• People celebrate Holi in Jammu, India, Friday, March 18, 2022. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (AP Photo / Channi Anand)
    People celebrate Holi in Jammu, India, Friday, March 18, 2022. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (AP Photo / Channi Anand)
  • San Diego Padres pitcher Dinelson Lamet throws during spring training baseball practice. AP Photo
    San Diego Padres pitcher Dinelson Lamet throws during spring training baseball practice. AP Photo
  • Olympique Lyonnais fans before their team's match against FC Porto at the Groupama Stadium, Lyon. Reuters
    Olympique Lyonnais fans before their team's match against FC Porto at the Groupama Stadium, Lyon. Reuters
  • Part of an anonymous art installation in the Salton Sea, as seen from Bombay Beach, California, US. Reuters
    Part of an anonymous art installation in the Salton Sea, as seen from Bombay Beach, California, US. Reuters
  • A woman prays during the funeral ceremony for Ukrainian officer Ivan Skrypnyk in Lviv, Ukraine. The soldier died in Sunday's air strike on the nearby International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security at the Yavoriv military complex. Russian missiles killed 35 and wounded scores. The site, west of Lviv in the town of Starychi, is close to Ukraine's border with Poland. Getty Images
    A woman prays during the funeral ceremony for Ukrainian officer Ivan Skrypnyk in Lviv, Ukraine. The soldier died in Sunday's air strike on the nearby International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security at the Yavoriv military complex. Russian missiles killed 35 and wounded scores. The site, west of Lviv in the town of Starychi, is close to Ukraine's border with Poland. Getty Images
  • A staff member at the Fire Eye laboratory, a temporary Covid-19 coronavirus testing facility in Yantai, in China's eastern Shandong province. AFP
    A staff member at the Fire Eye laboratory, a temporary Covid-19 coronavirus testing facility in Yantai, in China's eastern Shandong province. AFP
  • Bagpipers march up Fifth Avenue past St Patrick's Cathedral during the St Patrick's Day Parade in New York. Celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus in a sign of growing hope that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be over. AP Photo
    Bagpipers march up Fifth Avenue past St Patrick's Cathedral during the St Patrick's Day Parade in New York. Celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus in a sign of growing hope that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be over. AP Photo

World

Today's best photos: from the Holi festival to St Patrick's Day

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

The National

March 18, 2022

  • English
  • Arabic
Updated: March 18, 2022, 11:45 AM
Photography