Photo highlights of the day

Blasé about the blaze: a soldier jumps through a ring of fire during a tactical training mission in Heihe, China. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

People rescue a horse from a pit in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. The horse was rescued after a two-hour operation. Photograph: AP

Volunteers measure a 2-year-old child suffering from malnutrition in a food distribution centre in a camp for internally displaced people in Tawila, north Darfur. Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images

Spring sunshine in front of HMS Belfast on the River Thames in central London. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

People attend a pro-Ukrainian rally in Simferopol, Ukraine. Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

First one to be spotted is Mabel the Harlequin Great Dane, wearing a onesie, on the first day of The Kennel Club's Crufts dog show at the NEC in Birmingham. See more in the gallery. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for The Guardian

It’s all about the accessories: A woman pushes a dog in a pram during the first day of Crufts. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

People walk underneath a hanging effigy depicting a Cuban doctor in a protest against Venezuelan government in Caracas. Photograph: Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images

A newborn baby hippopotamus stands next to its parents at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

A Syrian refugee woman looks out from a window with no glass, in a house in Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph: Gurcan Ozturk/AFP/Getty Images

Bottle it on stage? Dancer Nadia Beugre wearing plastic bottles during the African Performing Arts Market festival in the Ivory Coast. Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images

Time for a trim? A carnival reveller takes part in the 'les pailhasses', in the streets of Cournonterral, France. The event is held according to a tradition that exists since 1346 and represents an old war between the two villages of Cournonterral and Aumelas. Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA

By a nose: Carol Double hangs on to a horse at Nick Gifford's Downs Stables in Findon, UK. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

The son of a shop owner walks past air rifles on display in Cipacing, Indonesia. The small village is known for its gunsmiths make thousands of air rifles annually with most of them made in small back garden operations. Photograph: Ed Wray/Getty Images

Connect with your audience: Singer Charlotte Church performs her new EP 'Four' with a UV light show complete with futuristic costumes controlled by the audience, London. Photograph: Getty Images

Pro-Russian activists detain a member of the feminist group FEMEN protesting against Putin's policy concerning Ukraine near the Crimean parliament in Simferopol, Ukraine. Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

A young boy views an art installation during the I Light Marina Bay Festival in Singapore. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media

Venezuelan National Guard members arrest opposition activists during a protest against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images

Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan show their support as he addresses a rally of his Justice and Development Party in Malatya, Turkey. Turkey hold nationwide municipality elections on March 30, 2014. Photograph: Burhan Ozbilici/AP

Dame Kiri te Kanawa celebrates her 70th birthday on stage, following a performance in the role of La Duchesse de Crackentorp in Donizetti's La Fille du regiment, at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

A Syrian man holds a crying girl after being caught in an air strike by government forces on the Sahour neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Photograph: Fadi Al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images

Blue on Blue in Lisbon: Portuguese riot police officers guard the Portuguese parliament against a demonstration by thousands of Portuguese policemen and other security forces against salary cuts and general austerity measures. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP