An owl looks into the camera from its cage on a sunny spring day in a park in Essen, western Germany, Wednesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Pilatus PC-9/A comes in for a landing at RAAF Base Pearce in Perth, Australia. RAAF Pearce is accommodating six nations for one of the largest maritime search operations in history to find debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ice and snow accumulate on a door at Bristol Community College as a student enters during a spring snowstorm on campus in New Bedford, Mass. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Students set fires and make barricades during the first day of a student strike to protest a government education reform and cutbacks in grants and staffing at Complutense University, in Madrid, Spain. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An Alexandria University student carries another student out of the school after she was injured during clashes between student protesters and Egyptian security forces in Alexandria, Egypt. Hundreds of largely Islamist university students in a number of universities protested Wednesday against the mass death sentences issued against more than 520 suspected supporters of President Mohammed Morsi. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Pakistani child sleeps in a hammock while his mother cooks for the family outside of their makeshift home in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man takes pictures of historic Mercedes race cars at the Techno-Classica fair for vintage automobiles in Essen, western Germany. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An ethnic Albanian woman weeps next to a coffin draped with the Albanian flag containing the remains of her relative killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war in the town of Mala Krusa. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A supporter shouts slogans at an election rally by India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Hiranagar near Jammu, India. India will hold national elections from April 7 to May 12. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS