Students of Bagong Silangan Elementary school cover their head during an earthquake drill in Manila on March 19, 2014. The students participated in a national emergency earthquake drill that aims to generate awareness on disaster risk reduction and assess their capacity level to respond during a disaster.
A man sits on a bench bearing the Crimean flag, ouside the Crimean parliament in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin has backed the approval of a draft agreement which would incorporate Ukraine's region of Crimea into Russian territory, according to an official instruction published today.
This picture taken on March 18, 2014 shows an unidentified man posing for a photo with two Tibetan mastiffs after they were sold at a “luxury pet” fair in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. One of the Tibetan mastiff puppies (L) was sold in China for almost two million USD, a report said on March 19, in what could be the most expensive dog sale ever.
Ecuador's Melissa Perez competes in the X South American Games (Odesur) Rhythmic Gymnastics competition in Santiago, Chile, on March 17, 2014.
Pro-Kremlin activists rally at the Red Square in Moscow, on March 18, 2014, to celebrate the incorporation of Crimea. President Vladimir Putin pushed today every emotional button of the collective Russian psyche as he justified the incorporation of Crimea, citing everything from ancient history to Russia's demand for respect to Western double standards.
Cambodian residents of a community light candles as they pray for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at their village in Phnom Penh on March 17, 2014. An investigation into the pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 intensified on March 17 after officials confirmed that the last words spoken from the cockpit came after a key signalling system was manually disabled.
Indian revellers covered in coloured powder dance during Holi festival celebrations in Allahabad on March 17, 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.
Pupils navigate a swamp on reed-rafts to get to school at Katuit primary in Chesesoi village on the shores of the Kenyan rift valley's Lake Baringo, on March 14, 2014. A few dozen students at the school have been cut-off by the swelling lake that has now risen to reclaim plains from which it had receded more than a decade ago, according to residents, and are now forced to navigate through swamps rife with submerged vegetation, hippo and crocodile to get to their weather-prone classrooms.
A pro-government forces member flashes the “V-sign” for victory next to a comrade in the main square of the Syrian town of Yabrud on March 16, 2014 after they seized full control of the rebel bastion in the strategic Qalamun region near the Lebanese border. The town was once home to some 30,000 people, including a Christian minority, and had been a rebel bastion since early in the Syrian uprising that began in March 2011.
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