Picture the Day

Students place candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany, on Wednesday, a day after 16 school children and two teachers were among the 150 victims that died in the Germanwings plane crash in the French alps on the way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Picture: AP

The flags of (from left) Aragon, Spain and the European Union are lowered to half-mast at the Regional Assembly of Aragon in Zaragoza, Spain, on Wednesday - a sign of respect for the victims of the German plane crash in the French Alps the previous day. Picture: EPA

Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito arrives at Italy's highest court building, in Rome on Wednesday5. American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend expect to learn their fate when the court hears their appeal of their guilty verdicts in the brutal 2007 murder of Knox's British roommate. Picture: AP

A Soyuz rocket is rolled out to its launch pad by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Expedition 43 prime crew Nasa Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station ISS on 28 March. Picture: EPA

24/03/2015 Durban new up grade on Elephants Sculpture on Warwick Avenue in Market. PICTURE: SIBUSISO NDLOVU

Neason Kistan, a visitor to Ballito's Flag Animal Farm, meets Squeaker the mongoose. A band of mongooses is grabbing the attention of visitors to the Flag Animal Farm in Ballito. In January, Squeaker the mongoose was found abandoned in the Ballito area by a visitor and taken to the farm. Picture: ND Digital 7Hotography

A little girl carries a quilt at a refugee camp at Myanmar's border town with China. Picture: Reuters

Student leaders of Taiwan's "Sunflower Movement" Lin Fei-fan (right) and Chen Wei-ting speak to reporters on Wednesday. Anti-China activists told the court that their weeks-long protest campaign last year saved the island from further economic colonisation by Beijing, in defence statements given at the start of their trial on Wednesday. Picture: Reuters

Hindu devotees worship inside Alopidevi temple during the nine days long "Navratri" festival, in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The festival ends on March 29. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Part of the skeleton of an Egyptian woman whom Egyptian authorities say shows the world's oldest evidence of breast cancer. A team from a Spanish university discovered the 4 200-year-old skeleton of an adult woman. Her remains were discovered in the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa, west of the southern city of Aswan. Picture: Reuters

Plum blossoms are in full bloom in Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Picture: EPA

Tourists walk past a graffiti on a gate of an abandoned mall in a popular tourist area in Bangkok. The Thai economy was expected to grow more than three percent in the first quarter of 2015, boosted by a recovering tourism sector, increased private consumption and accelerated government spending. Picture: EPA

Women who survived a Boko Haram occupation in Damasak, Nigeria. Picture: Reuters

A helicopter of the French Gendarmerie takes off in a search and rescue operation in Syne Les Alpes on Wednesday. Search crews planned to resume helicopter flights around dawn to the remote mountainside in southern France where Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf crashed after a rapid descent, likely killing all 150 people aboard on Tuesday. Picture: EPA