A girl smeared with coloured powder celebrates the Hindu spring festival of Holi in Chennai on March 4, 2026. (Photo by R. Satish BABU / AFP)
A view of an Iranian ballistic missile reportedly fell in the village of Dimhiyye al-Kabira near the Turkish border, in the Qamishli district of Hasakah, Syria, on March 4, 2026. No casualties or injuries were reported in the area where the missile landed. (Photo by Sevket Akca/Anadolu via Getty Images)An inmate kisses his wife after walking out of prison during an amnesty granted by Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa at Bulawayo Prison on March 3, 2026. Zimbabwe on Monday began releasing nearly 4,000 inmates who were granted presidential amnesty in a bid to ease overcrowding in prisons. The cabinet announced the amnesty in February on the same day it approved sweeping changes to the constitution as part of a plan to extend 83-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s term till 2030. “The nation should note that the release of the 3,978 beneficiaries begins today,” Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at a press conference in the capital Harare. Zimbabwe’s prisons held just over 24,000 inmates in the second quarter of 2025, according to recent available national data. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP)A view of the damaged Turkmenistan Street following US and Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital Tehran on March 04, 2026. The Diplomatic Police Center located in the area was completely destroyed in the attacks. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)Kashmiri Shiite muslim women attend a massive protest rally on the fourth-day mourning of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in central Kashmir’s Magam area of Budgam district on March 04, 2026. Restrictions continue to remain imposed by the authorities in parts of Kashmir following the protests over the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Israel-US air strikes. (Photo by Faisal Khan/Anadolu via Getty Images)Suspended Major General Richard Shibiri testifies at Madlanga Commission Of Inquiry at Brigette Mabandla Judicial College on March 04, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa established the commission to investigate and report on the veracity, scope, and extent of the allegations made on 6 July 2025 by KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that South Africa’s criminal justice system was compromised. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)Andre Barbieri of Team Brazil during a Para Alpine Skiing training session ahead of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre on March 04, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) workers doing touch ups at the completion of major reinstatement at corner Republic Road and Brightwater Commons Road on March 04, 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The comprehensive project scope included the construction of pavement layers, installation of kerbs and channels, footway restoration, road markings and the restoration of terraforce retaining blocks. (Photo by Gallo Images/Luba Lesolle)A full moon, also known as the “Blood Moon”, rises behind a mosque’s minaret in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on March 4, 2026. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)Citizen and tourists visit historical sites one day before voting day on March 04, 2026 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The vote is seen as a pivotal test for Nepal’s fragile coalition politics and a generation of first-time voters from Generation Z eager for change in the Himalayan nation. (Photo by Elke Scholiers/Getty Images)A man wades in the sea to try and board a migrant dinghy to sail into the English Channel on March 4, 2026 in Gravelines, France. Last year the number of people arriving by small boat totalled 41,472 – an increase of 13% on the previous year, but lower than the highest number of 45,774 recorded in 2022. Despite the increased number of small boat arrivals last year, the figure for people claiming asylum in the UK fell by 4% in 2025, reflecting a decrease in claims made by those applying in the UK under other circumstances. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)Security forces take precautions around the Comfort Hotel targeted by the Israeli military in the Hazmieh region, east of Beirut, Lebanon, on March 4, 2026. The hotel building sustained heavy damage following the targeted airstrike. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)This photograph shows a view of a marble bust displayed inside the Basilica of Santa Agnese Outside the Walls after being identified as a work by Michelangelo Buonarroti after centuries without attribution, following a decade of archival research by Italian researcher Valentina Salerno in Rome on March 4, 2026. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)Israeli soldiers stand alongside tanks near the border with Lebanon on March 4, 2026 in northern Israel. Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, launched missiles at Israel in what it said was retaliation for the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)Minister Gayton McKenzie briefs the media on the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) portfolio at Freedom Park Heritage Site And Museum on March 04, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa. The briefing provided updates on key priorities and strategic initiatives within the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC). (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)A model presents earings for Saint Laurent for the Women’s Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 collection fashion show as part of the Paris Women Fashion Week, in Paris, on March 3, 2026. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)The parliamentary staff members who will be on duty during the meeting pose for a photo in front of the Great Hall of the People, located at Tiananmen Square, during the opening session of the fourth annual session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China, on March 4, 2026. (Photo by Emre Aytekin/Anadolu via Getty Images)
