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Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 12 images.
Bjorn, aged 5, smiles as he poses with a Owl butterfly during an event to launch the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, Britain. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
South Korean (blue headbands) and US Marines take positions as amphibious assault vehicles of the South Korean Marine Corps fire smoke bombs during a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, South Korea. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Air Force One carrying US President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighbourhood of Havana as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's international airport. Photograph: Alberto Reyes/Reuters
Widows daubed in colours dance as they take part in the Holi celebrations organised by non-governmental organisation Sulabh International at a temple at Vrindavan, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Traditionally in Hindu culture, widows are expected to renounce earthly pleasure so they do not celebrate Holi. But women at the shelter for widows, who have been abandoned by their families, celebrated the festival by throwing flowers and coloured powder. Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
A refugee sets himself on fire during a protest by refugees and migrants demanding that the Greek-Macedonian border be opened, at a makeshift camp near the village of Idomeni, Greece. Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/Reuters
A woman consoles her children at a street memorial following Tuesday's bomb attacks in Brussels, Belgium. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters
Democratic US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts as she arrives at a campaign rally at a community center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft carrying the crew of Jeff Williams of the US Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
Fruits imported from Spain which failed to pass quality checks are destroyed in Tianjin, China. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
US Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio hugs his family after he announced that he is suspending his campaign at an event in Miami, Florida. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Attendants prepare tea inside the Great Hall of the People ahead of the second plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. Photograph: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters
Rescue workers evacuate an injured man from the site of a blast outside a public park in Lahore, Pakistan. Photograph: Mohsin Raza/Reuters