People line up to buy Mega Millions lottery tickets at the Bluebird Liquor store in Hawthorne, California. Lottery ticket lines across the U.S. swelled as players drawn by a record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot took a chance at becoming an overnight millionaire. (AP)
Supporters wave from a car during a campaign of Phyu Phyu Thin, unseen, a well-known HIV activist and a candidate of Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party, in Minglataungnyunt township in Rangoon. (AP)
An Afghan carries a bundle of wood in Nahr-i Sufi near the DHQ (Char Dara District Police Headquarters) in the province of Kunduz. (AFP)
Members of parliament from the ruling AK Party and Republican People’s Party scuffle during a debate at the parliament in Ankara. The Turkish parliament is hotly debating a bill overturning a 1997 law, imposed with the backing of the military, which extended compulsory education to eight from five years and stopped under-15s attending religious ‘imam hatip’ schools. (Reuters)
African Union soldiers fire rockets in a front-line position during fighting in the district of Daynile, south of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked militants clashed with African Union and Somali government troops. (Reuters)
Young girls wear the traditional black ‘mantillas’ during a children’s procession at Our Lady of the Rosary school in Sevilla, Spain, ahead the Holy Week. (AFP)
Visitors brace themselves from the rotor wash of the Marine One helicopter as President Barack Obama lifts off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he travels to Vermont and Maine for campaign fundraising events. (AP)
A Palestinian youth climbs over a fruit stall as a mounted Israeli policeman disperses hundreds of Palestinian protesters during a demonstration marking Land Day in east Jerusalem. (AFP)
Damaged buildings in the old city of Homs, Syria (Reuters)
Sculptures entitled Blue Men, by Ofra Zimbalista, on the wall of a building on Borough High Street in south London. (Reuters)
Doves are seen inside a dress made of chocolate presented at the first Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich, Switzerland. (Reuters)
Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and his co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini, from Italy, drive their Citroen DS3 WRC during the Portugal FIA World Rally Championship’s second stage near Sao Bras de Arportel, southern Portugal. (AP)
A butterfly on a flower in a garden in central Baghdad, Iraq (AFP)
