Week in pictures: 23-29 March 2024
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A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
Hindu devotees dance and celebrate the day after Holi, at Dauji temple near the northern city of Mathura, India. Holi marks the arrival of spring and the end of winter.
A man creates an opening through a razor wire-laden fence for a group of migrants from South and Central America as they prepare to enter the United States from along the bank of the Rio Grande river, in El Paso, Texas.
A container ship hit the landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore, causing it to collapse. Eight construction workers were on the bridge when a ship struck it, plunging them into the waters below.
A critically endangered western lowland gorilla holds its baby, one of two born this year at London Zoo, England.
"Cristo de la Buena Muerte" brotherhood's Penitents take part in a procession during Holy Week in the Spanish city of Zamora. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Students of an Islamic boarding school read the Quran on the day of Nuzul Quran, on the 17th day of Ramadan, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the shooting attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, sits behind a glass wall at a district court in Moscow, Russia. More than 130 people were killed as gunmen stormed the complex, days after President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term of office.
A woman kicks the ball during the playing of an ancestral Mayan ball game in Tecpan, Guatemala. Members of 11 teams from the Guatemalan indigenous communities of Chimaltenango, Quiche, Solola and Quetzaltenango, and one from El Salvador, commemorated the March equinox with a tournament.
Supporters of Bassirou Diomaye Faye take to the streets in celebration as they proclaim victory while votes are still counted after the election in Dakar, Senegal. Mr Faye had been in prison 10 days before the vote and campaigned on the promise of radical change. Faye became Africa's youngest elected president, aged 43.
Competitors take part in day four of the World Irish Dance Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The annual event, the highest level of competition within the Irish Dancing Commission, sees more than 2,500 Irish dancers compete, travelling from places as far away as Canada, USA, Australia, Argentina, and Taiwan.
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