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An ethnic Hungarian wearing a traditional Huszar uniform stands at attention during a wreath-laying ceremony on Magyar's Day, marking 162 years since the 1848 revolution against the Habsburgs, in the Nyerges pass, 250 km north of Bucharest. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City. Police have been heavily deployed in the old city amid fears of violent protests against Israeli settlement expansion plans in east Jerusalem and the reopening of a 17th century synagogue near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a site sacred to both Jews and Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
Inmates from the Cebu City provincial jail dressed in tangerine jump suits, the roughly 1,500 convicted murderers, rapists and other inmates perform a series of Michael Jackson-inspired dances that have helped boost their morale while also making them Internet sensations. -- PHOTO: AFP
Thai Buddhist monks donate their blood at an anti-government rally in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-government protesters started donating their own blood as part of a plan to splatter the Thai government headquarters in a symbolic sacrifice to press their demands for new elections. -- PHOTO: AP
A painted donkey, used by a Pakistani man, to pull a cart loaded with fruits, is seen in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. According to the owner of the donkey, he painted it to bring good luck and to attract customers. -- PHOTO: AP
A woman walks down the stairs outside a bank at Hong Kong's financial district promoting the upcoming Earth Hour event. Homes, offices, towers and landmarks in cities around the world will turn off their lights from 8:30pm on March 27 for 60 minutes to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People gather fish in a water reservoir on the Dnieper river near Kiev in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. Kiev water officials lowered the water level in the reservoir to prevent the city flooding following heavy snow in the area and the ice caused the fish to suffocate. -- PHOTO: AP
The Angels Flight Railway, for the first time in more than nine years, resumes ferrying passengers up and down Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Angel's Flight, which has been dubbed 'the shortest railway in the world', was shut down in 2001 after a fatal accident. The funicular was opened in 1901 to take passengers on the one-minute trip up and down Bunker Hill, initially for a penny. The fare is now 25 cents and the train still features the original cars from 1901. -- PHOTO: AFP
Goose fighting in the city of Pavlovo in the Nizhny Novgorod region, some 380km (236 miles) east of Moscow. -- PHOTO: AP
A Balinese child in costume has lipstick applied before a ritual ceremony to welcome 'Nyepi', Bali's Day of Silence and the Hindu New Year, at Monumen Nasional in Jakarta. Most Balinese Hindus practice self-reflection by staying home as they observe this quiet holiday. The Hindu New Year falls on March 16. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Residents of the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau playing the roles of Jewish high priests, line up for a photograph during rehearsals for a Passion play in Oberammergau. Once every 10 years, this Bavarian village crucifies Jesus all over again and local hairdressers nearly go out of business because nearly half the 5,300-strong village lets both hair and beards grow for over a year to better resemble the Jews they will interpret in the Passion play which has been running here for nearly 375 years. -- PHOTO: AFP
A head of a colossal statue of the god Amun from the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1336-1327 BC on display as part of the Tuntankhamun's Funeral at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibit shows materials and rituals associated with the burial of the pharaoh. -- PHOTO: AFP
The 'Battlestar Galactica' dueling roller coaster ride is pictured during a media preview of the Universal Studios theme park in Singapore March 16, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
People rent power assisted bicycles at a 'solar parking lot', a new initiative set up by Tokyo's Setagaya ward with Japanese electronics company Sanyo, near the railway station in Setagaya ward, Tokyo, on March 16, 2010. The rental station incorporates solar panels on the rooftop, and lithium-ion battery systems to the 100 electric power assisted bicycles and the lights, have been set up near railway stations for community use. -- PHOTO: AFP
A tourist lies on a sunbed next to a thatched roof m&d hut at the luxury hotel ?Vil Uyana?, set in the backdrop of a fifth century rock fortress ruled by playboy Sri Lankan king Kashyapa near Colombo. Sri Lanka's hotel owners are racing to refurbish and add more rooms as foreign holiday makers pour into the country after the end of nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed. The ambitious expansion comes amid a post-war revival that has pushed up hotel room rates and given the hospitality industry something to cheer for the first time in years. -- PHOTO: AFP
A model parades down the catwalk in Berlei underwear at an outdoor parade during the Melbourne Fashion Festival. The Festival is the largest consumer fashion event in Australia and runs March 14 to 21 this year. -- PHOTO: AFP
Cambodia fishermen work on their fishing boat on the Mekong river in Phnom Penh. Changing weather patterns and rising seas are already affecting many people in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong Basin and climate change threatens the livelihoods of millions more, a report by global conservation group WWF released in October 2009 shows. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bulls wrestle during the opening day of the bull fighting festival at Cheongdo, where a total of 132 bulls from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the US will fight each other during the five-day festival from March 17-21. -- PHOTO: AFP
A helicopter whirls off the command ship USS Blue Ridge from the US Navy's Seventh Fleet during an annual joint military exercise with South Korea at a base in the southern port city of Busan. The annual Key Resolve/Foal Eagle drills runs from March 8-18 and involves 18,000 US and 20,000 South Korean troops. -- PHOTO: AFP
Women shop for gold in Gaza City's gold market on in Gaza City. The Israeli blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip has not affected the gold trade, say sellers, who say they bring stock through tunnels from Egypt to satisfy the demand for gold gifts in hugely popular weddings. -- PHOTO: AFP
An unidentified Bahraini woman walks at sunset, in a park along the Persian Gulf in Muharraq, Bahrain. -- PHOTO: AP
Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima. Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Limousin bullS Chicago (L) and Raf stand had to had at the annual cattle auction in Gross Kreutz, eastern Germany. During this auction, an average of 70 bulls of breeds like Angus, Blonde d'Aquitaine, Charolais, Fleckvieh, Hereford, Limousin and Uckermaerker are sold. -- PHOTO: AFP
Men clean their fishing nets at Karachi's Clifton Beach. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Snow crystals have transformed trees into white strangely shaped figures as grey clouds cover the sky on the Brocken mountain, eastern Germany, which is still covered with 80cm of snow. -- PHOTO: AFP
Elephants of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus parade past the US Captiol in Washington during the annual Pachyderm Parade to promote their upcoming shows in DC. -- PHOTO: AFP
Two rainbows appear as water tumbles down The Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J. -- PHOTO: AP
An Olive Ridley turtle retreats back toward the sea all covered in sand after laying eggs on Rushikulya beach, about 140km (88 miles) south west of Bhubaneshwar. Thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles started to come ashore over the last two days from the Bay of Bengal to lay their eggs on the beach at Rushikulya, one of the three mass nesting sites in the Indian coastal state of Orissa. -- PHOTO: AFP
