March 7, 2019

Women stand near a banner of an International Women's Day photo show in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ahead of International Women's Day, which is celebrated every year on March 8.

Women practice Shivkalin Yudha Kala, a Maharashtrian martial art on the day before International Women's Day, at a ground on the outskirts of Mumbai, India.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth views a painting with Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford during a visit to the museum in London.

Police officers detain an activist of the Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress during a protest demanding the resignations of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi.

An armored police vehicle and barbed wire fence block the way outside the Justice Palace during the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche in Brussels, Belgium. Nemmouche is charged with 'terrorist murder' over the killing of an Israeli couple and two workers at the Brussels Jewish Museum.

French gendarmes arrive for evacuation as prison guards block the entrance to the penitentiary center of Alencon, in Conde-sur-Sarthe, northwestern France, two days after a prison inmate seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack before being detained in a police raid.

Algerian police disperse a protest by lawyers and journalists against their ailing president's bid for a fifth term in power, in Algiers.

A man is seen in the glass front of the Post Tower, the headquarters of German postal and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, following the company's yearly news conference in Bonn, Germany.

A woman embraces her golden retriever dog after it was awarded a prize on the first day of the Crufts dog show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, central England.

A man carries a bucket with bouquets of tulips at a street market on the eve of the International Women's Day in Minsk, Belarus.