World in photos
Schoolchildren celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, in Ahmadabad, India. Holi is held to welcome spring, and participants often douse themselves with colorful powder and water. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
A girl lights candles at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion, in Jerusalem’s Old City. Pope Benedict XVI has said he will visit the Holy Land in May. (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)
Members of Muslim Khawteen Markaz, a women’s separatist group, take part in a demonstration on International Women’s Day in Srinagar, India, on Sunday. (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)
A woman is beset with grief Monday over a lack of information about her husband, a Bangladeshi border guard, after a recent mutiny by border guards at their headquarters in Dhaka, the capital, that left dozens dead. (Pavel Rahman / Associated Press)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Vishnitz Hasidic sect celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim on Monday in Bnei Brak, a religious town near Tel Aviv. Purim marks the deliverance of the Jewish people from a genocidal plot in ancient Persia. (David Silverman / Getty Images)
A monument to the victims of the Madrid 2004 train bombings invites contemplation at the Atocha railway station in the Spanish capital. Wednesday was the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attack that left 191 people dead at Atocha and other stations. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press)
Teenagers comfort one another during a memorial service at a church in Winnenden, Germany. A teenager went on a rampage Wednesday at his former school, leaving 15 people dead and sparking a major manhunt. He later killed himself. (Torsten Silz / AFP/Getty Images)
