March 12, 2015

New South Korean military officers attend the joint commissioning ceremony of 6,478 new military officers of the army, navy, air force and marines at the military headquarters in Gyeryong, south of Seoul.

Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, chats to cast members Sopie McShera, left, and Lesley Nicol during an official visit to the set of the TV series Downton Abbey at Ealing Studios in London.

The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Police officers respond to a fellow officer hit by gunfire outside the Ferguson Police Headquarters in Ferguson, Missouri. Two police officers were shot in what officials called an ambush following months of tensions over relations between police and minority groups in the St. Louis suburb.

Relatives weep as they bury a loved one suspected of dying from the Ebola virus at a new graveyard on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, March 11, 2015.

An Iraqi Army armored vehicle prepares to attack Islamic State extremists in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

A staffmember looks at a selection of dresses from Alexander McQueen's 'Plato's Atlantis' 2010 Spring/Summer collection at the Alexander McQueen exhibition 'Savage Beauty' at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.

A balloon depicting Vincent van Gogh flies over the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin mosque during the Hot Air Balloon festival in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Chinese hostesses, who serve the delegates of the National People's Congress, jump as they pose for photographs on Tiananmen Square during a plenary session of the NPC held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

A shower runs continuously on Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11, 2015. A historic drought making taps run dry across southeastern Brazil, particularly in South America’s largest city of Sao Paulo, has people worried they might be asked to cut down on their beloved showers.