EASTER MASKS: A youth with a mask dressed as a “Judas” poses for a picture during a break while participate in “Los Encadenados,” or The Chained Ones procession on Good Friday during Holy...
EXECUTION PARDONED: In these dramatic photos provided by ISNA, an semi-official news agency in Iran , taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 Samereh Alinejad is slapping blindfolded Bilal, who was co...
AN ORANGUTAN WALKS INTO A DOCTOR’S OFFICE ….. Veterinary staff members of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme center conducts medical examinations on a 14-year-old male orangutan fo...
DRAMATIC SEA RESCUE: 20 kilometres off the island of Byungpoong in Jindo on April 16, 2014 shows South Korea Coast Guard members rescuing some of the 477 passengers and crew aboard a South Korean...
HOLY WEEK IN SPAIN: Penitents from ‘Cristo de la Buena Muerte’ or 'Good Dead Christ’ brotherhood take part in a procession in Zamora, Spain, on the early hours of Tuesday, April 15, 2014. ...
ROYAL BATTING PRACTICE: APRIL 14: Prince William, Duke of Cambridge AND Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge plays cricket in Latimer Square Gardens on April 14, 2014 in Christchurch, New Zealand....
CALL TO THE POST: Bugler Jay Elmore, of Dalals, warms up for the Call to the Post between races of the thoroughbred horse racing season-opener at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, Texas, on Thursd...
BEE MAN: This picture taken on April 9, 2014 shows She Ping, a 34 year-old local beekeeper, covered with a swarm of bees on a small hill in southwest China’s Chongqing. She Ping released mo...
SKYDIVE EXTRAVAGANZA: In this Tuesday, April 1, 2014 photo provided by The World Team, a group of 222 skydivers from 28 nations, team members dive over Eloy, Ariz. The jump was part of the grou...
SMOG ALERT: The skyscrapers of the Canary Wharf business district in London are shrouded in smog, as seen from a viewing gallery on the Orbit sculpture in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park during ...
PROTEST IN CARACAS: An anti-government demonstrator clashes with the National Guard in Caracas on March 29, 2014. Venezuelan security forces have cleared barricades from San Cristobal, the wester...
JAPAN CONFORMS: From new hires at Japan Airlines Co. to welcoming new ministry workers at Department of Defense, it’s all about conformity in Japan. Top Series: A Japan Airlines Co. (JAL)...
ANTARCTICA: Picture of Antarctica taken from the Brazilian icebreaker and oceanographic research vessel Ary Rongel, on March 4, 2014. There’s a delicate balance between the two great – and so...
BUTTERFLY ALERT: A butterfly sits on a child’s nose in the Natural History Museum’s ‘Sensational Butterflies’ outdoor butterfly house on March 31, 2014 in London, England. The tempora...
BABY BEARS: (Top image) n this picture taken Sunday, March 30, 2014, eleven year old bear mother Luna, rear watches one of her cubs in front of their cave in the Bavarian Forest National Park ne...
GHOST FLIGHT: This shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion aircraft is seen on low cloud cover while it searches for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, over the Indian Ocean on Marc...
THE PRESIDENT AND THE POPE: Pope Francis and US President Barack Obama met in a private audience on March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. The meeting at the Vatican comes as a welcome rest-stop for Obam...
THIS IS SPRING?? Atlantic Canada is enduring a spring blizzard that could dump more than a foot of snow, bring wind gusts of more than 100 kilometres per hour and storm surges that could dama...
BULLET X-RAY: An X-ray film shows a bullet lodged on 18-month-old boy Satrin Osinya ®, as he receives treatment at the Kenyatta National hospital Nairobi March 26, 2014 , three days after gunmen...
BOOM: Russian Soyuz-FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft and a crew of US astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev aboard, blasts off from a launc...