The day in pictures

March 24, 2024 : French Felix Lebrun serves to French Simon Gauzy during the men's single semi-final table tennis match in the France 2024 Championship at FDI Stadium in Montpellier, southern France.

March 23, 2024: This photograph taken in Paris, on shows the Eiffel tower with the lights off during the Earth Hour environmental campaign.

March 23, 2024 : A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on its 6-42 Mission. The rocket launched at 11:09 p.m.

March 22, 2024 : Northwestern Wildcats guard Brooks Barnhizer dives into the scorer's table against the Florida Atlantic Owls in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament at the Barclays Center.

March 21, 2024 : Hundreds migrants line up on the border wall after they breached barriers set up by the Texas National Guard on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas. The migrants were hoping to be processed by Border Patrol.

March 21, 2024: The moon rises behind a crane at a construction site in Rome, Italy March 21, 2024.

March 20, 2024: Fishing boats sailing around Shenjiamen Fishing Port during sunset in Zhoushan, in eastern China's Zhejiang province.

March 20, 2024: A woman carrying a child runs from the area after gunshots were heard in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Negotiations to form a transitional council to govern Haiti advanced on March 20, as the United States airlifted more citizens to safety from gang violence that has plunged the impoverished country into chaos.

March 20, 2024: US President Joe Biden arrives with union members to speak after touring Intel's Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona. The White House unveiled almost $20 billion in new grants and loans Wednesday to support Intel's US chip-making facilities, marking the Biden administration's largest funding announcement yet as it tackles China's dominance of the crucial technology.

March 19, 2024: A man carries a plastic bucket across the cracked bed of a dried-up pond in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province. Every day, farmer Nguyen Hoai Thuong prays in vain for rain to fall on the cracked, dry earth of her garden in Vietnam's Mekong Delta -- the country's "rice bowl" agricultural heartland. A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Thuong's home of Ben Tre province, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of business hub Ho Chi Minh City.

March 19, 2024: Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Montevideo, Uruguay.

March 17, 2024: Elliot Randolph, a full-time street musician, plays the violin for passersby in an effort to make some money as he sits under blooming Cherry trees near the tidal basin in Washington, DC. Washington's cherry blossoms marked the second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records.

March 17, 2024: In an aerial view, a Texas National Guard soldier stands atop a barrier of shipping containers and razor wire while guarding the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas. Texas National Guard troops have fortified the U.S.-Mexico border with a vast amount of razor wire as part of Governor Greg Abbott's "Operation Lone Star" to deter migrants from crossing into Texas. The U.S. southwestern border stretches nearly 2,000 miles, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, and is marked by fences, deserts, mountains, and the Rio Grande, which runs the entire length of Texas. The politics surrounding border and immigration issues have become dominant themes in the U.S. presidential election campaign.

March 17, 2024 : Austyn Scruggs, Alex Sutton and Josh Taylor, all sailors from NAS Jacksonville make their way down the 18th hole fairway in their St. Patrick's Day dragon costumes during the fourth and final round of The Players Championship PGA golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

March 16, 2024 : People take in the beauty of the cherry blossom trees during the annual Cherry Blossom Day at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore.

March 16, 2024 : Fans of Catholic Central High School from Latham, N.Y. cheer their team during the New York State Girls Basketball Championships in Troy, N.Y. Catholic Central captured the state title with a 64-62 win over Walter Panas of Westchester County, N.Y.

March 16, 2024: Children walk down the aisle during the St. Patrick's Day Mass on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John The Baptist in Savannah, Georgia.

March 15, 2024: Shiite Muslim pilgrims read the Koran at the Imam Hussein shrine during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karbala.

March 14, 2024: Aid shipments slated for Gaza are sniffed by a dog at the Kerem Shalom (Karm Abu Salem) border crossing amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

March 13, 2024: People watch as the US Army Corps of Engineers test spillways of the Hartwell Dam from the Hart County, Georgia side, March 13, 2024. The rare occurrence testing the hydropower dam on the Savannah River with a water release draws spectators, many who brought children on the school day for an educational look at the area lake activity. The spill, one gate at a time, lasted two hours.

March 11, 2024: A Muslim devotee offers prayers at a mosque ahead of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan in Chennai.

March 10, 2024: Women take selfies in front of a plum tree at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto.

March 11, 2024: A cow feeds on waste material at a dumping ground in Varanasi.

March 11, 2024: A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) is seen in Tortuga Bay at Santa Cruz Island, part of Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago. Greenpeace called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador's famous Galapagos archipelago.

March 10, 2024: Janet Galante, of Ocean Breeze, enjoys the Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Jensen Beach, Florida.

March 9, 2024 : Demonstrators take part in a march to mark the International Women's Day in San Salvado.

March 8, 2024: Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) gives a fan her headband during the Big Ten Women's Basketball tournament quarterfinals at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn.

March 7, 2024: President Joe Biden reacts to seeing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene while he arrives to deliver the State of the Union address to Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

March 6, 2024: Construction workers are seen working during a tour of Le Bonheur Children's Hospital's expansion in Memphis, Tenn.

March 5, 2024: A red panda at Pennsylvania's Erie Zoo watches visitors from inside its enclosure.

March 5, 2024 : BORAHansgrohe's team competes during the 3rd stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race, 26,9 km team time trial between Auxerre and Auxerre, France.

March 5, 2024 : A "Vote Here" sign is put up by an Election Official outside the El Paso County Tax Office- Eastside Annex voting polls in El Paso during Primary Election Day in Texas.

March 5, 2024 : Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army band hold their brass instruments during opening of the second session of the 14th National People's Congress at The Great Hall of People in Beijing, China.China's annual political gathering known as the Two Sessions will convene leaders and lawmakers to set the government's agenda for domestic economic and social development for the year.

March 3, 2024: Launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Crew-8 mission from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.

March 3, 2024: Riders compete in the traditional Central Asian sport of Kok-Boru (Gray Wolf) or Buzkashi (Goat Grabbing) in the village of Uch-Emchek, some 30kms from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Mounted players compete for points by throwing a stuffed sheepskin into a well.

March 3, 2024 : Competitors start the cross-country ski classics race Vasaloppet in Saelen, Sweden.

March 3, 2024 : Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark (22) reacts after breaking the NCAA basketball all-time scoring record during the second quarter against the Ohio State Buckeyes.

February 29, 2024 : A small fire burns along Highway 33 outside of Canadian Thursday as a remnant of the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Hemphill County, Texas.

February 27, 2024: A pair of red shouldered hawks perch on a snag while the moon sets behind them at Harns Marsh in Lehigh Acres in Buckingham, Fla. Harns Marsh is a storm water facility that helps filter water and reduces flooding to the Orange River.

February 26, 2024: Soldiers carry the coffin during the funeral for Sgt. Oz Daniel in Kfar Saba, Israel. The Israel Defense Forces recently announced the death of Daniel, who served in the 7th Armored Brigade's 77th Battalion, and who was previously listed as one of the hostages taken to Gaza on October 7th. New information led the IDF to confirm he was killed on Oct. 7 and his body was taken by Hamas.

February 23, 2024: Lakeland Christian soccer players celebrate after winning the Championship game at Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in Auburndale, Florida.

February 23, 2024: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis greets Florida State Troopers and National Guard members during a press conference in Pensacola, Florida. The governor was in Pensacola to announce the deployment of Florida Highway Patrol and the Guard to Texas to help secure its southern border.

February 22, 2024: Florida Atlantic Owls guard Alijah Martin (15) blocks a shot from Southern Methodist Mustangs guard Ricardo Wright (5) during the first half at Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena.

February 22, 2024: A power slam between two wrestlers during a competition at Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

February 22, 2024: A crow is silhouetted against the full moon near Kosovo's capital of Pristina.

February 22, 2024: Courtney Cirone, 41, of Marion stands outside of her home in northern Michigan where she developed a fungal disease caused by spores that are endemic in the Great Lakes region called blastomycosis and a similar fungal disease from nature, histoplasmosis. Some people breathe in these spores and are fine or some may contract cold or flu-like symptoms and get better in short order. But for others, it can be far more serious, and affect organs, bones, and especially lungs.