• Australian batsman Glenn Maxwell, right , watches a ball after playing a shot as Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, centre, looks on during the first day of the third Test cricket match between India and Australia at the Jharkhand state cricket association stadium complex in Ranchi. Sajjad Hussain / Agence France-Presse / March 16, 2017
    Australian batsman Glenn Maxwell, right , watches a ball after playing a shot as Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, centre, looks on during the first day of the third Test cricket match between India and Australia at the Jharkhand state cricket association stadium complex in Ranchi. Sajjad Hussain / Agence France-Presse / March 16, 2017
  • Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, spews lava on March 16, 2017 on east coast of Sicily, Italy. Salvatore Allegra / Associated Press
    Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, spews lava on March 16, 2017 on east coast of Sicily, Italy. Salvatore Allegra / Associated Press
  • Shoes and basketballs are displayed inside the flagship store of sporting goods giant Nike in Shanghai on March 16, 2017. The US company is the latest foreign brand to receive a high-profile rebuke from an influential Chinese consumer-affairs programme that has previously named and shamed Apple, Volkswagen and McDonald’s. Johannes Eisele / Agence France-Presse
    Shoes and basketballs are displayed inside the flagship store of sporting goods giant Nike in Shanghai on March 16, 2017. The US company is the latest foreign brand to receive a high-profile rebuke from an influential Chinese consumer-affairs programme that has previously named and shamed Apple, Volkswagen and McDonald’s. Johannes Eisele / Agence France-Presse
  • Storks in Affenberg Salem, Germany on March 16, 2017. Felix Kästle / Agence France-Presse
    Storks in Affenberg Salem, Germany on March 16, 2017. Felix Kästle / Agence France-Presse
  • A displaced Iraqi boy peers out from Hamam Al Alil camp, south of Mosul, Iraq, on a rainy March 16, 2017. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
    A displaced Iraqi boy peers out from Hamam Al Alil camp, south of Mosul, Iraq, on a rainy March 16, 2017. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
  • Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 16, 2017. Patrick Pleul / Agence France-Presse
    Stars twinkle in the night sky over the treetops of a forest in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 16, 2017. Patrick Pleul / Agence France-Presse
  • The sun rises amid haze in the Koenigswinkel region of southern Germany on March 16, 2017. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / Agence France-Presse
    The sun rises amid haze in the Koenigswinkel region of southern Germany on March 16, 2017. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / Agence France-Presse
  • An employee of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, Germany, works in front of a of the tail of a Lufthansa plane on March 16, 2017. Christof Stache / Agence France-Presse
    An employee of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, Germany, works in front of a of the tail of a Lufthansa plane on March 16, 2017. Christof Stache / Agence France-Presse
  • Drug suspects, cuffed with plastic tie cables, leave a compound in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, after a raid by the Philippine drug enforcement agency. The roundup comes on the heels of an impeachment complaint by a Philippine lawmaker file against president Rodrigo Duterte for the thousands of deaths in his anti-drug crackdown and for alleged corruption. Bullit Marquez / Associated Press / March 16, 2017
    Drug suspects, cuffed with plastic tie cables, leave a compound in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, after a raid by the Philippine drug enforcement agency. The roundup comes on the heels of an impeachment complaint by a Philippine lawmaker file against president Rodrigo Duterte for the thousands of deaths in his anti-drug crackdown and for alleged corruption. Bullit Marquez / Associated Press / March 16, 2017

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