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A farmer picks tea leaves at a tea plantation in Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on March 19, 2022. #

A worker checks electric wires for hanging lanterns ahead of the upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 8 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, on March 22, 2022. #

People walk past plants placed on supports beneath the newly constructed Nairobi expressway along Mombasa road in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 23, 2022. #

France's Pauline Ferrand-Prevot rides on trails during the prologue stage of the 2022 Cape Epic mountain-bike stage race in the mountains above Somerset West, about 60 km from Cape Town, South Africa, on March 20, 2022. #

A kite surfer takes advantage of strong winds, with the silhouette of Pendennis Castle in the distance in Falmouth, England, on March 19, 2022. #

A heron flies in front of the moon early in the morning in Kapar, Selangor state, Malaysia, on March 19, 2022. #

A local resident holds a dog outside a residential building during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 19, 2022. #

A cat wears a wig during the Thailand International Pet Variety Exhibition in Bangkok on March 24, 2022. #

Members of the environmental organization Extinction Rebellion protest on International Water Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 22, 2022. #

People celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Prayagraj, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, on March 19, 2022. #

A Taliban fighter sits against the backdrop of the Karte Sakhi shrine on the first day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 21, 2022. #

Children wearing traditional clothing play on a swing during the celebration of Nowruz in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 21, 2022. #

A woman runs past cherry blossoms in bloom near Jefferson Memorial as the sun rises over the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2022. #

People take pictures with cherry blossoms in a park in Beijing, China, on March 23, 2022. #

Sandi Morris of the U.S. celebrates winning the women's pole-vault final, along with second-place winner Katie Nageotte of the U.S., and the third-place winner, Slovenia's Tina Sutej, during the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Stark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 19, 2022. #

Ballet dancers, displaced to Romania by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, take part in a rehearsal on the stage of the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest, on March 20, 2022. #

A view of a shop containing dozens of phones that belong to clients without electricity, being charged with multiple chargers, in the Ojodu district of Lagos, Nigeria, on March 22, 2022. Blackouts are common in Africa's top petroleum producer, where dilapidated infrastructure often fails to evenly distribute insufficient electricity supplies. But extended collapses of the power grid over the past several weeks have combined with a global hike in diesel prices to create one of the country's worst recent energy crises. #

An employee walks past compressed cardboard at a recycling center in Merignac on the outskirts of Bordeaux, France, on March 18, 2022, during Global Recycling Day 2022. #

Sparks fly behind driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and McLaren during qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain, at Bahrain International Circuit, on March 19, 2022. #

A stuffed Sumatran tiger that had been collected by the Natural Resources Conservation Board as evidence is burned in Palembang, Indonesia, on March 18, 2022. #

Skywhale and Skywhalepapa, created by artist Patricia Piccinini, are inflated before they fly over Melbourne, Australia, on March 19, 2022. #

A French farmer works in his field during a full moon in Anneux, near Cambrai, France, on March 18, 2022. #

On March 23, 2022, residents walk past a home destroyed by a tornado in the Arabi neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. #

Workers process salted fish in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on March 24, 2022. #

Seven-year-old Amellia Anisovych, a refugee from Ukraine, sings the Ukrainian national anthem at the start of a fundraising concert in Lodz, Poland, on March 20, 2022. Anisovych became widely known for singing a song from the movie "Frozen" in a bomb shelter in Kyiv in early March. She has since come to Poland with her grandmother and brother. Her parents remain in Kyiv. #

Fog shrouds buildings in Hong Kong, on March 22, 2022. #

A stork nests at the LIPU Stork Center in Racconigi, near Cuneo, Italy, on March 24, 2022. #

Karen Lichtfuss, dressed as the Ice Queen, stands in front of her husband, Kurt, during Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, Colorado, on March 19, 2022 . Frozen Dead Guy Days honors Bredo Morstøl, who is frozen in a state of suspended animation and housed in a Tuff Shed in the hills above the town. Events such as the Parade of Hearses, coffin races, and a costumed polar plunge attract visitors to the two-day festival each year. #

People dressed in costumes walk on a street as they take part in a two-day costume event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 17, 2022. #

Phoenix Suns center JaVale McGee falls while trying to save a ball from going out of bounds against the Chicago Bulls during the second half at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 18, 2022. #

A girl plays on a trampoline at a local fair in Paror, about 25 miles south of Dharmsala, India, on March 22, 2022. These local fairs, once an annual feature, are slowly returning after being canceled during the pandemic. #

Kayakers paddle in the Sudbury River in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on March 18, 2022. #

A member of the public views "The Flybrary," a sculpture by welder and sculptor Christina Sporrong that features in the "Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man" exhibition on the grounds of Chatsworth House, near Bakewell, England, on March 24, 2022. #

A protester takes part in an anti-war protest following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outside the Russian embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 19, 2022. #

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson listens during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 2022. #

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