Nat CastañedaMarch 09, 2017Comment

Photos of the day

Nat CastañedaMarch 09, 2017Comment

A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours.

Iraq Mosul

A large cloud of smoke rises during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants as civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

India Kashmir

A Kashmiri woman cries near the body of Amir Nazir during his funeral at Begumbagh, south of in Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March. 9, 2017. Nazir, 15, was killed Thursday during an anti-India protest in disputed Kashmir triggered by a gun-battle in which two suspected rebels died, police and villagers said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Somalia Drought

A young Somali girl stands outside her makeshift hut at a camp of people displaced from their homes elsewhere in the country by the drought, shortly after dawn in Qardho, Somalia Thursday, March 9, 2017. Somalia's government has declared the drought a national disaster, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people in this Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Madagascar Cyclone

A fisherman rows his boat in flooded rice fields in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, on Thursday, March 9, 2017. Officials in Madagascar say the death toll from Cyclone Enawo has risen to at least five and about 10,000 people have left their homes because of storm damage. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Cyprus Turkey Referendum

A woman supporter of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, standing behind part of a Turkish flag, shouts slogans as the Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim addresses thousands of eligible voters during a rally to shore up support for a 'yes' vote in next month's referendum in Turkey on expanding presidential powers, at a stadium In the Turkish Cypriot breakaway northern part of the divided capital Nicosia in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Turkish officials have said there are as many as 100,000 voters eligible to cast a vote in the April 16 poll in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of ethnically divided Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Guatemala Fire

Charred-stained dolls placed on a bed of charcoal are part of an artists’ installation placed at the front gate of Presidential House, in remembrance of the victims of a fire at a youth shelter in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Hospital officials say the death toll in the Wednesday morning fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home has risen to 31 after several more girls died overnight of severe burns. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Germany Daily Life

People pass giant pink sunglasses, the sculpture 'Sea Pink II' by Marc Moser at the Baltic Sea town of Zingst, Thursday, March 9, 2017. ( Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP)

China Politics

Hospitality staff walk across a crosswalk during a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, March 9, 2017. China's top leadership as well as thousands of delegates from around the country are gathered at the Chinese capital for the annual legislature meetings. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Iran

An Iranian man, left, looks at a painting of Kees Van Dongen "Trinidad Fernandez," while visiting an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 9, 2017. The museum is displaying a selection of 60 artworks of foreign and Iranian artists from its trove including Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock. The show is open to the public until mid July. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

India Widows Holi

An Indian widow smeared with colors play Holi at the Gopinath temple, in Vrindavan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south-east of New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Up to just a few years ago the festival was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women, they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, with their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)

India Widows Holi

Locals mixed with Hindu widows, who were once forbidden to participate, throw flower petals and colored powder during the religious arrival of spring festival called Holi at the Gopinath temple in Vrindavan, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south-east of New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Up to just a few years ago the festival was forbidden for Hindu widows. Like hundreds of thousands of observant Hindu women, they would have been expected to live out their days in quiet worship, dressed only in white, with their very presence being considered inauspicious for all religious festivities. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)