Israeli schoolgirls take cover during a rocket attack from the nearby Gaza Strip, March 12, in Ashdod, Israel. After several days of bloody violence, Israel halted its airstrikes against Gaza Strip militants and rocket fire from the Palestinian territory ebbed in a truce brokered by Egypt.
A man cries over the bodies of Afghan civilians loaded onto a truck in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district, Kandahar province, on March 11. A U.S. soldier is in custody, accused of leaving his base and killing 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, in two Afghan villages.
Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, center, and Zara Phillips, right, watch in horror as Phillips' ex-boyfriend, jockey Richard Johnson, is thrown from his horse during The Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England, on March 14.
Workers move a giant Tyrannosaurus rex model into position at Chester Zoo in Chester, England, March 12. The robotic model is one of 19 replica dinosaurs featured in the Dinosaurs Bite Back exhibition that opens at the zoo in April.
A child dressed as a clown participates with other ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Purim festival at a synagogue in Jerusalem, March 8. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther.