Whitney Barron greets Chrystall Cooper during the annual Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia, on March 2, 2019. It is the first time the charity Haka for Life has had a float in the parade. The float is designed like a Waka canoe, which is significant in Maori culture, and has the theme of "One Waka, One Love, We’re All in the Same Boat Together." Haka for Life is an organization focused on men's health, well-being, and suicide prevention in the Maori community. The organization believes that there is a stigma in Maori warrior culture that implies that people who identify as LGBTQ are not warriors. The Sydney Mardi Gras parade began in 1978 as a commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York. The annual event promotes the awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and themes. #

A feminist activist shouts into a microphone during a rally for gender equality and women's rights in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 8, 2019, as International Women's Day is celebrated around the world. #

Kong and cast members bow during curtain call as the mayor's office honors King Kong with a mayoral message and ceremonial street renaming at the Broadway Theatre in New York City on March 6, 2019. #

The 6-year-old Joan Stiltner of Chicago helps hold a ball for the Chicago White Sox left fielder Joel Booker to autograph before the team's spring-training baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Glendale, Arizona, on March 7, 2019. #

An artwork by the British artist Damien Hirst titled The Incomplete Truth—made of glass, painted aluminum, silicone, acrylic, stainless steel, dove, and formaldehyde solution, and owned by the late British vocalist George Michael—is displayed during a press preview at Christie's auction house in London on March 8, 2019. #

A car drives along a five-kilometer-long road, which is supervised by regional traffic services and connects the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River during the winter season, south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on March 7, 2019. #

The eagle mascot of the Lazio soccer team flies over the Olympic Stadium in Rome prior to the Italian Serie A soccer match between S.S. Lazio and A.S. Roma on March 2, 2019. #

A Balinese man reacts as he is hit with flaming coconut leaves during the firefight ritual called "Lukat Gni" before Nyepi in Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia, on March 6, 2019. #

President Donald Trump welcomes the 2018 NCAA FCS college-football champions, the North Dakota State Bison, to the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., with McDonald's and Chick-fil-A fast food on March 4, 2019. #

Yuto Totsuka of Japan takes a practice run before the start of the snowboard-halfpipe qualifiers at the 2019 U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain in California on March 7, 2019. #

Ana Peleteiro of Spain is photographed on her way to winning gold in the women's triple-jump final during day three of the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships at Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 3, 2019. #

Lucas Romero right of Brazil's Cruzeiro fights for the ball with Iván Javier Rossi of Argentina's Huracán in a downpour during a Copa Libertadores soccer game in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 7, 2019. #

The jockey Harry Kimber is momentarily trapped under his mount, West Chinnock, after a fall (both the horse and jockey were okay) at the last hurdle at Wincanton Racecourse in England on March 7, 2019. #

Jeff Dahl races down Harrison Avenue while the skier Vincent Pestello loses control in the first jump of the skijoring course at the 71st annual Leadville Ski Joring weekend competition in Leadville, Colorado, on March 2, 2019. Skijoring, which has its origins as a competitive sport in Scandinavia, has been adapted over the years to include jumps, slalom gates, and spearing rings for points. Leadville has been hosting skijoring competitions since 1949. #

A journalist live-streams using multiple devices outside the Great Hall of the People, where a session of the National People's Congress was being held, in Beijing, China, on March 8, 2019. #

The former NBA basketball player Yao Ming, a delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), towers over other delegates as they arrive at the Great Hall of the People to attend the opening session of the CPPCC in Beijing on March 3, 2019. #

Members of the Black Mohawks Mardi Gras Indians "mask" in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 5, 2019. Part of Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans involves dozens of neighborhood tribes of Mardi Gras Indians "masking," or parading, in the streets. #

The Orpheus Leviathan float, with smoke and fiber-optic lights, rolls down Napoleon Avenue in the 2019 Krewe of Orpheus parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 4, 2019. #

In Caracas, Venezuela, relatives of a patient walk in the darkened hall of a clinic with candles lighting the way during a power outage on March 7, 2019. A power outage left much of Venezuela in the dark early Thursday evening, in what appeared to be one of the largest blackouts yet in a country where power failures have become increasingly common. #