Artists of the artistic theater "Afrika Afrika" perform during a press preview in Vienna, on Monday, March 17, 2008.
Tibet Protests
Tibetan exiles react emotionally as they raise anti-China slogans at a protest march in Dharamsala, India, Monday, March 17, 2008. The Tibetans protested Monday, against China's clamp down operations on Tibetan protesters in Lhasa and other parts of China.
Divorce Settlement
Heather Mills speaks to the media at the Royal Courts of Justice after making a statement to the press in London, Monday, March 17,2008. A judge awarded Mills $48.7 million in the financial settlement of her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney. The judge has also ordered McCartney to pay $70,000 in yearly child support. Mills said she was "very happy" with the settlement.
In Bloom
Two strollers pass a blooming magnolia as they walk down a street in Freiburg, Germany, on a rainy Monday, March 17, 2008. The weather is expected to remain cold and wet during the upcoming days, according to meteorologists.
Heroes Honored
The coffin of 110-year-old World War I veteran Lazare Ponticelli, who died last week, is carried by members of the Foreign Legion following a mass at the Invalides church in Paris, Monday March 17, 2008. Flags across France fell to half-staff as the nation honors the 8.5 million people who defended it in WWI, including Ponticelli, the man who outlived them all.
Go Green!
Children enjoy the St Patrick's Day celebrations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, March, 17, 2008.
Inauguration Day
New York Gov. David Paterson, right, is sworn in by Chief Judge Judith Kaye, left, while his wife Michelle Paige looks on, in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., March 17, 2008. As New York state's 55th governor, Paterson becomes the state's first black governor and would be the nation's first legally blind chief executive to serve more than a few days.
Palestinian Protest
Palestinian women react as they talk to an Egyptian soldier, during a protest near the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, March 17, 2008. Palestinians protested along the Egypt-Gaza border, calling on Egyptian authorities to release some 100 Palestinians arrested after Hamas militants breached the border in January.
Keeping The Peace?
Serb protesters throw stones at French NATO peacekeeping troops, at right, during clashes in the Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Monday, March 17, 2008. U.N. special police stormed a U.N. courthouse in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday, evicting Serb demonstrators who have occupied the building since last week to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence.
Holy Week
Penitents of the "La Merced" brotherhood participate in a Holy Week procession in Cordoba, southern Spain, Monday March 17, 2008. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.