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April 24, 2011
 
 
 
April 25: English bulldogs attend an international dog show in Szivasvarad, 160 km (99 miles) northeast of Budapest April 24, 2011.
 

April 25: English bulldogs attend an international dog show in Szivasvarad, 160 km (99 miles) northeast of Budapest April 24, 2011.

Photograph by: Laszlo Balogh, Reuters

 
April 25: English bulldogs attend an international dog show in Szivasvarad, 160 km (99 miles) northeast of Budapest April 24, 2011.
April 25: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff campaigns Sunday in Toronto
April 25: Baby Joseph Maraachli holds a finger of his father Moe Maraachli at their Windsor residence on April 24, 2011.
April 25: A Yemeni army officer is carried by anti-government protesters as he joins them in a rally Sunday
April 25: Samran Chea Sophorn, 39, carries a fish basket along the Mekong River bank. A $3.8-billion hydroelectric scheme for the important waterway has been put on hold.
April 25: A woman sits on a donkey before joining the "Virgem da Atalaia" procession during Holy Week in Alcochete near Lisbon April 24, 2011. This procession has been held annually for about 400 years ago. In the past only single women rode the donkeys to ask help from the Virgin to find a husband.
Devotees hold flowers to place on a sand sculpture of Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, created by sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik, on a beach in Puri, about 62 km (39 miles) east from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar April 24, 2011. Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died on Sunday in a hospital in southern India. He was 86.
Players battle for the ball during the annual Lelo match in the village of Shukhuti, about 290 km (180 miles) west of Tbilisi, April 24, 2011. The villagers of Zemo (upper) Shukhuti and Kvemo (lower) Shukhuti have played the game every Easter Sunday for generations, with each side trying to carry the 16 kg (35 lbs) ball to their end of the neighbouring villages.
Tanks and soldiers are seen purportedly near Deraa, where mass protests were taking place on Sunday, in this still image taken from amateur video footage uploaded to social networking websites on April 24, 2011. Thousands of Syrians called for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday at a funeral for protesters killed by security forces in the southern town of Nawa, 25 km (15 miles) north of the city of Deraa, a witness said.
Players battle for the ball during the annual Lelo match in the village of Shukhuti, about 290 km (180 miles) west of Tbilisi, April 24, 2011. The villagers of Zemo (upper) Shukhuti and Kvemo (lower) Shukhuti have played the game every Easter Sunday for generations, with each side trying to carry the 16 kg (35 lbs) ball to their end of the neighbouring villages.
April 24: A devotee of Satya Sai Baba bursts into tears after his death was announced in the village of Puttaparthi, some 200kms north of Bangalore. Indian spiritual leader Sai Baba, one of the country's most famous gurus, died in hospital on April 24, 2011, television channels reported. He passed away at the age of 85 due to cardio-respiratory failure after spending more than three weeks in critical condition, the NDTV news channel quoted doctors as saying.
April 24: Turkish air force patrollers fly by as Turkish soldiers watch during a ceremony celebrating the 96th anniversary of Anzac Day in Canakkale. A dawn ceremony on April 25 marks the time of the first landings of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at the Gallipoli peninsula in the ill-fated Allied campaign to take the Dardanelles Strait from the Ottoman Empire. In the ensuing eight months of fighting, about 11,500 ANZAC troops were killed, fighting alongside British, Indian and French soldiers against losses Turks put down of some 86,000 soldiers. Every April, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders, many of them young backpackers, make the pilgrimage to the historic peninsula to commemorate the gruelling battle that was their first real test of World War One.
April 24: Portraits of a rescue workers, known as liquidators, sent to fight the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant 25 years ago, are hung on a wooden crosses as part of a fake cimetery made by anti-nuclear power activists during a protest in front of a nuclear power plant at the French southwestern city of Golfech.
April 24: An Orthodox Jewish man mourns during the funeral of Ben-Yosef Livnat, 24-years-old, at the Mount of Olives cemetery in east Jerusalem after he was shot dead by Palestinian policemen who fired on a group of Israeli pilgrims on their way to pray in the holy shrine of Joseph's Tomb in the northern city of Nablus, Israel's military said.
April 24: Iraqi policemen stop a driver to search his vehicle at a checkpoint in Baghdad as part of security measures following deadly gun attacks against senior Iraqi officials and military leaders in recent weeks.
April 24: US and Japanese soldiers prepare to clear debris left by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami from the tracks around Rikuzenono Station in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. Some 60 US and 30 Japanese soldiers took part in the clean up "Operation Soul Train."
April 24: Orthodox believers attend an Orthodox Easter service in Moscow at the Christ the Saviour cathedral.
April 22: A man plays guitar in the earthquake-destroyed Cathedral of Port-au Prince before the Easter Eucharist on April 21, 2011 in Port-au-Prince.
April 22: Indonesian activists participate in a protest against deforestation to mark World Earth day in Malang on April 22, 2011. Indonesia is the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, due mainly to rampant deforestation by the palm oil and paper industries, which according to a report released by the Indonesian government mostly operate illegally in Borneo.
April 22: A wooden cross stands amid the tsunami devastation at a place where a church used to stand in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture on April 22, 2011. Japan on April 22 announced a $49 billion special budget for areas devastated by last month's quake and tsunami and said it would extend an evacuation zone around a nuclear plant crippled by the disaster.
April 22: Penitents taking part in the "Cristo Salvador y del Amparo" brotherhood procession walk in front of women sunbathing at the beach in Valencia on April 22,2011.
April 22: A blowfly (calliphoridae) sits on the blossom of a cherry laurel in Ludwigsburg, southern Germany, on April 22, 2011. Sping brought a warm and sunny day to wide parts of the country.
APril 22: Penitents wait as they take part in the Cristo de la Sangre procession during the Holy Week in Palma de Mallorca on April 21, 2011.
April 22: An image of Pope John Paul II is projected on the Foro di Augusto in Rome, on April 21, 2011, during a performance to celebrate the anniversary of the legendary foundation of the city of Rome, in 753 B.C.
April 22: A farmer ties plastic bags to birch trees to collect birch sap in a forest near the village of Okolovo, outside Minsk, on April 21, 2011.
April 22: Artist Will Barnet, 99, paints inside his studio home in New York April 20, 2011. Born in 1911, Barnet continues to create new art and will celebrate his 100th birthday in May of this year.
April 21: Two hot air balloons fly in front of the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) as the sun shines in Dresden, eastern Germany, on April 21, 2011.
April 21: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Westminster Abbey in central London following the Royal Maundy Service on April 21, 2011. Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 85th birthday by visiting London's Westminster Abbey, days before her grandson Prince William is married there. The monarch was to attend the Royal Maundy service, an Easter tradition whereby the sovereign gives out specially-minted silver coins to the elderly.
APril 21: A Ugandan anti-riot police officer walks past a truck of bananas along a street market in Kalerwe suburb of the capital Kampala April 21, 2011. Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was detained on Thursday after being arrested and charged in court over marching in a fourth round of protests against high prices.
APril 21: A flagellant whips his back with bamboo during the re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Manila on April 21, 2010. Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines recently criticised the traditional Easter rituals of people publicly whipping themselves or having themselves crucified. About 75 million Filipinos, out of a national population of 93 million, are Catholics, a legacy of the country's Spanish colonial past.
April 21: Ugandan police confront followers of opposition leader Kizza Besigye moments after he was arrested for the third time this month on April 21, 2011 as they broke up a new "walk to work" protest with tear gas, an AFP correspondent reported. Besigye, who was briefly detained on Monday and last week in similar circumstances, has been staging twice-weekly protests in which he walks to work to denounce rising fuel prices.On Thursday he drove half way and left his car on the edge of Kampala, with hundreds of people soon gathering in his wake, cheering, dancing and lying down on the road in front of him.
April 21: An Indonesian man performs as the traditional effigy named Ondel-ondel during a sponsored mass wedding ceremony in Jakarta on April 21, 2011. Around 200 couples coming from the poorer areas of Jakarta took part in the mass wedding sponsored by a state company.
A man (below-C) walks past the smouldering remains of burnt out buildings at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre on April 21, 2011. Buildings were set ablaze as authorities struggled to gain control of a volatile situation, with a number of asylum seekers also protesting on a rooftop within the centre.
April 21: Fire destroyed this log home on Upper Dwyer Hill Road in Ottawa on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries, but a family of four is homeless and the family dog is believed to have perished.
Neymar, of Brazil’s Santos FC, celebrates his goal scored against Venezuela’s Deportivo Tachira, during their 2011 Copa Libertadores football match held at Pacaembu stadium, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 20, 2011.
April 21: A Libyan female member of Moamer Kadhafi's forces guards a checkpoint at a street in Tripoli on April 20, 2011. France said it has sent military advisers into insurgent-held eastern Libya, with Britain and Italy set to follow suit, as Tripoli warned foreign boots on the ground would prolong the conflict.
April 21: Rush's Alex Lifeson (left) and Geddy Lee performed Wednesday at the Bell Centre.
 
 
 
 
 

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