People watch the total solar eclipse from Svalbard, Norway on Friday March 20, 2015.
An alligator swims in the waters of the Panama Canal, near Gatun, Panama on Monday, March 23, 2015.
A man walks on the shore of Icarai Beach in Niteroi, across the bay from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 23, 2015. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor
acknowledged in a television interview Monday that the run-up to the
2016 Olympic Games has proven a "wasted opportunity" to clean up the
city’s blighted waterways.
Men attend the funeral of seven Jewish siblings killed in a New York
house fire, in Jerusalem, Monday, March 23, 2015. The bodies of the
children, ages 5 to 16, were flown to Israel overnight from New York and
were immediately taken to Jerusalem in a convoy escorted by police.
According to Jewish tradition, funerals take place as soon as possible
after death.
Mourners line up to enter the parliament building where founding Prime
Minister Lee Kuan Yew lies in state, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 in
Singapore. Lee, 91, died Monday at Singapore General Hospital after more
than a month of battling severe pneumonia.
A girl carries sand-filtered water from the Kuakhai River on the eve of
World Water Day in Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, March 21, 2015. The
U.N. warns that the world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water
by 2030 unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource.
Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, returns a volley from Sabine Lisicki, of
Germany, during their match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament,
Friday, March 20, 2015 in Indian Wells, Calif.
A Nenets boy sits on a sleigh attends the Reindeer Herder's Day holiday
in the city of Nadym, in Yamal-Nenets Region, 2500 kilometers (about
1553 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia on Saturday, March 14, 2015. For
the indigenous nomadic Nenets people, the Reindeer Herder’s Day offers a
chance to show their prowess in wrestling, high jumps and other
traditional local sports, but, above all, reindeer races.
The Weeknd performs during the SXSW Music Festival on Thursday, March 19, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Ruzhdi Shehu leads the Sufi ceremony marking spring festival, Nowruz, in
a prayer room in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo on late Saturday, March
21, 2015. Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, preaches tolerance and a
search for understanding. (AP
