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  A Kenyan Somali lady walks with her ballot cards in the Eastleigh district of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi during the nationwide elections. (Phil Moore, AFP)
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  Paris Saint-Germain's English midfielder David Beckham eyes the ball during a warm up session prior to the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match Paris Saint-Germain vs Valencia in Paris. (Franck Fife, AFP)
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  An honour guard cries during the funeral cortege of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy in Caracas. (Leo Ramirez, AFP)
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  An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of a tusker elephant after it was struck by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, some 12 kms from Alipurduar. (AFP)
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  Thousands of personalised cardboard characters are pictured outside Britain's Houses of Parliament in central London during a photocall organised by Fairtrade Foundation, calling on British Prime Minister David Cameron to put smallholder farmers around the world at the heart of its trade policy ahead of the G8 Summit in June. (Andrew Cowie, AFP)
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  This picture shows Naples' museum park on fire on a former industrial site in the Bagnoli area of the southern Italian city. (Controluce, AFP)
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  This picture, taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean people attending a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to support the statement of a spokesperson of the Korean People's Army (KPA). North Korea threatened a "pre-emptive" nuclear strike against the US and any other aggressors on March 7 as the UN Security Council prepared to adopt tough sanctions against the isolated state. (KCNA via KNS, AFP)
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  Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard during a curfew in Srinagar. One man was killed in restive Indian Kashmir when soldiers fired at demonstrators demanding an inquiry into the death of a Kashmiri research scholar who was found hanged in southern India. (Tauseef Mustafa, AFP)
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  Students protect themselves from a water cannon during clashes with the police within a students' protest to demand the government of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to improve the public education system, in Santiago. (Claudio Santana, AFP)
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  A poster of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is seen covered by memories of people who queue outside the Military Academy chapel to pay last respects to the leader in Caracas. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP)
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  Sympathisers of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lit candles in an improvised altar set up at Simon Bolivar Square in Sabaneta, the town where Chavez was born, Venezuela. (Geraldo Caso, AFP)
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  A ripped picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad hangs in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa following days of fierce fighting. (Mohammad al-Hussein, AFP)
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  Maasai tribes-people leave after voting in Ilngarooj, Kajiado South County, Maasailand, during Kenya's elections. (AFP)
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  A man works checks what will be the first ETCS (European Train Control System) line in Profondeville, Wallonia. The modernisation of the line, between Jambes and Dinant (L154), will enable the system to automatically stop a train that neglects a red light or exceeds the maximum speed limit. (Bruno Fahy, AFP)
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  Riot policemen protect themselves during a demonstration against layoffs by Goodyear employees, at the Goodyear headquarters in Rueil Malmaison. France has yet to hit bottom. The unemployment rate in Europe's second-largest economy rose again in the last quarter of last year to 10.6%, putting new pressure on President Francois Hollande's rollout a controversial labour-market reforms. (Remy de la Mauviniere, AP)
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  Egyptian protester gather around burning tyres during clashes with riot police, not pictured, near a state security building in Port Said, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Clashes between protesters and police have broken out in this restive Egyptian port city despite efforts by the military to separate the two sides. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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  Locusts lands on a sand dune in Negev Desert, southern Israel, near the border with Egypt, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. A swarm of locusts crossed into Israel from neighboring Egypt Monday, raising fears that Israel could be hit with a biblical plague ahead of the Passover holiday. Israel sent out planes to spray pesticides over agricultural fields to prevent damage by the small swarm, which numbers about 2,000 locusts, said Dafna Yurista, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Ministry. The ministry also
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  A child carries a banner reading, "Iberia, do not fire my father" during an Iberia airline workers protest in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, March 7, 2013. Spanish airline Iberia says some 1,300 flights will be canceled this week as workers begin a second round of strikes to protest the loss-making company's plans to lay off almost a fifth of its workforce. The government has ordered a minimum amount of services should remain, meaning 85 percent of long-haul flights, 62 percent of medium-haul and 47
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  A woman holds a picture of President Hugo Chavez against her face as she cries outside the military hospital where he died Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all school was suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday..(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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  Ocean waves crash over a seawall and into houses along the coast in Scituate, Mass., Thursday, March 7, 2013. A nor'easter is bringing wind-whipped, wet snow to Massachusetts, and coastal flooding is expected in communities still recovering from February's blizzard. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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