Monday, March 3, 2014

The day's news in pictures: March 3 2014

3 Mar 2014 16:51

The day’s biggest stories from the UK and around the world in pictures




The Soweto Gospel Choir perform in Westminster Abbey in London during a memorial service for the former South African president Nelson Mandela


Pro-Russian troops controlled a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Ukraine's Crimea region close to Russia on Monday, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the strategic Black Sea region in its tense dispute with its Slavic neighbor.


The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius trial has testified to hearing “blood-curdling” screams from a woman before she heard four gunshots on the night the double-amputee Olympian killed his girlfriend.


There were protests outside Belfast Coroner's Court at the start of a new inquest into the deaths of 10 people shot dead by British soldiers in west Belfast in 1971.


Prince Harry, Prime Minister David Cameron and anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu led nearly 2,000 people at a memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela.




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