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Friday, 13 March 2015
THE WORLD IN PICTURES
Police in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year. are on high alert after two officers suffered "very serious gunshot injuries" during a demonstration after the resignation of the town's police chief, which followed a report alleging racial bias in his department.
Iraqi government forces continued their advance into Tikrit on several fronts, forcing Islamic State militants to fall back to the city centre, reports said. The battle for Tikrit is being led with about 3,000 soldiers making a final push for the city, backed by 20,000 Popular Mobilisation militiamen and a much smaller force of Sunni tribesmen.
Iraq's first Christian-only brigade of regular forces has graduated. Its brief is to help retake the community's towns and villages from Islamic State militants. Fighters performed exercises in front of Kurdish and Assyrian officials in the north-western town of Fishkhabur, near the borders with Syria and Turkey.
A British military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone who has tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus was transferred back to the UK. He was collected at RAF Northolt and taken under motorcycle escort for specialist treatment.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, people queued for free bread distributed by pro-Russian rebels in the village of Chornukhyne near the town of Debaltseve, north-east of Donetsk.
The Soyuz capsule with International Space Station (ISS) crew members, Barry Wilmore of the US, along with Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Russia, descends before landing in Kazakhstan.
DeeDee Jonrowe arrives at the Ruby, Alaska checkpoint under the Northern Lights during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Two US police officers were shot in Ferguson, the Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year. Both officers suffered "very serious gunshot injuries".
An art installation titled Hang On a Minute Lads, I've Got a Great Idea by British artist Richard Wilson is displayed on the Peninsula hotel in Hong Kong. The installation was inspired by a scene from the film The Italian Job.
Solar Impulse 2, the plane attempting to fly around the world powered only by the Sun, completed the second stage of its journey. By flying the 1,468km (just over 900 miles) from Muscat in Oman to Ahmedabad in India, it set a new record for the longest distance covered by a solar-powered plane.
IYOLWA health clinic in Uganda had no running water, a ceiling on the verge of collapse and inadequate equipment..