Best pictures from March 14
An adult orca spyhops in front of West Juneau homes at the Gastineau Channel in Juneau, Alaska, on Thursday, March 13, 2014.Michael Penn/The Associated Press
Canadian Josh Dueck competes in the men's super combined sit ski event at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi on Friday March 14, 2014. Dueck won the gold medal.Scott Grant/The Canadian Press
Nathan Cuppernell and Mike Trautvetter, right, both of Champaign, Ill., work on a waterline Friday, March 14, 2014, in Jacksonville, Ill.Bre Linstromberg Copper/The Associated Press
A boy aims a toy gun as a girl wearing a costume poses near a mural of Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations marking the Jewish holiday of Purim at their school in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, near the Gaza Strip March 14, 2014. Sderot was hit by one of the 60 rockets fired on Wednesday by the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and Israel carried out 29 air strikes and its tanks shelled militant targets in Gaza. There were no casualties in Wednesday's exchange. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.AMIR COHEN/Reuters
Toronto, Ontario - March 13, 2014 -- Arcade Fire-- Arcade Fire performs in concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Thursday March 13, 2014Mark Blinch
Toronto, Ontario - March 13, 2014 -- Arcade Fire-- A fan dressed up is seen before the Arcade Fire concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Thursday March 13, 2014Mark Blinch
Indian Hindu widows play with colored water for the first time as a part of Holi celebrations organized by the NGO Sulabh at the Meera Sahbhagini Ashram in Vrindavan, India, Friday, March 14, 2014. The widows, many of whom at times have lived desperate lives in the streets of the temple town, celebrated the festival at the century old ashram. After their husband's deaths the women have been banished by their families to the town where devotees believe Lord Krishna was born, for supposedly bringing bad luck.Manish Swarup/The Associated Press
Canada's Charles Hamelin rounds a corner to win the men's 1,500 metre final at World Short Track Speedskating Championships Friday, March 14, 2014 in Montreal.Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press
Anders Bardal from Norway competes during the Ski Flying World Championships in Harrachov, Czech Republic, Friday, March 14, 2014.Petr David Josek/The Associated Press
Men walk in the old town of Simferopol near the Kebir-Dzhami mosque March 14, 2014. Earlier this month, Tatars of Ukraine's Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region's Russian ethnic majority. But now, with Moscow's military forces having unexpectedly seized control, the indigenous Muslim people of the isolated Black Sea peninsula have all but vanished from the public square, keeping their heads down to avoid being sucked into war.THOMAS PETER/Reuters
A Crimean Tatar girls walks on stilts at the end of a protest against the country's breakup outside Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday, March 14, 2014. Crimea will hold on Sunday a referendum that will ask residents if they want the territory to become part of Russia.Vadim Ghirda/The Associated Press