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AFP - Sun Apr 16, 7:46 PM ET
First Easter : Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the first Easter of his pontificate in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican. (AFP/Vincenzo Pinto) -
AFP - Sun Apr 16, 7:43 PM ET
On course : Russia's Olga Slyusareva competes in the Women's Scratch final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Bordeaux. (AFP/Franck Fife) -
AFP - Sun Apr 16, 7:39 PM ET
Wet olympian : A piglet swims at the third "Pig Olympic Games" in Moscow. (AFP/Tatyana Makeyeva) -
AFP - Sun Apr 16, 7:36 PM ET
Brave Christians : Iraqi Christian women sing hymns during a special Easter Sunday Mass at Saint George's Church in central Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye) -
Reuters - Mon Apr 17, 4:29 AM ET
Soldiers from Indonesia's KOPASSUS special force break roof tiles during a performance marking their 54th anniversary in Jakarta April 17, 2006. REUTERS/Oka Barta -
Reuters - Sat Apr 15, 1:52 AM ET
Orangutans stay in a cage in a wildlife protection centre in Ratchaburi province, about 125 km (78 miles) west of Bangkok April 15, 2006. Wildlife officials from Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia are scheduled to meet on April 21 to decide the fate of dozens of orangutans which were smuggled into Thailand nearly two years ago. Thai authorities in 2004 confiscated more than 100 orangutans from the private Safari World zoo near Bangkok, where they were forced to perform in daily boxing matches. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang -
AP - Sat Apr 15, 12:50 AM ET
Dancer Yang Liping, from southwest China's Yunnan province, performs her peacock dance during a musical drama entitled 'Dynamic Yunnan', in Chengdu, in Sichuan province Friday, April 14, 2006. Yang, one of China's best known dancers and a member of the Bai ethnic group, spent more than two years choreographing 'Dynamic Yunnan' to create a dance which depicts the life of the ethnic people in her native Yunnan. (AP Photo/Color China Photo) -
Reuters - Mon Apr 17, 6:40 AM ET
A Japanese girl strolls through a sea of tulips in Kashiwa, east of Tokyo April 17, 2006. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao -
Reuters - Fri Apr 14, 10:45 AM ET
A competitor holds a marble at the World Marbles Championships near Crawley in West Sussex, southern England April 14, 2006. The annual tournament where contestants compete to knock marbles off a raised six-foot diameter ring has been played at Tinsley Green since 1932 and is open to foreign competitors. REUTERS/Toby Melville -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 8:31 PM ET
Queuing to vote : Indian women voters hold their identity cards and stand in a queue outside a polling booth at Chotojibanpur, as voting in state assembly polls opened. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 7:38 PM ET
Killing fields memorial : Cambodian Buddhist monks pray for the dead as they look at thousands of skulls at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial, some 15 kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh, as the country marks the 31st anniversary of the Khmer Rouge regime's rise to power. (AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 7:33 PM ET
Commemorating Uncle Ho : Workers hang a giant poster showing a portrait of late president Ho Chi Minh, founder of Vietnamese communist party (VCP) to mark its 10th five-yearly national congress in Hanoi. (AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 5:31 PM ET
Prisoner Day : A Palestinian girl holds a candle as she takes part in an evening vigil for Palestinians being held in Israeli jails, to mark Prisoner Day. (AFP/Hazem Bader) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:43 PM ET
Memorial mural : A woman walks past a giant mural in the border town of El Paso, Texas 15 April 2006. The mural refers to the unsolved murder of hundreds of women in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez. (AFP/Hector Mata) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:40 PM ET
At the border : A woman walks on the bridge that separates El Paso, Texas with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AFP/Hector Mata) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:37 PM ET
too close for comfort : Bullfighter Jose Ignacio Ramos is pinned to the ground by a bull on the last day of the Arles Feria. (AFP/Gerard Julien) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:33 PM ET
Row row row your boat : A Romanian villager uses a makeshift boat to retrieve a few belongings from his flooded house next to the river Danube in Fetesti, Romania. (AFP/Petrut Calinescu) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:29 PM ET
Just peeping : A Nepalese peeps from a window as police and youths clash in downtown Kathmandu. (AFP/Manan Vatsyayana) -
AFP - Mon Apr 17, 4:00 PM ET
Kiwi sandwich : England's winger Tom Youngs is tackled by New Zealand's hooker Mason Pomare(L) and flanker Hoani Matenga (R) during their IRB U19 World Championship semi-final in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AFP/Jorge Ferrari) -
Day in pictures: 18 April 2006
Washermen clean clothes in the Gomti river in Lucknow, India. -
A villager looks at Mount Merapi as it spews volcanic smoke in Kaliurang, Indonesia. The government was preparing a mass evacuation amid fears the mountain could blow. -
An orangutan smuggled into Thailand awaits repatriation to a wildlife reserve in Indonesia after being rescued by authorities. -
In Israel, a mother whose son was killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv on Monday cries with her daughter-in-law, who is nine months' pregnant. -
Six Taiwanese former "comfort women" - used as sexual slaves by the Japanese army in WWII - take part in a mock wedding organised by local support groups. -
In the UK, sweat trickles down Prime Minister Tony Blair's face as he delivers a speech in London on the future of the health service.