Fortnight in pictures - Feb 28 to March 13

From doctors giving hope to patients with laughter to a teenage girl’s plea to die

Published: Mar 20, 2015

US President Barack Obama (third from left) and wife Michelle participate in a march across the Edmu

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US President Barack Obama (third from left) and wife Michelle participate in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7. The event comes on the 50th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' march at the bridge, where police and state troopers beat and used tear gas against peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination at the voting booth. Also seen are US Representative John Lewis (D-GA) (second from left), former first lady Laura Bush (second from right) and former president George W Bush (extreme right)

Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos (left) greets Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis at a

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Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos (left) greets Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis at a euro zone finance ministers’ meeting (Eurogroup) in Brussels on March 9. Euro zone officials played down plans submitted by cash-strapped Greece to its international creditors in a bid to secure fresh funds, a day after Athens's outspoken finance minister irked EU partners by raising the prospect of a referendum

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (right) poses for a selfie with Valentina Maureira, a 14-yea

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Chile's President Michelle Bachelet (right) poses for a selfie with Valentina Maureira, a 14-year-old girl who suffers from cystic fibrosis, at a hospital in Santiago on February 28. Maureira made an emotional plea to be allowed to die, filming herself, asking Bachelet to authorise her euthanasia. In the video which was uploaded from her hospital bed, she says: "I am asking to speak urgently to the president because I am tired of living with this sickness and she can authorise the injection to put me to sleep forever

A member of 'Laughter Doctors of Ciudad Juarez' performs at a children's hospital in Ciu

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A member of 'Laughter Doctors of Ciudad Juarez' performs at a children's hospital in Ciudad Juarez on March 11. Through clown performances, music and interactive activities, the group of doctors visit different hospitals throughout the border city, using laughter to help aid the recovery of young and elderly patients suffering from serious illness or injury

A student of Rabindra Bharati University during Holi celebrations in Kolkata on March 2. Holi, also

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A student of Rabindra Bharati University during Holi celebrations in Kolkata on March 2. Holi, also known as the festival of colours, heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated all over India

An airplane sits on the ground after crash-landing at the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California,

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An airplane sits on the ground after crash-landing at the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California, on March 5. Actor Harrison Ford suffered minor injuries in the crash, celebrity website TMZ reported

Workers remove radiated soil and leaves from a forest in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, near To

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Workers remove radiated soil and leaves from a forest in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on February 24. Many residents of Okuma, a village near the stricken plant, are angry about the government’s plan to dump some 30 million tonnes of radioactive debris raked up after the March 2011 nuclear disaster in a sprawling waste complex on their doorstep. Few believe Tokyo's assurances that the site will be cleaned up and shut down after 30 years

Displaced Somali families help push a pick-up truck carrying personal belongings from a camp which w

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Displaced Somali families help push a pick-up truck carrying personal belongings from a camp which was closed down on March 4 by Somali forces, leaving hundreds of families without shelter, in capital Mogadishu

Servando ‘La Tuta’ Gomez is escorted by police officers during a press conference about

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Servando ‘La Tuta’ Gomez is escorted by police officers during a press conference about his arrest in Mexico City on February 27. Mexico captured its most-wanted drug lord and delivered a boost to a government battered by gang violence

Michael Neumayer of Germany soars through the air during his jump in the men's large hill team s

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Michael Neumayer of Germany soars through the air during his jump in the men's large hill team ski jumping final at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun on February 28