TIME's Best Pictures of the Week: February 28 – March 7, 2014

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Omer Messinger—NurPhoto
Mar. 2, 2014. A massive crowd of Ultra Orthodox Jews gathered in Jerusalem to pray and protest against a consolidating bill that will order the enlistment of members of its community to the Israel Defense Forces.





Mark Wilson—Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. Snow falls in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The Federal Government was closed due to major snow storm that was expected to dump up to a foot of snow in the Washington area.





Minzayar—Reuters
Mar. 3, 2014. A HIV-positive patient receives medicine through an intravenous drip at Medecins Sans Frontieres Holland's clinic in Yangon.





Nurcholis Anhari Lubis—Getty Images
Mar. 2, 2014. Snakes are collected and rolled before being put into the oven in the village of Kertasura, Cirebon, Indonesia. Snake skins are sold to bag factories in the West and Central Java provinces on a monthly basis.





Bob Hallinen—MCT
Mar. 3, 2014. A musher drives his dog team down the Dalzell Gorge out of the Rainy Pass checkpoint during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.





Zacharie Scheurer—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. Models wear creations for the Alexander McQueen ready-to-wear fall/winter 2014-2015 fashion collection presented in Paris.





Pablo Blazquez Dominguez—Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. A reveller is covered in talcum powder during Los Indianos carnival in Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain.





SajJad Hussain—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. An Indian bride in traditional attire sits as she takes part in a mass marriage ceremony at a local temple in the old quarters of New Delhi.





Suhaib Salem—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. Palestinian relatives of Mousab Al-Zaanin mourn during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli air strike on Monday killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, one of them Al-Zaanin, who Israel's military said had been preparing to launch a rocket across the border.





Danish Siddiqui—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. Wrestlers practice as others rest in the mud at a traditional Indian wrestling center in Mumbai.

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Scott Olson—Getty Images
Feb. 28, 2014. CPT Ryan Yuan (L) and his Afghan linguist with the U.S. Army's 4th squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment patrols on a mission to search caves for weapons caches near Kandahar, Afghanistan.





Oli Scarff—Getty Images
Feb. 28, 2014. The helium-filled 'Airlander' is the world's longest aircraft at 92 meters. It was originally developed for the US military before the project was cancelled due to budget cuts.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Mar. 1, 2014. People wearing masks walk around a square to participate in a traditional carnival celebration in the small village of Luzon Spain.





Miguel Schincaroil—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 1, 2014. Revelers of the Nene de Vila Matilde samba school perform during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Sao Paulo, Brazil.





Andres Kudacki—AP
Mar. 1, 2014. A man covers his face in oil and soot as he gets ready to start a carnival festival in the small village of Luzon, Spain.





Buda Mendes—Getty Images
Mar. 2, 2014. Members of Mangueira Samba School celebrate during their parade at 2014 Brazilian Carnival at Sapucai Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Nathaniel Wilder—Reuters
Mar. 2, 2014. Justin Savidis dogs await lineup in the musher lot before the official restart of the Iditarod dog sled race in Willow, Alaska.





Mario Anzuoni—Reuters
Mar. 2, 2014. Lupita Nyong'o and Matthew McConaughey walk offstage after posing with their awards for best supporting actress for "12 Years a Slave" and best actor for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club" at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California.





Pete Muller—Pete Muller
Mar. 3, 2014. Residents gather inside a makeshift sewing studio in the village of Mangango, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Mar. 2, 2014. Ghaziya Iqbal, 35, a Pakistani brick factory worker, breast-feeds her child Farman, 9 months old, at the site of her work on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Oded Balilty—AP
Mar. 2, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews rally in a massive show of force against plans to force them to serve in the Israeli military, blocking roads and paralyzing the city of Jerusalem.





Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
Mar. 2, 2014. A priest stands next to troops in Perevalnoye.





Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
Mar. 3, 2014. Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian military base in Bakhchysaray.





Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
Mar. 2, 2014. A Ukrainian woman reacts as troops in unmarked uniforms hold positions in Perevalnoye, a small Ukrainian base roughly 15 miles south of Simferopol. About two dozen Ukrainian soldiers could be seen behind her.





Marcelo Sayao—EPA
Mar. 3, 2014. Members of the 'Beija-Flor' samba school perform during celebrations of the Carnival at the sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. A reveler of the Uniao da Ilha samba school performs during the second night of carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Mario Tama—Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. A member of the Uniao da Ilha samba school performs during Carnival at Sapucai Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.





Roosevelt Cassio—Reuters
Mar. 3, 2014. Revelers participate in the traditional Carnival on horseback in Bonfim, Minas Gerais state.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Mar. 3, 2014. A woman grieves outside a hospital's morgue for victims of a twin suicide bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan.





Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Mar. 3, 2014. 6-year-old Adil Shahid, suffering from a fever, sleeps on the ground wrapped with a shawl, next to the brick factory where his mother works in Mandra, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Mar 3, 2014. A Pakistani child lies in a hammock at the site of his mother's work in a brick factory in Mandra, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan.





Matt Dunham—AP
Mar. 3, 2014. England players are silhouetted as they take part in a national soccer squad training session at Tottenham Hotspur football club in Enfield, England.





Mahmud Abdel Rahman—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. A rebel fighter monitors through a miror the location of pro-regime fighters in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.





Klimentyev Mikhail—ITAR-TASS /Landov
Mar. 3, 2014. Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu, president Vladimir Putin, and commander of the Russian Western Military District Troops Anatoly Sidorov (L-R) watch military exercises at the Kirillovsky training ground.





Calabar—EPA
March. 3, 2014. A ship struggles against the storm as it leaves the coast of A Coruna, northwestern Spain.





Oli Scarff—Getty Images
Mar. 3, 2014. Leo, aged 9 months, takes part in an experiment at the 'Birkbeck Babylab' Center for Brain and Cognitive Development in London, England.





Mark Blinch—Reuters
Mar. 3, 2014. A partially frozen Niagara Falls is seen on the American side during sub freezing temperatures in Niagara Falls, Ontario.





Felipe Dana—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. Performers from the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school pretend to play soccer as they hang on the wall of a float during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro.





Andy Wong—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. Chinese hostesses, who serve the delegates of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and National People's Congress, have souvenir photos taken in front of the Great Hall of the People during sessions in Beijing, China.





Ammar Awad—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. A Palestinian technician works at a small factory that produces artificial limbs in the West Bank town of Qalqilya.

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Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. A Tibetan monk carries a portrait of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, during a function organised to mark "Losar" or the Tibetan New Year in Kathmandu.





Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Mar. 4, 2014. A Ukrainian teen looks out at the countryside from a train on the outskirts of the Crimean city of Simferopol.





David Goldman—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. Vice President Joe Biden remarks about the cold weather to the media after getting off the plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport in Atlanta.





Umit Bektas—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. Supporters of ruling AK Party wave party flags during an election rally in Kirikkale, central Turkey.





Gonzalo Fuentes—Reuters
Mar. 4, 2014. A model presents a creation by British designer Sarah Burton from her Fall/Winter 2014-2015 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Alexander McQueen during Paris Fashion Week.





Nasiruddin Mughal—EPA
Mar. 4, 2014. The 'end of a rainbow' appears to touch the ground in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani administered Kashmir.





Emilio Morenatti—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. People walk along a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine.





Mark Humphrey—AP
Mar. 4, 2014. Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Robert Bortuzzo (41) fights with Nashville Predators forward Colin Wilson (33) in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Nashville, Tenn.





Giuseppe Cacace—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 4, 2014. Men with helmets are hit by oranges during the traditional "battle of the oranges" held during the carnival in Ivrea, near Turin.





Majdi Fathi—NurPhoto
Mar. 4, 2014. Palestinians carry the body of Musab Za'anin, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during his funeral in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

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David Gray—Reuters
Mar. 5, 2014. A giant storm cloud can be seen in the sky above swimmers near Mollymook Beach, south of Sydney.





Thibault Camus—AP
March 5, 2014. Models wait backstage prior to the start of the Hermes ready to wear fall/winter 2014-2015 fashion collection presented in Paris.





Gurcan Ozturk—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 4, 2014. A Syrian refugee looks out from a window with no glass, in a house in the Kucukpazar area of Istanbul, Syrian. Government forces are waging a campaign of siege warfare and starvation against civilians as part of its military strategy, a UN-mandated probe revealed.





AP
Mar. 5, 2014. People attempt to rescue a horse in the northern Indian state of Punjab. The horse was trapped for about two-hours, according to local reports. (AP Photo)





John F. Rhodes—AP
Mar. 5, 2014. Former President George W. Bush gets a hug from SMU mascot Peruna during a break in the first of an NCAA college basketball game between SMU and Louisville.





Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME
Mar. 5, 2014. A pro-Russian gathering in Yevpatoria, Ukraine.





Kevin Lamarque—Reuters
Mar. 5, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry departs after speaking to reporters about the Ukraine crisis following his meetings with other foreign ministers in Paris.





Rodrigo Abd—AP
Mar. 5, 2013. Marisol Perez, Venezuelan Army specialist, cries while visiting a chapel to mark the death of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, Venezuela.





Bea Kallos—EPA
Mar. 5, 2014. Mussie Oberlander, daughter of Hungarian Chief Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, secretary general of Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE) and establisher of the Hungarian Chabad-Lubavitch trend, prays during her traditional Jewish wedding in the Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.





JM Lopez—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 5, 2014. A South Sudanese woman walks with wood to reinforce her house in an isolated makeshift IDP camp for Dinka ethnic group placed in an island between Bor and Minkamman.

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China Daily—Reuters
Mar. 5, 2014. A frontier soldier from the People's Liberation Army jumps through a ring of fire as part of a training exercise in Heihe, Heilongjiang province.





Khaled Desouki—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 5, 2014. Australian journalist Peter Greste (C) of Al-Jazeera and his colleagues stand inside the defendants cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo's Tora prison.





Edgar Su—Reuters
Mar. 6, 2014. A group of people pose for pictures with Wayne Garrett and Caitlind Brown of Canada's light installation "CLOUD" during a media preview of the i Light Marina Bay festival in Singapore.





Marco Longari—Reuters
Mar. 6, 2014. A member of the defence legal team reaches out to Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius as he holds his head while a witness testifies during the fourth day of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.





Kham—Reuters
Mar. 6 , 2014. Villagers watch a wrestling match during Chua Nanh festival in Ninh Hiep village, outside Hanoi. Several hundred wrestlers gathered to compete in a three-day annual festival from in Ninh Hiep village which is well-known as one of richest village in Northern Vietnam.





Christian Hartmann—Reuters
Mar. 6, 2014. Canada's Braydon Luscombe skis during the Men's Downhill Standing training at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center, Russia,.





Ria Novosti—Reuters
Mar. 6, 2014. Russia's President Vladimir Putin signs an autograph as he visits the mountain village on the eve of the opening of the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Krasnaya Polyana.





KNS—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 7, 2014. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is surrounded by female pilots as he inspects the Korean People's Army (KPA) Air and Anti-Air Force Unit 2620.





Jason Lee—Reuters
Mar. 7, 2014. A soldier in plain clothes from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) stands guard behind an entrance of the Great Hall of the People, the venue of the annual session of China's parliament.





Said Khatib—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 7, 2014. A Palestinian boy sits on a boat on the seashore as he watches a demonstration against the siege on the impoverished Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the coastal town of Rafah.





Said Khatib—AFP/Getty Images
Mar. 7, 2014. Palestinian children lie in the sand with their hands clasped next to their national flags during a rally against the siege on the impoverished Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the coastal town of Rafah.





Vadim Ghirda—AP
Mar. 7, 2014. A woman watches a rally against the breakup of the country from behind the tinted window of a bus in Simferopol, Ukraine.





Eric Miller—Reuters
Mar. 6, 2014. A couple and a child look at a 50-foot snowman named "Granddaddy" in Gilman, Minnesota.