Japanese tsunami anniversary, Ukrainian crisis, protests in Turkey | March 11
The day in photos from around the world.
- Cranes fly during a sunset on March 10, 2015 in Gudow, Germany. (Daniel Reinhardt/Getty Images)
- A VW Golf is pictured inside the so-called cat towers of car manufacturer Volkswagen AG (VW) at the company’s assembly plant in Wolfsburg, northern Germany on March 10, 2015. (Tobias Schwarz/Getty Images)
- A Chihuahua dog is pictured on March 10, 2015 in Friedrichsdorf, Germany. (Frank Rumpenhorst/Getty Images)
- Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, left, looks at “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man” by Jeremy Millar, during her visit to the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent, Wednesday March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
- A protester holds a plank to hide from a police water cannon on March 11, 2015 in Istanbul, during clashes following a protest in memory of a teenager killed in 2013 anti-government demonstrations and whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of the Turkish president. The protesters were marking the first anniversary of the death of Berkin Elvan who died on March 11, 2014, after spending 269 days in a coma due to injuries sustained when he was hit by a tear gas canister fired by police in the mass protests of early summer 2013. (Ozan Kose/Getty Images)
- A man points his gun in front of a barricade towards Turkish riot police with a pistol on March 11, 2015 in Istanbul, during clashes following a protest in memory of a teenager killed in 2013 anti-government demonstrations and whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of President. (Ozan Kose/Getty Images)
- A man throws runs away, on March 11, 2015 in Istanbul, during clashes following a protest in memory of a teenager killed in 2013 anti-government demonstrations and whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of President. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)
- A participant in the 30th edition of the Pierra-Menta ski-climbing race climb Antecime peak at 2,651m during the first stage of the race on March 11, 2015 in Areches-Beaufort. Nearly 600 participants from sixten countries traverse 10,000 metres over four days. (Jean-Pierre ClatotJ/Getty Images)
- Participants in the 30th edition of the Pierra-Menta ski-climbing race climb Antecime peak at 2,651m during the first stage of the race on March 11, 2015 in Areches-Beaufort. Nearly 600 participants from sixten countries traverse 10,000 metres over four days. (Jean-Pierre ClatotJ/Getty Images)
- A general view shows the northern Seoul city skyline facing east, at sunrise on March 11, 2015. (Ed Jones/Getty Images)
- A lone pine tree that miraculously survived the deadly 2011 tsunami among 70,000 trees along the coastline, stands in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The tree, which was badly damaged from seawater after surviving the tsunami, was cut down in 2012 and treated for decay after which it was preserved using artificial materials. It was later placed back where it was found to stand as a symbol of hope and survival. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
- Balloons in the shape of doves are released into the air during a memorial service for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster at the former Yuriage junior high school in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2015. Japan marked the fourth anniversary on March 11 of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a tragedy that has left visible scars on the landscape and continues to wreak misery for many. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Getty Images)
- A woman touches a monument for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster In the coastal area of Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2015. Japan on March 11 marked the fourth anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a tragedy that has left visible scars on the landscape and continues to wreak misery for many. (Kazhiro Mogi/Getty Images)
- Police officers search for the remains of missing people with metal detector at Namie, near the stricken TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture on the fourth anniversary day of massive earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake in 2011 sent a huge wall of water into the coast of the Tohoku region, splintering whole communities, ruining swathes of prime farmland and killing nearly 19,000 people. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images)
- Police officers search for the remains of missing people at Namie, near the striken TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture on March 11, 2015 on the fourth anniversary day of massive earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake in 2011 sent a huge wall of water into the coast of the Tohoku region, splintering whole communities, ruining swathes of prime farmland and killing nearly 19,000 people. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images)
- Police officers observe a moments silence for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster during a memorial ceremony at Namie, near TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture on March 11, 2015. Japan marked the fourth anniversary on March 11 of the quake-tsunami disaster that swept away thousands of people and sparked a nuclear crisis, a tragedy that has left visible scars on the landscape and continues to wreak misery for many. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Getty Images)
- Models present creations for Moncler Gamme Rouge during the 2015-2016 fall/winter ready-to-wear collection fashion show on March 11, 2015 in Paris. (Patrick Kovarik/Getty Images)
- Lithuanians walk with a national flag during a parade to mark the 25th anniversary of the independence from the Soviet Union in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 11, 2015. A quarter-century after Lithuania’s split from the Soviet Union, the architect of the Baltic state’s independence Vytautas Landsbergis has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brand of imperialism risks new wars in Europe. (Petras Malukas/Getty Images)
- Dearborn, Mich., firefighters watch as a tanker truck, and at least one car, right, burn shutting down a stretch Interstate 94, Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Dearborn, Mich. Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw says there were no reports of injuries. He says the truck was believed to have been hauling petroleum. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Daniel Mears)
- Military personnel wade in the water and search on the beach under heavy fog at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Wednesday, March 11, 2015, for the wreckage of a military helicopter that crashed with 11 service members aboard. The helicopter went down Tuesday evening. A Pentagon official says all aboard are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson-Gabriel)
- French athlete Eloyse Lesueur cries, on March 11, 2015 at the Insep national Sport Institute in Vincennes, outside Paris, during a ceremony in memory of Olympic champion swimmer Camille Muffat, yachtswoman Florence Arthaud and Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine who died two day before with five French TV crew members and two Argentine pilots in the crash of helicopters in Argentina. (Loic Venance/Getty Images)
- A child plays on playground between primary school and Soviet tank mounted on a plinth in the central Ukrainian town of Kagarlyk. Maria Polyvaniuk, a 27-year-old mother of two who lives in a drab Soviet-era apartment block, has watched aghast as the national currency nosedived in the past year, triggering astronomical increases in the prices of food, clothes and other essentials. (Volodymyr Shuvayev/Getty Images)
- A Ukrainian tank sits near the town of Nikishyne, southeast of Debaltseve, on March 11, 2015. The town was leveled in fighting between Ukrainian troops and soldiers of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) when the DNR made a push for Debaltseve. (John Macdougall/Getty Images)
- A man rides his motorbike down the main street of the ruined town of Nikishyne, south east of Debaltseve March 11, 2015. The town was levelled in fighting between Ukrainian troops and soldiers of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) when the DNR made a push for Debaltseve. (John Macdougall/Getty Images)
- Devotees offer prayers to Indian spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, center, during a prayer meeting in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Known among her followers as “Amma,” which means “mother” in several Indian languages, Amritanandamayi has devotees in India and the rest of the world. She is also popularly known as the Hugging Saint. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
- Iraqi fighters of the government-controlled Popular Mobilisation units take part in a military operation to take control of Tikrit, 160 kms north of Baghdad, from jihadists from the Islamic state (IS) group, on March 11 2015. The city, which is the home town of former president Saddam Hussein, is the toughest target for the government troops and allied militias that started winning back lost ground last year. (Ahmad Al-Rybaye/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian school girl makes her way though the rubble of destroyed buildings as she heads home after school on March 11, 2015 in Beit Hanun in the northern of Gaza Strip. Qatar on March 11, 2015 launched a project to build 1,000 homes in the Gaza Strip to house Palestinians displaced by last summer’s war between Hamas and Israel. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
- Palestinian refugees queue up to receive aid parcels from a local organization at the besieged Yarmuk refugee camp, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, on March 11, 2015. Yarmuk is now devastated, and only around 40,000 people remain of the 150,000 Palestinian and Syrian people who lived at the camp before the conflict erupted in March 2011. (Getty Images)
- The parents of Arab-Israeli Mohammed Musallam (portrait) react at the family’s home in the East Jerusalem Jewish settlement of Neve-Yaacov after the Islamic State (IS) released a video purportedly showing a young boy executing their son, who IS claimed infiltrated the group in Syria to spy for the Jewish state. (Ahmad Gharabli/Getty Images)
- People visit the installation “Battle of Berlin. The Feat of the Standart-bearers” in Saint Petersburg. A three-dimensional installation represents the storming of Berlin by the Soviet army in the end of World War II. (Olga Maltseva/Getty Images)