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1/20
Fire hazard
Anyone demonstrating against the military rulers in Myanmar risks their lives.
Despite numerous deaths, thousands of people continue to take to the streets against the junta.
This protester grabbed a fire extinguisher during protests in Yangon to blind the advancing security forces.
Photo: STR / AP
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2/20
Cries for help
Protesters bring an injured person to safety in search of medical help.
In some quarters of Yangon, the military has recently cracked down on the protests.
Martial law has been in effect in some places since Monday.
Photo: STRINGER / EPA
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3/20
Great sadness
Family members mourn Aung Than.
Security forces killed him in Yangon's Thaketa neighborhood.
Military and police violence is estimated to have killed over 200 people since the coup in Myanmar.
Photo: STRINGER / REUTERS
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4/20
sympathy
The people of Myanmar say goodbye to Khant Nyar Hein.
The 17-year-old medical student was shot dead by security forces in Yangon.
After his coup, the military took the elected head of government Aung San Suu Kyi into custody and imposed a one-year state of emergency.
The protesters are demanding that the country return to democratic reforms, the house arrested politician released and the civilian government reinstated.
Photo: STRINGER / REUTERS
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5/20
Police force
The London Metropolitan Police broke up a largely peaceful mourning rally for the murdered Sarah E., sometimes violently.
Video recordings and photos show how emergency services grab several participants of the vigil in a park in the London borough of Clapham, press them to the ground and handcuff them.
Photo: HANNAH MCKAY / REUTERS
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6/20
Protest against violence
People also gathered in Dublin (here the four-year-old Ariana can be seen) to commemorate the murdered Sarah E.
The 33-year-old had visited a friend in Clapham on March 3 and disappeared on the way home to her apartment that evening.
After days of searching, officials found her human remains on Wednesday last week in a wooded area in the southeastern English county of Kent.
The main suspect is a police officer.
Photo:
CLODAGH KILCOYNE / REUTERS
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7/20
"11"
A veiled woman walks past a muscle car.
In the background the completely destroyed buildings in Duma, a suburb of Damascus.
Ten years ago the Syrian war began as a peaceful protest, today the country is in ruins.
In the eleventh year of the war, many people have given up their hopes for reform - or are still on the run in the country.
Photo: OMAR SANADIKI / REUTERS
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8/20
Reached the limit
Brando and Marvin, both one-year-old refugee boys from Guatemala, have just crossed the Rio Grande on a raft.
She and her mothers have reached the Penitas area, a town on the southern tip of Texas.
On the border with Mexico, the number of illegal border crossings is skyrocketing.
A challenge for the US - "The border is not open," stressed the White House spokeswoman this week.
Photo: ADREES LATIF / REUTERS
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9/20
Everything in butter
Artist Sergei Pakhomov is taking part in an installation entitled »Vaccination Tower« in the Russian village of Nikola-Lenivets.
The installation is part of the East Slavic festival Maslenitsa - the so-called butter week and is before the beginning of the Orthodox Lent.
Photo: MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS
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10/20
Aim high
An almost naked man climbs a pole.
This picture also comes from the Russian village of Nikola-Lenivets.
The Maslenitsa festival is of pagan origin.
Photo: DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP
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11/20
True love
Lexa Voss coaches people in their personal development.
Sheep Karlotta helps her with this.
As a thank you, there is a hugging session after a meeting in Wuppertal.
Photo: WOLFGANG RATTAY / REUTERS
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12/20
Spotlight
Cows graze in the sunlight at Caldeirao Crater in the Azores.
Photo: PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP
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13/20
Cherry Cherry Lady
Model Cherry De Vere wears a - well, let's say - extravagant dress by designer Amy Lawrance at a fashion show in Melbourne.
That works again there, because the Australians got the corona pandemic under control a little better than the Germans.
Photo: LUIS ASCUI / imago images / AAP
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14/20
Happy New!
The beginning of spring on March 20th is celebrated in Iran as "Nouruz" - the New Year festival.
In Tehran, Iranian women celebrate the upcoming New Year in traditional costumes.
Photo: Ahmad Halabisaz / dpa
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15/20
Come on, spring!
In Tibet, farmers traditionally welcome the new season in the field.
The ceremony includes the symbolic plowing of the field and the sowing of the first seeds of the year.
Photo: Purbu Zhaxi / imago images / Xinhua
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16/20
Rich in garbage
Plastic rubbish is dumped back and forth across the earth.
Thousands of tons land in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, every day.
Children like this little boy grow up with the garbage - and later live from collecting garbage.
The corona pandemic is contributing to the fact that household waste is increasing significantly worldwide and even more of it ends up with the poorest.
Photo:
Nayem Shaan / imago images / ZUMA Wire
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17/20
Shining danger
This boy coats himself with a highly toxic metallic paint and transforms himself into a living statue.
In order to make ends meet, this form of begging has become established in the Indonesian city of Depok.
For earnings of three to six euros a day, they run a major health risk.
Photo:
Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images
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18/20
Hopp hopp hurray
Athletes train their form in Muay Thai on the mountains of the Salsal Buddha, near the "Buddhas of Bamiyan" statues, which were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.
Photo: WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP
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19/20
Cowboy
A jockey directs his cows through the mud in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Photo: ANTARA FOTO / Via REUTERS
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20/20
Something's brewing
In Germany, the corona incidence values are rising this week, while vaccination is making slow progress.
The sky over Berlin reacts to the news - very appropriately - with a thunderstorm.
Photo: Markus Schreiber / AP