MARCH 13: A man climbs pole during Maslenitsa celebrations at Gorky park in Moscow, Russia. Maslenitsa is widely viewed as a pagan holiday marking the end of winter and is celebrated with pancake eating and shows of strength, while the Orthodox Church considers it as the week of feasting before Lent.
MARCH 13: A snowboarder wearing a mask of a horse head rides a lift at the Bobrovy Log ski resort in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
MARCH 13: Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz poses with supporters during a campaign rally at the Northland Performing Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio.
MARCH 13: Cross-country skiers compete during the 48th Engadin Ski Marathon near the village of Sils, Switzerland. According to the organizers, more than 13,000 skiers participated in the 26.2-mile race near the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz.
MARCH 14: Manuel Barrantes shows part of a collection of old things in a room of the house he built underground in San Isidro de Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica. Barrantes started digging through red soil and volcanic rock on his farm 12 years ago to build his subterranean house, between 15 and 63 feet underground. The dwelling, which Barrantes says provides a peaceful and comfortable home for him and his family away from noise pollution and the effects of climate change, now covers about 2,000 square feet.
MARCH 13: Actor Jacob Tremblay, of "The Room," holds a Lego model of a Canadian Screen Award that someone gave him as he arrived at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto.
MARCH 13: An area designated for protesters is seen outside an event for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Savannah Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
MARCH 13: Thousands of demonstrators hold a rally against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Sao Paulo, Brazil, part of nationwide protests calling for her impeachment.
MARCH 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall campaign event in Hickory, North Carolina.
MARCH 14: A hot air balloon flies near Australia's Parliament House in Canberra on the 30th anniversary of Canberra's Balloon Spectacular festival.
MARCH 15: Refugee children play with a stuffed toy at a muddy makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, Greece.
MARCH 15: A farmer harvests broccoli in the town of al-Ansariyeh south of Sidon, Lebanon.
MARCH 15: Five-year-old Yousef Madr al-Ajaj stands inside a classroom in the rebel-controlled area of Maarshureen village in Idlib province, Syria. March 15 marked the 5th anniversary of peaceful protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad that evolved into the conflict that has devastated the country.
MARCH 15: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man uses binoculars to watch the wedding of the grandson of Rabbi Yosef Dov Moshe Halberstam, religious leader of the Sanz Hasidic dynasty, to the granddaughter of the religious leader of Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Hasidic dynasty, in Netanya, Israel.
MARCH 15: U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio hugs his family after announcing that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign at an event in Miami, Florida
MARCH 15: Local villagers prepare to bury the body of elephant Hemantha during a religious ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hemantha, which died from injuries to its feet, was under medical treatment for the last six months. The elephant used to march at street parades during festivals held by the temple. Hemantha died at age 23.
MARCH 15: Sergio Hunco, 17, takes a break as he plays with a tennis ball in a tunnel in downtown Havana.
MARCH 16: A model presents a creation by the designer known as "writtenafterwards" during the Autumn/Winter 2016 Tokyo Fashion Week.
MARCH 16: A model presents a creation by Jotaro Saito from the designer's Autumn/Winter 2016 collection during Tokyo Fashion Week.
MARCH 17: Students from a martial arts school practice Shaolin Kung Fu on cliffs in Dengfeng, Henan Province, China.
MARCH 17: A Steller sea lion eats fish during a media event at the Marineland Zoo in Antibes before its reopening, months after flooding heavily damaged the French Riviera in October 2015.
MARCH 17: Haze layers above the dwarf planet Pluto are seen in an image released March 17 by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are seen; the layers have been found to typically extend horizontally over hundreds of miles, but are not strictly parallel to the surface, according to NASA.
MARCH 17: A man transports a sculpture of Christ ahead of the upcoming Holy Week, in downtown Bogota, Colombia.
MARCH 17: Members of the 28th Battalion Finner Camp of the Irish Army Reserve stand next to former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell before the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York. The nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade kicked off Thursday, and for the first time in decades, gay activists did not decry it as an exercise in exclusion.
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