This Week in Pictures: 2 - 8 March

Cheerleader girls of BC Khimki during a break in the regular season match of the VTB United League between BC Khimki and PBC CSKA Moscow.

Russian car Aurus at the Geneva Motor Show. Aurus - the market name of the project "Cortege" - a family of luxury cars.

President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the 1st Operational Police Regiment of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

Participant of the Bolshaya Neva Cup winter swimming competition in St. Petersburg.

People run with the bulls through the streets during the "Carnaval del Toro" in Ciudad Rodrigo.

Police officers detain activists of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress during a protest demanding resignations of India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, over allegations of corruption in a Rafale fighter planes deal with France, in New Delhi, India on 7 March 2019.

Revellers take part in the "Bloco da Lama", a mud carnival party, in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on 2 March 2019. - "Bloco da Lama" started in 1986 with teenagers playing with mud and became a traditional event at the historical city of Paraty.

Models present creations by designer Tommy Hilfiger as part of his Fall/Winter 2019-2020 women's ready-to-wear collection show during the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, 2 March 2019.

A student throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with the riot police which erupted in a protest to demand punishment for the intellectual authors of the murder of Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Caceres, in Tegucigalpa on 4 March 2019 in the framework of the third anniversary of her murder on 2 March. - The Honduran prosecutor's office accused 16 people on Monday of committing "fraud" to authorize a hydroelectric plant on the Gualcarque River, based on accusations made by slain activist Berta Caceres, the OAS mission against corruption announced. Caceres was shot dead for opposing the construction of the dam.

Revelers perform at the Fantasy parade during Barranquilla's Carnival, Colombia on 4 March 2019.

Members of orange battle teams throw oranges at each other during the traditional "Battle of the Oranges" festival held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin, on 3 March 2019. - During the event, which marks the people's rebellion against tyrannical lords who ruled the town in the Middle Ages, revellers parading on floats represent guards of the tyrant, while those on foot the townsfolk.

Children in a refugee camp from Syria and IDPs (internally displaced persons) from other areas of Iraq "Barika" near the town of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan).

The soldiers at the "Finnish candle" during practical training for the officers of the ground and coastal forces of the Russian Northern Fleet at the "Shary" training of the Pechenga district of the Murmansk region.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump hugs American flag at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting at National Harbor near Washington, U.S., 2 March 2019.

Models wait behind the scenes before a fashion show featuring African fashion and culture during a gala marking the launch of a book called "African Twilight: The Vanishing Rituals and Ceremonies of the African Continent" at the African Heritage House in Nairobi, Kenya 3 March 2019. Picture taken 3 March 2019.

Bus ushers leap as they pose for a group photo during a meeting one day ahead of the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, 4 March 2019. A year since removing any legal barrier to remaining China's leader for life, Xi Jinping appears firmly in charge, despite a slowing economy, an ongoing trade war with the U.S. and rumbles of discontent over his concentration of power.

Participants of Shrovetide festivities in the framework of the festival "Moscow Maslenitsa" on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow.

Sale of tulips at the Spring Flower Market in Petrovsky Passage in Moscow.

A woman takes a selfie next to giant dolls depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, during carnival celebrations in Olinda, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Monday, 4 March 4 2019.

A woman and her dog pose beside a lake that has turned a vivid pink thanks to extreme salt levels further exacerbated by hot weather in a startling natural phenomena that resembles a toxic spill, in Melbourne on 4 March 2019. - The natural spectacle is the result of green algae at the bottom of the lake at Westgate Park on the outskirts of Melbourne responding to high levels of salt and changing colour.

Children dressed as traditional Slovenian ethnographic characters "Kurents" perform during the International Carnival Procession of the International Carnival Festival in Ptuj, Slovenia on 3 March 2019.

A member of the "Grande Rio" samba school performs during the first night of Rio's Carnival at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early on 4 March 2019.

Poppy, a female Crowned sifaka, inspects a photographer's camera in the enclosure at the zoo of Mulhouse, eastern France, on 5 March 2019. - The Crowned sifaka is a critically endangered species from Madagascar.

Participants in the carnival of Diablos de Luzon in the Spanish city of Luzon. The goal of carnival is to drive away evil spirits.

A girl during a performance at the Ak Kalpak headdress festival in Moscow.

Participants of the open championship of Russia in snowkiting and the annual international kite-marathon "Trans-Onego 2019" in the waters of Lake Onega.

Carol Dean, right, cries while embraced by Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, 4 March 2019. "He was my wedding gift," said Dean of her husband whom she married three years ago. "He was one in a million. He'd send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He'd send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world. I'm not going to be the same."