Best photos of March 11: From Black Lives Matter mural demolition to Columbia protests in Manhattan

The White House is seen at top left, as demolition begins on the Black Lives Matter mural, Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
A resident gets clear of a house fire following an attack on the outskirts of the Black Sea city of Odesa in Ukraine. AFP
In Natori, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, dove-shaped balloons are released in remembrance of the dead on the 14th anniversary of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake which triggered a tsunami and nuclear disaster. AFP
Models acknowledge the audience after the Louis Vuitton womenswear ready-to-wear autumn/winter 2025-2026 collection was shown as part of Paris Fashion Week. AFP
Women play-fight with sticks as part of a traditional ritual during Lathmar Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh state, India. AFP
A Chinese military musical conductor leads the band at the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. AP
Residents enjoy warm weather by the Black Sea shore in Sukhumi, the capital of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia. EPA
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi during Ramadan. Victor Besa / The National
Pro-Palestine protesters on the streets of Lower Manhattan in New York City after the arrest by immigration officers of a protest leader at Columbia University. AFP