The Week in Pictures: March 19 - 26, 2015 - NBC News

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A solar eclipse is seen above the neutral waters of the Norwegian Sea on March 20, 2015. Sky-gazers looked up in awe Friday as the moon blocked the sun in a total solar eclipse that momentarily darkened a slice of northern Europe.





Thick smoke billows into the sky as firefighters respond to an explosion and partial building collapse in a residential and commercial mixed use multi-story structure in Manhattan, New York City on March 26. Initial reports indicate multiple people have been injured in the explosion and collapse.





A firefighter removes a family portrait from a house that a school bus crashed into at the Windermere Development in Blue Bell, Penn. on March 24. The school bus carrying nine elementary school students careened off the road and crashed into an occupied home in suburban Philadelphia home on Tuesday, and no injuries were reported, police said.





People remove mud and rocks from their house after a massive landslide in Chosica, Peru on March 24. Seven people were killed and more were feared dead in Peru after a massive landslide buried parts of a town amid heavy rains. Six were missing and 25 injured in the disaster in Chosica, about 18.6 miles east of Lima, said Alfredo Murgueytio, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute, Indeci.





A skier threads his way through patches of dry ground at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, Calif. on March 21. Many Tahoe-area ski resorts have closed due to low snowfall as California's historic drought continues.





The sun sets as water birds fly near Red Hill Marina at the Salton Sea, Calif. on March 19. California's largest lake is facing major environmental problems with a decreasing water level, increasing salinity and algae issues.





A Balinese man kicks up the fire during the "Mesabatan Api" ritual ahead of Nyepi Day on March 20, in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Mesabatan Api symbolizes the purification of universe and human body through fire. Nyepi is a Hindu celebration observed every New Year according to the Balinese calendar.





Search and rescue teams attend to the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus in the French Alps on March 25, near Seyne, France. All 150 passengers and crew are thought to have died.





The Dongfeng Race Team face strong winds and deep waves as they sail towards Itajai, Brazil on March 23, during the fifth leg of the 12th running of Volvo Ocean Race. This ocean marathon started in Alicante, Spain last October and spans 39,379 nautical miles.





An ultra-Orthodox Jew stands near the graves of seven Jewish siblings killed in a New York house fire ahead of their burial in Jerusalem on March 23. The seven children from the Orthodox Jewish family died early on Saturday when flames ripped through their Brooklyn home in one of New York City's deadliest fires in years, officials said.





A Kurdish Syrian woman sweeps away the debris from what is left of a destroyed building in town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 24. Islamic State fighters were driven out of Kobane on Jan. 26, by Kurdish and allied forces.





A man carrying a sailfish walks through Hamarweyne district in South Mogadishu on March 25.