March 17, 2017

Firefighters march up Fifth Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. St. Patrick’s Cathedral displayed both the American and Irish flags and a special Mass was held there before the parade stepped off.

People hang on to a rescue line to cross a flooded street after a massive landslide and flood in the Huachipa district of Lima, Peru.

Ribbons featuring messages are displayed on a fence at the Imjingak Peace Park near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea in Paju. Washington's top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, visited the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas to gaze on the North for himself, a day after he declared 20 years of efforts to denuclearize it had failed.

Displaced people walk through heavy fog during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants in west Mosul, Iraq.

A worker hangs "Kalavas" or sacred threads to dry after dyeing them with colors in Ajmer, India.

An Arabian Class 9 Mare, yearling colts section, is seen during the Dubai International Arabian Horse Championship in the Gulf emirate, UAE. The championship is a competition for purebred Arabian horses which parade during the three-day event to showcase their beauty and talents.

Competitors take part in the 7th International Jerusalem Marathon, outside Jerusalem's Old City, Israel.

University of Michigan guard Derrick Walton Jr. (10) is fouled as he shoots by Oklahoma State University forward Leyton Hammonds (23) during a first-round game in the men's NCAA college basketball tournament in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Palestinian workers prepare a golden crescent to set it on top of the minaret of a new mosque in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya.

Models gather before a show of the Firdaws fashion house led by Aishat Kadyrova, daughter of the Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia in Moscow, Russia.

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, stand with pints of Guinness in their hands as they visit soldiers of the 1st battalion Irish Guards following their St. Patrick's Day parade at Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow.

Wild ducks take off from the water of Lake Balaton under a sky streaked by contrails during sunrise in Keszthely, 182 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary.