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AFP - Sun Mar 5, 6:13 PM ET
Through the gate : A girl is seen behing railings during a rally of the leftist Farabundo Marti for the Liberation Front (FMLN) in San Salvador. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) -
AFP - Sun Mar 5, 6:15 PM ET
Salvation day anniversary : One Hundred and sixty Israeli army officers pay their respects at a memorial service in Plovdiv, marking the 63rd anniversary of Salvation day, when Bulgaria's civil protests stopped the Nazis from deporting the first group of 8,500 Jews. (AFP/Valentina Petrova) -
AFP - Sun Mar 5, 6:17 PM ET
Maslenitsa carnival : Russian dancers dressed in traditional costumes perform during the Maslenitsa carnival parade in a street in Moscow as the temperatures drop to minus eight degrees. (AFP/Mladen Antonov) -
Week in pictures: 25 Feb-3 March
A vet vaccinates a duck against the H5N1 strain of bird flu at a poultry farm in south-west France. -
Three bombs that went off almost simultaneously in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Tuesday left more than 30 people dead and dozens more injured. -
The apparently co-ordinated onslaught comes a day after the lifting of a curfew imposed following recent violence. -
A Romanian woman rides a bus in Bucharest in one of the snowstorms that have caused widespread chaos in the country. -
Brazil's famous carnival has seen four days of celebrations across the country. -
The elaborate costumes and make-up are devised far in advance. -
Brazilian, Russian and American astronauts train in a Soyuz spacecraft ahead of a trip to the International Space Station. -
Kenyan newspaper staff are left shocked after masked gunmen acting on government orders destroy thousands of copies of the paper. -
Oscar statues are delivered in preparation for the Academy Awards on 5 March. -
Anti-US protests are held in Hyderabad during President Bush's visit to the southern Indian city. -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:45 PM ET
Leaving the tree : A parrot prepares to fly from its nest in a garden of Kolkata. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) -
AP - Mon Mar 6, 12:59 PM ET
A visitor looks at 'Raemar Blue' a 1968 installation by U.S. artist James Turrell, at the exhibition 'Los Angeles 1955-1985, Birth of an artistic capital' at the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, Monday, March 6, 2006. The exhibition opens on March 8 and will last until July 17, with 350 art work from 85 artists. (AP Photo/ Jacques Brinon) -
AP - Mon Mar 6, 4:58 PM ET
Soldiers wait with their musical instruments for a ceremonial parade in New Delhi, India, as a female rhesus macaque monkey and her baby sit nearby, Monday, March 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:26 PM ET
Alemao entrance : A Brazilian militarized police member guards the entrance of the Alemao shantytown complex, where combined forces of the Army and Militarized Police search for ten FAL 7.62s and one 9mm pistol, stolen last Friday from a military base in Rio de Janeiro. (AFP/Antonio Scorza) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:28 PM ET
Gathering to see : Palestinians gather and look at the spot where two teenage Palestinian brothers were killed, when a device they were playing with exploded, in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams) -
AFP/DDP - Mon Mar 6, 4:31 PM ET
Preparing for the fair : A man works on a CeBIT exhibitor's advertisement at the fair grounds in Hanover, in preparation of the 2006 CeBIT information and telecommunication technology fair. (AFP/DDP/Jochen Luebke) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:34 PM ET
Snowy path : A man walks with his umbrella under snow in downtown Belgrade. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:38 PM ET
At the window : An Iraqi girl looks from the window of her house at the site where a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad. (AFP/Sabah Arar) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:55 PM ET
Guarding the Hall : Chinese Pararmilitary policeman stand guard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as the National People's Congress (NPC) continues inside (AFP/Peter Parks) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 4:58 PM ET
Handing out flyers : Students distribute flyers at the Jussieu University in Paris, on the eve of nationwide protests over the government's contested youth job plan. (AFP/Pierre Andrieu) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 5:00 PM ET
Three 6 wins : Members of rap group Three 6 Mafia walk off stage with their Oscars after winning for best original song during the 78th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California. The group won for "It's Hard Out Here for A Pimp" from the movie "Hustle & Flow." (AFP/Timothy A. Clary) -
AFP - Mon Mar 6, 5:02 PM ET
Kolkata mural : An Indian pedestrian walks past a wall decorated with graffiti by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kolkata. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)