World in focus - best photos for March 6, 2019

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

Lightning strikes over Santa Barbara, California. AP Photo

The Mandalika coastal development project, which is the proposed site of a new MotoGP motorbike race on a custom-built street circuit in Mandalika in the south of Lombok, Indonesia. AFP

Farmers working in a herb field in Bozhou in China's eastern Anhui province. AFP

Revellers dance around a burning straw doll at the traditional end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday, in Cologne, Germany. AP Photo

Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan Motor Co., walks out of a Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan. Bloomberg

Kenya Airways workers are dispersed by riot police officers at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport during a labour dispute in Nairobi. Reuters

A woman looks at a view of Seoul shrouded by fine dust during a polluted day in Seoul, South Korea. Reuters

David Prince poses for a photo with his face painted for the Carnival parade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo

A boy looks at the camera near Baghouz, Syria. Reuters

A man sleeps on a bench next to a passing train at a railway station in Mumbai, India. Reuters

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