past and future -- Reuters photos

A boy comforts a crying girl during a special prayer for the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

 

 

An Ukrainian soldier stands near an armored personnel carrier at a checkpoint near the village of Salkovo, in Kherson region adjacent to Crimea, March 18, 2014. The words on his arm read as: "If you want peace, prepare for war".
REUTERS/Viktor Gurniak

 

 

 

 

(If war is allowed to become the antithesis of peace, how peaceful could anything actually be?)

Restoration workers peel off loose gold foil as part of a restoration project for an 800-year-old Thousand-Hand Guanyin Buddhist statue on Mount Baoding in Chongqing municipality, China March 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer

 

 

Fishermen arrange their fishing net as the sun sets on Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai March 18, 2014.
REUTERS/Babu