March 18, 2015

Police officers are seen on the pavement outside parliament in Tunis. Gunmen attacked Tunisia's national museum near its parliament, killing at least 19 people and taking others hostage inside the building, the government said.

Paul Alexander Hatyay (C), the headmaster, and teacher of Central School, lays out books to dry in the sun after the roof of the school's library was blown away by Cyclone Pam in Port Vila, the capital city of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.
 

A policeman stops a 'Blockupy' anti-capitalist protester near the European Central Bank (ECB) building before the official opening of its new headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

Fadila Efendic prays near memorial plaques at the Potocari genocide memorial center near Srebrenica. Fadila lost her son and husband in the Srebrenica massacre. Serbia arrested eight men suspected of taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, the first such arrests in the ex-Yugoslav republic of accused gunmen in Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

A huge jellyfish (Anomalorhiza shawi) swims in the Manila Ocean Park aquarium a day after it was found floating off Manila Bay, the Philippines. It is between 2 to 3 feet in length and 18 inches in diameter, and the biggest one to be displayed at the oceanarium.

A Bangladeshi cricket fan has his face painted in the colors of his national flag during a show of support to their national team at the Dhaka University Campus in Dhaka. Bangladesh will play the World Cup quarterfinal match against India on March 19.

The Northern Lights (Aurora borealis) are seen in the sky above Pilisszentkereszt, 26 kms north of Budapest, Hungary.

The aurora borealis over Oresund, the strait that separates Denmark and Sweden, seen from Malmo, southern Sweden
 

Chung Ki-Sup (C), the head of the council of South Korean companies operating at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, speaks to the media at the inter-Korea transit office in Paju near the Demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas, before leaving for North Korea.

Bubbleologist Sam Heath, otherwise know as Samsam Bubbleman, attempts to break his tenth Guinness World Record by creating a 23-cubic-meter bubble in central London.

A pro-Russian rebel takes cover as a woman from inside a kiosk looks on, during what the rebels said was an anti-terrorist drill in Donetsk, Ukraine.

A woman protects herself from pollution by covering her face with a scarf, while walking in a park in Beijing, China.

Russian paratroopers perform during a military show in the southern city of Stavropol.

A model presents a creation of designer Takafumi Tsuruta from his Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 collection for his brand tenbo during Tokyo Fashion Week in Japan.