[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Image highlights from around the world

ART OF THE MATTER: An employee poses next to prints of Jim Dine’s “Drag: Johnson and Mao” (R) and Andy Warhol’s “Mao” at the exhibition “The American Dream: pop to the present” at the British Museum in London, March 6, 2017, Reuters/UNI

BUSY DAY: Woman working at an aluminum factory a day ahead the world is ready to celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’, in Agartala on Tuesday, Reuters/UNI

EGG-CELLENT: An Afghan boy selling boiled eggs waits for customers at a coal dump site on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Reuters/UNI

MASSACRED: Thai forensic experts work near confiscated elephant tusks, coming from Malawi, after a news conference at the Customs of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Reuters/UNI

LET’S BEGIN: Vice President M Hamid Ansari at the opening ceremony of 20th Indian Ocean Rim Association Leaders’ Summit, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday. President of Indonesia Joko Widodo and other leaders are also seen, UNI

HARD TIMES: Iraqi Special Forces stand guard while displaced Iraqis flee their homes, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, Reuters/UNI

LET ME TAKE A SELFIE: A group of women who arrived to collect their award ahead of upcoming Women’s Day take a picture of themselves outside the Great Hall of the People where sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) are taking place, in Beijing, Reuters/UNI

ALIVE AND KICKING: Three over-100-year-old women—101-year-old Sophia Smith (L) 101-year-old Lucille Price (C) and 102-year-old Marie Baker (R)—cut a cake at a birthday celebration for the three residents of Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, March 6, 2017, Reuters/UNI

JUMP OF FURY: Students of St Maaz High Girls School display self defence and martial art skills after their training at Vovinam, a Vietnamese martial art institute, on the eve of International Women’s Day, at their school at Saidabad in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Reuters/UNI

HELPING HAND: Blind candidates appear in Maharashtra SSC Board Examination, at Blind Relief Association’s, Mundle English Medium School in Nagpur on Tuesday, Reuters/UNI
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