The Week in Pictures: March 4 - 11

A man offers a rose to a woman to mark International Women's Day in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 8.

Two men walk past the headquarters of the German postal and logistics group Deutsche Post in Bonn on March 9.

Family members attend the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Kielin T. Dunn of Chesapeake, Va., on March 4 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Dunn was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan. He was part of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

A red sky hovers over the German-Polish border river Oder in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, March 7. The river was at a high-water mark and overflowed its banks.

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.

Balloons fly as Iraqi Shiite Muslims free pigeons while holding Arabic signs reading "We are coming" on March 5 in Sadr City during the inauguration ceremony of a renovated mural bearing the portraits of Shiite clerics Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr, left, and Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr. Iraqis went to the polls on March 7 to vote in an election that could turn the page on years of deadly sectarian strife.

A daughter of a worker rests at a brick factory in La Paz Centro, about 40 miles west of Managua, Nicaragua, on March 8. Around 50 laborers work in the factory and earn about $8 a day.

U.S. Army Pvt. Ryan Folan, center, 21, from Boston, with B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, plays ball with his comrades in Mosul, north of Baghdad, on March 7. The soldiers were on standby to help provide security in Mosul during Iraq's national election.

An elderly resident of Florence, Italy, wraps herself up against freezing temperatures and heavy snow on March 9.

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 person walks on the pier in Collioure, southen France, as heavy snow falls on March 8.

A man performs with a lasso during the start of the Corona Rally Mexico 2010, in Guanajuato, Mexico, March 4.

A mass pileup of cars at the Autobahn 93 freeway near Schwandorf, Germany, on March 6. More than 40 cars and trucks crashed into each other on the icy freeway.

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.

Demonstrators clash with riot police amid tear gas in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on March 5. Greece has frozen pensions and raised taxes in a frantic bid to persuade its EU partners and the markets that it can dodge bankruptcy.

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.