From President Obama’s first meeting with Pope Francis to the massive mudslide in Washington, to credible evidence in the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 and Sochi’s stray dogs arriving in America, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Mar. 24, 2014. An aerial photo of the massive mudslide that killed at least eight people and left dozens missing near Arlington, Wash.Ted S. Warren—AP Mar. 23, 2014. A resident collects scrap metal from the rubble of burnt shanties after a fire gutted a residential area in Caloocan city, north of Manila, Philippines.Ezra Acayan—NurPhotoMar. 21, 2014. Military caps are thrown in the ocean by Ukrainian submariners as the surrendered Ukrainian submarine 'Zaporozhye' is towed to the Russian Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine.Sergei Ilnitsky—EPAMar. 24, 2014. Marta Llorente, 28, poses backstage before taking part in a body paint pageant during Expobeauty Andalusia in the Andalusian capital of Seville.Marcelo del Pozo—REUTERSMar. 23, 2014. The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft is set on its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. The spacecraft will carry Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 26. Maxim Shemetov—ReutersMar. 23, 2014. A man, killed after a boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees capsized, is seen inside a boat at the shores of Lake Albert during rescue operations by the Uganda Marine Unit.Edward Echwalu—ReutersMar. 21, 2014. A man waves a Russian flag as people look at fire works in the center of the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Russia's upper house of parliament unanimously voted on March 21 to ratify the treaty incorporating Crimea into Russian territory.Viktor Drachev—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 21, 2014. Ukrainian border guards run to take their positions during training at a military camp in the village of Alekseyevka on the Ukrainian-Russian border.Sergei Grits—APMar. 21, 2014. A solitary rower skims across the Potomac River past the Lincoln Memorial and under the Memorial Bridge at sunrise in Washington DC.J. David Ake—APMar. 21, 2014. Pope Francis holds Giorgia May, the granddaughter of Malta's President George Abela (L), by the hand during a private audience in the Pontiff's studio at the Vatican.Andrew Medichini—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 21, 2014. An Indian woman carries an empty bucket as she walks on dry mud against blowing sand, along the Brahmaputra river on the eve of World Water Day in Gauhati, India.Anupam Nath—APMar. 21, 2014. A member of Afghanistan's intelligence service displays some of the weapons that where used by attackers on the Serena hotel during a press conference at the Interior ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan.Anja Niedringhaus—APMar. 21, 2014. Police officers stand guard among burned remains of a car from the Pacifying Police Unit post at the Mandela shantytown, part of the Manguinhos slum complex, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Felipe Dana—APMar. 21, 2014. People "get energy" from the sun atop the Pyramid of the Sun at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, Mexico, during celebrations for the Spring Equinox.Ronaldo Schemidt—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. People watch Russian ships blockading the exit of Donuzlav bay in Crimea, where three Ukrainian navy ships refused to surrender to Russian forces.Baz Ratner—ReutersMar. 22, 2014. People attend the funeral ceremony of Ukrainian soldier Sergey Kokurin in Simferopol. Crimea held a joint funeral for an Ukrainian soldier and a pro-Moscow militiaman killed this week -- the first casualties since Russian forces seized the Black Sea peninsula. Yuriy Lashov—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 22, 2014. A Russian sailor holding the Russian Navy's St. Andrew flag while standing on the on bow of the surrendered Ukrainian submarine 'Zaporozhye', is reflected in the waters of the harbor of Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine.Sergei Ilnitsky—EPAMar. 22, 2014. A family member of a passenger from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 waits for news at the Lido Hotel in Beijing, China. Lintao Zhang—Getty ImagesMar. 22, 2014. The blue flame of burning sulfur at the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano in Banyuwangi regency, East Java province. The natural phenomenon which can be seen at night is caused by sulfuric gases from the volcano which ignite into blue flames when they come into contact with the air. Sonny Tumbelaka—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. Steve Skaglund walks across the rubble on the east side of Saturday's fatal mudslide near Oso, Wash.Genna Martin—Associated PressMar. 23, 2014. Palestinians watch a Hamas rally in Gaza City marking the anniversary of the death of its leaders killed by Israel. Mohammed Salem—ReutersMar. 23, 2014. A resident collects scrap metal from the rubble of burnt shanties after a fire gutted a residential area in Caloocan city, north of Manila, Philippines.
Ezra Acayan—NurPhotoMar. 23, 2014. Members of the 'New Power Generation' perform their 'Zebralution' program during the 'enjoy your rhythm' gala at the 2014 GAZPROM World Cup Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Alex Grimm—Bongarts/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. Roma AK Party supporters sing and dance at a campaign rally in Istanbul on The AKP, Prime Minister Erdogan's Justice and Development Party organized the rally ahead of next week's municipal elections. Jodi HiltonMar. 23, 2014. Supporters of Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan hold a giant Turkish flag during an election rally in Istanbul. Erdogan rallied hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday, dismissing accusations of intolerance by Western and domestic critics.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. Justice and Development Party (AKP) supporters wait on a tree during a rally in Istanbul. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday, dismissing accusations of intolerance by Western and domestic critics. Ozan Kose—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. A woman stands with her daughters during Newroz celebrations at Kazlicesme district in Istanbul. Newroz, which means "new day" in Kurdish, marks the first day of Spring.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 23, 2014. Crew members of a Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force wave as they leave for Australia to help with the search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370.Edgar Su—ReutersMar. 23, 2014. Chinese Antarctic exploration team members aboard Chinese icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon), search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean. Xinhua—Sipa USAMar. 23, 2014. Barcelona's Sergio Busquets steps on a Real Madrid player Lionel Messi's scored a goal against him during La Liga's second 'classic' soccer match of the season at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.Paul Hanna—ReutersMar. 23, 2014. French President Francois Hollande is seen speaking in a bar after voting in the first round in the French mayoral elections in Tulle.Regis Duvignau—ReutersMar. 24, 2014. A mourner carries flowers for the funeral of former Spanish president Adolfo Suarez, who led Spain to democracy after decades of dictatorship. Oscar Gonzalez—NurPhotoMar. 24, 2014. Spanish bullfighter Juan Jose Padilla poses for the camera as he attends the wake of Spain's former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez at the Spanish parliament in Madrid. Susana Vera—ReutersMar. 24, 2014. People line up to pay their respects to Spain's former Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez during his wake at the Spanish parliament in Madrid. Suarez steered Spain through one of the most turbulent periods in its political history.Susana Vera—ReutersMar. 24, 2014.
South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius cries as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial. Chris Collingridge—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 24, 2014.
A handout photo shows a derailed commuter train resting on an escalator at O'Hare international airport in Chicago Thirty-two people were injured after the train derailed and hit a platform early on Monday.ReutersMar. 24, 2014.
Abuzar Ahmad (R), the only surviving child of Sardar Ahmad, the AFP reporter who was killed with his family in an attack on a Kabul hotel, is fed a biscuit by hospital staff while recuperating from his wounds at the ICU of a local hospital in Kabul.Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 24, 2014. An Afghan refugee girl wraps herself and her younger brother with a shawl to shield from the rain. Muhammed Muheisen—APMar. 24, 2014. Rebel fighters carry their weapons as they walk along a trench in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor. Fighting with pro-regime fighters continues as more than 146,000 people have died in the three-years and millions more have been displaced. Ahmad Aboud—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. People attend the funeral ceremony of Petro Mironovich, a maidan activist, at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Mironovich, an Afghan war veteran, was an anti-government protester who died in a hospital after gas poisoning.Jakub Kaminski—EPAMar. 25, 2014. Framed between makeshift clotheslines, a military police officer patrols during an operation in the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Felipe Dana—APMar. 25, 2014.
Bodies of suspected rebels killed in a shootout with police officers lie near their car in the town of Khasavyurt in Dagestan, Russia. Bashir Aliev—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. An Afghan policeman stands in front of a wall stained by blood spatter at the site of an attack on an election commission office in Kabul. Fifteen people died in violence around Afghanistan less than a fortnight before the country's presidential poll.Wakil Kohsar—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. A latex glove from an investigator lies on the floor near empty bullet casings at the site of a deadly attack on an Afghan election commission office in Kabul. Insurgents have vowed a campaign of violence to disrupt the ballot on April 5, urging their fighters to attack polling staff, voters and security forces in the run-up to election day. Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014.
A young boy picks up a Greek flag as he attends a military parade in central Athens during a ceremony marking the Greek Independence Day.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014.
Police women rest after a military parade marking the Greek Independence Day in Athens. Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) performs Tai Chi with students from the Chengdu No.7 High School in China's southwest Sichuan province.Peter Parks—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014.
Pupils at play time in the Ephatha Primary School in Juba. Peace talks between South Sudan's government and rebels resumed in Ethiopia on Tuesday, mediators said, urging both sides to return to a moribund ceasefire agreement. Ivan Lieman—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. Fingerling Chinook salmon jump out of the water as they are dumped into a holding pen after being transfered from a truck into the Sacramento River in Rio Vista, California. As California continues to suffer through its worse drought in history, low water levels have forced wildlife officials to truck more than 400,000 salmon.Justin Sullivan—Getty ImagesMar. 25, 2014. Pupils of Benigno Ninoy Aquino High School stand on a painting of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 at the school grounds in Makati City, south of Manila, Philippines, Filipino artists painted the image to express hope and solidarity for the passengers and crew of the missing flight.Dennis M. Sabangan—EPAMar. 25, 2014. A family member of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 cries on a bus before heading to the Malaysian embassy, outside Lido Hotel in Beijing.Kim Kyung-Hoon—ReutersMar. 25, 2014. Students attend a prayer ceremony in tribute to the passengers and crew onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 inside a school in Jammu. Bad weather and rough seas on Tuesday forced the suspension of the search for any wreckage.Mukesh Gupta—ReutersMar. 25, 2014. Hands reach out to receive a bucketful of water as vendors, police and firemen work together to put out a fire at La Terminal, the largest and most important market in Guatemala City.Moises Castillo—APMar. 25, 2014. Construction continues at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria, where The Formula 1 Austria Grand Prix is to be held on June 22.Helmut Fohringer—EPAMar. 25, 2014. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks to local residents of Belmar, New Jersey, and other shore towns in Monmouth County during a town hall meeting to discuss federal funds for recovery from hurricane Sandy.Mike Segar—ReutersMar. 25, 2014. A child tries to touch part of the art exhibition 'A Dream I Dreamed' by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai.Carlos Barria—ReutersA refugee Crimean Tatar child is seen in temporary housing near Kiev.Sergii Kharchenko—NurPhotoMar. 25, 2014. Double amputee Dave Stevens, of Bristol, Conn., who will be throwing out the first pitch, swings a bat before an exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox in Port Charlotte, Fla.Gerald Herbert—APMar. 26, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the EU Council building in Brussels.Virginia Mayo—APMar. 26, 2014. Peng Cheng and Zhang Hao of China perform their pairs free skating in the World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, near Tokyo.Koji Sasahara—APMar. 26, 2014. A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blast off from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket headed for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic standoff over Ukraine.Vasily Maximov—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 26, 2014. Members of the Galera's Cuadros Vivientes group perform during the opening of fourth Festival of Performing Arts of the Caribbean in Cartagena, Colombia.Ricardo Maldonado—EPAMar. 26, 2014. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L) and her mother Marian Robinson (R) feed apples to giant pandas as Malia looks on during their visit at Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province.Petar Kujundzic—ReutersMar. 25, 2014. Copenhagen Zoo is once again in the world news after it was reported that the zoo put down four healthy lions. It sparked a world wide outrage when the zoo put down the giraffe Marius on Feb. 9, 2014 and made a public autopsy.Mads Nissen—EPAMar. 27, 2014.Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys and gather to watch as men collect from a water tower to be used in the preparation of matzoh, a traditional handmade Passover unleavened bread, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel.Ariel Schalit—APMar. 27, 2014. President Barack Obama jokes with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Rome, Italy.Doug Mills—The New York Times/ReduxMar. 27, 2014. President Barack Obama jokes with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace, Private Library at the Vatican, Rome, Italy.Vatican Pool/Contrasto/ReduxMar. 27, 2014. Crimean schoolchildren dressed as Soviet navy servicemen perform the change of the honor guard ceremony at the Memorial to the Heroes of the defense of Sevastopol 1941-1942 in Sevastopol, Crimea.Sergei Ilnitsky—EPAMar. 26, 2014.
Friends, family and colleagues of slain Afghan AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad gather as they take part in a candle light vigil in his honour, on a hill overlooking Kabul , Afghanistan.Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty ImagesMar. 27, 2014.French climber Alain Robert, also known as "Spiderman", scales the 152 metre Ariane Tower at La Defense financial and business district outside Paris, France.Charles Platiau—ReutersMar. 27, 2014. A stray dog from Sochi, Russia, get acclimated to its 'doggie den' after arriving at the Washington Animal Rescue League shelter in Washington, DC..Chip Somodevilla—Getty ImagesMar. 27, 2014. Towed 155mm Howitzers fire during an artillery drill in Inje, near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in this picture provided by South Korean Army and released by Yonhap.Yonhap/ReutersMar. 28, 2014. Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah arrive to attend an election rally in Mazar-I-Shariff, northern Afghanistan.Ahmad Masood—ReutersMar. 28, 2014. Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.Santi Palacios—APMar. 23, 2013. Wearing a hat and glasses a Scottish Fold cat looks on during a cat exhibition in Bishkek.Vyacheslav Oseledko—AFP/Getty Images
