Best pictures from March 13
Artist Yoko Ono poses during the presentation of Half A Wind Show: A Retrospective, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao March 13, 2014. The exhibition features two hundred objects, drawings, installations, films and performance documentation from the Japanese conceptual artist's sixty year career.VINCENT WEST/Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, at the Reichstag in Berlin March 13, 2013.TOBIAS SCHWARZ/Reuters
A dog wearing a cone on his neck waits for his owner to return from a shop in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Tel Aviv is home to many dog parks and two beaches where dogs can frolic with their owners, as well as several pet-friendly hotels. Some 400,000 pet dogs are listed on the Israeli Ministry of Agricultures National Dog Registry, and Tel Aviv has the largest number of registered dog owners in the country.Ariel Schalit/The Associated Press
Armenia's Mher Avanesyan skis during the Men's Standing Slalom event at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center, March 13, 2014.CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/Reuters
Businessmen enjoy the good weather at lunch time on the steps of the Arche de la Defense, in the financial and business district west of Paris, as warm and sunny weather continues in France, March 13, 2014. Residents and visitors to Paris basking in a streak of unseasonable sunshine were also being treated with a dangerous dose of particles from car fumes that pushed air pollution to levels above other northern European capitals this week. Swathes of France, including the French capital, were on maximum alert over air pollution on Thursday, prompting Paris authorities to make green transportation such as its Velib bike-share and the Autolib electric car fleet free for the day.CHARLES PLATIAU/Reuters
An Israeli soldier carries a drone near the Israel and Gaza border on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Gaza militants resumed rocket fire toward Israel on Thursday, striking the outskirts of two major cities a day after launching the largest barrage since an eight-day Israeli offensive in late 2012. Israel has responded with a series of airstrikes on militant targets.Tsafrir Abayov/The Associated Press
Alabama forward Shannon Hale (11) and LSU forward Jarell Martin (12) watch a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the second round of the Southeastern Conference men's tournament, Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Atlanta.John Bazemore/The Associated Press
Police separate participants of anti-war (L) and pro-Russian rallies as they clash in Donetsk March 13, 2014. One person was killed and several were treated for injuries in hospital on Thursday when hundreds of Ukrainian demonstrators clashed in the eastern city of Donetsk, the local health authority said.STRINGER/Reuters
A cedar waxwing flies through tree branches near the Berkshire County Superior Courthouse in Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday March 13, 2014.Ben Garver/The Associated Press
A witness, wearing a ski mask and dark sunglasses to protect his identity, leaves a courtroom after giving testimony in El Aguacate Massacre trial in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, Thursday, March 13, 2014. In November 1988 in the mountainous area of western Guatemala, 22 men who lived in the village of El Aguacate where massacred by leftists guerillas during the Guatemalan civil war. The trial that began Thursday, is the first against an ex-guerrilla, who is charged with taking part in the massacre.Moises Castillo/The Associated Press
Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland carry an empty coffin at a WWI memorial during a rehearsal for a reburial ceremony at the Loos-en-Gohelle Commonwealth war cemetery near Lens in northern France, March 13, 2014. Tomorrow, almost 100 years after they were killed in action in the battle of Loos in 1915, twenty British soldiers will be reinterred here.PASCAL ROSSIGNOL/Reuters
National police transport an anti-government protester detainee during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas March 13, 2014. Venezuela's state prosecutor said on Thursday the death toll from a month of violent protests had risen to 28, after the nation's top court ordered opposition mayors to dismantle barricades set up by street protesters. State prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz, speaking on the sidelines of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, also said 1,293 detainees had been released and 104 remained in custody accused of serious crimes during the anti-government demonstrations.Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters