The world’s best photojournalists captured the best highlights of the week picturing the People’s Congress, Fallas in Valencia, the Facebook data scandal, spring equinox, Newroz and spring snowfall, joy for family of Dapchi schoolgirls in Nigeria, and Usain Bolt turns his feet to football.
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Pyeongchang, South Korea
Performers dance at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP
Stavropol, Russia
Paratroopers sit on a bench outside a polling station during Russia’s presidential election
Photograph: Danil Semyonov/AFP/Getty Images
Beijing, China
President Xi Jinping arrives for the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People. The NPC has over 3,000 delegates and is the world’s largest parliament or legislative assembly though its function is largely as a formal seal of approval for the policies fixed by the leaders of the Chinese Communist party
Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA
Yangon, Myanmar
Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police while carrying his daughter after a court hearing. Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone were jailed for reporting on anti-Rohingya violence – and have been in jail for 100 days
Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
Valencia, Spain
Ninots depicting Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un burn on the last night of the Fallas Festival. Fallas are gigantic structures made of cardboard portraying current events and are burnt in the streets of Valencia as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters’ guild
Photograph: Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images
Douma, Syria
A child runs along a street in front of clouds of smoke billowing following a reported air strike on the main town of Syria’s rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta
Photograph: Hasan Mohamed/AFP/Getty Images
London, UK
Alexander Nix, CEO of the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, leaves his offices through the back door. Britain’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham applied for a warrant to search the offices of Cambridge Analytica, accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members for its own campaigns during the US presidential election and Brexit referendum in 2016
Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
Los Angeles, US
People pose with a cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump outside a naturalisation ceremony in California for immigrants to become new US citizens
Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Norfolk, UK
Houses sit on the cliff edge on The Marrams in Hemsby, as 13 homes on the sandy cliffs were evacuated amid fears they could topple into the sea
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
Teotihuacan, Mexico
Visitors soak up the sun’s energy as they celebrate the spring equinox atop the Pyramid of the Sun
Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP
Paris, France
Students attend a protest against the French government’s string of reforms. Seven trade unions have called on public sector workers to strike on 22 March, including school and hospital staff, civil servants and air traffic controllers. More than 140 protests took place across France, the biggest culminating at the Bastille monument
Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
Diyarbakir, Turkey
Young women flash the victory sign in front of a bonfire to celebrate Kurdish new year. Newroz (also known as Nawroz or Nowruz) is an ancient Persian festival, also celebrated by Kurdish people, marking the first day of spring
Photograph: Ilyas Akengin/AFP/Getty Images
Washington DC, US
Zengo Rosenthal, left, and Marissa Wilson, both 11, laugh after Wilson tumbled into the snow during a sledding session on Capitol Hill after a spring snowstorm. “It’s pretty much our tradition to come here each time it snows,” said Wilson
Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Harare, Zimbabwe
Female prisoners leave the Chikurubi maximum prison after President Emmerson Mnangagwa pardoned up to 3,000 prisoners
Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters
London, UK
Theresa May reflects after laying a floral tribute outside parliament. MPs held a memorial service inside parliament for those killed in the terror attack one year ago, when 52-year-old British citizen Khalid Masood drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, killing five people and injuring more than 45
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Norway
Greenpeace activists board an oil rig that was due to sail to the Arctic to drill prospects on behalf of oil firm Statoil
Photograph: Greenpeace/Reuters
Graubuenden, Switzerland
Frost candles are lit in a vineyard in Flaesch. After the frosty nights of 2016 and 2017 caused damage to crops, the Plantahof local agricultural school is conducting trials to determine the value of measures such as frost candles
Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA
Yobe, Nigeria
The mother of three of the newly released Dapchi schoolgirls shows her joy, after Boko Haram returned over 100 of the girls it kidnapped last month to their village
Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
Tokyo, Japan
An elderly couple enjoy viewing cherry blossoms in bloom from a bridge. The temperature in the city rose to 18.8 degrees Centigrade, 4.4 points higher than average, speeding up the blooming process
Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA
Dortmund, Germany
Usain Bolt warms up with Mario Gotze and other players during a training session of Borussia Dortmund
Photograph: Maja Hitij/Bongarts/Getty Images