Week in Pictures: 13-19 March

1 of 11 Spanish people holding posters saying "Peace" protest over lack of information on the train bombings outside the ruling Popular Party's headquarters in the centre of Madrid.

2 of 11 Nude volunteers, most of whom are HIV Positive, participate in one of Spencer Tunick's "installations" in the West Village area of New York.

3 of 11 Some of around 12.000 skiers are on their way during the traditional Engadine skiing marathon from Maloja to S-chanf in Switzerland. The race was won by French Christophe Perrillat.

4 of 11 Russian soldiers fill in their ballots for the presidential election, Moscow.

5 of 11 Spanish Prime Minister elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero vows to withdraw Spanish troops from the Iraq within the next few months.

6 of 11 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to journalists from his campaign headquarters near the Kremlin after securing a landslide victory.

7 of 11 Spanish soldiers prepare their parade at the military headquarters in Najaf before a handover ceremony with US troops .

8 of 11 Brave Inca (left) beats War of Attrition in the Supreme Novices Hurdle race, the first of this weeks Cheltenham festival, England.

9 of 11 US troops and Iraqi rescue workers stand around a crater following a huge car bomb which destroyed a five-storey hotel in central Baghdad, killing at least 27 people.

10 of 11 Kosovo Protection Corps members search for a missing child, after recovering two bodies earlier in the Ibar river near the village of Cabra, north of Pristina.

11 of 11 The Flying Scotsman steam engine, the first engine to travel at 100 miles an hour, is on show in London. The National Railway Museum is trying to raise enough money to buy it and preserve it for the nation.