《TIME》: Pictures of the Week: March 1 – March 8

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Alberto Pizzoli — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. Vestments for the new Pope to be elected are displayed in the window of Italian ecclesiastical tailor Gammarelli in Rome.






John Minchillo — AP
March 3, 2013. Members of the Satmar Orthodox Jewish community grieve over the coffins at the funeral for two expectant parents who were killed in a car accident, in Brooklyn, New York.






Kirill Kudryavtsev — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. The bust of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen through a transparent portrait of a Stalin at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.






Jerome Delay — AP
March 4, 2013. Kenyans line up to vote at a polling station in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.






Leo Rameriz—AFP/Getty Images
March 6, 2013. Supporters accompany the funeral cortege of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy.






Wang Zhao — AFP/Getty Images
March 3, 2013. Two security officers watch over the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.






Schalk van Zuydam — AP
March 2, 2013. A woman hands are covered with paint powder next during the holi one color Festival held in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.






Francois Guillot — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. A model presents a creation by Alexander McQueen during the Fall/Winter 2013-2014 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, France.






Vanderlei Almeida — AFP/Getty Images
March 2, 2013. A Brazilian soldier with the MINUSTAH force greets a boy at a shantytown in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.






Will Oliver — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves King Edward VII Hospital in London.

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Marvin Recinos — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. Members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) work out in the gym of the Criminal Center of Ciudad Barrios in San Miguel, El Salvador.






Waseem Andrabi — Hindustan Times/Getty Images
March 1, 2013. A Kashmiri Muslim prays as a priest displays a relic during celebrations at the shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Geelani, in Srinagar, India.






Max Rossi — Reuters
March 1, 2013. Napoli's supporters burn flares during the Italian Serie A soccer match against Juventus at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, Italy.






Shah Marai — AFP/Getty Images
March 1, 2013. Afghan men watch a cock-fighting tournament in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Shah Marai — AFP/Getty Images
Roosters duel during a break in an Afghan cock-fighting tournament in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Bogdan Cristel — Reuters
March 1, 2013. Women watch a male striptease show held in celebration of International Women's Day at a club in Bucharest, Romania.






David Gray — Reuters
March 1, 2013. Father Garry McKeown lifts a boy to remove a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI from a wall of the St Mary's Catholic Church after a service in the New South Wales town of Mudgee, Australia.






Mohammed al-Shaikh — AFP/Getty Images
March 2, 2013. A Bahraini medic treats a protester wounded by a pellet gun during clashes with police in the village of Zinj, a suburb of Manama, Bahrain.






Joe Penney — Reuters
March 1, 2013. Malian soldiers gather on the banks of the Niger River before taking a canoe to the village of Kadji in Gao, Mali.






Saad Abobrahim — Reuters
March 2, 2013. Members of the Free Syrian Army break into a house in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.

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Will Boase — AFP/Getty Images
March 2, 2013. Supporters of Kenya's Prime Minister and presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, wave at Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) helicopters as they arrive at a rally in Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.






Pawel Kopczynski — Reuters
March 2, 2013. Eleriin Haas of Estonia competes in the High Jump Women Qualification event at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.






Schalk van Zuydam — AP
March 2, 2013. A woman blows blue paint powder on her friend during the holi one color Festival held in the city of Cape Town, South Africa.






Tony Karumba — AFP/Getty Images
March 3, 2013. A man rides a motorbike on in Kakamega, Kenya on the eve of the Kenyan presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial elections.






Joe Penney — Reuters
March 4, 2013. Ethnic Tuareg Malian soldiers, under the command of Col. El Hadj Ag Gamou, occupy a former gas station in Gao, Mali.






Ye Aung Thu — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. A Buddhist devotee applying a gold leaf on the Kyaikhtiyo (Golden Rock) pagoda in Myanmar's eastern Mon State.






Andrew Biraj — Reuters
March 4, 2013. A fire fighter sprays water inside the burnt compartment of a train at Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Uriel Sinai — Getty Images
March 4, 2013. Palestinians push their way on board a bus as a new line is made available by Israel to take Palestinian laborers, from the Israeli army crossing of Eyal, near the West Bank town of Qalqilya.






Kabir Dhanji — EPA
March 4, 2013. An election official checks the I.D. card of a voter by using the light of a mobile phone, at a polling station without electricity in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.






Ivan Lieman — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. A young man lies on a bed recovering from machete wounds after being attacked by a gang of youths next to a polling station in the Mshomoroni area in Mombasa, Kenya.

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Filippo Monteforte — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. St. Peter's Square at the Vatican where cardinals started talks to set the date for the start of the conclave this month, a process which will help identify candidates among the cardinals to be the next Pope.






Kim Kyung-Hoon — Reuters
March 4, 2013. A paramilitary police officer collects the Chinese national flag during a flag-lowering ceremony in front of a giant portrait of the late chairman, Mao Zedong on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, China.






Marvin Recinos — AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2013. Members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) work out in the gym of the Criminal Center of Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.






Mohammed Al-Shaikh — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. Bahraini youths hold a placard during the funeral of Mahmud al-Jaziri in Al Nabih Saleh Island, south of Manama, Bahrain.






Joe Penney — Reuters
March 4, 2013. A boy casts a net to fish in the Niger River in Gao, Mali.






John Moore — Getty Images
March 5, 2013. Mirna Guadelupe, 4, plays in front of her modest home with a doll found at the Tirabichi garbage dump in Nogales, Mexico.






Jorge Silva — Reuters
March 5, 2013. A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez prays in a chapel outside the military hospital in Caracas, Venezuela.






Luong Thai Linh — EPA
March 5, 2013. A snake's head on the kitchen floor of a restaurant in Le Mat snake village in Hanoi, Vietnam.






Vano Shlamov — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. An elderly man holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin inside a church in Stalin's native town of Gori, Russia.






Ulises Rodriguez — Reuters
March 5, 2013. A jailed gang member hangs up laundry at the maximum security jail of Izalco in Sonsonate, El Salvador.

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Hani Mohammed — AP
March 4, 2013. Yemeni soldiers stand guard as suspected al-Qaida militants, behind bars, attend their first hearing in a state security court in Sana'a, Yemen.






Sanjay Kanojia — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. An Indian child, dressed as Hindu god Lord Shiva, plays with sand on the banks of the Sangam in Allahabad, India.






Kabir Dhanji — EPA
March 5, 2013. Televisions all over Raila Odinga's traditional stronghold of Kibera attracted large audiences who were glued to the news a day after Kenyans voted in Nairobi, Kenya.






Indranil Mukherjee — AFP/Getty Images
March 5, 2013. Suraj, 11, walks with his pet monkey towards a group of tourists to start a show on the Marine Drive promenade, which overlooks the Arabian Sea, in Mumbai, India.






Arif Ali — AFP/Getty Images
March 6, 2013. A Pakistani worker dries fabric that was dyed at a factory in Lahore, Pakistan.






Gonzalo Fuentes — Reuters
March 6, 2013. Models present creations by Italian designer Giambattista Valli as part of his Fall-Winter 2013/2014 women's ready-to-wear fashion show for fashion house Moncler Gamme Rouge during Paris fashion week.






Kabir Dhanji — EPA
March 6, 2013. St. Theresa School in Mathare, Nairobi, was the center of attention in an emotionally charged election for the Member of Parliament seat in Mathare, forcing a significant military presence at the polling and counting station amidst agitated observers and supporters, Nairobi, Kenya.






Mindy Schauer — Zuma Press
March 6, 2013. Ret. Marine Cpl. Ray Hennagir, 26, floats in the pool after competing in the Wounded Warrior Marine Corps Trials at Camp Pendleton in California.






Issei Kato — EPA
March 6, 2013. Workers carry out radiation screening on a bus during a press visit to Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO's) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan.






Sanjeev Gupta — EPA
March 6, 2013. A student of Anand Vihar College takes part in an inter-college bridal show competition in Bhopal, India.

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David Fernandez — EFE/Zuma Press
March 6, 2013. Thousands of supporters follow the coffin of late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, through the streets in Caracas, Venezuela.






Xinhua / Landov
March 6, 2013. Residents participate in the funeral procession to honor Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on the streets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.






Jorge Silva — Reuters
March 6, 2013. Caps and posters of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez lie on the hood of the hearse that carried his coffin to the Military Academy where his wake will be held, in Caracas, Venezuela.






Holger Bennewitz — Reuters
March 6, 2013. A supporter of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gestures as she views his coffin during a wake at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela.






Carlos Garcia Rawlins—Reuters
March 7, 2013. A woman looks out of her door at a flag and portrait of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Caracas.






Damir Sagolj — Reuters
March 7, 2013. A paramilitary ranger looks out from inside a vehicle as a group of rangers train in the troubled Yala province in southern Thailand.






Mohammad Ismail — Reuters
March 7, 2013. An Afghan woman looks out from a helicopter window at the International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.






Darren Staples—Reuters
March 7, 2013. Bailey Bear, a Golden Labradoodle, sits in front of a picture of a cat during the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, England.






Alexander Zemlianichenko — AP
March 7, 2013. Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko listens in a courtroom in Moscow. The star dancer accused of masterminding the acid attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief.






Matt Rourke — AP
March 7, 2013, Julio Acevedo is escorted to a hearing at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa. Acevedo was arrested after a friend arranged his surrender and was ordered held without bail. He is a suspect in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pregnant woman and her husband on their way to a hospital in New York. Their premature baby, delivered after the crash, later died.

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Yonhap/EPA
March 7, 2013. A handout image provided by Yonhap of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un greets cheering North Korean soldiers during a visit to a military unit in a western island bordering South Korea.






KNS/AFP/Getty Images
March 7, 2013. This picture, taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) posing with soldiers and their family members as he inspects Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment near South Korea's Taeyonphyong Island in South Hwanghae province, North Korea's southwestern sector of the front.






Jon Chol Jin—AP
March 8, 2013. An image depicting a female North Korean soldier leading an artillery attack is projected on a large screen behind singers and the Unhasu Orchestra during a concert to mark International Women's Day in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Anindito Mukherjee—EPA
March 8, 2013. An unidentified victim of an acid attack attends a seminar in New Delhi, India on International Women's Day.