A man offers a rose to a woman to mark International Women's Day in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 8.
A worker climbs over vats, barrels and wine bottles that were toppled and damaged by a massive earthquake a week earlier, at a winery in Santa Cruz in the Colchagua Valley on March 6. Some 125 million liters of Chilean wines worth roughly $250 million were spilled during the magnitude-8.8 quake on Feb. 27 that killed hundreds of people.
The 125-foot-tall Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is surrounded by scaffolding on March 8 in preparation for a cleaning.
A Sri Lankan woman makes earthenware at a pottery factory in the Colombo suburb of Kaduwela on March 7. Sri Lanka marked International Women's Day on March 8 with official celebrations and meetings in a country where women account for about 52 percent of the population.
Clothes dry on a line outside an apartment building in the Russian enclave of Brighton Beach on March 7 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As the 2010 census count begins, neighborhoods like Brooklyn, one of the most diverse in the country, are notoriously difficult for census workers to tally. Brooklyn's population is dense and often wary of revealing ethnicity to the government for fear of immigration difficulties. The U.S. census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years.
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