Week in pictures 13 Mar 2021
Here is the top news photography from the past week:
USA: Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are pictured during their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired in the United States on Sunday, March 7. It was their first sit-down appearance since leaving Britain last year. Meghan said life as a royal was so isolating and lonely at one point that she "didn't want to be alive anymore," and she described herself as the victim of an image-obsessed Buckingham Palace (Photograph Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese/Getty Images
MADRID: Musicians Albert Skuratov and Samuel Palomino play a Mozart mini-concert for Covid-19 patients at an intensive care unit in Madrid on Thursday, March 11 (Photpgraph Bernat Armangue/AP)
IRKUTSK: A hockey rink on frozen Lake Baikal in the village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye, Russia, on March 8 (Photograph Maxim Shemetov / Reuters)
NAJAF: Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of millions of Shiite Muslims, in Najaf, Iraq, on March 6. Francis held a historic meeting with Sistani and appealed for greater interfaith unity as part of his whirlwind tour of the Middle Eastern country (Photograph Vatican press office / via AFP - Getty Images)
DHARAMSALA: The Dalai Lama receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Dharamsala, India, on Saturday, March 6 (Photograph Office of the his holiness the Dalai Lama/AP)