Britain's Queen Elizabeth walks past Yeomen of the Guard as she leaves a Maundy Service at Westminster Abbey on her 85th birthday in London. Toby Melville/Reuters
Dry grass, bushes and trees burn on the bank of the Yenisei River in Taiga district, near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Russia faces a danger of forest fires in Siberia and its far east, following blazes that ravaged thousands of hectares of land last year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A man kisses his bride during a mass wedding in Jakarta, Indonesia. Free weddings, organized by a state-owned gas company PT Gas Negara, were provided for the capital's poor to marry about 200 couples who have already been living together and for those who had children out of wedlock. Irwin Fedriansyah/AP
A woman sewing a shoe insole sits with her children outside her house at a demolished residential site in downtown Shanghai, China. Aly Song/Reuters
A man in a hat is silhouetted as President Barack Obama speaks at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, Wednesday. Stepping away from Washington's contentious fiscal debates, President Barack Obama is making a West Coast trip aimed at building support for his deficit-reduction plans and raising money for his re-election campaign. Jeff Chiu/AP
Springer spaniel pup Tilly plays among the bluebells at Swan Wood, in Stock, eastern England. The woodland flowers are in bloom about three weeks earlier than usual because Britain has had an exceptionally warm and dry end to the winter. Ian Nicholson/AP
A child dressed up as a Spanish legionnaire looks at another holding a toy during the Holy Week in Malaga, southern Spain. Hundreds of Easter processions take place round-the-clock during the Holy Week in Spain drawing thousands of visitors. Jon Nazca/Reuters
Police prepare mesh shields to block flying debris during a protest in front of the Environmental Protection Administration in Taipei, Taiwan. The protest is against the planned construction of a new petrochemical complex in Taiwan's south that environmentalists believe will damage the local agriculture sector and surrounding wetlands, while putting the health of local residents at risk. Wally Santana/AP
A model poses next to FAW's X concept car at the Shanghai International Auto Show in China. Eugene Hoshiko/AP
A woman holds a lit candle in front of the graves of her relatives at a cemetery in the village of Copaciu, Romania. Orthodox women went to church and cemeteries in the early morning on Maundy Thursday to light candles, burn incense and mourn their dead relatives as part of a southern Romania tradition. Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, is the day Christians commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters
Maria, a bus driver, wears traditional Papua wear as she drives a passenger bus through the streets of Jakarta, Indonesia. She is one of the few Indonesian women who work as bus drivers in Jakarta. Maria wore her traditional clothes to mark the birthday anniversary of the late Raden Ajeng Kartini, an Indonesian women's rights fighter. Supri/Reuters
Wakana Kumagai (l.), prays with her mother, Yoshiko, and brother Koki in front of the grave of her father, who was killed by the March 11 tsunami, at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, after attending an entrance ceremony of Omagari elementary school. Toru Hanai/Reuters
Dancers from the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre perform Swan Lake during a dress rehearsal at the Taiwan National Theatre in Taipei, Taiwan. The show is set to be performed from April 21-24. Nicky Loh/Reuters
Fishermen travel in a motorboat through a river as the sun sets at Marinduque Island, central Philippines. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
Irish Guards are inspected on the parade ground by Master Tailor Lance Sergeant Matthew Else, (r.), at their barracks in Windsor, southern England. The Guards will perform ceremonial duties at the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29. Eddie Keogh/Reuters
Penitents participate in the Procession of the Torches during Holy Week in Goias Velho, west of Brasilia, Brazil. Hundreds of Easter processions take place as part of Holy Week in Brazil, drawing thousands of visitors. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
A polar bear chews on decorated Easter eggs with food inside at the zoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Natacha Pisarenko/AP
Russia's Irina Zabludina (in blue) and Azerbaijan's Kifayat Gasimova compete in the women's under 57 kg repechage match at the Judo European Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Osman Orsal/Reuters
High tension linemen perform maintenance on electrical power lines from a basket suspended from a helicopter above a field of colza in Janneyrias, France, Wednesday. Robert Pratta/Reuters
Members of the Catholic clergy hold candles as they walk around the Stone of Anointing, where Christians believe the body of Jesus was prepared for burial, during a procession at the traditional Washing of the Feet ceremony inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ahead of Easter celebrations in the Old City of Jerusalem. Darren Whiteside/Reuters
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