police forensic expert Colonel Johannes Vermeulen hits the door with a cricket bat in a re-enactment of how South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius broke down the door of the toilet where he shot dead his girlfriend during the trial's cross-examination at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on March 12, 2014. Oscar Pistorius's murder trial was set to hear more details on the autopsy of his slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a day after the star sprinter threw up as he listened to a graphic account of the gunshot injuries he inflicted on his lover. AFP PHOTO / POOL / WERNER BEUKES
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pakistani drought-affected people stretch their hands to receive food being distributed by a private NGO in Mithi, the main town in the Tharparkar district in southern Sindh province around 300 kilometres east of Karachi on March 12, 2014. Pakistan govermnment and several private NGOs have set up their relief camps in the drought-hit desert region to provide relief assistance to hundreds of thousands affected families where at least 67 children had died due to malnutrition and other diseases in the area since December. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Thousands of people gather at Okmeydani while they carry the coffin of Berkin Elvan during his funeral on March 12, 2014 in istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Ankara and Istanbul on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to mourn a teenage boy who died from injuries suffered in last year's anti-government protests. In the Turkish capital, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to stop traffic, making a number of arrests and leaving several injured. . AFP PHOTO/ OZAN KOSE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
The statue of Lenin is seen at sunset on Lenin's Square in downtown Simferopol on March 12, 2014. Russia will mirror any visa sanctions the European Union imposes on its lawmakers, a senior parliamentarian said Wednesday, as Moscow and the West slug it out diplomatically over the crisis in Ukraine. AFP PHOTO/ Filippo MONTEFORTE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Kosovo Albanian miners work in the Stari Trg Trepca mine on March 12, 2014. The centrepiece lead and zinc mine of Trepca complex in northern Kosovo, near the town of Mitrovica, renewed its production for the first time after the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo. During the 1980s, Trepca employed 20,000 workers and accounted for 70 percent of all the former Yugoslavia's mineral wealth. AFP PHOTO/ARMEND NIMANI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
New York City Fire Department firefighters at the scene of an explosion and building collapse at Park Avenue and East 116th Street March 12, 2014 in the Harlem section of New York. A residential building exploded and collapsed on Wednesday, sparking a serious fire and engulfing the area in thick smoke, officials said. Local TV stations reported that several people had sustained minor injuries in the incident at 116th Street and Park Avenue. TV footage showed debris strewn across the street. "It was an explosion and a building collapsed," a spokesman for New York Police Department told AFP, giving no further details. Firefighters have been dispatched to the scene. "The call came at 9:34 am (1334 GMT). It is a residential building. The New York Fire Department is in the process of extinguishing the fire," another police spokesman added. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Young people, who created a self-defence committee for their district Benz-vi, hold grenades and machetes during a patrol in their district, on March 12, 2014 in Bangui. UN investigators left for the Central African Republic on March 10 to launch a probe into human right violations in the conflict-ravaged country amid fears of genocide and ethnic cleansing. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ SIA KAMBOU
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Delegates pose for a picture before the closing ceremony of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 13, 2014. China's annual show of political theatre, the National People's Congress, closed on March 13 -- the first under a new Communist Party leadership facing intractable problems including endemic corruption, slowing economic growth and tensions with neighbouring countries. AFP PHOTO / GOH CHAI HIN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Venezuelan students clash with riot police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on March 12, 2014. A young man was shot dead in a confused event during protests in the city of Valencia, in northern Venezuela. About 3,000 Venezuelan students marched Wednesday to mark a month since the first deaths in anti-government protests that have now claimed at least 22 lives. AFP PHOTO/LEO RAMIREZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Venezuelan students and activists clash with riot police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on March 12, 2014. A young man was shot dead in a confused event during protests in the city of Valencia, in northern Venezuela. About 3,000 Venezuelan students marched Wednesday to mark a month since the first deaths in anti-government protests that have now claimed at least 22 lives. AFP PHOTO/LEO RAMIREZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (2nd L) celebrates with his teammates after scoring during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match FC Barcelona vs Manchester City at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on March 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO / QUIQUE GARCIA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Travis Ganong of the USA competes in the FIS Super G alpine skiing World Cup Finals , on March 13, 2014 in Lenzerheide. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A worker pulls beach chairs back to store for the day as sun sets in Bridgetown on March 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
People look at a car on a flooded street in Cali, Colombia on March 12, 2014, during heavy rains. The IDEAM (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia) announces a strong rainy season for the next three months in the country. AFP PHOTO/Luis ROBAYO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Riot policemen stand next to a banner reading "There won't be Cup" during a demonstration against the upcoming FIFA World Cup and to demand better social health services and education, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 12, 2014. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Paris' Brazilian defender Marquinhos celebrates after scoring during the UEFA Champions League last 16 second-leg football match between Paris Saint Germain and Bayer Leverkusen on March 12, 2014 in Paris. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An anti government activist injured during clashes with the National Police is helped by mates in Caracas on March 12, 2014. A young man was shot dead early today in a confused event during protests in the city of Valencia, in northern Venezuela. About 3,000 Venezuelan students marched Wednesday to mark a month since the first deaths in anti-government protests that have now claimed at least 22 lives. AFP PHOTO/LEO RAMIREZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Venezuelan students clash with riot police during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on March 12, 2014. A young man was shot dead in a confused event during protests in the city of Valencia, in northern Venezuela. About 3,000 Venezuelan students marched Wednesday to mark a month since the first deaths in anti-government protests that have now claimed at least 22 lives. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Protestors flee tear gas during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan on March 12, 2014 in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Ankara and Istanbul on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to mourn a teenage boy who died from injuries suffered in last year's anti-government protests. In the Turkish capital, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to stop traffic, making a number of arrests and leaving several injured. AFP PHOTO/ MIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Press photographers tale pictures of a woman wounded during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan on March 12, 2014 in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Ankara and Istanbul on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to mourn a teenage boy who died from injuries suffered in last year's anti-government protests. In the Turkish capital, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to stop traffic, making a number of arrests and leaving several injured. AFP PHOTO/ MIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Venezuelan students clash with riot police during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on March 12, 2014. A young man was shot dead in a confused event during protests in the city of Valencia, in northern Venezuela. About 3,000 Venezuelan students marched Wednesday to mark a month since the first deaths in anti-government protests that have now claimed at least 22 lives. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A young girl is pictured after she was wounded during clashes between riot-police and prostestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12, 2014. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protestors in the capital Ankara, while in Istbanbul, crowds shouting anti-government slogans lit a huge fire as they made their way to a cemetery for the burial of Berkin Elvan. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Protestors flee tear gas during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan on March 12, 2014 in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Ankara and Istanbul on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to mourn a teenage boy who died from injuries suffered in last year's anti-government protests. In the Turkish capital, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to stop traffic, making a number of arrests and leaving several injured. AFP PHOTO/ MIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Protestors clean their eyes after police fired flee tear gas during clashes with riot police after the funeral of Berkin Elvan on March 12, 2014 in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters in Ankara and Istanbul on Wednesday as tens of thousands took to the streets to mourn a teenage boy who died from injuries suffered in last year's anti-government protests. In the Turkish capital, police clashed with demonstrators as they tried to stop traffic, making a number of arrests and leaving several injured. AFP PHOTO/ MIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A riot policeman beats a protestor during clashes between riot-police and prostestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests, in Istanbul on March 12, 2014. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protestors in the capital Ankara, while in Istbanbul, crowds shouting anti-government slogans lit a huge fire as they made their way to a cemetery for the burial of Berkin Elvan. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Tennis fans watch the match between Andy Murray of Great Britain versus Milos Raonic of Canada during the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 12, 2014 in Indian Wells, California. Raonic powered past fifth-seeded Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. AFP PHOTO/Joe KLAMAR
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
US President Barack Obama and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk shake hands during meetings in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, March 12, 2014. The first meeting between Obama and Yatsenyuk comes with the nation in danger of breaking apart when the predominantly ethnic Russian region of Crimea holds a Moscow-backed referendum Sunday on switching over to Kremlin rule. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Kashmiri residents look at the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar on March 12, 2014. Avalanches triggered by unusually heavy snowfall killed at least six people in Indian Kashmir, as flimsy buildings caved in across the Himalayan valley, police said. The dead included two soldiers who were crushed by snow in Kargil, a mountainous area of the remote Ladakh region, while four others were killed by avalanches in the south of the state, according to officials.AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man sits on the window of his flooded truck in Cali, Colombia on March 12, 2014, during heavy rains. The IDEAM (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies of Colombia) announces a strong rainy season for the next three months in the country. AFP PHOTO/Luis ROBAYO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A supporter of the National Republican Alliance's (ARENA) presidential candidate, Norman Quijano, prays next to a framed image of the Sacred heart of Jesus Christ outside the electoral authority headquarters in San Salvador, on March 12, 2014, during a protest demanding an investigation on the final count after the presidential run-off. El Salvador's presidential run-off took place Monday to elect between ex-guerrilla leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren of the National Liberation Front Farabundo Marti (FMLN) and conservative Quijano as tension mounted over who would be proclaimed the winner. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Security personnel (C) walk on the square before the closing ceremony of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 13, 2014. China's annual show of political theatre, the National People's Congress, closed on March 13 -- the first under a new Communist Party leadership facing intractable problems including endemic corruption, slowing economic growth and tensions with neighbouring countries. AFP PHOTO / GOH CHAI HIN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A tourist offers a prayer after writing a message expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 outside a mall in Kuala Lumpur on March 13, 2014. Malaysia said on March 13 it dispatched an aircraft to investigate the site where Chinese satellites photographed three "suspected floating objects", near an area where several nations have been hunting for wreckage from the missing passenger plane. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she listens to Gregor Gyisi of the Left party answer her speech on the governments policy on Ukraine at the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament in Berlin on March 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ODD ANDERSEN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Afghan residents wait to see presidential candidate Zalmay Rasool during an election gathering in Kabul on March 13, 2014. Afghanistan's April 5 election is the third presidential poll since the fall of the Taliban with 11 candidates contesting the polls. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
To go with story 'Afghanistan-refugee-unrest-aid-conflicts' by Emal Haidary In this photograph taken on January 12, 2014 an Afghan boy takes part in a snowball fight in Barek Aub, some 30 kilometers north of Kabul. Aliceghan was supposed to be a haven for war-torn Afghanistan's returning refugees and a symbol of resurgence after the dark years of the Taliban. Six years on, it has come to highlight the myriad obstacles facing development projects in the country and an exodus of residents has left it feeling like a ghost town. AFP PHOTO/JOHANNES EISELE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Deputies of Ukrainian parliament pose for the picture as they wearing t-shirts with the signing "Stop Putin" during the session in Kiev on March 13, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on Thursday voted unanimously to create a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers who could stand up in the face of Russia's expansionist threat. The 262-0 vote in the Verkhovna Rada parliament came ahead of next Sunday's disputed referendum in Crimea, now under control of Russian forces, on the Black Sea peninsula's switch to Kremlin rule. AFP PHOTO/ YURY KIRNICHNY
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Palestinian militant from the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam Brigade, the military wing of the Hamas movement, stands near the party's flag as he inspects one of the brigades training sites on March 13, 2014 in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip following an overnight Israeli air strike. Gaza militants resumed their rocket fire on southern Israel after warplanes blitzed the coastal enclave, prompting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to demand Israel end its "escalation". AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pet Horstmann, head of the Fahrradhof bike shop in Altlandsberg, eastern Germany, looks out of his house decorated with 210 old bikes, on March 11, 2014. Inside, the shop offers more than 1,000 new bikes for sale. AFP PHOTO / DPA / PATRICK PLEUL / GERMANY OUT
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Palestinian boy rides a donkey cart in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip, on March 13, 2014. Israeli warplanes hit a number of targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to heavy Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state earlier. AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Oscar Pistorius reacts during his murder trial at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on March 13, 2014. The Paralympian pleaded not guilty to murder, although he admits killing Reeva Steenkamp by shooting her through a locked bathroom door. He mistook her for a burglar in his house, saying he made a tragic but understandable mistake.The murder trial has been compared to that of the OJ Simpson case in the United States 20 years ago. AFP PHOTO: Alet Pretorius/Pool
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man passes a campaigning poster depicting crossed signs "UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), Nazi swastika and "Right sector" and a sign "Stop fascism!" in Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 13, 2104. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Malaysian Muslim children offer prayers for passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on March 13, 2014. Malaysia said on March 13 that satellite images of suspected debris from a missing jet were yet another false lead, and debunked a report the plane had flown on for hours after losing contact -- leaving the nearly week-old mystery no closer to being solved. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A young girl walks through a heavily flooded part of the Tomping camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) after heavy rains started to fall in Juba on March 13, 2014. Flooding in such denseley populated camps creates a high risk for disease to spread amongst the refugees who fled when a clash between troops loyal to Kiir and those loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting across the world's newest nation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in the conflict. AFP PHOTO /Charles Lomodong
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Indian child, the son of a street vendor, poses at a stall selling water guns for the upcoming Hindu festival of Holi in Siliguri on March 13, 2014. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month and will be celebrated on March 16 this year. AFP PHOTO /Diptendu DUTTA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
9 year-old Mili Baxter releases a red balloon in front of the Houses of Parliamnent in central London on March 13, 2014 in a recreation of British artist Banksy's "Girl with Red Balloon" to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Syria crisis. The recreation of Banksy's iconic artwork in front of London's parliament was echoed with simultaenous stagings in the US, Russia, France and Jordan organised by the #WithSyria campaign to mark three years since the start of the conflict in Syria which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has killed more than 140,000 people. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
PM paramilitary police personnel deploy during a police operation to "pacify" the Vila Kennedy shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 13 , 2014, Brazil. A 270-strong police force Thursday occupied a favela in western Rio riven by drug violence, as authorities pursue their pre-World Cup crime crackdown. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOPHE SIMON
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
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 on March 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Maidan self-defence activists walk as anti-war placards are hung in Kiev on March 13, 2014. Ukraine moved Thursday to mobilise a volunteer force to ward off Russia's expansionist threat. AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLII STEPANOV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
People carry Burak Can Karamanoglu`s coffin during his funeral on March 13, 2014 in Istanbul. Thousands of people reportedly gathered in Kasimpasa early on March 13 to walk to the nearby Okmeydani neighbourhood where Karamanoglu, 22, was shot and killed in clashes between pro-and anti-government youths.AFP PHOTO/ OZAN KOSE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Russian flag (L) floats alongside a Serbian flag (2nd L) and a Russian navy flag (C) as a military truck belonging to Russian forces passes a check point on the road from Simferopol to Sevastopol on March 13, 2014. Less than three weeks after gunmen seized Crimea's parliament and installed a pro-Moscow government, voters here head to the polls on March 16 for a vote set to cement Russia's takeover of the strategic peninsula. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Serbian and a Cossack armed men working with Pro-Russian forces talk at a check point on the road from Simferopol to Sevastopol on March 13, 2014. Several Serbian war veterans identifying themselves as Chetniks have joined pro-Russian troops in Ukraine's Crimea region. Less than three weeks after gunmen seized Crimea's parliament and installed a pro-Moscow government, voters here head to the polls on March 16 for a vote set to cement Russia's takeover of the strategic peninsula. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pakistani protesters from the impoverished Karachi neighbourhood of Lyari stage a demonstration against street battles between two rival gangs in Karachi on March 13, 2014. Street battles between two rival gangs armed with RPGs and machine guns killed at least 16 people -- including four women -- in Pakistan's Karachi on March 12, officials said. The clash, which according to police also injured 39 people, mainly schoolchildren, was the worst outbreak of criminal-related violence to plague the troubled city in recent months. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Pakistani villager tends to her sick child at a government hospital in the famine-affected Tharparkar district, some 300 kilometres from Karachi on March 13, 2014. The death toll from diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis since December 1 had risen to 161 people, including 97 children in a district of southern Pakistan. The desert lies in Tharparkar, one of Pakistan's poorest districts spread over nearly 20,000 square kilometres in the country's southeast and home to some 1.3 million people, including a large population of minority Hindus. AFP PHOTO/Yousuf NAGORI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A smoke bomb is released as French artists and technicians working in the entertainment industry on short-term contracts take part in a protest against a proposed reform of the rules regulating the unemployment benefits of short-term show business workers, on March 13, 2014, in Toulouse. Several hundred people took part in the demonstration against the MEDEF national employers association's proposal to reform the current unemployment benefits scheme for French artists and technicians working in the entertainment industry on short-term contracts. AFP PHOTO / ERIC CABANIS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Japanese artist Yoko Ono (L) poses for photographers during the presentation of her exhibition "Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind-Show - A Retrospective" at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on March 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ RAFA RIVAS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Pakistani protesters from the impoverished Karachi neighbourhood of Lyari stage a demonstration against street battles between two rival gangs in Karachi on March 13, 2014. Street battles between two rival gangs armed with RPGs and machine guns killed at least 16 people -- including four women -- in Pakistan's Karachi on March 12, officials said. The clash, which according to police also injured 39 people, mainly schoolchildren, was the worst outbreak of criminal-related violence to plague the troubled city in recent months. AFP PHOTO/Asif HASSAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Juventus' supporters cheer before the start of the UEFA Europa League football match Juventus vs Fiorentina on March 13, 2014 at the Juventus Stadium in Turin. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / MARCO BERTORELLO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Turkana woman scoops water from a dry river bed in Nasder, north of Lodwar in the Turkana region, on March 13, 2014. A first downpour relieved pastoralists in the drought stricken Kenyan Turakana region after a twelve month span that pushed livestocks and communities to the brink of another looming humanitarian crisis. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Ukraine interim Prime Minister Arsenit Yatsenyukat holds a copy of the United Nations Charter as he speaks at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the situation in Ukraine March 13, 2014 at UN headquarters in New York. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Venezuelan Juliana Angulo Jama competes in Women's Long Jump final during the seven day of the X South American Games at Estadio Nacional in Santiago, on March 13, 2014. AFP/Claudio Reyes
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Malaysian Muslims offer friday prayers during a special prayer session for passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport mosque in Sepang on March 14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Candles (Foreground) laid out in the shape of a map of the world and a projection (Background) of a Banksy image on Nelsons Column are pictured during a sound and light show in London's Trafalgar Square on March 13, 2014, to mark the third anniversary of the conflict in Syria. Similar shows and vigils are expected to be held in the US, Russia, France and Jordan organised by the #WithSyria campaign to mark three years since the start of the conflict in Syria which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has killed more than 140,000 people. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Benfica's Serbian striker Lazar Markovic in action during the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Benfica at White Hart Lane in north London, on March 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
French Socialist party's (PS) candidate for the upcoming municipal elections in Paris, Anne Hidalgo (R) and Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe (C) embrace as they arrive for a rally at the Cirque d'Hiver venue on March 13, 2014 in Paris. According to a March 13, 2014 CSA poll, Hidalgo would win in the second round in Paris ahead of right-wing UMP party's Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet with 52.5 percent of the vote against 47.5 percent after a tight first round. Elections are set for March 23 and March 30, 2014 throughout France. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Anti-government activists clash with national police during a protest against Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro government in Caracas on March 13, 2014. A total of 28 people have been killed and 365 injured in anti-government protests rocking Venezuela, the country's top prosecutor said Thursday, lamenting an atmosphere of "violence and chaos".AFP PHOTO/LEO RAMIREZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Secretary of State John Kerry testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the FY2015 Department of Defense(DoD) budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC March 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A rebel fighter aims a make-shift slingshot at pro-regime fighters, during clashes in the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor on March 13, 2014. Syria's parliament approved a new election law, on March 14, which for the first time in decades allows multiple candidates to run for president, just months before the war-torn nation heads to the polls. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD ABOUD
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova serves a ball to China's Li Na during the quarterfinal match during the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 13, 2014 in Indian Wells, California. Li won 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. AFP PHOTO/Joe KLAMAR
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Almond trees bloom as the sun sets in Hustopece, Czech Republic on March 13, 2014. Created in the 1950s as its own source of almonds for chocolate production the plantage has several thousand trees. AFP PHOTO / RADEK MICA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Tennis fans watch the quarterfinal BNP Paribas Open match between Sloane Stephens of the US and Italy's Flavia Pennetta on giant screen outside Stadium 1 at Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 13, 2014 in Indian Wells, California. AFP PHOTO/Joe KLAMAR
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Juventus' midfielder Paul Pogba reacts during the UEFA Europa League football match Juventus vs Fiorentina on March 13, 2014 at the Juventus Stadium in Turin. AFP PHOTO / MARCO BERTORELLO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An anti-government activist is arrested by national police during a protest against Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro government in Caracas on March 13, 2014. A total of 28 people have been killed and 365 injured in anti-government protests rocking Venezuela, the country's top prosecutor said Thursday, lamenting an atmosphere of "violence and chaos".AFP PHOTO/LEO RAMIREZ
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Indian National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) members and firemen carry a body that was recovered from the debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai on March 14, 2014. An apartment block collapsed in the Indian financial hub Mumbai on March 14, killing one woman and injuring three other people in the latest in a series of deadly building cave-ins, authorities said. AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Malaysia Airlines employee writes a message expressing prayers and well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on March 14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean after the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man wearing a mask, who claimed to be a relative of a passenger from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, speaks to the media outside the lounge in Beijing on March 14, 2014. Malaysia confirmed on March 14 that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had flown for hours after going missing. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Crew members look out the windows from a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the Strait of Malacca on March 14, 2014. Malaysia confirmed on March 14 that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had flown for hours after going missing. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Royal Malaysian Air Force Navigator captain Izam Fareq Hassan (R) talks with his team members onboard a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the Strait of Malacca on March 14, 2014. Malaysia confirmed on March 14 that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had flown for hours after going missing. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany speeds from the pits during the second practice session at the Formula One Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne on March 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO/William WEST IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand together before a meeting at Winfield House in London on March 14, 2014. Lavrov admitted the crisis over Crimea was "a difficult situation" as began 11th-hour talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in London. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
The pack rides during the sixth stage of the 72nd edition of the Paris-Nice cycling race, on March 14, 2014, between Saint-Saturnin-les-Avignon and Fayence. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli air strikes on smuggling tunnels in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 14, 2014. A truce declared by Gaza militants appeared to be holding with the Israeli military reporting no fresh rocket fire during the night after two days of tit-for-tat violence. But the truce, which was to have taken effect at 1200 GMT on March 13, was tested when the Israeli military reported further rocket fire from Gaza hours later and launched retaliatory air strikes for a second night. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Royal Malaysian Air Force Navigator captain, Izam Fareq Hassan (C) looks at a map onboard a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the Strait of Malacca on March 14, 2014. Malaysia confirmed on March 14 that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had flown for hours after going missing. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of British soldier William McAleer, who died during World War I, is carried during his funeral at Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, northern France, on March 14, 2014. Nearly 100 years after being killed in action during the Battle of Loos in 1915, twenty British soldiers were buried at Loos British Cemetery. Private William McAleer of the 7th Battalion of Royal Scots Fusiliers was able to be identified by his military tags, while the other soldiers who remain unidentified were burried as soldiers "Known only unto God". AFP PHOTO / DENIS CHARLET
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
This picture taken on March 14, 2014 shows the supersonic plane Concorde MSN1, as it is transferred to the Aeorscopia aviation museum in Blagnac, southwestern France. The Concorde is to date the world's only supersonic passenger plane, travelling at speeds that whisked an elite class of travellers between London or Paris and the US east coast in just over three hours. It was definitively retired in October 2003, three years after a devastating crash that killed 113 people. AFP PHOTO / REMY GABALDA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
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 on March 14, 2014. Some 1,600 paper made pandas are on display, designed by French artist Paulo Grangeon. AFP PHOTO/Mandy CHENG
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Indian National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) members and firemen look for survivors from the rubble of a collapsed building in Mumbai on March 14, 2014. An apartment block collapsed in the Indian financial hub Mumbai on March 14, killing one woman and injuring three other people in the latest in a series of deadly building cave-ins, authorities said. AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Jockey Ruby Walsh riding Abbyssial (L) falls at a hurdle during the JCB Triumph Hurdle race on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire, South West England, on March 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Ukrainian soldiers take part in a military drill not far from the small city of Goncharovskoye, some 150 km from Kiev, on March 14, 2014. Russia on March 14 declared it reserved the right to protect compatriots in the whole of Ukraine, seen as a threat that Moscow could move its forces beyond the Russian-speaking peninsula of Crimea. AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A woman holds her severely malnourished baby in the malnutrition ward of the El Sabbah Pediatric Hospital in Juba on March 14, 2014. South Sudan faces possible famine if warring forces continue to flout a ceasefire deal, US and EU envoys warned on March 13, after almost three months of raging conflict left thousands dead. South Sudan's government has been at war with rebel groups since December 15, when a clash between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting. AFP PHOTO / IVAN LIEMAN
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A young couple walk with colourful balloons in the centre of Simferopol, on March 14, 2014, two days ahead of the referendum over Crimea's bid to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on March 14 that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make no decision on Ukraine until after Sunday's referendum on the region of Crimea. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL OLIVAS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Afghan children play on the roof of a neighborhood building during a political rally going on next door at a field just outside Kabul on March 14, 2014. The upcoming Presidential elections are the third presidential poll since the fall of the Taliban. It should pave the way for the country's first-ever peaceful democratic transfer of power. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Indian widows smeared in gulal (colored powder) look on they and others participate in Holi celebrations in Vrindavan on March 14, 2014. Breaking centuries-old tradition, around 1,000 widows living in the holy city of Vrindavan celebrated the spring colour festival of Holi at Meera Sahabhagini Sadan in Vrindavan. In a symbolic gesture, the widows celebrated Holi with colours and gulal unlike the previous year where they only sprinkled flower petals over each other. As per Indian tradition, widows are considered social outcasts and refrain from celebrating Holi. AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
An Indian widow, seen smeared with coloured powder, rests after celebrating Holi in Vrindavan on March 14, 2014. Breaking centuries-old tradition, around 1,000 widows living in the holy city of Vrindavan celebrated the spring colour festival of Holi at Meera Sahabhagini Sadan in Vrindavan. In a symbolic gesture, the widows celebrated Holi with colours and gulal unlike the previous year where they only sprinkled flower petals over each other. As per Indian tradition, widows are considered social outcasts and refrain from celebrating Holi. AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
This combination of photos shows the Eiffel tower (R) in central Paris through a haze of pollution taken on March 14, 2014 and during clear weather (L) on August 17, 2012. More than 30 departments in France are hit by maximum level pollution alerts since the day before, prompting Ecology Minister to say air quality was "an emergency and a priority for the government." AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAY / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Ukrainian soldiers gather at the Belbek Military base, on March 14, 2014 near Sevastopol, two days before a referendum in Crimea over its bid to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. The pro-Moscow leader of Ukraine's flashpoint Crimea peninsula called today on Russian-speaking eastern regions of Ukraine to hold their own referendums on switching over to Kremlin rule. AFP PHOTO DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
British Louise Saywell riding Hello Winner, competes during the International Jumping Competition "Les Talents Hermes prix" on March 14, 2014, at the Grand Palais in Paris. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate and former Mujahideen leader and hardline Islamist Abdul Rasul Sayyaf gather during a political rally in Shakardara district of Kabul province on March 14, 2014. Afghanistan's April 5 election is the third presidential poll since the fall of the Taliban with 11 candidates contesting the polls. AFP PHOTO/Wakil Kohsar
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Palestinian man and a member of the Israeli security forces take pictures of each other with their mobile phones after Palestinians from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, demonstrated against Jewish settlers and the nearby Jewish settlement of Hallamish on March 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Horses jump a fence during the Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeple Chase on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire, South West England, on March 14, 2014. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
People take part in a ceremony and candlelight vigil marking the third anniversary of the start of the violent conflict in Syria, at Campidoglio in Rome, on March 14, 2014. Syria's civil war enters its fourth year on March 15, leaving behind at least 146,000 dead and millions more homeless, cities and historical treasures in ruins, the economy devastated and no end in sight. TOPSHOTS /AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Demonstrators shout slogans in front of the Portuguese parliament during a civil servants union "Frente Comum" demonstration against the Portuguese government austerity measures. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man holds balloons bearing the colors of the Ukrainian national flag while he speaks with Ukrainian soldiers, as members of the Crimean Tatar community take part in a demonstration rally in front of a Ukrainian military base in the town of Bakhchisarai, some 40km south of Simferopol, on March 14, 2014, two days before a referendum in Crimea over its bid to break away from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Russia failed today to resolve a Cold-War-style crisis sparked by Moscow's military intervention in Crimea and the Ukrainian peninsula's weekend referendum on joining Kremlin rule. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Athletes compete during the FIS Cross-Country World Cup Ladies Skiathlon 7,5 classic and 7,5 km free competition in Falun, Sweden, on March 15, 2014. Norway's Therese Johaug won ahead of Norway's Marit Bjoergen and Finland's Kerttu Niskanen. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A man walks past Crimean flags in Simferopol's Lenin Square, on March 15, 2014. Ukraine braced for a breakaway vote in Crimea as deadly violence flared again in the ex-Soviet country's tinderbox east amid the biggest East-West showdown since the Cold War. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Ireland's players celebrate with their medals and trophy after winning the Six Nations rugby union match between France and Ireland on March 15, 2014 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Brian O'Driscoll's extraordinary international rugby career ended with a little jig of joy on March 15 after Ireland gave him the perfect way to exit the stage with the Six Nations title after a pulsating 22-20 win over France. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/FRANCK FIFE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Students from Odivelas Military School shout slogans during a demonstration against the government's austerity measures and budget cuts in Lisbon on March 15, 2014. Thousands of military members in civilian clothes rallied in Lisbon today to protest over pay cuts imposed by the government as part of an austerity drive to roll back public debt. Portugal is tightening its budget belt severely to comply with the terms of an international bailout. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
People gather in front of the Eiffel tower with a projection of the words "With the Syrians", during a demonstration to mark the third anniversary of the Syria's civil war, on March 15, 2014 in Paris. Syrian troops advanced Saturday in the key rebel bastion of Yabrud as the country's civil war entered its fourth year, with more than 146,000 dead, millions displaced and peace efforts stalled. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/JACQUES DEMARTHON
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Demonstrators gather on the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona to mark the third anniversary of the start of Syria conflict on March 15, 2014. The unrest began on March 15, 2011 after popular uprisings that toppled dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and has turned into a full-blown civil war, leaving over 100,000 people dead and forcing some 9 million people from their homes. The placard reads in Catalan: "Chemical massacre in Syria." TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/LLUIS GENE
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Belorussia's Arina Charopa performs during the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup in Debrecen, Hungary on March 15, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ATTILA KISBENEDEK
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
The pack rides during the seventh stage of the 72nd edition of the Paris-Nice cycling race, on March 15, 2014, between Mougins and Biot Sophia Antipolis. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ERIC FEFERBERG
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A Kenyan boy stands on the side of a road behind graffiti reading "We too have rights" in the impoverished Nairobi slum of Kibera on March 15, 2014. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
Job-seekers appling for work at the Nigerian immigration department scramble as their exam papers fly in the air, on the pitch of Abuja National Stadium, on March 15, 2014. At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in Nigeria's capital Abuja on March 15 after thousands of pannicked job-seekers stampeded during a government recruitment drive at the national stadium. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Stringer
Week in pictures March 10-March 16
A protester waves a black flag during clashes with riot police in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, on March 11, 2014. Turkish riot police fired tear gas on March 11 at protesters massed outside a hospital after the death of a teenage boy wounded during anti-government protests last year and left comatose. Berkin Elvan, 15, who has been in a coma since June 2013 after being struck in the head by a gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters, died on March 11, his family announced via Twitter. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC
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