Saturday 5 March 2016

AP PHOTOS: A selection of pictures from the past week

Pictures of soccer fans are displayed on the ferris wheel as part of the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament, in Paris, Friday, March 4, 2016. The UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament is scheduled to be held in France from June 10 to July 10, 2016.
Pictures of soccer fans are displayed on the ferris wheel as part of the upcoming Euro 2016 tournament, in Paris, Friday, March 4, 2016. The UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament is scheduled to be held in France from June 10 to July 10, 2016.

A Pakistani Kushti wrestler looks at himself in a mirror during a training session, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is the national sport in Pakistan.
A Pakistani Kushti wrestler looks at himself in a mirror during a training session, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is the national sport in Pakistan. 
A hot air balloon is silhouetted against the evening sky as the sun sets north of Phoenix on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
A hot air balloon is silhouetted against the evening sky as the sun sets north of Phoenix on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
A man covered with plastic bag for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole in the Finnish Gulf west of St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
A man covered with plastic bag for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole in the Finnish Gulf west of St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, March 2, 2016.
A woman runs through an artwork created by artist Filippo Minelli, a new work in his series Silence/Shapes, where colorful smoke bombs were let off in Somerset House’s courtyard, in London, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Photographs of similar performances will be shown in a new street art exhibition, Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street, which opens to the public at Somerset House on March 3.
A woman runs through an artwork created by artist Filippo Minelli, a new work in his series Silence/Shapes, where colorful smoke bombs were let off in Somerset House’s courtyard, in London, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Photographs of similar performances will be shown in a new street art exhibition, Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street, which opens to the public at Somerset House on March 3.
Lady Gaga performs "Til It Happens To You" that is nominated for best original song from "The Hunting Ground" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Lady Gaga performs "Til It Happens To You" that is nominated for best original song from "The Hunting Ground" at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
A Syrian man plays with his one-year-old child as refugees and migrants wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily.
A Syrian man plays with his one-year-old child as refugees and migrants wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni on Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily. 
In this photo taken through a gap of a television camera tripod, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference with the Prime Minister of Croatia Tihomir Oreskovic after talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
In this photo taken through a gap of a television camera tripod, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference with the Prime Minister of Croatia Tihomir Oreskovic after talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
A security guard walks by the Temple of Debod at sunset in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. The ancient temple, which was originally built in Egypt, was dismantled and relocated in Madrid as a donation from the Egyptian state to Spain in 1968.
A security guard walks by the Temple of Debod at sunset in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. The ancient temple, which was originally built in Egypt, was dismantled and relocated in Madrid as a donation from the Egyptian state to Spain in 1968.