Week in pictures: 2 - 8 March

PRETORIA, FRIDAY:

RIO DE JANEIRO, TUESDAY:

CARACAS, THURSDAY:

HOLLYWOOD, SUNDAY:
12 Years a Slave

CRIMEA, MONDAY:

PARIS, TUESDAY:

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY:

MURCIA, MONDAY:

ALEPPO, THURSDAY: A Syrian man holds a crying girl following an air strike by government forces on the Sahour neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

INDONESIA, TUESDAY:
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