• Students take part in a cultural procession to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colours, in Kolkata. AFP
    Students take part in a cultural procession to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colours, in Kolkata. AFP
  • A villager with bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in South Sudan, where World Food Programme have carried out food drop. AFP
    A villager with bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in South Sudan, where World Food Programme have carried out food drop. AFP
  • A deserted San Marco square in Venice due to coronavirus outbreak. AFP
    A deserted San Marco square in Venice due to coronavirus outbreak. AFP
  • Oregon's Taylor Chavez, left, and Minyon Moore celebrate after defeating Stanford in an NCAA college basketball game. AP
    Oregon's Taylor Chavez, left, and Minyon Moore celebrate after defeating Stanford in an NCAA college basketball game. AP
  • A mourner sleeps next to the fence of the crash site during a memorial service for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 Boeing 737 Max plane crash. Reuters
    A mourner sleeps next to the fence of the crash site during a memorial service for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 Boeing 737 Max plane crash. Reuters
  • Migrants walk towards Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters
    Migrants walk towards Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters
  • Spectators' seats are seen empty as sumo wrestlers hold a Dohyo ring entering ceremony at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament which is taking place behind closed doors amid the spread of coronavirus, in Osaka, western Japan. Reuters
    Spectators' seats are seen empty as sumo wrestlers hold a Dohyo ring entering ceremony at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament which is taking place behind closed doors amid the spread of coronavirus, in Osaka, western Japan. Reuters
  • British art group "Sand In Your Eye" shows an aerial view taken above Hebden Bridge, , north England, of a 60m portrait of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. AFP
    British art group "Sand In Your Eye" shows an aerial view taken above Hebden Bridge, , north England, of a 60m portrait of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. AFP
  • An indigenous woman takes part in a march during the International Women's Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters
    An indigenous woman takes part in a march during the International Women's Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters

World in focus - best photos for March 9, 2020


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