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LAST WEEK IN PICTURES
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Giant leap for mankind

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner prepares for a jump during the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos on March 15 over Roswell, N.M. In this test he reached an altitude of 71,500 feet, stepped out of a custom-buit capsule and plummeted to Earth in a freefall. He deployed his parachute at 7,890 feet and landed safely about 30 miles from Roswell. Baumgartner is gearing up for an even bigger leap for the ambitious Red Bull Stratos mission — his so-called "space jump" — from 120,000 feet this summer.   

Miracle mud

A believer asking for a miracle emerges from the mud at "El Pozito" in El Espinazo, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico, on March 19. Thousands of believers took part in a procession along the town of El Espinazo to ask for miracles from Nino Fidencio, a famous Mexican "curandero" (folk healer). Nino Fidencio, well-known for performing painless operations without anesthesia, died in 1938. 

Shaken up

People run to safety on the streets of Mexico City after a strong quake hit Mexico on March 20 

Holding on

Army 2nd Lt. Brendan Kasony and his wife Joyce say their goodbyes with other members of the 119th Inland Cargo Transfer Company at the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, March 20, in Virginia Beach, Va. The company is leaving for Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment. 

Victim of Violence

The body of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler lies in a hearse at the cemetery during his funeral in Jerusalem, March 21. Sandler and three children were gunned down at a Jewish school in France. The victims were buried in a Jerusalem cemetery. A 23-year-old man blamed for the slayings died in a hail of bullets on March 22 as he scrambled out of a ground-floor window during a gunbattle with police in Toulouse, France. 

                                                      

Hard Labor
A sandstorm rages as Iraqi men move newly dried bricks at a small factory in Maysan, 250 miles south of the capital Baghdad, on March 18.  

                                                    
Off to market

 A farmer carries cucumbers from his field to sell in the markets in the northern Indian city of Allahabad on March 22. India's inflation rose faster-than-expected in February, due in part to a spike in vegetable prices.

                                                   

Rebel refuge

A rebel with the Free Syrian Army finds refuge in an old 


storehouse in the mountains close to Al-Janoudia village, in 


Idlib province in northern Syria, on March 17. The revolt 




against President Bashar al-Assad's regime has been going 


for a year.

Devastating mistake

Huang Sufang weeps as a relative holds her after a part of


 her house was mistakenly taken down by demolition 

workers at Yangji village in central Guangzhou city, 


Guangdong province,China, March 21. Huang's home was 


not supposed to be included in the demolition project.

 People hold French and Israeli flags as they attend a silent march in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims killed by a gunman in Toulouse. The killings were carried out with the same heavy calibre .45 automatic pistol that was used in two attacks that murdered three soldiers of North African and Caribbean origin in the region last week. In all three incidents the lone gunman arrived and escaped on a dark-coloured high-powered scooter.

Sources:TZMPAKAAU and MSNBC