1 / 7 TOPSHOT - A wounded Syrian girl walks with her parents in the town of Kfar Batna, Southeastern Ghouta, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on March 19, 2018. Since it began a month ago, the offensive has killed more than 1,400 civilians in Ghouta, according to the Syrian Observatory for the Human Rights monitor. / AFP / STR
2 / 7 A staff member looks out from a curtain before a press conference following a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 19, 2018. China on Monday appointed a former missile force commander as its new defense minister amid lingering concerns over the goals of its rapid military modernization. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
3 / 7 TOPSHOT - Pope Francis (C) looks on as he sits with students during a pre-synodal meeting at Collegio Maria Mater Ecclesiae in Rome on March 19, 2018. / AFP / Alberto PIZZOLI
4 / 7 TOPSHOT - Activists march during the Commemorating Lee Ming-Cheís One Year Of Imprisonment Protest in Taipei on March 19, 2018. Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-cheh has been detained after traveling to China via Macau on March 19, 2017, as China claimed they are investigating him on suspicion of "pursuing activities harmful to national securityî. / AFP / ASHLEY PON
5 / 7 Riot police stand guard between opponents of former Brazilian President (2003-2010) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and a group of supporters (out of frame), in Bage, south of Brazil, where Lula arrived for a political gathering on March 19, 2018, just days before a court decision that could lead him to jail for corruption. Lula was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for accepting a luxury apartment from a construction company involved in a wide-ranging corruption probe that uncovered a web of kickbacks, bribes and slush funds involving high-level politicians from almost every party and throughout the business world. His lawyers appealed, but the conviction was upheld unanimously in January 2018 by a regional federal court in Porto Alegre, which increased the prison term to 12 years and one month. / AFP / Itamar AGUIAR
6 / 7 TOPSHOT - A Syrian boy walk past destruction following government air strikes in the Eastern Ghouta rebel-held enclave of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 19, 2018. At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Syria's Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said. The fresh bloodshed came after a week-long lull in the bombardment of Douma after negotiations between rebels and regime-backer Russia allowed medical evacuations from the town. / AFP / HAMZA AL-AJWEH
7 / 7 TOPSHOT - The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft is transported to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 19, 2018. The launch of the Soyuz MS-08 with the members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 55/56, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel, Richard Arnold and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is scheduled for March 21 from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome. / AFP / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO
