Day in Pictures

A lone security guard stands with an Oscar statue outside the entrance of the Kodak Theatre as preparations for the 82nd Academy Awards continue in Los Angeles, Calif., on Friday, March 5, 2010. The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 7.

Arizona Bus Crash

Arizona Department of Public Safety police officers look through the wreckage of a tour bus after a multi-car crash on Friday, March 5, 2010, in Sacaton, Ariz. Police say six people were killed in the crash on Interstate 10 about 25 miles south of Phoenix after a bus traveling from Mexico to Los Angeles struck a pickup truck and rolled before landing upright on its wheels.

Photos: Arizona Bus Crash
6 Dead in Fatal Arizona Bus Crash

Fashion Forward

A model presents a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior during the presentation of his Fall-Winter 2010-2011 ready-to-wear fashion collection, presented in Paris, Friday, March 5, 2010.

Photos: Paris Fashion Week 2010

To the Rescue

Pakistani hospital staff tend to a girl injured in a suicide attack, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, March. 5, 2010. A suicide bomber targeted Shiite Muslims on two buses being escorted by security forces through a northwestern Pakistan border area rife with sectarian and insurgent violence, killing a dozen people Friday.

Forward March

Chinese Paramilitary policemen patrol the Tiananmen Square near the Great Hall of the People, where National People's Congress is held in Beijing, Friday, March 5, 2010. China's government pushed ahead Friday with plans to strengthen economic growth while dampening social tensions, introducing a budget intended to narrow a rich-poor gap and bring growth to rebellious ethnic areas.

Iraq Elections

Three women, one carrying a child, visit the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, March 5, 2010. Iraqis are due to go to the polls Sunday, March 7, 2010 for Iraq's parliamentary elections.

In Bloom

Daffodils, also known as Lent Lilies, point their heads towards the sunlight on a bright and sunny day in a field in Cornwall, southwest England, Friday March 5, 2010.