Pictures of the week

The selection of the week you will see the St. Patrick's Day in different countries of the world, the Day of Silence in Bali, and much more.







Lance Corporal Matthew Gorzkivits of North Liberty, Indiana, check the strength of the slingshot Afghan boy during a patrol in Marzhahe. (AP Photo / Dusan Vranic)



NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev wave in the space capsule "Soyuz TMA-16" near the Kazakh town of Arkalyk. The astronauts successfully landed in northern Kazakhstan, after a nearly six-month stay on the International Space Station. (AP Photo / Sergei Remezov)



Olive ridley sea turtle returns to the Bay of Bengal, lay their eggs on the beach in the district of Ganjam Gokhurkuda, about 140 km from Bhubaneswar, India. (AP Photo / Biswaranjan Rout)



Children go on Tokyo park full of blooming tulips. (AP Photo / Shizuo Kambayashi)



Monthly cub named Melo asleep on the leg of his mother Veni safari park in Prigov Pasuruane, West Java. (AP Photo / Trisnadi)



A man walking a dog, looking at the thousands of starfish that have washed up on the beach Budleigh Salterton in the English town of Devon. Over the past few days on the beach washed thousands of starfish; Experts believe that the stars are faint and become susceptible to strong surf after exhausting the process of reproduction. In the UK, similar cases occur once or twice a year, in Budleigh Salterton but it happened the first time. (Photo by Matt Cardy / Getty Images)



The green balloon called "Paddy" in the form of clover petals flying over the private golf course «Reunion Resort» in Kissimmee, Florida, St. Patrick's Day. (AP Photo / Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber)



An Afghan woman stroking just sewed a dress in a shop in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul. (AP Photo / Mustafa Najafizada)



Soldier near the secret laboratory for the production of cocaine in the Quebrada Guan, on the southern Pacific coast of Colombia. Soldiers confiscated cocaine and chemicals for the manufacture of the drug in the laboratory, which, according to the army, belonged to rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (AP Photo / Christian Escobar Mora)



Fisherman on the Moscow River sits above the wormwood on the background of skyscrapers under construction in central Moscow. This week in the Russian capital temperature was about -10. (AP Photo / Mikhail Metzel)



Ultra standing in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, also known among the Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel has imposed further restrictions on Palestinian access to the holy places of Jerusalem and recalled the prolonged closure of the West Bank after several days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. (AP Photo / Tara Todras-Whitehill)



A street vendor pushes a cart in front of vegetables in the center of the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh. (AP Photo / Nick Ut)



Women take pictures of flowers on the Tokyo park Ham Rica. (AP Photo / Itsuo Inouye)

The representative of the Administration liquor monopoly Guangdong throws a bottle of alcohol in the pile destined for destruction during the campaign of destruction of counterfeit goods - fakes of famous brands of whiskey and other spirits in the city Chzhuliao in, the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. (AP Photo)



The masked man entertains the crowd during the annual parade in honor of St. Patrick's Day in Indianapolis. (AP Photo / Darron Cummings)



Children from the Association of Irish dance Woodside, Queens, during the 249th parade on Fifth Avenue in honor of St. Patrick's Day in New York. (AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)



People ride on a roller coaster on the promotion studio «Universal Studios Singapore» on the first and only newly opened resort «Resorts World Sentosa». (AP Photo / Wong Maye-E)



Painted donkey harnessed to a cart full of fruit, in Rawalpindi. According to the owner, with the coloring of a donkey I have to bring him good luck and a little more buyers. (AP Photo / Muhammed Muheisen)



Worker cleans the horse's head, which is part of the equestrian statue of the Roman emperor Augustus in Wiesbaden. The head of the statue, which is about 2,000 years old, was discovered during excavations in the Roman town near Valdgirmesa. The next two years it will be restored before put on display. (AP Photo / Michael Probst)



Lone Balinese watching the sunset on the beach of Kuta on the Day of Silence. Indians are the most populous Muslim country the New Year Day of Silence. On this day, they remain at home and meditate in silence and darkness all day. (AP Photo / Firdia Lisnawati)



Thai police are at the pools of blood after the bloody protests in the territory of the building of the ruling Democratic Party in Bangkok. Demonstrators poured several cans of his own blood during a symbolic bloody protests. (AP Photo / Apichart Weerawong)



Experimental aircraft «Lancair IV-P» is on the beach in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, the day after the emergency landing. Pilot Edward Smith and his passenger survived, but the aircraft flew on to make a morning jog man who died on the spot. (AP Photo / Russ Bynum)



Palestinian schoolgirl runs past Israeli soldiers during their clash with Palestinian demonstrators in the eastern part of Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinians threw stones at police and set fire to tires in the eastern part of the city, where the fifth day in a row there were thousands of officers, including soldiers from other regions. Violence also spread to the neighboring West Bank. (AP Photo / Bernat Armangue)



This image of the solar prominence has been made with the help of a telescope installed in the park in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Prominences - a big bright dense condensation of matter on the surface of the Sun, often shaped crown. The prominences are held in the solar photosphere and extend into the solar corona. (AP Photo / Petar Petrov)



Naga Baba, just take a dip in the river Ganges during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar. (AP Photo / Rajesh Kumar Singh)



The man throws the garbage next to the fallen on the car of his sister's tree, which stands on the path to his home in Larchmont, New York. The tree fell after a strong storm. (AP Photo / David Goldman)



Dog team race participants "Iditarod 2010" Ray Redington Jr. - dog fall to the ground with fatigue, arrived at the checkpoint Unalakleet, Alaska. (AP Photo / Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)



Hungarian girl riding a pony during the celebration of the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against one of the most important royal houses of Europe - Habsburg, in Targu Secuiesc, Romania, 249 km north of Bucharest. Thousands of ethnic Hungarians gathered in cities around the Transylvanian region of Romania, Hungary to celebrate the holiday. (AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda)



Balinese with painted face on parade in honor of the Day of Silence Bali, which falls on the Hindu New Year in Denpasar, Bali. Many Balinese this holiday spend the day in meditation and does not leave the house. Tourists who are on the island, asking for this not to leave the hotel and the airport is not working. Hindu new year began this year on March 16. (AP Photo / Firdia Lisnawati)



Shepherd herding sheep and goats during a snowstorm in Sergelene, Tuv Province in Mongolia. Many families of nomadic herders because of the severe frosts and snowfalls had to move. Mongolia is still going on is one of the most severe in the past 30 years, winter, which affected 68% of the provinces. Development Programme of the United Nations reports that the frost has killed 2, 7 million livestock, but by the end of June, this figure could double. (Photo by Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)