The Week in Pictures: March 23 – March 29 2013 (87 Photos)

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Artists perform in street of Rome on March 27, 2013. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP Photo)

Fans gather as Madame Tussauds New York unveils a new wax figure of Britney Spears on March 26, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Madam Tussauds New York/AFP Photo)

Workers of Dukovany nuclear power plant dressed in radiation protection suits get on a bus during a nuclear accident exercise on March 26, 2013 in Dukovany nuclear power plant, 50km from the city of Brno, Czech Republic. (Photo by Michal Cizek/AFP Photo)

This picture shows a cosmonaut suit among other sovietic space program items on display at the Cornette de Saint Cyr auction house on March 25, 2013 in Paris. (Photo by Pierre Andrieu/AFP Photo)

People dance in a street as they take part in the student carnival on March 28, 2013 in Caen, northwestern France. Caen's student carnival is the biggest student carnival of France, with 12,000-14,000 students in attendance according to the authorities. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)

A representative of the Czech Guinness Book of Records measures a giant bottle of wine in Cejkovice, southern Czech Repubic, on March 28, 2013. The bottle, which is over two meters in height and contains 200 liters of wine, has being registered as the [Largest wine bottle in the Czech Republic]. (Photo by Radek Mica/AFP Photo)

A child smeared in colors stands at a doorway during Holi festival celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 28, 2013. Hindus celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, by painting each other in bright pigments, distributing sweets and squirting water at one another. The holiday celebrated mainly in India and Nepal marks the beginning of spring and the triumph of good over evil. (Photo by A.M. Ahad/Associated Press)

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-08M spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on March 29, 2013. The Russian rocket carries Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Christopher Cassidy. (Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press)

9-months-old Jaycee Philen cries as she gets her photo taken by her mom, Jamie Philen, in the blue bonnets near Chappell Hill, Texas, on March 28, 2013. (Photo by Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle)

John Amidon holds up a model of an Air Force drone while protesting outside Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada, on March 27, 2013. Amidon is part of the Nevada Desert Experience group which holds an annual peace walk protesting the use of drones and nuclear weapons. The walk, which lasts five days, starts from Las Vegas, makes a stop at Creech Air Force Base and ends at the Nevada National Security Site in Mercury, Nevada. (Photo by Julie Jacobson/Associated Press)

A landslide near Coupeville, Wash, on Whidbey Island severely damaged one home and threatens 33 more in the community overlooking Puget Sound, on March 27, 2013. (Photo by Ted S. Warren/Associated Press)

In this aerial photo, a landslide is shown near Coupeville, Wash. on Whidbey Island, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Whidbey Island authorities say one home has been severely damaged by the landslide that has isolated or threatened 33 more homes in the community overlooking Puget Sound about 50 miles north of Seattle. Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue evacuated one person from the damaged home. About 10 more residents have been evacuated by boat. (Photo by Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)

A Colombian police officer stands guard near packs of confiscated marijuana in Cali March 26, 2013. According to authorities, narcotics police confiscated 7.7 tons (6985 kilograms) of marijuana that were transported in two trucks at a checkpoint in Valle del Cauca, which belonged to the sixth front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). They also said that 80 tons of marijuana have been seized so far this year. (Photo by Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters)

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis washes the foot of an inmate at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo, Rome, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing now that he is pope. Two of the 12 were young women, an unusual choice given that the rite re-enacts Jesus' washing of the feet of his male disciples. The Mass was held in the Casal del Marmo facility in Rome, where 46 young men and women currently are detained. Many of them are Gypsies or North African migrants, and the Vatican said the 12 selected for the rite weren't necessarily Catholic. (Photo by L'Osservatore Romano/AP Photo)

A boy smeared with colours reacts as another boy pours water on him during Holi celebrations in the southern Indian city of Chennai March 27, 2013. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (Photo by Babu/Reuters)

Free Syrian Army fighters play foosball in Sidi Meqdad area in the suburbs of Damascus, on March 28, 2013. (Photo by Ward Al-Keswani/Shaam News Network/Reuters)

Myanmar Muslims living in Kuala Lampur protest against ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslim in Meikhtila, Myanmar, on March 25, 2013. Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar's predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite government efforts to stem the nation's latest outbreak of sectarian violence. (Photo by Lai Seng Sin/Associated Press)

Actress Tilda Swinton performs the art of sleeping in her one-person piece called [The Maybe], in New York's Museum of Modern Art, on March 25, 2013. In [The Maybe], first performed at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995, Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs. (Photo by Richard Drew/Associated Press)

Air Demonstration Esquadrão, Brazilian Air Force, was presented on March 27, 2013 in Georgetown, capital of Guiana, thrilling thousands who came to watch the air show that close to Paredão Kitty, Georgetown, as they performed some daring stunts in the sky. (Photo by Cabo Vinícius Santos/FAB)

In this photo released by the Philippine Coast Guard in Manila, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, the bow of the USS Guardian, a US Navy minesweeper, is lifted by a crane during a continuing salvage operation off Tubbataha Reef, a World Heritage Site in the Sulu Sea, 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila, Philippines, Tuesday March 26, 2013. Guardian ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef January 17. The U.S. Navy and contracted salvage teams continue damage assessments and the removal of equipment and parts to prepare the grounded ship to be safely dismantled and removed from Tubbataha Reef. The U.S. Navy continues to work in close cooperation with the Philippine authorities to safely dismantle Guardian from the reef while minimizing environmental effects. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders/U.S. Navy)

Competitors warm up in the hallway at the World Irish Dancing Championships in Boston, Massachusetts March 24, 2013. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)

Girls dressed in costumes from the French revolution look through a fence as they take part in a protest march over France's planned legalisation of same-sex marriage in Paris March 24, 2013. (Photo by Mal Langsdon/Reuters)

An honour guard marches during the changing of the guards ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall during snowfall in central Moscow, March 25, 2013. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Baseball fans protect themselves from a bat flying into the stands from the hands of Baltimore Orioles designated hitter Wilson Betemit during the fifth inning of a MLB spring training baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Sarasota, Florida, March 25, 2013. (Photo by Steve Nesius/Reuters)

A marching band leads a vintage automobile through one of two tunnels that will replace a notorious stretch of California's Highway 1 at Devil's Slide near Pacifica, California March 25, 2013. The tunnels mark the completion of the $439 million transportation project, which bypass a steep, winding portion of the coastal highway south of San Francisco that has long been susceptible to rockslide-related closures. (Photo by Robert Galbraith/Reuters)

People gather near pieces of broken glass at the site of a suicide attack in Jalalabad March 26, 2013. Taliban suicide bombers killed at least five policemen in Afghanistan's restive east on Tuesday, officials said, in a three-hour attack that coincided with a visit to the country by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. (Photo by Parwiz/Reuters)

Jordan's fans sit on top of a fence as they watch Jordan play against Japan during their 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match at King Abdullah stadium in Amman March 26, 2013. (Photo by Muhammad Hamed/Reuters)

A boy plays with a water pistol during holi celebrations in a lane near the Bankey Bihari temple in Vrindavan in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh March 25, 2013. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. (Photo by Vivek Prakash/Reuters)

Pedro Quezada, winner of the Powerball lottery, smiles as he attends a news conference at the New Jersey Lottery headquarters in Trenton, March 26, 2013. A New Jersey convenience store owner has stepped forward to claim the winning ticket in the $338 million Powerball lottery, according to media reports. Pedro Quezada, 44, walked into a Passaic, New Jersey, liquor store where the winning ticket was sold and handed a ticket over to be validated late Monday afternoon, The Bergen Record newspaper reported. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

A guard of honour contingent marches during a parade to mark the 68th anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw March 27, 2013. The parade commemorates the day, March 27, 1945, when independence hero General Aung San gave the command to the units of the independence army to launch a nation-wide resistance against the Japanese occupation. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

An Afghan seller of U.S. dollar notes waits for customers in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Residents of Kandahar complain of few jobs despite heavy international investment in the country since the collapse of the Taliban in 2001. (Photo by Allauddin Khan/AP Photo)

Boeung Kak Lake resident Yorm Bopha (C) reacts after she was denied bail at a hearing in the Supreme Court in the capital city of Phnom Penh March 27, 2013. The residents of Boeung Kak Lake have been embroiled in a long-running land dispute with a real estate development firm in the capital and have also been appealed for Bopha's release from prison. (Photo by Samrang Pring/Reuters)

A woman pushes her bicycle through a checkpoint manned by Thai security forces in the troubled southern province of Yala March 27, 2013. The first round of formal peace talks between Thai government and the insurgent group Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) will take place on March 28 and will be mediated by Malaysia. Although the first round is set for Thursday, there has been no halt in the fighting and people in the region see no early end to one of Southeast Asia's bloodiest conflicts. (Photo by Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters)

Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 27, 2013. When Edith Windsor got engaged in the 1960s to the woman who eventually became her wife she asked for a pin instead of a ring. A ring would have meant awkward questions, she said: Who is he? And when do we meet him? On Wednesday, the 83-year-old stood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the face of a case that could change how the U.S. government treats married gay couples. Windsor, whose wife Thea Spyer died in 2009, sued to challenge a $363,000 federal estate tax bill she got after Spyer's death. The pair married in Canada in 2007. Had Windsor been married to a man she would not have paid any estate tax. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Police detain a college student during a protest in the southern Indian city of Chennai March 27, 2013. Dozens of students on Wednesday held a protest against Sri Lanka demanding the probe into war crimes, the protesting students said. The United Nations urged Sri Lanka in a resolution last week to carry out credible investigations into killings and disappearances during its nearly 30-year civil war, especially in the brutal final stages in 2009. (Photo by Babu/Reuters)

A penitent of [Santisimo Cristo de las Injurias] brotherhood takes part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern Spain, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo)

A Laiki Bank manager tries to calm depositors waiting for the opening of the bank's branch in Nicosia March 28, 2013. Banks in Cyprus opened their doors on Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks, with tight controls on transactions to prevent a run on deposits after the island was forced to accept a stringent EU rescue package to avert bankruptcy. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Children watch from the rear window of a car as protesters march past demanding Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immunity be stripped and that he stand trial for the killings of protesters who demanded the end of his 33-year rule, in Sanaa March 28, 2013. (Photo by Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

A Palestinian boy stands on a bed of nails during a class at the Red Dragon martial arts club in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip March 29, 2013. Dozens of boys from eight to 15 years of age are part of the club. (Photo by Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

A foreign activist tries to escape from a jeep after he was detained by Israeli border policemen on suspicion of attacking an officer during minor clashes at a rally marking Land Day in the West Bank village of al-Tuwani, south of Hebron March 29, 2013. Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists took part in the rally which marks the annual commemorations in Israel of six Arab citizens killed by police in 1976 during protests against land confiscations in northern Israel's Galilee region. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)

North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Tens of thousands of North Koreans turned out for the mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader Kim Jong Un's call to arms. (Photo by Jon Chol Jin/AP Photo)

Container workers occupy and block a road during a protest at Kwai Chung Container Terminal in Hong Kong, Friday, March 29, 2013. About two hundreds container workers went on strike, demanding pay raise. The terminal is a subsidiary of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s company, Hutchison Whampoa. (Photo by/AP Photo)

Jamaica's Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt (R) and Antigua and Barbuda's Daniel Bailey run during a training session for the [Mano a Mano] challenge on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro March 29, 2013. The [Mano a Mano]challenge will be held on March 31. (Photo by Sergio Moraes/Reuters)

Woman throws bras on March 25, 2013 at the esplanade des droits de l'homme, in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, during a happening called by [Pink Bra Bazzar], a French organization fighting against and sensitizing on breast cancer. (Photo by Pierre Verdy/AFP Photo)

A woman stands on a pier under an umbrella during a storm in a Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on March 24, 2013. (Photo by Mikhail Mordasov/AFP Photo)

Visitors look at covers of different types of bombs that were used during the Vietnam War at a Bombs and Mines Museum in Hanoi on March 25, 2013. A meeting was held by the Defense Ministry at the museum to mark the International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action on April 4th. (Photo by Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP Photo)

Katie Price poses at a photocall to launch KP Equestrian at The Worx Studio's on March 26, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Fred Duval)

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