Pictures of the week

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

This week's gallery includes mourners in front of a tornado-destroyed home in Alabama; hostesses at China's National People's Congress in Beijing; and scenes from around the world on International Women's Day.

This gallery contains photos from the week of March 2-8, 2019.

A military conductor leads band members during a rehearsal for the opening session of the China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Carol Dean, right, cries while embraced by Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019. "He was my wedding gift," said Dean of her husband whom she married three years ago. "He was one in a million. He'd send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He'd send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world. I'm not going to be the same." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Surrounded by smoke, a Hindu holy man offers prayers at the courtyard of the Pashupatinath Temple during Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 4, 2019. Shivaratri, or the night of Shiva, is dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A car transports a coffin containing the body of one of the demonstrators who was killed during previous protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 4, 2019. People are protesting skyrocketing inflation and the government's failure to prosecute embezzlement from a multi-billion Venezuelan program that sent discounted oil to Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A woman walks past a sculpture, part of a float yet to be installed, for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Decorations dangle from the hats of bus ushers in ethnic minority dress as they pose for a group photo during the opening session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A woman's reflection is seen on the window of a kiosk that sells flowers in celebration of International Women's Day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Women hold flares during a march for International Women's Day in Madrid, Spain, Friday, March 8, 2019. Marches and protests are held Friday across the globe to mark International Women's Day under the slogan #BalanceforBetter, with calls for a more gender-balanced world. The day, sponsored by the United Nations since 1975, celebrates women's achievements and aims to further their rights. Thousands of women walked off the job in Spain, joining millions more around the world demanding equality amid a persistent salary gap, violence and widespread inequality. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A riot police officer places her hand on her shield as she helps to prevent a march marking International Women's Day from reaching the government palace, in La Paz, Bolivia, on Friday, March 8, 2019. The day has been sponsored by the United Nations since 1975 as millions of women around the world are demanding equality amid a persistent salary gap, violence and widespread inequality. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

An employee in protective clothing works with a steel pouring ladle during a guided media tour at the steel producer Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A train heads west as the sun rises from behind the city skyline in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said members of the Fraternal Order of Transit Police Lodge 109 walked off the job Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.