Best pictures from March 17
South Africa's Ryan McLaren (L) attempts to run out Pakistan's Wahab Riaz during their third One Day International (ODI) cricket match in Johannesburg, March 17, 2013.SIPHIWE SIBEKO/Reuters
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky early Sunday, March 17, 2013, above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska. The bright display at times filled the sky.M. SCOTT MOON/The Associated Press
Bagpipers from the Romania's Vrancea region perform as they take part in St Patrick's Day parade in Bucharest March 17, 2013. St Patrick's Day was celebrated with a parade in Romania for the first time this year, organizers said.BOGDAN CRISTEL/Reuters
Workers cross tracks at the railroad shunting yard Hamburg-Maschen in Hamburg, March 17, 2013. The EVG union representing German train workers announced a strike against Germany's Deutsche Bahn on March 18, Monday.FABIAN BIMMER/Reuters
The front end of a Hawker Beachcraft Premier jet sits in a room of a home on Iowa Street in South Bend, Ind., Sunday, March 17, 2013. Authorities say a private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed resulting in injuries. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig says the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet had left Tulsa, Okla.'s Riverside Airport and crashed near the South Bend Regional Airport on Sunday afternoon.Mike Hartman/The Associated Press
REFILE - CORRECTING TYPO Two protesters hug after hearing the verdict in the trial of Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond outside the juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, March 17, 2013. Two high school football players from Ohio were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last summer while she was in a drunken stupor in a case that gained national exposure through social media.JASON COHN/Reuters
Two young girls play house, mimicking their mothers in burqas cut to their size, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 17, 2013.Rahmat Gul/The Associated Press
People celebrate Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, in a forest near the village of Novonekrasovsky some 20 km (12 miles) north of Moscow, March 17, 2013. Maslenitsa is widely viewed as a pagan holiday marking the end of winter and is celebrated with pancake eating, while the Orthodox Church considers it as the week of feasting before Lent.MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
Miami's Rion Brown (15) celebrates after their 87-77 win over North Carolina in an NCAA college basketball game for the championship in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday March 17, 2013.Scott Muthersbaugh/The Associated Press
People gather near a bonfire during rituals in celebration of Sirni Zagovezni, the first Sunday before Great Lent, in the village of Lozen, near Sofia, March 17, 2013. People in the region believe they can chase away evil spirits with fire rituals on Sirni Zagovezni.STOYAN NENOV/Reuters
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada skate to Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO during the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2013 gala in London, Ont. Sunday, March 17, 2013.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail
Yuna Kim of Korea skates to All of Me by Michael Bule during the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2013 gala in London, Ont. Sunday, March 17, 2013.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail
Military delegates take souvenir photos for their colleagues before a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Saturday, March 16, 2013. Chinaís new leaders turned Saturday to veteran technocrats with greater international experience to staff a Cabinet charged with overhauling a slowing economy and pursuing a higher global profile without triggering opposition. (Andy Wong/The Associated Press
In this underwater picture a man drinks from a fountain in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Pope Francis offered intimate insights Saturday into the moments after his election, telling journalists that he was immediately inspired to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi because of his work for peace and the poor, and was embraced by another cardinal amid applause inside the conclave.Dmitry Lovetsky/The Associated Press
Pakistani religious students attend their examinations at the Jamia Binoria Islamic seminary in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, March 16, 2013.Fareed Khan/The Associated Press