People throw vermillion powder on one another to celebrate the Nepali New Year, also known as 'Sindoor Jatra' at Thimi, near Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Rick Austin, R-Demorest, celebrates the end of the legislative session by tossing up desk papers late Thursday in Atlanta. David Goldman/AP
Kashmiri women look towards burning houses after a fire broke out at a residential area in Srinagar, India. A major fire broke out in the densely populated Habba Kadal area here in which several houses were gutted, police said. No casualties were reported. Mukhtar Khan/AP
Taramati Vaghdhare, works in her kitchen in Madhban village, near the proposed site of the Jaitapur nuclear plant in Ratnagiri district, south of Mumbai, on April 13. The stakes are high for chronically power-short India. The plant would eventually have six reactors capable of generating 9,900 megawatts of electricity -- enough to provide power to 10 million Indian homes. Long-running opposition to the proposed plant at Jaitapur has hardened amid the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Farrier Lance Corporal of Horse Chris McCabe fashions a horse shoe during a media event at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment's Hyde Park barracks in London. The mounted regiment will provide the escort for the major members of the British Royal family during the upcoming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Alastair Grant/AP
Mohamed Sabry, stands guard during Friday prayers near the courthouse in Benghazi. A fresh hail of government rockets crashed into Misrata on Friday after Western allies denounced a 'medieval siege' of the city and vowed to keep bombing Muammar Gaddafi's forces until he stepped down. The characters in red read 'We are not al-Qaeda, we are free people.' Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Painted Easter eggs are displayed during an open workshop at the Ethnographic Institute and Museum in Sofia. Oleg Popov /Reuters
Children wearing hoods as penitents take part in a procession in a school in the eve of Holy Week in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
A North Korean singer in traditional Korean dress performs with strings of violin during a celebration of the 99th anniversary of late leader Kim Il Sung's birthday in Pyongyang. April 15 is called 'The Day of the Sun' in honor of the former guerrilla fighter who founded North Korea in 1948. David Guttenfelder/AP
A boy saves a duck from the rubble as demolition tear down their shanties at suburban Taguig, south of Manila, Philippines. No one was reported injured as more than two dozen homes were demolished by a private demolition crew allegedly catching the informal settlers by surprise. Bullit Marquez/AP
Storm clouds pass north of Kiefer, Okla., on Thursday, April 14. Numerous severe thunderstorms with large hail and winds gusting to 70 mph were reported with many of the storms moving through southeastern Oklahoma. James Gibbard/Tulsa World/AP
US Army soldiers walk through a poppy field during a patrol near the village of Sami Kalache in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar. Bob Strong/Reuters
A visitor is kissed by Disney character Mickey Mouse at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo. Tokyo Disneyland reopened its popular theme park on Friday after a closure of about one month since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The prolonged shutdown was in part due to an unstable supply of power to the region. Issei Kato/Reuters
A man rides his motorcycle past a freshly painted mural by the Union of Young Communists (UJC) a day before a military parade to mark the 1961 U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, in Havana. Cuba's ruling Communist Party meets on April 16 for a congress expected to introduce possible future leaders and endorse groundbreaking economic reforms in what is one of the world's last one-party communist states. The mural reads, 'Study, work, rifle.' Desmond Boylan/Reuters
Shadow of Frederico Gil of Portugual is seen during his quarterfinal match of the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament against Andy Murray of Great Britain, in Monaco. Lionel Cironneau/AP
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