March 18, 2014

Workers remove gold foil as part of repairs to an 800-year-old Thousand-Hand Guanyin Buddhist statue on Mount Baoding in China.

A Cambodian man collects palm juice to make palm sugar.  This picture was taken in a village northwest of Phnom Penh.

Yemeni pro-democracy protesters pray around mock coffins in Sana’a.  They were remembering those who died on March 18, 2011, during a protest against Yemen's former president.

People stand along New York City’s 5th Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17.

Anti-government protesters remove sandbags from a street in Bangkok.  Thailand's government is cancelling emergency rule in the city after violence linked to the country’s political crisis eased.

Kişilər və qadınlar arasında keçirilən Sambo idman yarışması

Indian Sikh youths perform fire-breathing and Gatka martial arts skills before the start of a political campaign event in Amritsar.

Bangladeshis sit inside a scoreboard as they watch an ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament match between England and the West Indies.  The event took place at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium near Dhaka.

Scientists have used cameras on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to create the biggest high resolution picture of our moon’s north pole.  The image covers an area equal to more than one-fourth of the United States.