Stunning photos from the week gone by

Images of the events that shaped the world last week. 

‘Table Sculpture’ by artist Allen Jones is seen on display at Sotheby’s auction house in London. The work is part of an eclectic exhibition and sale called Bear Witness, which will be auctioned over three days from March 10. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters

A student of Rabindra Bharati University reacts as her fellow student throws coloured powder on her face during celebrations for Holi in Kolkata. Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Kong Ning wears a wedding dress decorated with 999 face masks for her performance art work ‘Marry the blue sky’ as she poses for a photograph in front of the China Central Television Headquarters on a hazy day in Beijing. Wearing a 10 meter-long wedding dress decorated with face masks is a part of Kong Ning's performance art work which signifies her frustration with air pollution. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A lone tourist walks on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial during a snow storm in Washington. A large winter storm reaching from Texas to southern New England, which prompted school closings and led to almost 2,300 flight cancellations, had dumped over a foot of snow on parts of the eastern United States by early Thursday morning. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

Arthur Ward stands with his Pyrenean Mountain Dog Cody during the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, central England. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

A grave digger works as his wife watches, at a cemetery where workers killed by a blast at the Zasyadko coal mine will be buried, in Donetsk. Thirty-three miners were confirmed dead late on Wednesday after the coal mine blast in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eastern Ukraine, indicating no one trapped in the rubble survived. Mine officials said the explosion was most likely caused by gas and not fighting in the war between Moscow-backed rebels and Ukraine government forces. Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters

Delta flight 1086 is seen after it slid off the runway upon landing at New York's LaGuardiaAirport. The Delta Air Lines jetliner landing during a snowstorm at New York's LaGuardiaAirport on Thursday slid off the runway and struck a fence before coming to rest at the edge of FlushingBay, but there were no serious injuries. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Protesters restrain a man who allegedly beat other fellow protesters during a demonstration against mainland traders, at Yuen Long in Hong Kong. The protest on Sunday was the third since February targeting so-called parallel traders, who buy goods in Hong Kong to be resold across the border on the mainland. Similar protests in Tuen Mun and Sha Tin last month forced stores to close, according to local media. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

People hold flags and posters during a march to commemorate Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on Friday night, in central Moscow. Holding placards declaring ‘I am not afraid’, thousands of Russians marched in Moscow on Sunday in memory of Nemtsov, whose murder has widened a split in society that some say could threaten Russia's future. Photograph: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters

Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite fighters clash with Islamic State militants in Salahuddin province. Iraq’s armed forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad on Monday as they launched an offensive to retake the city of Tikrit and the surrounding Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

Cats crowd the harbour on AoshimaIsland in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. An army of cats rules the remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumbering humans six to one. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

A male Afghan women’s rights activist poses in a burqa to show solidarity to Afghan women ahead of International Women's Day in Kabul. A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women’s rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

US President Barack Obama participates in a march across the EdmundPettusBridge in Selma, Alabama. Also pictured are first lady Michelle Obama, US Representative John Lewis, former first lady Laura Bush and former president George W. Bush. The event comes on the 50th anniversary of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ march at the bridge, where police and state troopers beat and used tear gas against peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Girls, in traditional attire, take part in a function organised to mark International Women’s Day at Maiti Nepal in Kathmandu. Maiti Nepal is an organization that aims to protect Nepali girls and women from exploitation and abuse. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters