

Two baby meerkats stand in the sun at their enclosure at the Chester Zoo in Chester, England, on Friday. The 3-week-old babies had their first public appearance after spending their first weeks underground in their burrow. Phil Noble/Reuters
Turkish Cypriot leader and presidential candidate Mehmet Ali Talat poses in front of his campaign bus in the Turkish-administered northern part of Cyprus on Friday. Turkish Cypriots will vote in Sunday's election. Murad Sezer/Reuters
A young girl looks up at soldiers from 11 Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Regiment as they receive their campaign medals in Didcot, England, on Friday. Eddie Keogh/Reuters
On Friday Tibetan monks dig to search for survivors believed to be trapped at a collapsed school after strong earthquakes hit China's Qinghai Province on April 14. Andy Wong/AP
This computer enhanced image from the German Aerospace Center shows a photo of the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland on Friday. The photo was taken by the TerraSAR-X satellite. The volcano in Iceland erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. Flights around the world have been canceled and passengers stranded as the ash cloud from the volcano affected operations at some of the world's busiest airports. TerraSAR-X/DLR/AP
Ice chunks carried downstream by floodwaters after the Iceland volcano erupted early this week are seen on the Markarfljot river bank on Friday. Bryanjar Gauti/AP
Passengers sleep next to empty check-in counters at a terminal in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Friday. Flights were canceled due to the ash cloud caused by an Icelandic volcano that turned northern Europe into a no-fly zone. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Southern Sudanese election observers and political party agents witness the start of ballot counting in Juba, Sudan, on Friday. Pete Muller/AP
An explosion occurs as firefighters try to extinguish an apartment fire in the Naradevi area of Katmandu, Nepal, on Friday. The cause of the fire was unknown and there were no reports on casualties. Joachim Herrmann/Reuters
An elderly woman attends a ceremony next to candlelit photos of victims from the Holocaust at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday. Hungary marked Holocaust Memorial Day on April 16, the 66th anniversary of the beginning of the Hungarian Holocaust when 600,000 Jewish Hungarians were deported to Nazi concentration camps. Tamas Kovacs/MTI/AP
A man walks at the scene of Thursday night's suicide bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 16. A suicide bomber targeting a compound shared by foreign companies set off a massive explosion and killing at least six people, according to an Afghan official. Rahmat Gul/AP
A vandalized Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro is seen on Thursday. Vandals covered the towering landmark with spray-painted graffiti using the scaffolding that had been erected for maintenance work on the statue. Genilson Araujo-Ag/Reuters
Anti-government leader Arisman Pongruanrong (in red) is helped down by supporters as he flees arrest on Friday from a downtown Bangkok hotel. Arisman scaled down the facade of the hotel into a waiting crowd of "Red Shirt" supporters who then helped him into a car that drove away. Wong Maye-E/AP
Maroon and orange balloons fill the air as runners participate in the 3.2 mile Remembrance Run at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., on Friday. The university marked the third anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech where 32 people and the shooter died. Jeanna Duerscherl/The Roanoke Times/AP
Veterinarian Dr. Rob Conner checks out an injured eagle chick on Friday at his office in Mountain Home, Ark. The chick was found under a nest with a broken wing. The Little Rock Zoo has agreed to adopt the chick. Kevin Pieper/The Baxter Bulletin/AP
Former US President Bill Clinton attends a Democratic Leadership Council symposium to mark the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing at a Center for American Progress on Friday. Yuri Gripas/Reuters