The Observer's 20 photographs of the week

A newlywed woman waits with a wooden stick at the doorstep of her house in Barsana, 115km from New Delhi. In Indian mythology, Barsana is the hometown of Radha, consort of Krishna, and during the Lathmar Holi festival the women of the village beat the men from nearby Nandgaon, the hometown of Krishna, with wooden sticks in response to their teasing Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

A man walks among lightbulbs filled with water as part of the exhibition Lagrimas de Sao Pedro (Tears of Saint Peter) by Brazilian artist Vinicius Silva, at a cultural centre in Rio de Janeiro. The artist used six thousand lightbulbs to create the idea of rain, showing the relationship between peasants and rain after singing and praying for Saint Peter to cry Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

A Syrian shepherd tends his flock near the ruins of the ancient Roman city of of Serjilla, in the northwestern province of Idlib Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

A disabled man begs in Bangkok's shopping district in Thailand Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

A man sleeps among his belongings retrieved from a collapsed dwelling in Daoxian, China. Three people were killed and about 50 injured after a tornado struck Hunan province Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

A model undergoes preparations backstage before the presentation of Brazilian designer Fernanda Yamamoto's summer 2013/2014 collection during São Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters

Achilles, a shoemaker, works in his shop in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Acrobats of the Chinese National Circus perform a new programme, Feng Shui Life Harmony, in Brno, Czech Republic Photograph: Radek Mica/AFP/Getty Images

Six mug shots of Lindsay Lohan provided by law enforcement agencies from over the years during her brushes with the law.
Top row: 24 July 2007, 15 November 2007, 20 July 2010.
Bottom row: 24 September 2010, 19 October 2011 and 19 March 2013 Photograph: Handout/Reuters

An Afghan refugee boy watches chickens feeding on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest refugee population in the world, according to the UN refugee agency Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP

An aerial view of the diplomatic area in Doha, Qatar Photograph: Fadi Al-assaad/Reuters

Huddersfield Giants' Jermaine McGillvary feels the pinch during the rugby league match against Warrington Wolves in Warrington, England Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images

Civilians take cover during an airstrike by the regime in the Al Sukary district of Aleppo, Syria
Photograph: Sebastiano Tomada/Sipa USA/Rex Features

The last day of the Las Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain. The festival celebrates the arrival of spring with fireworks, fiestas and bonfires made from large puppets, known as ninots Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images

Ronnie Biggs (in a wheelchair) at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds, 'mastermind' of the 1963 Great Train Robbery, in Smithfield, London Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian

A boy sorts fish, known as pepesca or ejote, after fishing on Lake Ilopango on the outskirts of San Salvador, capital of El Salvador Photograph: Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters

Acrobats perform with elephants during a rehearsal for the new show of Swiss National-Circus Knie in Rapperswil, east of Zurich Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Kariya Mohamed Abbakar, a woman from Jebel Saiey in North Darfur, giving water to her child in her shelter at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons in El-Fasher. The picture was released by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images

President Barack Obama speaks during the welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv, Israel Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

A man walks through the Tiergarten after a fresh snow in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP