A Hindu devotee, face smeared with coloured
powder, leaves the Banke Bihari temple during Holi celebrations in
Vrindavan, India. Holi, the Hindu festival of colours and also marks the
advent of spring. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
Snow patrol - Ukrainian soldiers clear the
grounds of the Pechersk Lavra, an Orthodox Christian monastery, in
downtown Kiev, Ukraine. Over the last three days, 74 thousand tons of
snow have been removed from the capital. Photograph: Sergey
Dolzhenko/EPA
Flying visit: The Prince of Wales arrives by
helicopter during a visit to the Land Rover Experience driver training
programme at Kitridding Farm, Lupton, Cumbria. Photograph: Peter
Byrne/PA
Family members of 34 Turkish Kurdish
civilians, who were killed in Dec. 2011 in a botched raid on the
Turkey-Iraq border by Turkish military jets, hold their pictures as they
stage a protest outside Turkey's parliament in Ankara. Photograph:
Burhan Ozbilici/AP
One hump or two? A baby Bactrian camel
stands between its parents, as it explores their enclosure for the first
time at West Midlands Safari Park, Bewdley. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
Did you miss me? Leading Seaman Kyle
Broomhead from Barnsley doesn't quite get the reaction he'd hoped for as
he kisses his daughter six month old Phoebe after returning from
deployment aboard HMS Edinburgh, the Navy's last remaining Type 42
destroyer, at the Royal Navy Dockyard in Portsmouth. Photograph: Chris
Ison/PA
Roman Catholic clergymen hold candles as
they circle the Anointing Stone during the Holy Thursday mass at the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's old city ahead of Easter
celebrations. Photograph: Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images
Spring has sprung for the Chinese. A cherry
blossom stands beside an ancient Chinese pagoda at the Yuyuan Tan Park
during the start of the blossom season in Beijing. Thousands of
Beijingers flock to parks around the city during the one month blossom
season which coincides with the Qingming tomb sweeping day. Photograph:
Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
A tough day for the bank managers of Cyprus as they try to calm people as they wait for the banks for open. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
Roma people wait as bulldozers destroy their
makeshift camp near Lyon. The European Association for the Defence of
Human Rights said almost 12,000 ethnic Roma were evicted from camps
across France in 2012 and French Interior Minister Manuel Valls
announced he will continue the dismantling of camps. Photograph: Jeff
Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images
Porn and piglets: an employee poses next to
an art work depicting French former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan
entitled La Pig by British artist Joe Black at the Opera Galleryin
London. The work is made up of small badges showing pornographic images
and photos of piglets and was created for French magazine Paris Match to
celebrate its publication of 1001 covers since 1949. Photograph: Carl
Court/AFP/Getty Images
A Yemeni man holds the Syrian flag during a
rally in support of President Bashar Assad in Sanaa, Yemen. Photograph:
Hani Mohammed/AP
The scene following an explosion on
Murdiston Avenue in Callander, near Stirling. Two pensioners have been
taken to hospital following the blast which totally demolished a house.
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
Eye-opening fashion during the MGPIN
collection show on the fourth day of Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week in
Beijing, China. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty
Images
Large queues formed outside the banks in
Cyprus this morning as they reopened after nearly two weeks. Strict
controls have been imposed with a withdrawal limit set at 300 euros per
person. More on the story. Photograph: Katia Christodoulou/EPA
Locals watch their homes engulfed by flames
as a fire destroys 400 wooden houses leaving 3,000 people homeless, Kota
Kinabalu, Malaysia. Photograph: ZUMA/Rex Features
Easter celebrations are under way throughout
the Christian world. Penitents of Santisimo Cristo de las Injurias
brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zamora, northern
Spain. Photograph: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP
Filipino hooded penitents stop at a prayer
station during Maundy Thursday rituals to atone for sins in Mandaluyong,
east of Manila, Philippines. The ritual is frowned upon by church
leaders in this predominantly Roman Catholic country. Photograph: Aaron
Favila/AP
Pope Francis leads the Chrismal mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
Imagine the noise! Children play the violin
during the opening concert of the 16th Suzuki Method World Convention in
Japan. Around 2,000 Japanese and foreign children displayed their
skills during the opening concert. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty
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A bee collects nectar from a sunflower in a
field near in Leibstadt, Switzerland. Pesticides have been found to make
bees forget the scent for food. Read more on the bees' plight. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
View of a full moon coming out from behind the central Andes in Cali, Colombia. Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images
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