Week in pictures: 1-7 March

An officer of the Russian Navy fills out his ballot paper in a booth as he votes in a polling station in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on the day of the Russian presidential vote.

Hillary Clinton revived her faltering campaign to be the Democratic White House nominee with a hat-trick of primary wins in the states of Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island.

Bulgarians mark Mesni Zagovezni, an Orthodox Christian holiday during which they chase away evil spirits with fire rituals.

The London Flamenco Festival 2008 where Spain's finest artists unite in a celebration of flamenco, dance and song opened at Sadler's Wells theatre in London.

The Grand Canyon is deliberately flooded to mimic natural floods that used to nourish the ecosystem.

Thousands of dog lovers and their pets are attending Crufts, the biggest dog show in the world.

There was a heavy security presence in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on the opening day of the National People's Congress.

Funerals were held on Monday for some of more than 100 Palestinians killed in the fighting. Many were militants, but many others were civilians.

Eight people were killed and several wounded when a gunman opened fire at a Jewish religious seminary in west Jerusalem.

A pup harp seal rests on the ice off the coast of the Magdalen Islands, Quebec.

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