REWIND: The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the last week.

A caricature of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is painted on the wall of the garrison headquarters beside a destroyed tank where a major battle took the lives of more than 100 people last month in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi

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The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Asahi Shimbun/Reuters

A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, after a massive earthquake and tsunami that are feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Anis Mili/Reuters

A Somalian refugee who fled the unrest in Libya holds a loaf of bread as he walks in a refugee camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir March 15

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Kazbek Basayev/Reuters

A member of an emergency services special unit fires a shell towards the upper slopes to clear snow buildup above the Transcaucasian highway some 110 km (68.4 miles) from the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz March 13. Avalanches are a constant threat on the road which is the only route connecting Russia to South Ossetia.

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Paul Hackett/Reuters

Revellers sit on a wall during the annual St Patrick's Day Parade and Festival, in central London, March 13

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Semyon, aged 6, looks at his father, Valentin Panin, an 83-year-old blind man, who sits on a bed of their wooden house in the Taiga wood on a bank of the Mana river, about 35 km southeast of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, March 11, 2011. Valentin Panin, 83, and his wife Ekaterina, 35, got married in 1993 and began to lead a hermit way of life. The couple, who have four children now, with Valentin assisting the delivery himself, live in the wood separately from people and are occupied mostly with farming and poultry breeding.

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Rebel fighters sit on a sofa at a check point in Ajdabiyah, Libya, March 15

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Ammar Awad/Reuters

An Israeli border police officer is engulfed by flames after a petrol bomb was thrown at him during clashes with Palestinians in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem March 18. A Israeli police spokesperson said that the officer was treated at the scene and later taken to hospital for his injuries.

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Kyodo/Reuters

An 'SOS' signal is written on the sports field of a high school after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13. Strong aftershocks continued to shake Japan's main island as the desperate search pressed on for survivors from the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami. State broadcaster NHK said more than 10,000 people may have been killed as the wall of water hit, reducing whole towns to rubble.

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Photographs: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

A Libyan government soldier displays a tattoo of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the west gate of town Ajdabiyah March 16. Picture taken on a guided government tour.

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

A Chadian refugee waits in line for food distribution at the Libya-Egypt border after fleeing fighting in eastern Libya, March 16

The best PHOTOS of the week gone by

Photographs: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Horses jump a fence in The Pertemps Final during the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England March 17

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Photographs: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

A journalist is taken away by Gulf Cooperation Council forces, which moved into Pearl Square to evacuate anti-government protesters, in Manama, Bahrain, March 16

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Photographs: Gary Hershorn/Reuters

A full moon rises over the skyline of Manhattan along the Hudson River in New York, March 19, 2011. Saturday saw the rise of a full moon called a 'Super Moon' when it arrived at its closest point to the Earth in 2011, a distance of 221,565 miles or 356,575 kilometers away.

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