Here is a photographic journey of the last few days....
From wildfires in Texas, the Dutch elections, Seema Verma's swearing in to Trump's administration and other stories around the world.
1. Canada
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A Yazidi refugee from Kurdistan laughs as he learns the sport of curling at the Royal Canadian Curling Club during an event put on by the "Together Project", in Toronto, March 15, 2017.
Image courtesy: Reuters
2. Spain
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A person hangs from a rope beneath a cable car booth after 60 tourists became trapped in the two booths that ascend the El Teide Volcano (3718 meters) in the El Teide National Park on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife on March 15, 2017
Image courtesy: AFP
3. Hawaii
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Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin answers questions from the media at the U.S. District Court Ninth Circuit after presenting his arguments after filing an amended lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump's new travel ban in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 15, 2017.
Image courtesy: Reuters
4. Washington
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FBI Director James Comey (R) leaves a closed door meeting with Senators at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. Comey met with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in a closed door meeting about the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Image courtesy: AFP
5. Brazil
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Demonstrators take part in a protest during a national strike against the government's social welfare reform bill which seeks to extend the time of contributions and raise the minimum age required to obtain full retirement benefits, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 15, 2017. Since replacing leftist President Dilma Rousseff in Congress in 2016, President Michel Temer has been pushing for an adjustment program aimed at regaining market confidence and reactivating the country's economy, in recession for more than two years.
Image courtesy: AFP
6. Mexico - United States
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The Rio Grande winds between Mexico, (C), and the United States on the international border on March 15, 2017 near McAllen, Texas. CBP announced that illegal crossings along the southwest border with Mexico dropped 40 percent during the month of February.
Image courtesy: AFP
7. Netherlands
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Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party votes in the general election in The Hague, Netherlands, March 15, 2017
Image courtesy: Reuters
8. Texas
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Cattle killed by wildfires lie in pasture burned by wildfires near Higgins, Texas, U.S.
Image courtesy: Reuters
9. Washington
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Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma puts her hand (R) on Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, a version of the holy Hindu text, Bhagavad Gita, during her swearing in by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Washington, U.S.
Image courtesy: Reuters
10. Egypt
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A released detainee hugs members of his family after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a pardon for 203 youths jailed for taking part in demonstrations, as part of a pledge he made months ago to amend a protest law, in front of the main gate of Tora Prison in Tora, Egypt March 14, 2017.
Image courtesy: Reuters
11. Guatemala
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An activist protests in front of the Guatemalan embassy in San Jose, on March 14, 2017 for the death of 40 teenage girls in a fire at an overcrowded shelter in Guatemala days ago. The paper butterflies had the names of the girls killed in the fire at a state-run childrens shelter, protests were held by people who demanded justice for their deaths.
Image courtesy: AFP
12. France
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Swedish Member European Parliament Jytte Guteland holds her baby as she takes part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France
Image courtesy: Reuters
13. Netherlands
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Netherlands Prime minister and Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy leader Mark Rutte (L) shakes hands with Jesse Klaver of GroenLinks Green Left Party during a televised debate between the eight top party leaders in The Hague on March 14, 2017, a day before the parliamentary elections.
Mr Wilders won just 20 seats, according to several exit polls, and was soundly beaten by Mark Rutte, the incumbent centre-Right Dutch prime minister, whose VVD Party was on track to becoming the largest party in the Netherlands 150-seat parliament with 33 seats.
Image courtesy: AFP
14. Japan
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Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country's space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea's quickening missile programme.
The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan's mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country's southwest.It is meant to replace an existing satellite that is coming to the end of its mission.
Japan started putting spy satellites into orbit in 2003 after North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile over the Japanese mainland and into the western Pacific in 1998.
In Picture: A H-IIA rocket, carrying a governments information gathering radar satellite, lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, Japan on March 17, 2017
Image courtesy: Reuters
