March 5, 2015

Hostesses pose for photos outside the Great Hall of the People during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing, China.

Bangladeshi workers unload goods from a boat in the Buriganga River in Dhaka.

The 4.6-meter high bronze sculpture "Gift Horse", which portrays a skeletal horse by German-born artist Hans Haacke, stands above Trafalgar Square after it was unveiled as the new commission for the Fourth Plinth, in London.

A girl slips on an icy street while walking with her sister in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The girls were dressed as clowns for the Jewish celebration of Purim.

Une petite fille pleure, après avoir reçu  son vaccin contre la rougeole, dans un camp de déplacés à Don Bosco à Bangui, en République centrafricaine, le 4 janvier 2014.

Arthur Ward stands with his Pyrenean Mountain Dog Cody during the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, central England.

The moon sets in the early morning hours as a man walks along an ocean pier in Oceanside, California.

Male Afghan women's rights activist wear burqas to show their solidarity with Afghan women ahead of International Women's Day in Kabul.
 

Firecrackers are set off during the Beehive Rockets Festival, ahead of the Chinese Lantern Festival in Tainan, southern Taiwan, March 4, 2015.
 

People sing and dance while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colors, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Kristy Fogden, right, of New Zealand, hands her friend Dave Shaw a guitar as they stand on a sand dune at dusk in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, March 4, 2015.

A foreign tourist screams as another puts color on her face during celebrations marking Holi in Kolkata, India.