

People walk past tulips inside Kashmir's tulip garden Siraj Bagh after its opening in Srinagar. Siraj Bagh, which contains around two million tulips of 23 different varieties and claims to be Asia's largest tulip garden. Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
Myanmar's Buddhist nuns walk along a road as they collect alms from devotees in Yangon, Myanmar. Khin Maung Win/AP
An athlete competes in the boy's long jump at the Jamaica's Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Girls Athletics Championships in Kingston March 28. The Boys and Girls Athletics Championships, known as Champs, is one of the oldest athletic championships in the world, with a history of 100 years. Photo released today. Ivan Alvarado/Reuters
A statue of jazz great Duke Ellington by sculptor Zachary Oxman waits to be installed on a pedestal in a newly-constructed plaza in Washington, DC. Ellington, a native, led his eponymous big band for more than 50 years, with signature songs such as 'It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)' and 'Take the "A" Train.' Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
A woman from the Akha ethnic minority group living in Thailand, joined other stateless groups as they gather outside the Government House in Bangkok. Activists have reported more than 400,000 of stateless people are living in Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
Sebahat Tuncel (l.), a Kurdish member of parliament, runs for cover as riot police disperse demonstrators during a protest against a government attempt to railroad a new education bill through parliament in Ankara, Turkey. Umit Bektas/Reuters
A man checks on what is left to his house a day after a fire in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Some 200 houses made of light materials were destroyed by fire Wednesday that rendered hundreds of people homeless. Pat Roque/AP
A worker walks past AVE high-speed trains at Madrid's Atocha station during a general strike in Spain. Spanish unions said a high turnout for a general strike to protest government budget cuts and reforms had almost brought heavy industry to a halt while the government said the day was proceeding normally. Andrea Comas/Reuters
Children play water polo at a swimming pool as the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is anchored off the port of Piraeus near Athens. Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters
People look out of the bus window as thousands protest during the 'march of the rural poor' in Asuncion, Paraguay. The protesters are demanding agrarian reforms and better education. The poster on the window reads, 'We want a better present and future.' Jorge Adorno/Reuters
Ethiopian migrants sleep out in the open near a transit centre where they wait to be repatriated in the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
A Palestinian member of the National Security Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas crawls on the ground during a training session in the West Bank city of Jenin. Mohammed Ballas/AP
A member of the rebel movement Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), Abdul Wahid, escorts the delivery of 30,000 litres of water provided by the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Albert Farran/UNAMID/Reuters
A model receives the last touch-ups before presenting a creation at the first Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich. Christian Hartmann /Reuters
Beyonce, a miniature puppy, is held by Beth DeCaprio, executive director of an animal rescue organization called Grace Foundation in El Dorado Hills, California. Beyonce, who was born March 8 after her mother, Casey, was taken off the streets of a California town, weighed less than 1 oz. (28.3 grams) at birth and could fit into a tablespoon. Max Whittaker /Reuters
Seattle Mariners rightfielder Ichiro Suzuki appears for the opening ceremony for their MLB American League regular season game against the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. Itsuo Inouye/Reuters