The 17-year-old Farhana Islam of Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Maryland, demonstrates with other high-school students outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with the word enough written across her face during a walkout protest over a lack of U.S. federal-government action and legislation on gun violence and school shootings on March 14, 2019. #

Young demonstrators hold placards and shout slogans as they participate in a protest against climate change on March 15, 2019, in Athens, Greece, on a global day of student protests aiming to push world leaders into action on climate change. The worldwide protests were inspired by the Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who camped out in front of Parliament in Stockholm last year to demand action from world leaders on global warming. #

Hannah Adye of Auckland competes in the women's pole vault under-20 final during the New Zealand Track and Field Championships at Nga Puna Wai in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 10, 2019. #

In this photo of the performance-art piece Levitation, created by the Los Angeles–based French-American artist Joséphine Wister Faure, a woman appears to levitate above a bed on the shores of the Salton Sea in Bombay Beach, California, on March 10, 2019. The site-specific piece was created for the 2019 Bombay Beach Biennale. #

A woman wearing a traditional dress walks along a street during voting for the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 10, 2019. North Koreans went to the polls for an election in which there could be only one winner. #

Keon Broxton of the New York Mets crashes into a wall as he attempts to catch a fly ball against the Boston Red Sox in the sixth inning of a Grapefruit League spring-training game at JetBlue Park at Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 9, 2019. #

Hudson Yards, with Vessel, is seen prior to the Hudson Yards grand-opening event in New York City on March 14, 2019. With an arts center, posh stores, über-expensive apartments, and lots of controversy, the largest privately funded real-estate development in U.S. history opened on March 15 in Manhattan. It's in a place called Hudson Yards, and it took seven years and a cool $16 billion to build. #

Russia's Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft—carrying the members of International Space Station Expedition 59/60, the NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch and Nick Hague, and the Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin—blasts off to the ISS from the launchpad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 14, 2019. #

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter watches illumination rounds light up Baghouz, Syria, as the last pocket of Islamic State militants is attacked on March 12, 2019. #

A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces fires a machine gun in position in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, outside the Islamic State's embattled holdout of Baghouz, on March 11, 2019. Kurdish-led forces pounded the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State in eastern Syria after hundreds of people surrendered. #

Armed police maintain a presence outside the Masjid Ayesha mosque in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019. Four people are in custody following shootings at two mosques in Christchurch this afternoon, and the number of fatalities has yet to be confirmed. #

Religious supporters walk across the embers of a large fire at the Mount Takao Hiwatari fire-walking festival. Mount Takao is close to Tokyo, and this well-known festival attracts a large crowd of worshippers and tourists. A large pyre is built on the grounds of Yuki-ji Temple, and after it has been burned, Yamabushi (mountain monks) and practitioners of the Shugendo sect of the Buddhist religion walk over the still-smoldering embers in a purifying ritual. #

Thick ice slabs litter yards and roads in Fremont, Nebraska, on March 14, 2019, after the ice-covered Platte River flooded its banks. Evacuations forced by flooding have occurred in several eastern-Nebraska communities. #

People take part in a festive activity outside Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 2019, during a celebration of Maslenitsa, also known as Pancake Week, a pagan holiday marking the end of winter. #

A Malian student holds a sign reading "We want to study" in Bamako on March 14, 2019, during a protest demanding the interruption of a school strike that has been ongoing for 90 days. #

An Ethiopian relative of a plane-crash victim throws dirt in her own face after realizing that nothing physical is left of her loved one, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, southeast of Addis Ababa, on March 14, 2019. She was mourning at the scene where an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday, killing all 157 on board. #

A woman holds children's hands near a pedestrian crossing as they look at newly installed ground-level crosswalk lights in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 14, 2019. The new lights are meant to assist pedestrians distracted by looking down at their smartphone. #

A little girl stands inside a plastic barrel while her family waits to collect water from an open pipe above the Guaire River during rolling blackouts, which affected the water pumps in people's homes, offices, and stores, in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 11, 2019. #

Divers look at works during an underwater-photography exhibition in a pool in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on March 13, 2019. The exhibition showed photographs by Fujian recreational-diving-association members from seven years of diving activities in the Arctic Circle. #