The riotous celebrations involve throwing coloured powders at friends and family, giving the holiday its popular name Festival of Colours.
Up to 2,000 workers have walked out in a row over the future role of rail guards.
Celebrated on 17 March, St Patrick's Day recognises the arrival of Christianity and Irish culture.
Sources tell IBTimes UK that drivers are expected to back the industrial action in 'career block' row.
These portraits will inspire people to give to the abbey's first public appeal in 30 years to raise funds for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
The sixth anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated swathes of Japan on 11 March 2011.
First held in 1891, Crufts is said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, with thousands of dogs taking part each year.
The animals descended from the mountains and invaded residential areas after people were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe.
The famous natural rock arch was one of Malta's most popular tourist sites.
The evacuation order for several towns in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is set to be lifted on 31 March.
Event takes places a few days before the main Hindu festival of Holi; known as the festival of colour, it begins on 12 March this year and ends the following night.
The competition is held in conjunction with World Wildlife Day on 3 March of which the theme is 'Listen to the Young Voices'.
Mardi Gras – or Fat Tuesday – sees devotion to frivolity and partying in the final hours before Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent.
The upper level of a huge float collapsed during the second night of Rio de Janeiro's world famous carnival parade, injuring at least 12 people.
'Ash Monday' or 'Clean Monday' celebrations are a way of using up leftover flour before the fasting period begins.
A selection of shortlisted images in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017.
The Sony World Photography Awards represents the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the last year, and displays a huge diversity of extraordinary images in terms of genres, styles and subject matter.
Here are some of the best pictures of political floats during carnival parades across Germany:
Paraiso de Tuiuti float crashed into a fence that separates the stands from the pavement, injuring spectators, revellers and journalists.
A spokesperson for the Mayor of London accused the Conservatives of 'more desperate nonsense'.
Latest negotiations between the parties come after the drivers rejected a deal from the company.
Union negotiator tells IBTimes UK that Tube bosses were 'not prepared to compromise'.
Venice's ancient carnival was revived in 1979 and it is now seen as a good excuse to don a mask and costume and parade around the city.
Union claims Underground bosses are 'blatantly' discriminating against part-time operators.
Jim Watson is travelling along the US side of the border, while his colleague Guillermo Arias is making the same journey on the Mexican side.
It was not clear if the former abbot, 72-year-old Phra Dhammachayo, was inside Thailand's biggest Buddhist temple.
Industrial action announcement comes after peace talks at mediation service Acas broke down.
Armed cattle herders from rival tribes destroy fences around wildlife conservancies and kill wild animals so their livestock can graze.
Drivers have been asked to take the industrial action from 21:00 on Tuesday 21 February.
French diver Gabriel Barathieu has been named as this year's winner, triumphing over 4500 underwater pictures entered from 67 different countries.