Best pictures from March 28
Actress Helen Mirren poses as she makes hand and footprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.LUCY NICHOLSON
Chinese children perform as over ten thousand members and their families gather for a rally to kick off the celebrations for the upcoming 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, in southwest China's Chongqing minicipality. China's Communist Party, founded in 1921, has now more than 78 million members in its ranks.STR/AFP / Getty Images
A young man splays his legs while flipping his skateboard through the air as he does tricks in Hyde Park in Sydney.Rick Rycroft
Reiko Kikuta, right, and her husband Takeshi Kikuta stand on the port as workers attempt to attach ropes to their submerged home to try to pull it ashore with construction equipment on Oshima Island in northeastern Japan.David Guttenfelder
Elementary school children's bags are seen gathered near the tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. About eighty percent of the students and teachers were killed or are missing after the school was devastated by a tsunami following the March 11 earthquake.YURIKO NAKAO
Nepalese residents light butter lamps for Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims at Bouddhanath Stupa in Kathmandu. The number of confirmed dead and people listed as missing from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast topped 28,000 on March 28, the National Police Agency said.PRAKASH MATHEMA
A rebel fighter fires a weapon during shelling along a road on the way to Wadi al Hamra, Libya.YOUSSEF BOUDLAL
A rebel fighter prays on a road in Wadi al Hamra, Libya.YOUSSEF BOUDLAL
A young boar stands next to its mother at a deer park in Klaistow, eastern Germany. The piglets loose their characteristic striped coat after approximately three to four months and it is replaced with a unicoloured brown coat.PATRICK PLEUL
Vienna state opera prima ballerina Karina Sarkissova performs on stage during the Austria Hair International 2011 fair in Vienna.HERWIG PRAMMER
A grey heron holds a fish in its beak at the zoo in Heidelberg, southwestern Germany. The birds are native to Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.RONALD WITTEK
Flames heat glass light bulbs before stems are attached at American Light Bulb Manufacturing Inc. in Mullins, S.C. With incandescent bulbs being phased out under federal law in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents, legislators want to exempt South Carolina from the measure, saying Washington has no business telling the state how to light its closets and countertops.Willis Glassgow
Relatives of a missing resident stand vigil as firefighters and investigators begin their investigation at the scene of a three-storey apartment building fire in Woodstock, Ontario. Seven people were taken to hospital and two are still unaccounted for, police said.DAVE CHIDLEY
Comrades of Canadian Cpl. Yannick Scherrer carry his flag-draped casket during an overnight ramp ceremony at Kandahar Airfield. Scherrer was killed Sunday by an improvised explosive device near the village of Nakhonay, southwest of Kandahar city.Tara Brautigam