Algerian students demonstrate in the capital, Algiers, against their ailing president’s bid for a fifth term on March 5.

An Algerian woman walks between police vehicles during a demonstration in Algiers on March 5.

A student demonstrates in Algiers on March 5.

Afghan villagers carry sheep through a flood-affected area in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province on March 2. At least 20 people were killed by flash floods as heavy rains swept away homes and vehicles.

A resident uses water supplied by emergency services to subdue a fire in the informal settlement of Stjwetla in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, on March 5. Some 100 dwellings have been destroyed in a blaze caused when an overhead electricity pylon collapsed, trailing its wires onto shacks below.

Revelers covered in talcum powder take part in “Los Indianos” street carnival in Santa Cruz de la Palma on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on March 4.

Indian Muslim brides-to-be gather as they participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Ahmedabad on March 3.

Children dressed as traditional Slovenian ethnographic characters “Kurents” perform during the International Carnival Festival in Ptuj, Slovenia, on March 3.

Members of the “Pena de Pavão de Krishna” traditional Carnival group, which celebrates Indian deities, perform in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on March 3.

Smoke and fire billow after a shelling on the Islamic State group’s last holdout of Baghouz in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 3.

Women and children evacuated from Baghouz arrive at a screening area held by Syrian Democratic Forces in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on March 6.

Evacuees from Baghouz arrive at a screening area in Deir Ezzor, Syria, on March 6.

A woman carries her injured child as she leaves Baghouz, Syria, on March 4.

Sandinista supporters march in homage to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on the sixth anniversary of his death in Managua, Nicaragua, on March 5.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó waves to the crowd during a rally upon his arrival in Caracas on March 4.

Indian students pose during an International Women’s Day celebration at a college in Chennai on March 8.

A woman wearing a mask reading “Reeks of sexism” raises her fist during a march for women’s rights and gender equality on International Women’s Day in Skopje, Macedonia, on March 8.

Bangladeshi women attend a candlelight vigil to mark International Women’s Day in Dhaka late on March 7.

Women from the feminist movement “Non Una Di Meno” (“Not One Less”) stage a gathering in front of the Labor Ministry in Rome on International Women’s Day on March 8 to protest male violence against women, harassment in the workplace, and gender discrimination.

A woman takes part in an International Women’s Day rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 8.

Students of the Kajo Keji Health Sciences Institute perform practical exercises during a midwifery class in Juba, South Sudan, on March 4.

A dog stands at the top of a mountain of garbage as birds fly overhead at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi on March 5.

The artist Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Plastic Bags is on display at the the Armory Show in New York on March 6.

Cell phones of migrants seeking asylum in the United States are seen charging in the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 5.

A mother and her sick son wait for treatment at the Udier primary health and care center in South Sudan on March 7.

A student throws a Molotov cocktail during clashes with the riot police that erupted during a March 4 protest in Tegucigalpa to demand punishment for the murder of the Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

Pakistani police commandos carry assault rifles as they take part in an exercise at a police training center in Nowshera on March 7.

A Syrian fighter of the Turkish-backed Hamza Division aims a Kalashnikov assault rifle from a position in the village of Ulashli near the frontline in the northeast of Aleppo province on March 7.

French gendarmes arrive for evacuation as prison guards block the entrance to the penitentiary center of Alençon, in Condé-sur-Sarthe, northwestern France, on March 7, two days after a prison inmate seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack before being detained in a police raid.

Jenny the horse inspects the baby of Raphael Wöllstein as he pushes a pram through the Fechenheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 8. Jenny is allowed to roam after her owner opens her stable door every day and fixes her with a sign reading, “My name is Jenny. I’ve not escaped, just taking a stroll.”

A child dressed as a pope cries during the weekly Angelus prayer at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on March 3.