THE WEEK THAT WAS IN PICTURES

A spring lamb lies down in a field covered in snow near Sidmouth in Devon, England. Many parts of the south west of England woke to higher than expected levels of overnight snowfall as winter weather returned after a recent mild spell. Although not as severe as the recent winter weather, the snow still brought disruption to the region's road and rail links

A bather walks past the 'Line in the sand' sculpture by artist John Hutchinson at the Sculpture by the Sea coastal exhibition at Cottesloe Beach in Perth, Australia. The annual exhibition features 62 sculptures this year.

An Indonesian photographer takes pictures of an Indonesian anti-terror policeman during a security drill for the next elections in Jakarta on March 4, 2009

The portrait of President Gloria Arroyo is vandalized by peasant women with mud during a protest outside the house of representatives in Quezon city in suburban Manila on March 4, 2009. 

A woman carrys her dog in the snow on the Upper East Side of New York as a massive winter storm hit the Northeast canceling hundreds of flights and making the morning rush hour difficult with up to a foot of snow in areas.

Some of the 200 whales and dolphins stranded on a beach in southern Australia. It is feared that human activity may have caused the whales and dolphins to beach

A Sri Lankan cricket team player boards a Pakistani military helicopter from the playing surface at The Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Pakistani air force helicopters evacuated the Sri Lankan cricket team, including two players on stretchers, from the stadium after a deadly ambush. Masked gunmen opened fire on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least eight people and wounding six team members, police said. Up to 12 gunmen attacked the team's convoy near the Gaddafi stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a 25-minute gunbattle with security forces