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Week in Photos: March 21, 2015

Solar eclipses, drought in Australia and the destruction of Vanuatu. Here are some of this week's best photos from around the world.

Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

By William BootMar 21, 2015

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo1_conk4m — Athens
March 20, 2015
A man uses protective glasses to watch a solar eclipse. The celestial show thrilled sky gazers on remote Arctic islands, but clouds disappointed some viewers of a rare event that was also partly visible for millions in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo2_rdqjh5 — Najaf, Iraq
March 20, 2015

Fighters from the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, board a bus as they head to the city of Tikrit to continue the offensive against ISIS jihadis. The move to push back IS militants from Tikrit began March 2, and Iraqi forces have only recently reached the city limits, where they have been stalled by bombs and entrenched fighters.

Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo3_jchiud — Sirte, Libya
March 15, 2015

Fighters from Misrata fire weapons at ISIS militants, who have established a larger presence in central Libya in recent weeks. Analysts say the terror group has sought to exploit turmoil in the major oil-producing nation where two rival governments and their respective allies are fighting for power.

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo4_znmesb — Migdalim, Israel
March 17, 2015

A soldier casts his ballot for the parliamentary election behind a mobile voting booth in a West Bank Jewish settlement.

Amir Cohen/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo5_do8zu5 — Kashgar, China
March 18, 2015

Tadjik women throw water on men from a rooftop as they take part in a festival to welcome the coming spring in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
China Daily/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo6_id1u0w — Lahore, Pakistan
March 17, 2015

Women from the Christian community mourn for a relative who was one of the victims of a suicide attack on a church. Suicide bombings outside two churches killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services Sunday, in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.

Mohsin Raza/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo7_ruu32c — Douma, Syria
March 13, 2015

Wounded Syrian children wait for treatment at a clinic in a rebel-held area east of Damascus, following reported airstrikes by regime forces. More than 210,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March 2011.

Abd Douamany/AFP/Getty

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo8_jyzvk9 — Above New South Wales, Australia
March 19, 2015

A river can be seen flowing through drought-affected farming areas. According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia recorded its second-hottest February since recordkeeping began in 1910, with national maximum temperatures at 2.35 degrees Celsius above the average.

David Gray/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo9_zacln2 — Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
March 18, 2015

A soldier walks past graffiti depicting angel wings by artist Colette Miller.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo10_shw8xe — Port Vila, Vanuatu
March 17, 2015

An aerial view of the destruction after Cyclone Pam. International aid agencies began emergency flights Tuesday to some of the remote outer islands, which they fear have been devastated by a monster cyclone that tore through the South Pacific island nation.

Edgar Su/Reuters

galleries/2015/03/21/week-in-photos-march-21-2015/150320-week-photo11_p9ojhm — Kabul, Afghanistan
March 16, 2015

A health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child on the second day of a vaccination campaign. Nearly nine million children throughout Afghanistan were immunized during a three-day national polio immunization drive launched.The immunization campaign comes shortly after Afghanistan reported its first case of polio virus for 2015, in Helmand. Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in the world to have reported cases of the crippling polio virus in the past eight months and it is increasingly likely that these are the last two countries on Earth with active polio transmission.

Shah Marai/AFP/Getty

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