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April 01, 2013
1 Washington Nationals relief pitcher Rafael Soriano warms up before an Opening Day baseball game against the Miami Marlins in Washington D.C.
2 A riot policeman avoids petrol bombs thrown by Bahraini anti-government protesters, unseen, during clashes in Diraz, Bahrain. Clashes erupted after the funeral for Abdul Ghani al-Rayes, who relatives and activists say collapsed and died outside of a police station.
3 Venders sell newspapers to motorists that are stopped in traffic in Rangoon, Burma. For most people in Burma, it is a novelty that privately-run daily newspapers are hitting the streets. Many weren't even born when a state monopoly was imposed on the daily press in the 1960s.
4 Smoke bombs explode near South Korean army tanks during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Hwacheon, South Korea.
5 Traders are seen working below the Egyptian Exchange bell at the stock exchange in Cairo. Selling pressure from foreign investors dragged Egypt's bourse down to a near 16-week low on Sunday as the country's economic situation worsens.
6 U.S. President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughter Malia watch a game as they participate in the 135th annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.
7 Palestinian children play on the beach in Gaza City during a dust storm.
8 A Greenpeace activist, dressed as a polar bear sits on a wooden block of "ice" on the Moskva River near the Kremlin, protests against plans for oil drilling in the Arctic, in Moscow, Russia.
9 Pilgrims dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes attend the traditional Georgi horse-riding procession on Easter Monday in the southern Bavarian town of Traunstein. Since the early 16th century farmers have taken part in the pilgrimage to bless their horses.
10 A vendor selling red onions waits for customers at a market in Makassar, Indonesia. Indonesia's Inflation surged to a nearly two-year high in March. The vendor is reflected in a motorcycle's wing mirror.
11 A dancer stretches before taking part in an audition for Dani Pannullo Dance Theatre Co.'s next show called "NY Story" in Madrid. "NY Story" will open in June and is based on Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
12 Women take part in the yearly Lagos carnival parade in Nigeria, April 1, 2013. This year's Easter festival coincides with Lagos' yearly carnival.
April 02, 2013
1 People try to rescue a buffalo which was trapped in mud in Allahabad, India.
2 A surfer carrying his board walks towards the beach along a path at Long Reef Beach on a sunny day in Sydney, Australia.
3 People react as the bodies of victims of a fire are brought for their funeral at Yaeway cemetery in Rangoon, Burma. Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral for the 13 victims of the fire that broke out in a dormitory of an Islamic school in Botataung district of the former capital. The fire caused by faulty electrical equipment, the fire service said.
4 A woman hangs an inner tube of a tire filled with drinking water, over a donkey, next to a well in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, Apr. 1, 2013.
5 Submerged cars are seen in a flooded street after a rainstorm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
6 Israeli border policemen scuffle with Palestinian medics (C and R) during clashes at a protest, held without a police permit, outside Jerusalem's Old City. The protest took place following the death of Maysara Abu Hamdeya, a Palestinian inmate who died from cancer in an Israeli hospital.
7 A performer dressed as a squire holds a shield as he is hit with a lance at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, Britain, Apr. 1, 2013. Knebworth House, a stately home of the Lytton family since 1490, hosted The Knights Of Royal England in their first medieval jousting tournament of the season.
8 Cambodian soldiers test fire the BM-21, a multiple rocket launcher, during training at a military base in Kampong Speu province.
9 This NASA handout image captured by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Staion (ISS) on Apr. 1, 2013, shows a plume coming from Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy.
10 A female Rothschild giraffe, named Sandy Hope, stands next to it's mother at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center in Greenwich, Connecticut.
April 03, 2013
1 A Kashmiri woman walks at a tulip garden in the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
2 A reporter (L) holds a microphone during a joint news conference of Australia's Defense Minister Stephen Smith (2nd R) and Foreign Minister Bob Carr (4th R) with Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa (3rd R) and Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro (R) at the Foreign Ministry office in Jakarta, Indonesia.
3 A department store employee displays flowers made of pure gold, 4.2kg in weight and priced at 157 million yen (1.7 million USD) at the "Gold Expo" exhibition at Tokyo's Matsuzakaya department store, Japan.
4 Journalists shoot the arrival of four sheep for the launching of an ‘eco-grazing’ experiment with a group of Ouessant sheep in a 2000m² green space owned by the French capital’s archives service, in the 19th district in Paris. The goal of the experiment is for sheep to graze at intervals until autumn on the parcel of land and to maintain it without weed-killers.
5 Devotees perform rituals of penance on hot sand on the second day of the Danda festival or the festival of self-punishment to appease Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, at Kulagarh in Ganjam district, Orissa state, India.
6 Swiss guards gather before a weekly general audience led by Pope Francis in Saint Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican.
7 A 138-meter (452-foot) kite in the shape of the Great Wall and China's first emperor Qin Shihuan (L), who gave orders to build the Great Wall, flies above Daming Palace National Heritage Park during a kite fair in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.
8 Argos-Shimano team rider Marcel Kittel of Germany celebrates as he wins the 101st Scheldeprijs/Grand Prix de l'Escaut cycling race in Schoten, Belgium.
9 A lama eats at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, southern Germany.
April 04, 2013
1 A skytrain passes over vehicles on the road in Bangkok, Thailand..
2 Young Syrians drag a cart as they leave Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood in Aleppo.
3 A leopard trapped in a well looks up to forest officials on the premises of the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. According to locals, the leopard fell into the well while scouring for food.
4 Venezuela's opposition leader and presidential candidate Henrique Capriles greets supporters during a campaign rally in the state of Barinas, Apr. 3, 2013.
5 Men visit the graves of their ancestors during the Qing Ming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, at a Chinese cemetery in Singapore. The festival, which falls on April 4 this year, is a day for the Chinese to remember and honor their ancestors.
6 Workers help guide artist HA Schult's sculpture "Fluegelauto," a golden winged Ford Fiesta, onto the roof of the City Museum in Cologne, Germany. In the background is the Cologne Cathedral.
7 A jogger runs past graffiti on a sunny Spring day in Vienna, Austria.
8 Ben Crawford falls off his horse Paddy Mourne at the Chair during the Fox Hunters' Steeple Chase at Aintree, northern England.
9 Men pass their time sitting along a street in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
10 The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator.
April 05, 2013
1 Chinese health workers collect bags of dead chickens at Huhuai wholesale agricultural market in Shanghai.
2 A boy sits near a wheel of a transport vehicle to memorize his lessons on Siteen Road in Sana'a, Yemen.
3 A helicopter casts a shadow on the ice as the passenger ship 'Soderarm' heads in a channel through the ice made by an icebreaker for the daily tour to the island of Husaro in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden.
4 Downtown Montreal, Canada is seen from from Mount Royal. (Photo by Van Dung Nguyen submitted to VOA Photo Contest)
5 Volcano Mount Karangetang spews lava as seen from Bebali village in Siau district of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, Apr. 4, 2013.
6 Bolivia's The Strongest goalkeeper Daniel Vaca tries to stop the ball against Brazil's Sao Paulo FC during their Libertadores Cup soccer match in La Paz, Bolivia, Apr. 4, 2013.
7 An outside view shows the "Dancing Towers" (Tanzende Tuerme), a new architectural landmark and office building by Hadi Teherani in Hamburg, northern Germany, Apr. 4, 2013.
April 06, 2013
1 Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party perform folk dance at a rally to celebrate party's 33rd foundation day in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
2 A couple walks on "The Hill of Wind" at the Peace Park near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea.
3 A man operates hoses as firefighters try to put out a fire in Bangkok's Sukhumvit area, Thailand. Dozens of houses were destroyed after a fire broke out in the residential area in central Bangkok.
4 Thousands of activists of Hefajat-e-Islam attend a grand rally at Motijheel area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to demand authorities enact anti-blasphemy laws.
5 Smoke rises after mortar bombs landed on the Kafr Sousa area in Damascus in this handout distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. One woman was killed and thirteen people were injured, SANA said.
6 A Canadian Sphynx cat is not amused by a judge's toy during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania.
7 South Africa's Matt Silver-Vallance floats above the sea using helium-filled balloons from the airfield of Robben Island across the Atlantic Ocean in Cape Town. Vallance made the 7-km flight to raise funds and awareness for the Mandela Children's Hospital.
8 Tom Cruise and Ukrainian-born actress Olga Kurylenko break an ice sculpture during the premiere of their latest movie "Oblivion" in Taipei, Taiwan.
9 Participants join a mass pillow fight in Trafalgar Square in central London.
10 A participant practices with his bike during Red Bull's Vienna Air King freestyle event held in front of the Rathaus (townhall) in Vienna, Austria.
11 A Belarusian snowboarder takes part in the comic competition 'Californication 6.0' celebrating of the end of winter at an entertainment center Silichi, about 45 km from Minsk, Belarus.
April 08, 2013
1 A man, holding a national flag with a poster of Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk, watches as thousands of Turks clash with security as they try to break through barricades mounted around the prison and courthouse complex in Silivri, in the outskirts of Istanbul.
2 A floral tribute is seen after being laid outside the home of the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London.
3 A South Korean soldier patrols at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea, in Paju, north of Seoul.
4 A Coptic Christian man touches a broken crescent and a cross, a symbol of national unity among Christians and Muslims, which was previously on the wall of the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo. A second Egyptian died on Monday of wounds sustained in clashes at the cathedral the previous day in an outbreak of sectarian violence.
5 Gypsy women throw flower petals into the Arga River in honor of their ancestors on the Day of the Gypsy, in Pamplona, northern Spain.
6 A relative of Holocaust victims lays flowers next to names of concentration camps during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
7 Visitors enjoy a ride on an industrial robot at the Hanover Messe on the first day of the industrial trade fair, in Hanover, Germany. The Hanover fair runs from April 8-12.
8 A man rides his bicycle past graffiti on a wall urging a boycott of the April 21 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix with an image of Crown Prince Salman Al Khalifa in a racing car in Bar Bar, Bahrain.
9 Nguyen Ngoc Ho, 76, performs fan dancing with others along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fan dancing is a popular hobby among Vietnamese women.
10 Workers assemble a monument to the late Pope John Paul II, in Czestochowa, April 7, 2013, in this picture provided by Agencja Gazeta. The monument, which is 14 meters high, is to open to the public on April 13.
11 Tourists (background) take a stroll at the Tulip Garden, claimed to be Asia's largest, in Srinagar, India. The site is the largest tulip garden of Asia and is spread over an area of about 12 hectares.
12 Models present creations by Aurelio Costarella during Fashion Week Australia in Sydney. Fashion Week Australia runs until April 12.
April 09, 2013
1 Men carry sacks filled with shellfish on a beach at Diani Beach on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, some 30 km (19 miles) south of Mombasa.
2 Damaged houses are seen in the earthquake stricken town of Bushehr in Iran. A powerful earthquake struck close to the country's only nuclear power station, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 800 as it devastated small villages, state media reported.
3 The wind blows a red flag onto the face of an honor guard before a welcome ceremony for Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China
4 A man passes under an installation called "Transition", made with lipstick packages, part of the Milan's Furniture Fair, in Milan, Italy, Apr. 8, 2012. The 52nd International Furniture Fair (Salone del Mobile) opens in Milan until April 14.
5 Protesters flee as tear gas explodes in a field during a demonstration near Dicle University, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Leftist Kurdish students protest after clashes between left and right-wing groups inside the universtiy.
6 Tortoises climb on a branch of a tree lies in a riverinside the Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Kaziranga about 250 kilometers (156 miles) east of Gauhati, India.
7 Paprika peppers are air dried after a harvest next to a plantation in the outskirts of Ica, Peru.
8 Workers paint furniture in Karma Gongsong, lhasa, Tibet. (Photo by Tongqi Huang/VOA reader)
9 A birch gnawed by beavers stands near Lengenwang, southern Germany.
April 10, 2013
1 Cherry blossoms are seen along the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Sandra Lemaire/VOA)
2 A Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground in Tubbataha Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is pictured in Palawan Province, west of Manila, Philippines. (Picture provided by Naval Forces West)
3 Rush hour in Dhaka, Banlgadesh (Photo submitted by Saud A Faisal to VOA Photo Cotest)
4 Devotees pull the rope tied to the chariot of God Bhairab through the city center of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu, Nepal, during the Bisket festival.
5 A man walks along the riverbed of the Hanjiang River during its dry season in Shiyan, central China's Hubei province, Apr. 9, 2013.
6 A member of security tries to grab Pope Francis' skullcap after it was blown by a gust of wind at the end of the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.
7 U.S. sailors unravel a huge American flag across the field during opening day ceremonies before the San Diego Padres hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers in their MLB National League baseball game in San Diego, California, Apr. 9, 2013.
8 A mascot dressed as a ghost splashes water to an elephant ahead of the Songkran festival, Thai New Year celebration, at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand.
9 A woman takes pictures of art installation "Alice" by Spanish artist Cristina Lucas in the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain.
10 Russian President Vladimir Putin plays with his dogs Yume, an Akito-Inu, front, and Buffy, a Bulgarian Shepherd in an undisclosed location of Moscow region. (Photo distributed by RIA Novosti Agency)
11 Rickie Fowler of the U.S. hits his tee shot on the 18th hole during a practice round in preparation for the 2013 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
April 11, 2013
1 Hundreds of crosses, representing gun deaths since the Newtown, Connecticut elementary shootings, are placed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Two U.S. senators have reached a compromise that would expand background checks for gun sales in what could result in the most ambitious change to gun laws since 1994, an official said.
2 A cellist plays music in the middle of a desert area of Mount Bromo, Indonesia. (Photo submitted by Alland Dharmawan to VOA Photo Contest)
3 Little girls from a Mongolian herder family play on ice. (Photo submitted by Iderjargal to VOA Photo Contest)
4 Belarussian schoolgirls attend an honor guard ceremony, which is part of the state patriotic education program and the preparation for the upcoming Victory Day celebrations, in Victory Square in Minsk, Belarus.
5 Workers on the roof of Arena Sao Paulo stadium, known as "Itaquerao", which will host the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in Sao Paulo, Brazil
6 A breeder covers his face as he sits behind his chickens, which according to the breeder are not infected with the H7N9 virus, in Yuxin township, Zhejiang province, China. According to chicken breeders, their businesses are strongly affected as all six local poultry markets in Yuxin are closed for preventing the transmission of the virus.
7 Women pro-democracy protesters march on a road past the house of Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, during a demonstration to hail a military shake-up he carried out, in Sana'a. Hadi removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard, a powerful political foe, from the military, state television reported, in an apparent move to unify the divided armed forces under his own control.
8 Justice civil servants of Baracaldo's court wearing penitents costumes and carrying wooden crosses take part in a protest against the government's spending cuts in justice services, outside the court in the Northern Spanish Basque city of Baracaldo, Spain.
9 A man rests in a basket at a night market in Rangoon, Burma, Apr. 10, 2013.
April 12, 2013
1 A man herds horses in the Inner Mongolia region of China. (Photo submitted by Zuopeng Zhang to VOA Photo Contest)
2 One of the beaches on Bohol, the tenth largest island of the Philippines (Photo submitted by Jayson Aquino to VOA Photo Contest)
3 Women mourn during the funeral ceremony of shooting victims in the village of Velika Ivanca, about 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Belgrade, Serbia. A war veteran, who killed 13 relatives and neighbors in a dawn rampage in the village this week, before turning the gun on himself, died in a hospital on Apr. 11, 2013.
4 Sergeant Major Pearse Lally inspects Chelsea Pensioners, who will take part in the funeral of the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, during a uniform inspection at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London.
5 A student protester is covered by a tear gas cloud from a police vehicle during a rally in which demonstrators demanded that the government make changes to the public state education system, in Santiago, Chile, Apr. 11, 2013.
6 Spanish matador Eduardo Gallo drives a sword into a bull to kill it during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, Apr. 11, 2013.
7 Cathy Reed (top) and Chris Reed of Japan perform at the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating in Tokyo,Japan.
8 Waterdrops cover the blossoms of horned violets on display at the "Bluete und Ambiente" (Blossom and Ambiance) gardening fair in Bamberg, southern Germany.
April 13, 2013
1 People fly kites during the international kite festival in Berck-sur-Mer, northern France.
2 Revelers on a vehicle are sprayed with water during the traditional Thingyan celebrations in Rangoon, Burma. Burma celebrated its annual water festival, known as Thingyan, marking the start of the New Year according to the traditional Buddhist calendar.
3 Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso of Spain steers his car during qualifying for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix in Shanghai, China.
4 In this photo released by Indonesian Police, the wreckage of a crashed Lion Air plane sits on the water near the airport in Bali, Indonesia. The plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew overshot a runway on the resort island of Bali and crashed into the sea, injuring nearly two dozen people, officials said.
5 A heavily armed Afghan policeman destroys an opium poppy field in Noorgal district of Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
6 A children's choir takes part in the unveiling ceremony of the statue of the late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, Poland. Archbishop Waclaw Depo unveiled the 13.8-meter (45.3-foot) white fiberglass figure that was funded by a businessman, Leszek Lyson, in gratitude for what he believes was an intervention by the late pontiff in saving his drowning son.
7 Everton's Sylvain Distin, left, fights for the ball against Queens Park Rangers' Loic Remy during the English Premier League soccer match at Goodison Park Stadium, Liverpool, England.
8 A demonstrator with painted face looks out of her costume, during a demonstration against taxes and social cuts in Berlin, Germany.
9 An atmospheric phenomenon known as a "sun dog" is seen in the sky over Havana, Cuba, Apr. 12, 2013. The rare halo around the sun is caused by the refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals in the atmosphere.
10 Fireworks are seen during the official opening of the renovated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Rijksmuseum, home of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" and other national treasures reopened its doors to the public after a decade-long renovation.
April 15, 2013
1 Runner John Ounao cries when he finds friends after several explosions rocked the finish of the Boston Marathon.
2 A veteran touches the wall of names at the Armored Corps memorial for fallen soldiers after a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day for those killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs, in Latrun near Jerusalem.
3 Anti-North Korean protesters from conservative, right-wing and pro-U.S. civic groups, burn effigies of late N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R), current leader Kim Jong-un (2nd R) and the North's founder Kim Il-sung during a protest in central Seoul.
4 A South Korean soldier takes position as a woman looks on during an anti-terror and security drill at an subway station in Seoul. North Korea celebrated the 101st anniversary of its founder's birth with flowers on Monday, although there was no sign of tension easing between the two countries.
5 Government supporters celebrate after the official results of the presidential elections were announced at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela early Monday.
6 South Korean protesters wearing envelopes participate in a rally to mark Global Day of Action on Military Spending near the U.S. embassy in Seoul. The protesters demanded a peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula.
7 Devotees celebrate "Sindoor Jatra" vermillion powder festival at Thimi, near Kathmandu. The festival is celebrated to mark the Nepalese New Year and the beginning of spring season.
8 Members of Britain's armed forces rehearse for the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in the early hours of the morning, at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The funeral will take place on Wednesday.
9 A Palestinian refugee looks through the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters during a protest demanding the U.N. resume financial aid for refugees, in Gaza City.
10 Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Matt Joyce can't get to a double off the wall by Boston Red Sox's Stephen Drew during the fifth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
11 A man looks at " MaskII" a sculpture by Australian artist Ron Mueck exhibited at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Mueck will present his new sculpture from April 16 to September 29, 2013.
12 People walk behind viola flowers at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' in Erfurt, central Germany. Weather forecasts predict sunny weather for Germany in the next few days.
April 16, 2013
1 Israelis watch an air show during Independence Day in Tel Aviv.
2 A man sits on the seawall near a dead tree at Muara Karang district in Jakarta.
3 An Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy dip in the sarover (water tank) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
4 Flowers are seen at the barricaded entrance at Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts.
5 Liquid gold is poured into a mould at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant 'Oegussa' in Vienna.
6 Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic returns the ball to his Bulgarian opponent Grigor Dimitrov during the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament tennis match.
7 The Houses of Parliament in Westminster, central London, a day before the ceremonial funeral for former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
8 Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province.
9 A general view shows the construction site of 'The Chedi' hotel in the central Swiss village of Andermatt.
10 Visitors look at a sculpture entitled "Couple Under an Umbrella, 2013" by Australian artist Ron Mueck during the opening day for his exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris.
11 A girl plays in water from a water pavilion during celebrations of the Burma New Year Water Festival in Rangoon.
12 A man walks his dog on Portstewart Strand during heavy winds on the Causeway Coastline, northern Ireland.
13 Achim Trautmann of German auto parts supplier Robert Bosch holds up a Wafer in the Corporate Research Applied Research Microsystem Technologies Office by Bosch in Gerlingen-Schillerhoehe near Stuttgart.
April 17, 2013
1 A pair of running shoes, flowers and a Boston University key chain at a makeshift memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, for 23-year-old Lu Lingzi student from China.
2 A South Korean soldier holding his machine gun runs in front of an advertisement board during an anti-terror drills at Government Complex in Sejong, south of Seoul, South Korea.
3 A woman holds an umbrella as she walks during the traditional Feria de Abril (April fair) in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain.
4 A pack of riders climbs the "Wall of Huy" during the Fleche Wallonne Classic cycling race in Huy, Belgium.
5 A earthquake survivor sits on the rubble of his mud house after it collapsed following the quake in the town of Mashkeel, southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, near the Iranian border.
6 Caricature masks of (L-R) German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, Environment Minister Peter Altmaier and Chancellor Angela Merkel are placed in front of the Chancellery during a protest against carbon dioxide emission, in Berlin.
7 A visitor is reflected in a mirror decorated with mosaic during the "Collectionaire" international antiques salon in St. Petersburg, Russia.
8 Art creations by U.S. artist Keith Haring at the Musee d'Art Moderne (Modern Art Museum), in Paris, two days before the opening of an exhibition dedicated to Haring's work, 23 years after his death.
9 A man on a balcony watches as the funeral procession of former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, travels towards St Paul's Cathedral, during her funeral service in London.
10 Indian classical dancer VD Methil Devika preforms a traditional dance at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar at Gandhinagar, some 20 kms from Ahmedabad.
April 18, 2013
1 The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas, USA. The deadly explosion ripped through the fertilizer plant, injuring more than 100 people, leveling dozens of homes and damaging other buildings including a school and nursing home, authorities said.
2 Paramilitary soldiers carry survivors of an earthquake to receive medical treatment following the quake in the town of Mashkeel, southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, near the Iranian border.
3 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama walks across the Peace Bridge during his visit to Londonderry, northern Ireland.
4 Novak Djokovic of Serbia serves to Juan Monaco of Argentina during the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.
5 A visitor looks at the installation titled "Mitten" by Katharina Hinsberg from Edith Wahlandt gallery at the Art Cologne fair in Cologne, Germany. Some 200 international exhibitors take part in the 47th Cologne Art fair.
6 A motorist drives through a flooded section of the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Illinois. Thunderstorms dumped up to 5 inches of rain on parts of the Chicago area overnight, closing sections the Edens, Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways.
7 A model presents a hairstyle during the 7th international festival of hairdressing art, fashion and design called "Crystal Angel" in Kyiv, Ukraine.
April 19, 2013
1 A law enforcement bomb technician walks away after preparing the controlled detonation of a suspicious object during a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
2 Lower house president Laura Boldrini (R) checks the t-shirt of PDL (People of Freedom party) member Alessandra Mussolini (C) during the second day of the presidential election in the lower house of the parliament in Rome, Italy.
3 A man places a bunch of flowers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes after a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland.
4 Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Apr. 24, 1990. (NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team)
5 Workers look into a sinkhole caused by a broken water main in Chicago, Illinois, Apr. 18, 2013.
6 A five-year-old rape victim is moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital from Swami Dayanand hospital for treatment in New Delhi, India. The girl was raped by a male neighbor, according to the police.
7 Firefighters work to put out a fire as white phosphorus exploded after a violent collision when a truck crashed into another vehicle on a highway in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province. One of the two truck drivers was killed in the accident while the other succeeded to get out of the truck before the explosion.
8 Employees work at a fish export factory at Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone in Rangoon, Burma.
9 The Solar Impulse approaches the runway for a landing following a test flight at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, USA. The aircraft, made of carbon fiber sheets and powered by solar cells, will attempt to fly once around the world powered solely by solar energy.
10 Members of the "Castellers de Villafranca" Human Tower team form a "castell" near the Tower Bridge in central London. The Castellers de Villafranca are in London to promote Catalan culture and will be constructing human towers, a practice that is entered by UNESCO on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in various locations around the captial.
11 A Crowned Crane grazes at a hotel compound in Nairobi, Kenya, Apr. 18, 2013.
April 20, 2013
1 German Greens' top candidate for the upcoming general elections Juergen Trittin is hidden behind a shrub as he speaks during a party convention in Bingen, western Germany.
2 Afghan national army soldiers walk on Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan.
3 Rescuers carry a paralyzed elderly person from his damaged house in Qingren township in seriously damaged Lushan county after a shallow earthquake at magnitude 7.0 hit the city of Ya'an, in southwest China's Sichuan province.
4 Workers and residents stand on a mountain of garbage at a landfill during a rescue operation in San Isidro, Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines. Police said four workers were reportedly missing after a garbage landfill slid along a mountainside.
5 Rabija Dzodjaljevic sits and cry near graves of relatives during a mass funeral in the town of Vlasenica, in the Serbian part of Bosnia.
6 An Indian cricket supporter kneels in front of a wax figure of Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar during a promotional event at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia. A group of Indian cricket supporters known as the 'Swami Army' attended the unveiling of the wax figure, which will go on permanent display at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Sydney.
7 An archer wearing a samurai costume riding on horseback shoots an arrow to a target at Sumida Park in Tokyo during a demonstration of the samurai martial arts.
8 Christopher "Tree Wizard" Pereira, a miniature model craftsman who calls himself a political artist, showcases part of his latest collection of miniature resin figurines of Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew along a shopping street in Singapore.
9 A huge red ball is installed on the Simone de Beauvoir's bridge as part of the RedBall Project by artist Kurt Perschke in Paris, France.
April 22, 2013
1 A girl (C) looks out from a makeshift tent during rainy weather as she sleeps with her family after Saturday's earthquake, in Lingguan town in Baoxing county, Sichuan province, China.
2 Indian activists of "Mahila Morcha" shout slogans during a protest in Jammu. A second suspect was arrested Monday in the rape of a 5-year-old girl, a case that has brought a new wave of protests over how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.
3 Holly Holland, right, of St. Louis, hugs her daughter Katie Holland while visiting a makeshift memorial in Boston. The memorial sits on Boylston Street, not far from where two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
4 Lufthansa airplanes are pictured parked at the airport in Duesseldorf, Germany. Ground staff at Germany's biggest airline walked off the job Monday on a one-day strike that prompted the company to cancel most of the day's scheduled flights.
5 People wave flags as they a protest against an EU-sponsored deal to normalize ties between Serbia and breakaway Kosovo, in Belgrade, after the two governments approved the deal, a historic agreement aimed at turning the page on the Balkans' last simmering trouble-spot 14 years after the end of hostilities.
6 The winner of the men's 2013 London Marathon, Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia, laughs as he holds the trophy at a photo call by Tower Bridge in London.
7 Cuirassier presidential guards line up prior to the arrival of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano to pay homage to the Unknown Soldier Monument in Rome. The president heads into his unprecedented second term with the daunting task of trying to find a candidate who can form a government two months after national elections left Italy with no clear winner.
8 An Indian youth dressed as a tree looks on during an awareness event commemorating Earth Day in Allahabad. As the world marks the annual event environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation.
9 Visitors stand in the staircase of the restored former Prussian justice palace, that serves now as county court in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany. The 110-year-old building housing 20 courtrooms, 110 offices and further 100 rooms re-opened after two years of restoration.
10 Female members of the Indonesian armed forces perform as they mark Kartini Day in Jakarta. The event is held to enhance integrity and solidarity for Indonesian women commemorating the birth of Raden Ajeng Kartini, an Indonesian heroine born in 1879, a pioneer in the emancipation of Indonesian women.
11 A farmer works in his field at Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal.
12 A small dog looks through porch rails to watch passersby on a sunny morning in West New York, New Jersey.
April 23, 2013
1 A coffin containing the remains of a British soldier is carried in the Honorable Artillery Company Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint- Mein as four British soldiers were laid to rest with full military honors in northern France, nearly a century a century after they were killed in action in World War I. Their bodies were discovered in 2009 when a local farmer was clearing one of his fields.
2 An aerial photo shows a Chinese marine surveillance ship Haijian No. 66 (C) cruising next to Japan Coast Guard patrol ships in the East China Sea, near islandes known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
3 John Norris (C), the lawyer of suspect Raed Jaser, speaks to the media outside Old City Hall Court, following his client's brief appearance in court in Toronto. Two men charged in Canada with plotting an attack on a passenger train will appear in court for bail hearings, while questions swirl about their background and reported links to al Qaeda elements in Iran.
4 A road is submerged during flooding along the Mississippi River north of Clarksville, Missouri, USA. (Photo courtesy of the Missouri Governor's Office)
5 Members of the Jordanian House of Representatives confront each other during an altercation after Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour won a vote of confidence in Amman, Jordan.
6 Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission take part in vote counting at an analysis center in Baghdad, Iraq.
7 Miners carry sulphur at Ijen crater, Bondowoso, Indonesia. (Photo submitted by Retno Kurniasih Damayanti to 2013 VOA Photo Contest)
8 Anti-narcotics police officers stand guard near packages of marijuana at a police base in Bogota, Colombia. According to authorities, anti-narcotics police confiscated around 6 tons (5,879 kg) of marijuana during an operation named "Republica III" on Apr. 22, 2013.
9 A dog wrapped in a jacket, belonging to a street artist, sits on a pavement in London, Apr. 22, 2013.
10 City workers cut down the poisoned oak trees at Toomer's Corner at the entrance to Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Harvey Updyke Jr. is serving a jail term after pleading guilty to spiking the oaks with a powerful herbicide, and experts say they can't be saved.
11 A gallery employee looks towards an installation of illuminated insect traps at the Wellcome Collection in London. The installation called "Insects au Gratin" was organized by Pestival, the cultural organization dedicated to human's relationship with insects and the natural world.
April 24, 2013
1 People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. An eight-story block housing garment factories and a shopping center collapsed on the outskirts of the capital, killing nearly 100 people and injuring hundreds.
2 Workers clean a sculpture by British artist Jeremy Deller titled "Sacrilege" at the Mobile M+: Inflation! exhibition in Hong Kong. Mobile M+: Inflation! presented six giant inflatable sculptures installed next to M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for visual culture, and will open to the public from April 25 – June 9.
3 Members of the Samaritan sect seal an oven after filling it with large sheep on skewers during a traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Apr. 23, 2013.
4 Majed Mohammed (R) of Qatar's El-Jaish fights for the ball with Nasser AlShamrani of Saudi Arabia's Al-Shabab during their AFC Champions League soccer match at the Al-Rayyan Stadium in Doha, Qatar.
5 Villagers wait with their containers for the government water tanker to arrive at Padan village in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Apr. 23, 2013.
6 Pelicans fly along the island shore during sunrise at Hunting Island State Park in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA. (Photo submitted by Hoan Luong to 2013 VOA Photo Contest)
7 Participants in bright colored costumes dance in a parade in Cebu City, Philippines, to celebrate the Sinulog, an annual festival commemorating the Filipino people's pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. The festival is held on the third Sunday of January. (Photo submitted by Froilan G. Rogor Jr. to 2013 VOA Photo Contest)
April 25, 2013
1 Indian workers clean algae from the River Sabarmati, one of the biggest rivers in the state of Gujarat, as part of cleanliness drive in Ahmadabad, India.
2 A drummer in the Royal Australian Navy Band raises a drumstick to her face as she marches in a parade commemorating ANZAC Day in Sydney, Australia. ANZAC Day is a day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars and conflicts.
3 A boy somersaults at the beach during sunset in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
4 U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama (L) poses with former first ladies (2nd L-R) Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush and Rosalynn Carter as they attend the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.
5 A breeder, whose business has been affected by the H7N9 bird flu virus, walks his ducks along a road in Changzhou county, Shandong province, China, Apr. 24, 2013.
6 South Korean Marine Corps take part in a practice for a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, about 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Seoul.
7 "Robotic Jellyfish Drone" is on display at the exhibition "En Vie, aux frontieres du design" at the EDF Foundation in Paris, France. The drone, part of the project "Post Natural History", is used in the agricultural sector.
8 An Australian wearing an WW I uniform, walks past graves at the Australian War Memorial in the northern French city of Villers-Bretonneux as part of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day ceremony.
9 A full moon rises behind a statue of a Kansas Indian on top of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, USA, Apr. 24, 2013.
April 26, 2013
1 Guards of honor march with a wreath during a memorial ceremony for Chernobyl victims in Minsk, Belarus. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia marked the 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident.
2 Bangladeshi rescue workers and media fall on top of each other in a stampede after the crowd panicked when someone shouted a section of building might collapse, at the site of a building that collapsed on Apr. 24, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka.
3 German Simon Taddiken prepares his robots during a soccer match in the Standard Platform League at the RoboCup GermanOpen 2013 in Magdeburg, central Germany.
4 Sun rays beam at dawn over the Plaosan Buddhist temple located in the Klaten regency in Indonesia's central Java province.
5 Rescuers carry a victim's body in Taiping township in Lushan county of Yaan, southwest China's Sichuan province, Apr. 25, 2013. Tens of thousands of homeless survivors of the devastating quake are living in makeshift tents or on the streets.
6 Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, watches her husband Prince William as he sits on the 'Batpod' during the inauguration of "Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden" near Watford, approximately 18 miles north west of central London.
7 An alligator crosses the 14th fairway during the first round of the PGA Tour Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, Lousiana, USA, Apr. 25, 2013.
8 Vladimir Samsonov, a resident from the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk and a member of the Cryophil winter swimmers club, sunbathes on an ice floe on the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
9 Models rest backstage at Tbilisi Fashion Week in Tbilisi, Georgia.
10 A street artist wearing a colored uniform of the former East German army leaves the Academy of Arts near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
April 27, 2013
1 An Indian farmer feeds harvested wheat crop into a thresher as a woman collects de-husked wheat in a field at Kunwarpur village, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) east of Allahabad, India.
2 A zoo keeper shows a baby Komodo dragon to photographers at Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
3 A man walks on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, some 59 km (37 miles) north of the capital Managua, Nicaragua, Apr. 26, 2013.
4 A streaker followed by security runs over the pitch during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and FC Freiburg in Munich, Germany.
5 Dancers from the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble perform during the dress rehearsal of their new show "Song of the Stag" at the Budapest Dance festival, Hungary, Apr. 26, 2013.
6 A man whose car is stuck in a flooded tunnel gets help from another man in Sana'a, Yemen.
7 A customs officer checks as a vehicle of a South Korean company carrying products made in inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, arrives at the customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) office, just south of demilitarized zone separating the North from South Korea in Paju, north of Seoul.
8 A Kosovo boy sits in the middle of a circle of lit candles to commemorate those who went missing during 1998-99 Kosovo war, in Pristina, Kosovo, Apr. 26, 2013.
9 His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, speaks to sniper team members of 3rd Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment at Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario.
10 Participant Dieter Besuch shows his beard with which he competes in the Whiskers Freestyle category of the International German Beard Championships at Congress Centrum in Pforzheim, Germany.
April 29, 2013
1 Relatives show pictures of garment workers who are missing, during a protest to demand capital punishment for those responsible for the collapse of the Rana Plaza building, in Savar, outside Dhaka.
2 Paramedics help injured people after an explosion in downtown Prague, Czech Republic.
3 Audience members comprising of Holocaust survivors, veterans, and family members stand during a moment of silence in a tent sent up across from the museum for the 20th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
4 Motorists drive underneath flags of Malaysia's ruling party National Front, opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party and People's Justice Party ahead of the upcoming general elections in Kuala Lumpur.
5 Held by college students and sumo wrestlers, a couple of babies cry in their competition during Naki Sumo, or Crying Baby Contest, at Sensoji temple in Tokyo. The babies, born in 2012, participated in the annual traditional ritual performed as a prayer for healthy growth.
6 Hindu devotees offer prayers in the morning on the banks of the holy River Ganges in Varanasi, India. Varanasi is among the world's oldest cities.
7 A cyclist passes by an image of Dutch Queen Beatrix and her son Crown Prince Willem-Alexander on the exterior of a theater in downtown Amsterdam, Netherlands. Queen Beatrix announced she will relinquish the crown, after 33 years of reign, leaving the monarchy to her son.
8 Great White Pelicans play in the Dresden Zoo, eastern Germany.
9 Exercise rider Peter Shelton rides Kentucky Derby entrant Itsmyluckyday for a workout at Churchill Downs, in Louisville.
10 French performance group Compagnie Off members gather before performing 'Les Girafes', a stilt-walking show, at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.
11 Sport boats swing on a part of Sava River in Belgrade, Serbia. Meteorologists forecast sunny weather for upcoming days.
12 A boy plays with an installation made of painted wooden eggs, attributes of the Orthodox Easter, in central Kiev, Ukraine. Orthodox believers will celebrate Easter on May 5.
April 30, 2013
1 Dutch King Willem-Alexander raises his hand to take the oath by Queen Maxima and members of the royal household at his investiture in Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2 Legionnaires dressed in traditional pioneer outfits hold hatchets during the commemoration ceremony of the 1863 battle of Camerone, at the Foreign Legion base of Aubagne, near the southern city of Marseille, France.
3 Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose (C) is surrounded by reporters at Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
4 An Israeli border police officer aims pepper spray towards a Palestinian man during clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West bank village of Urif, near Nablus.
5 A female laborer carries bricks at a brick factory on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Chennai. May Day or Labour Day will be marked on May 1.
6 Demonstrators scuffle with the police outside the parliament in the Greek Cypriot capital of Nicosia after lawmakers approved an EU bailout.
7 A protester takes shelter in a drain after police charged with batons during a demonstration in Savar, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, to demand capital punishment for those responsible for the collapse of the building.
8 Men collect recyclable items in Ouled Fayet's municipal garbage dump, west of Algiers, Algeria.
9 Migrants ride on top of a northern bound train toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Juchitan, southern Mexico, Apr. 29, 2013. Migrants crossing Mexico to get to the U.S. have increasingly become targets of criminal gangs who kidnap them to obtain ransom money.
10 Georgian army servicemen take part in a military drill marking Georgian Army Day at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi.
11 Members of the Household Cavalry are positioned during the ceremonial welcome for the state visit of Emirati President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan in the grounds of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, west of London.
12 Clouds build up over the Victoria Harbor before a storm in Hong Kong.
13 A dancer performs during an open audition to join the world famous Rockettes at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Hundreds of aspiring dancers try out each year for a spot with the dance company to star in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
