World in focus - best photos for March 9, 2020

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

Students take part in a cultural procession to celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colours, in Kolkata. AFP

A villager with bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in South Sudan, where World Food Programme have carried out food drop. AFP

A deserted San Marco square in Venice due to coronavirus outbreak. AFP

Oregon's Taylor Chavez, left, and Minyon Moore celebrate after defeating Stanford in an NCAA college basketball game. AP

A mourner sleeps next to the fence of the crash site during a memorial service for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 Boeing 737 Max plane crash. Reuters

Migrants walk towards Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters

Spectators' seats are seen empty as sumo wrestlers hold a Dohyo ring entering ceremony at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament which is taking place behind closed doors amid the spread of coronavirus, in Osaka, western Japan. Reuters

British art group "Sand In Your Eye" shows an aerial view taken above Hebden Bridge, , north England, of a 60m portrait of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. AFP

An indigenous woman takes part in a march during the International Women's Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters

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