Stunning photos from the week gone by

We bring you a collection of some of the best photographs taken in the week gone by.

A girl uses a welding mask to view a partial solar eclipse from Bradgate Park in Newtown Linford, central England. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

A girl plays with a toy gun during celebrations for Afghan New Year (Newroz) in Kabul on Saturday. Afghanistan uses the Persian calendar which runs from the vernal equinox. The calendar takes as its start date the time when the Prophet Mohammad moved from Mecca to Medina in 621 AD. The current Persian year is 1394. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

US First Lady Michelle Obama beats a Japanese traditional taiko drum with members from Akutagawa High School Taiko Club in front of the main gate as she visits Fushimi Inari Shinto Shrine in Kyoto, western Japan. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters

Wechpa Rowland, dressed in a buffalo costume, waits for the Grand Entry at the Denver March Powwow in Denver March 20, 2015. The annual event attracts almost 100 Native American tribes with over 1,000 Indian dancers. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

A soldier walks past graffiti depicting angel wings by artist Colette Miller in Ciudad Juarez. Photograph: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

Orthodox nuns watch firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the bell tower of Novodevichy monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in Moscow. Photograph: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters

Kazakhs herd their sheep in Yili, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Around 400,000 livestock in Yili started the 10-day trip to their spring pasture at the end of winter, according to local media. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

A member of the Iraqi security forces stands between Islamic State ammunition being displayed in al-Alam Salahuddin province. Iraq paused its Tikrit offensive and officials called for more air strikes against IS militants. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

People do morning exercises on a polluted day in Jiaozuo, Henan province. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

Fadila Efendic touches the gravestones of her son and husband at the Potocari genocide memorial centre near Srebrenica. Fadila lost her son and husband in the massacre. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/ Reuters

A child waits to receive a polio vaccination during an anti-polio campaign on the outskirts of Jalalabad. Photograph: Parwiz/Reuters

A total solar eclipse is seen in Longyearbyen on Svalbard. A partial eclipse was visible on Friday, the first day of northern spring, across parts of Africa, Europe and Asia. The total eclipse of the sun was only visible in the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. Photograph: Jon Olav Nesvold/Reuters

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