Monday’s Pictures in the News begin in Libya, where the bombing campaign by the U.S. and its allies has targeted Moammar Kadafi’s air and ground forces. In Ajdabiyah, a rebel fighter points his gun at a suspected Kadafi supporter as other rebels try to intervene; Libyan rebels carry an injured comrade; and foreign evacuees who fled unrest in Libya take refuge at a camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir.
In Japan, rescue workers make their way through a sea of debris as they search for victims of a tsunami in devastated Rikuzentakat; a teenager carries her young sister while searching for names of 20 missing high school friends at a shelter; and an elephant dances with volunteers to raise money for earthquake and tsunami victims on Khao San Road, an area popular with backpackers in Bangkok.
Among other featured images: Hasidic Jews celebrating the holiday of Purim in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood; a man celebrates the “Festival of Scrambled Eggs” by jumping into the Bosna River, a traditional way of marking the first day of spring in Bosnia; and a man who lost relatives in Haiti’s January 2010 earthquake visits the mass grave site in Titanyen, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.