Monday: The day in photos
Flags supporting the candidacy of of Chiranjeevi, a single-named candidate in India’s national elections, are prepared by a worker at a factory in Ahmadabad. Chiranjeevi was a popular actor in India before he entered politics. (Ajit Solanki / Associated Press)
Pakistani lawyers dance outside the residence of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry in Islamabad after Pakistan’s government relented to demands that it reinstate Chaudhry to his post. (Emilio Morenatti / Associated Press)
A red macaw scraps with a blue-and-gold macaw at the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. (Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press)
Sudanese forces show support for President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir during a rally by thousands of soldiers in the capital, Khartoum. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Bashir on war crimes charges related to a long counter-insurgency in Darfur that killed 35,000 people and led to the deaths of an additional 100,000 from disease and hunger. (Ashraf Shazly / AFP / Getty Images)
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Greek riot police clash with students of the University of Ioannina outside the headquarters of the National Youth Foundation in Athens.The students were protesting the privatization of dorms and dining facilities at the school in northern Greece. (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)
Heavy smoke rises from dorms during a fire Monday at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. (AFP / Getty Images)
A man passes a burned-out car in a housing estate in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Cars were burned late Sunday in the area close to where an officer with the Police Service of Northern Ireland was shot dead a week ago. Authorities were questioning nine suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Monday over this month’s deadly gun attacks on British soldiers and police. (Peter Morrison / Associated Press)
Crocuses bloom in the Hague. (Marcel Antonisse / AFP / Getty Images)
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“Cybernetic human” HRP-4C is demonstrated for journalists in Tsukuba, near Tokyo. The humanoid robot will make its debut at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23. (Koji Sasahara / Associated Press)