Events in pics

Commemorative medals featuring US President Barack Obama are seen in the Czech city of Jablonec nad Nisou ahead of a visit by Mr Obama on 4 April. Dublin dancer Rachel Devlyn poses outside the Gaiety Theatre in the Irish republic's capital for the launch of a gay theatre festival. An Iraqi investor peers at the dealing board at Baghdad's Iraq Stock Exchange, which has announced it is to introduce a computerised system to show share prices. Indian President Pratibha Patil presents the Padma Shri award to actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. Mausam Noor during an election campaign at Habibpur in her North Malda constituency US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is welcomed by Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen as she arrives at the World Forum Conference Centre in The Hague. A man wears a brain-machine interface, equipped with electroencephalography (EEG) devices and near-infrared spectroscope (NIRS) optical sensors in a special headgear to measure slight electrical current and blood flow change in the brain at Japanese auto giant Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Honda and Japan's research laboratory ATR have announced the development of a humanoid robot, Asimo, that can move its hands and legs after receiving brain activity signals from a human. A bison looks for something to eat in blowing snow at the Terry Bison Ranch south of Cheyenne. Parts of Wyoming were battered by a second snowstorm last week.