March 8 Photo Brief: International Women’s Day, Hugo Chavez’s funeral, baby giraffe

Israeli riot policemen help a comrade after a fire bomb was thrown at him during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound following Friday prayers on March 8, 2013. Palestinians enraged by reports that an Israeli policeman mishandled a Koran battled riot officers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound with stones and petrol bombs, police and witnesses said. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian protester runs with a young boy in his arms during clashes with israeli security forces following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel on March 8, 2013, in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian throws stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron March 8, 2013. Clashes broke out between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank and at a holy site in Jerusalem on Friday as tensions rose just weeks before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. (Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)

A Palestinian protester runs away from Israeli border guards during clashes following a protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel on March 8, 2013, in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images)

A baby giraffe lays in the straw on March 8, 2013 at the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany. The male baby giraffe, 1.70 meters (or about 5.5 feet) tall, was born during the night of March 5, 2013 at the zoo. (Bernd Thissen/AFP/Getty Images)

Horses roam near a former Israeli tank in a field along the border between Syria and Israel, in the Golan Heights on March 8, 2013. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters clash with anti-riot policemen as members of Philippine’s group Gabriela attempt to march to the US embassy for a rally in Manila on March 8, 2013. The protest march by the Philippine’s women group Gabriela was held as part of International Women’s Day. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian female laborers and sex workers participate in a rally on International World Women’s Day in Kolkata on March 8, 2013. The demonstrators participated in the rally to demand equal social and financial rights. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)

Serbian women hold a banner during a rally in central Belgrade to mark International Women’s Day, on March 8, 2013. Text on the banner reads “March 8, International Women’s Day, for women’s labor rights, for women’s human rights, for women’s solidarity.” (Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistani women ride their bikes towards the city’s landmark Faisal Mosque to mark International Women’s day in Islamabad on March 8, 2013. A group of determined women took to bikes riding through the Pakistani capital to highlight their rights and love of exercise in a culture that often treats them as second-class citizens. (Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images)

All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) members launch sky lanterns during International Women’s Day in Hyderabad on March 8, 2013.(Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)

A person walks through a snow-shrouded park on March 8, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. As a week-old storm slowly moves out to sea, the New York City area is expecting 1 to 3 inches of snow with more in areas north and west of the city. The storm has caused flight delays at area airports and numerous schools have delayed start times. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

People make their way as a snow storm hits New York, March 8, 2013. The storm, part of the same system that pummeled the Midwest earlier this week, is expected to dump two to five inches of snow before to fully conclude by early evening.(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

Tourists look at a temple of olympian Zeus through a closed gate on March 8, 2013 in Athens as archaeological sites and museums in Greece are closed due to a 24-hour strike by Ministry of Culture employees. Archaeological sites and museums across Greece have shut down for 24 hours by Culture Ministry employees, protesting planned reforms. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

Kosovo Albanians participate in a bonfire ceremony “Night of the Fires” on March 7, 2013 in the village of Prekaz to commemorate the March 7, 1998 killing of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Adem Jashari along with 45 members of his family by Serb forces in Prekaz during the Kosovo war. Every year hundreds of people gather to commemorate the event in the village. (Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images)

A diesel locomotive has ended up in the river Venoge on March 8, 2013 near Penthalaz, Western Switzerland. The freight locomotive derailed near Cossonez railway station with its driver slightly injured. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

Policemen detain an opposition supporter taking part in a picketing calling for the release of two jailed members of the Pussy Riot protest punk band in central Moscow on March 8, 2013. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a philosophy student, was sent to prison camp in October 2012 along with bandmate Maria Alyokhina, after being convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for singing a “punk prayer” in a Moscow cathedral protesting President Vladimir Putin’s close links with the Russian Orthodox Church. (Evgeny Feldman/AFP/Getty Images)

A Sadhu (Hindu holy man) walks near the Pashupatinath Temple ahead of the Hindu festival Maha Shivaratri in Kathmandu on March 8, 2013. Hindus mark the Maha Shivratri festival by offering special prayers and fasting. (Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

A pedestrian walks past banners, reading “Stop to EU” signed by the nationalist Serbian Democratic Party, in central Belgrade on March 8, 2013. Serbia is aware it has no authority over Kosovo, but Serbia will accept no deal with Kosovo unless the Serb community there is given executive powers, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday. (Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images)

Protesters burn a poster bearing a joint caricature of U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Philippine President Benigno Aquino as they march towards the Presidential Malacanang Palace to mark International Women’s Day in Manila on March 8, 2013. The women’s group called for gender equality, denounced the presence of the US military in the country, and blamed the Aquino government for surrendering to US policy. (Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images)

Shi’ite Muslim women beat their chest during a protest rally organized by the religious group, Shia Qaumi Mahaz (SQM), in Karachi March 8, 2013. The rally was held to condemn a bomb blast on Sunday which killed at least 45 people. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

South Korean officers salute during the joint commission ceremony of 5,780 new officers of the army, navy, air force and marines at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong on March 8, 2013, south of Seoul. An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war on March 8, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South Korea as it upped the ante yet again after its recent atomic test. (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman walks past birdcages after she crossed the border from Malaysia into Thailand in Sungai Kolok in southern Narathiwat province March 8, 2013. Last week, in a deal brought about with the help of Malaysia, Thailand agreed to pursue a peace talks with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), one of the Muslim groups fighting for autonomy in the south. Resistance to Buddhist rule from Bangkok has existed for decades in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which were part of a Malay sultanate before being annexed by Thailand in 1909. (Damir Sagolj / Reuters)

People take a part in a bird singing competition in front of a mosque in the southern province of Pattani March 8, 2013. Last week, in a deal brought about with the help of Malaysia, Thailand agreed to pursue a peace talks with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), one of the Muslim groups fighting for autonomy in the south. Resistance to Buddhist rule from Bangkok has existed for decades in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which were part of a Malay sultanate before being annexed by Thailand in 1909. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A pedestrian walks over an illustration to draw attention to domestic violence against women, on International Women’s Day in central Istanbul March 8, 2013. Istanbul’s main Istiklal pedestrian street has been decorated by the local Beyoglu Municipality with banners and illustrations to draw attention to domestic violence against women in Turkey. The illustration symbolises Esra Bilen, a 25-year old Turkish woman who was killed by her husband. (Murad Sezer / Reuters)

Egyptian protesters hold their national flag as they celebrate on an army tank outside Port Said’s security headquarters on March 8, 2013, following the withdrawal of police forces from their headquarters in the Suez Canal city that has been the target of protesters and transferred its protection to the military, the interior ministry said. (Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

A supporter of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga sits in front of a poster outside his house as he waits for election results in the Kibera slum in Nairobi March 8, 2013. Kenya said it was determined to complete the count on Friday in a tight presidential race that has put Uhuru Kenyatta ahead of his main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga and in with a chance of outright victory. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

A Sri Lankan woman shouts slogans during a protest to mark International Women’s Day in Colombo March 8, 2013. Protesters demanded government action for domestic violence and rape issues in the country. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

An activist lights her torch as she takes part in a rally to commemorate International Women’s Day in Islamabad March 8, 2013. (Mian Khursheed/Reuters)

Pilgrims carry a large cross through Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on March 8, 2013. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

Cardinal Marc Ouellet arrives for a meeting in the Synod Hall at the Vatican on March 8, 2013. Cardinals will convene for a conclave to select a new pope on Tuesday, March 12. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

Delegates from the ethnic minorities walk from Tiananmen Square to the Great Hall of the People to attend a plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference during severe pollution on March 8, 2013 in Beijing, China. Clearing urban air pollution has become a big concern during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

A man walks at the steps to a monument painted with the likeness of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez, as his body lies in state at the military academy in Caracas March 8, 2013. Chavez will be embalmed and put on display “for eternity” at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. (Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)

A woman keeps warm wrapped in the national flag as people wait in line before the start of the funeral for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez outside the Military Academy on March 8, 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela. Countless Venezuelans have paid their last respects to Chavez and more than 30 heads of state are expected to attend the funeral today. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Supporters of Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez wait for a chance to view his body lying in state, at the military academy in Caracas March 8, 2013. Chavez will be embalmed and put on display “for eternity” at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)

March 8 Photo Brief: International Women’s Day, Hugo Chavez’s funeral, baby giraffe

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