ՕՐՎԱ ԼՈՒՍԱՆԿԱՐՆԵՐ 16 մարտի, 2016

The gantry arms close around the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft to secure the rocket, as seen in this long exposure photograph at launch pad 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 19 and will carry Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

Musician Frilal Ortiz carries a cello in downtown Havana, Cuba.

Syrian refugee girl Amna Zughayar, 9, from Deir el-Zour, Syria, poses for a picture at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. About half of the 4.8 million Syrians who fled their homeland are children, and some of the most vulnerable live in dozens of makeshift tent camps. Jordan has taken in close to 640,000 refugees. Children in these camps near the northern city of Mafraq say they miss their old lives in Syria, especially going to school.

Police and rescue personnel search a bus damaged in a bomb blast, which killed at least 15 people, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

A man carries buckets filled with water on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India.

U.S. student Otto Warmbier cries at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student, who was arrested while visiting the country,  was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for crimes against the state.

A woman strolls along an alley of plane trees in Frankfurt, Germany.

An Indian woman sun dries red chilies on the outskirts of Ahmadabad.

A model presents a creation by Jotaro Saito from the designer's Autumn/Winter 2016 collection during Tokyo Fashion Week in Japan.

Spectators watch letters being projected on the walls inside the Katharinen church as a part of the "Luminale" light show in Frankfurt, Germany, March 15, 2016.

A red postman (Heliconius erato) butterfly sits on a lantana flower at the butterfly-jungle of the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany.

Migrants line up as they disembark the German naval vessel Frankfurt Am Main in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy.

Tourists walk at a tulip garden on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.

Employees examine solar panel boards at a pond in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China.

Papier-mache pandas created by French artist Paulo Grangeon are displayed at The Golden Mount in Ayutthaya, Thailand. The event, consisting of placing 1,600 papier-mache pandas in various cities around the world in collaboration with the WWF, is aimed at raising awareness of the endangered species.