March 21 Photo Brief: Mayhem in Myanmar, Ladies’ Snowboard Cross, Marionette fashion show, Pipeline body surfing, Afghan New Year

(From L) French snowboarder Lorelei Schmitt, Canadian snowboarder Maelle Ricker, Swiss snowboarder Simona Meiler, Italian snowboarder Michela Moioli, Canadian snowboarder Dominique Maltais and French snowboarder Nelly Moenne Loccoz compete during the Ladies’ Snowboard Cross final race at the Snowboard and FreeStyle World Cup Super finals at Sierra Nevada ski resort near Granada. Dominique Maltais won the race ahead of second-placed Nelly Moenne Loccoz and third-placed Maelle Ricker. (Javier Soriano/Getty Images )

A bodysurfer punches through a wave at the Ehukai sandbar near the surf break known as ‘Pipeline’ on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. (Hugh Gentry/Reuters)

A hare cowers in the snow on a field near Franfurt an der Oder, eastern Germany. One day after the astronomical beginnng of spring and days before Easter, temperatures across the country were still cold. (Patrick Pleul/Getty Images)

A man on a bike pulls a child on a sledge through the snow in Berlin. Temperatures in the German capital were around the freezing point. (Kay Nietfeld/Getty Images)

Norway’s Kristin Stoermer Steira competes during the Women’s 1.1 kilometer cross country World Cup Royal Palace Sprint in Stockholm. (Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images)

Marionettes present creations by Fause Haten during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week 2013 Summer collections, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Real size collections are also showed after the show. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/Getty Images)

Volker Kraft decorates his apple tree with easter eggs in Saalfeld, Germany. Kraft decorates his tree with easter eggs every year. (Michael Reichel/Getty Images)

Afghan families gather on a hilltop near Sakhi shrine, the centre of the Afghanistan new year celebrations in Kabul during Nowruz festivities. Nowruz, one of the biggest festivals of the war-scarred nation, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is calculated according to a solar calendar, this coming year marking 1392. (Massoud Hossaini/Getty Images)

Afghan boys play on a swing near the Sakhi shrine, the centre of the Afghanistan new year celebrations in Kabul during Nowruz festivities. Nowruz, one of the biggest festivals of the war-scarred nation, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. Nowruz is calculated according to a solar calendar, this coming year marking 1392. (Massoud Hossaini/Getty Images)

Kariya Mohamed Abbakar, a woman from Jebel Saiey in North Darfur, gives water to her child in her shelter at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in El-Fasher. Water at the camp is scarce and Kariya goes once a week to collect water from a water point which is far from her home. World Water Day is commemorated annually on March 22 as a means of focusing attention on the importance of fresh water and advocating for the sustainable management of fresh water resources. (UNAMID/Getty Images)

Indian children carry recyclable items from the polluted water of the Mahananda river in Siliguri. World Water Day calls for international attention on the impact of rapid urban growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts, and natural disasters on urban water systems. India as a whole suffers from poor water management, with the country’s most famous river, the holy Ganges, found to have 16 times the acceptable amount of coliform. A(Diptendu Dutta/Getty Images)

A family cruse at a park in Beijing. A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a “modern Marco Polo”, with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on offer to the winner, a tourism official said on March 13. (Wang Zhao/Getty Images)

Damaged prefab houses lie on the ground after a tornado hit Yongzhou, central China’s Hunan province. The tornado struck in the early morning on March 20 and affected over 110,000 people, with 3 person killed and 52 injured, the state media reported. (Getty Images)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US President Barack Obama leave after holding a joint press conference at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, on the first day of Obama’s three day trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

US President Barack Obama (L) and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas review the honour guard during an official arrival ceremony at the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Obama arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on his first visit since taking over the White House more than four years ago . (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)

An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. U.S. President Barack Obama faces a stony reception when he travels to the West Bank on Thursday for talks with Palestinian leaders who accuse him of letting Israel ride rough-shod over their dream of statehood. Just ahead of the talks two rockets exploded in Sderot near the Gaza border, damaging the yard of an Israeli home, police said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or claims of responsibility issued by any militant groups. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) speak with Professor Amir Geva (R), head of the biomedical signal processing and pattern recognition lab at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, as they tour a technology expo at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

US Soldiers from the 438th Medical Unit walk before boarding a plane on their way to the homeland from Afghanistan at the US transit center Manas, 30 km outside the Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. International coalition forces are to exit Afghanistan by the end of next year, leaving local forces to take on fighting the Taliban alone. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/Getty Images)

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against power outage in Muzffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administrated Kashmir. People protesting against power outage in Muzaffarabad turned violent on Thursday. Around 50 people, including a police official, sustained minor injuries when the protesters pelted stones at the police and burnt a police bus, local media reported. (Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters)

Riot police officers run towards towards protesters during a demonstration against power outage in Muzffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administrated Kashmir. People protesting against power outage in Muzaffarabad turned violent on Thursday. Around 50 people, including a police official, sustained minor injuries when the protesters pelted stones at the police and burnt a police bus, local media reported. (Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters)

Police officers work at the scene where two police helicopters crashed near the Olympic stadium in Berlin. The helicopters crashed as they were landing after a training exercise. (Hannibal Hanschke/Getty Images)

A man stands in front of a mosque as it burns in Meikhtila. The central Myanmar town declared a curfew for a second night on Thursday after clashes killed 10 people, including a Buddhist monk, and injured at least 20, authorities said. Riots erupted in Meikhtila, 540 km (336 miles) north of Yangon, on Wednesday after an argument between a Buddhist couple and the Muslim owners of a gold shop escalated into a riot involving hundreds of people, police said. (Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

Myanmar residents walk past destroyed houses as black smoke rises from burning buildings in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar. At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, an MP said, prompting international concern at the country’s worst communal unrest since a wave of Buddhist-Muslim clashes last year. (Soe Than Win/Getty Images)

An aerial view shows Doha’s diplomatic area. (Fadi Al-Assaad/Reuters)

A Buddhist monk uses a traditional needle to tattoo the chest of Salut at Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom province, about 80 km (50 miles) from Bangkok. Salut, a 26 year old from Bangkok’s Klong Thoey slum who had his first tattoo at age of 17, believes tattoos protect him from danger and give him self confidence. Believers from across Thailand travel to the monastery to have their bodies adorned with tattoos and to pay their respects to the temple’s master tattooist. They believe the tattoos have mystical powers, ward off bad luck and protect them from harm. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Artists perform during Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai show in Bogota. (John Vizcaino/Reuters)

March 21 Photo Brief: Mayhem in Myanmar, Ladies’ Snowboard Cross, Marionette fashion show, Pipeline body surfing, Afghan New Year

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