The Moerai School choir gather as they wait to sing the national anthem and raise the national flag during a visit by French Overseas Territories Minister George Pau-Langevin on the island of Rurutu, south of Tahiti, on her first official visit to the Indian Ocean territory. GREGORY BOISSY/AFP/Getty Images The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
A woman touches a monument for victims of the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster In the coastal area of Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
People offer a silent prayer for tsunami victims at the time of the earthquake during a memorial service at the former Yuriage junior high school in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
Student protesters try to speak to their family members from a prison vehicle as they are transported to a court in Letpadan. Anxious families of scores of arrested Myanmar activists on March 11 sought news of relatives detained by police in a violent student protest crackdown, which sparked international condemnation and fears of a return to junta-era repression. Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a shopping mall in Kazan, 720 kilometers (450 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. One of Kazan’s largest shopping malls and adjoining kiosks in the city’s Kirov district have been heavily damaged by the blaze that raged for hours on Wednesday. According to local press reports, one person, a 28-year-old woman, died in the blaze, while 22 people have been burnt, most of them when trying to save their merchandise. (AP Photo/Nikolay Alexandrov)
A man runs away, in Istanbul, during clashes following a protest in memory of a teenager killed in 2013 anti-government demonstrations and whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of President. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
A Ukrainian tank sits near the town of Nikishyne, southeast of Debaltseve. The town was levelled in fighting between Ukrainian troops and soldiers of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) when the DNR made a push for Debaltseve. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images
An elderly woman wipes her eye as she stands in front of a damaged house in Nikishyne, south east of Debaltseve. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images
A man rides his motorbike down the main street of the ruined town of Nikishyne, south east of Debaltseve. JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images
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