Best pictures from March 18
Canadian Army Master Corporal Anthony Alliot (L) kisses Sarah Tooth after arriving from Afghanistan, in Ottawa March 18, 2014. Canada's 12-year mission in Afghanistan has formally ended, according to the military.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters
Lt.-Cmdr. Gina Connor (right) kisses her mother Liliana Creelman as her daughter Cassie Connor (left) looks on as she arrives in Ottawa, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 as the last Canadian soldiers to leave Afghanistan arrive home.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
An Inuit student poses in a sealskin jacket during a rally on Parliament Hill Tuesday, March 18, 2014 in Ottawa.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Milwaukee Brewers' Mark Reynolds splashes water on his face in the dugout prior to a spring training baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/The Associated Press
An Indian boy plays in a pool of colored water, at the end of Holi celebrations, the Hindu festival of colors at the Baldev Temple in Dauji, 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The Baldev Temple is known for a ritual where the women playfully hit men with whips made of cloth as men throw buckets of water mixed with orange dye.Rajesh Kumar Singh/The Associated Press
A boy comforts a crying girl during a special prayer for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in central Kuala Lumpur March 18, 2014. An international land and sea search for a missing Malaysian jetliner is covering an area the size of Australia, authorities said on Tuesday, but police and intelligence agencies have yet to establish a clear motive to explain its disappearance.DAMIR SAGOLJ/Reuters
Saginaw Spirit hockey players hold up sticks as pallbearers carry the casket of teammate Terry Trafford after his funeral service in Toronto, Tuesday, March 18, 2014.The Toronto native's body was found last Wednesday in his SUV in a parking lot in Saginaw Township, Mich.Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press
People attend a rally called "We are together" to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia in Red Square in central Moscow, March 18, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine. The flags display portraits of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and read "We are together!"MAXIM SHEMETOV/Reuters
In this photo taken on Monday, March 17, 2014, Mary Lu Ward, left, of the Las Cruces Animal Control, calls to Athena as she was lifted in a utility bucket by El Paso Electric in Las Cruces, N.M. Ward successfully rescued the cat, who had been stuck on top of the electrical pole for three days after possibly being chased by Coyotes.Carlos Javier Sanchez/The Associated Press
An instructor from the Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant bodyguard training camp pushes a student's jaw as trainees watch him demonstrate close-quarter combat skills during a special course on flight safety inside a scale model of a passenger jet at a flight attendant training centre on the outskirts of Beijing, March 18, 2014. Inspired by the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the company wanted to emphasize the importance of aviation safety by teaching their trainees emergency evacuation procedures and close-quarter combat skills to handle situations such as natural disasters and plane hijacks, according to the company.JASON LEE/Reuters
A family member of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 fingers prayer beads as he listens to a briefing from the airline company with other family members (in background) at a hotel in Beijing, March 18, 2014. Intensive background checks of everyone aboard a missing Malaysian jetliner have so far failed to find anyone with a known political or criminal motive to crash or hijack the plane, Western security sources and Chinese authorities said.KIM KYUNG-HOON/Reuters
Family members of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 react as they listen to a briefing from the airline company at a hotel in Beijing, March 18, 2014. Intensive background checks of everyone aboard a missing Malaysian jetliner have so far failed to find anyone with a known political or criminal motive to crash or hijack the plane, Western security sources and Chinese authorities said.KIM KYUNG-HOON/Reuters
An Iranian man plays with a firework in the Pardisan Park in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, during Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire, on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, when Iranians jump over burning bonfires and throw firecrackers celebrating arrival of the spring which coincides with their new year, or Nowruz, which begins on March 21.Vahid Salemi/The Associated Press
A window washer hangs from the side of a downtown office tower while cleaning the windows in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday March 18, 2014.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press