Apr. 04 - Apr. 10 2015

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Girls who survived what activists said was a ground-to-ground missile

attack by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, hold hands at

Aleppo's Bab al-Hadeed district on April 7, 2015.

An Israeli boy swims next to sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer in the

West Bank village of Al-Auja on April 8, 2015 during the Jewish Passover.

A whirlwind kicks up a column of volcanic ash on the slope of

Mount Sinabung volcano following an eruption on April 1.

A Vatican Swiss guard stands in St. Peter's square before Pope Francis

leads the Easter mass at the Vatican on April 5, 2015.

Renato Dias, 39, writes in his notebook as he poses for a portrait in an open-

air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” where users can buy

crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

An unexploded rocket remains embedded in a field near

the village of Dmitrivka, Ukraine, on April 7, 2015.

Dog owner Laura Aquilina strolls with her Rottweiler Brutus, who was

recently fitted with prosthetics on all four paws, and is learning to use them,

in Loveland, Colorado, Brutus lost all four paws to frostbite as a puppy while

under care of a breeder, and Aquilina began caring for him about a year ago.

A hand is seen as Iraqi forensic teams recover dead bodies from a mass

grave in the presidential compound of the former Iraqi president

Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, Iraq, on April 6, 2015.

A competitor smiles during a break as he attends the 3rd Russian

Beard and Mustache Championships in Moscow on April 4, 2015.

A woman enjoys the sun on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air

temperature at about 13 Celsius (55.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the Taiga district

outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on April 6, 2015.

L. Chris Stewart representing the family of Walter Lamer Scott, Scott appears

to be running away from City Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager (right), as

Slager fired 8 shots at him in North Charleston, South Carolina, Slager was

charged with murder, hours after officials viewed the dramatic video.

A construction worker holds a turtle for sale near a construction site in Beijing

on April 7, 2015. In China, turtles are raised as pets, as well as food.

Jewish men draped in the Talith traditional prayer male shawl perform

the Priestly Blessing during the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the

Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on April 6, 2015.

Pakistani mourners offer funeral prayers for laborers killed by Afghan

Taliban militants during a ceremony in Charsada on April 9, 2015.

Prime Minister David Cameron feeds orphaned lambs on Dean Lane

farm near the village of Chadlington, England, on April 5, 2015.

School children listen to their teacher at a government-run

school in Allahabad, India, on April 9, 2015.

A man stands next to a lion which was anaesthetized in a truck in

Champetieres, France, during the evacuation of over 160 animals

from the Bouy zoo which is in compulsory liquidation.

Smoke billows from a Saudi-led airstrike on Sanaa, Yemen, on April 8, 2015.

A vehicle partially submerged in dry mud is pictured in an area that

was hit by floods at Chanaral town, Chile, on April 8, 2015.

People fight with pillows during International Pillow Fight Day

at Heroes Square in Budapest on April 4, 2015.

An internally displaced Pakistani girl from a tribal area attends her

daily lesson at a madrassa, a school for the study of Islam, on the

outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 6, 2015.

Firefighters battle a fire at the explosion site of PX chemical

plant on April 7, 2015 in Zhangzhou, China.

A boy poses with a soccer ball on the banks of the Rio Negro River in Catalao

community near Manaus, in Amazonas state, Brazil, on April 4, 2015.

Gary Saurage stands near an alligator safely hauled out

of a rural pond in Grove, Texas on April 6, 2015.

An army officer writes a number on the arm of Thanompong, a 21-year-old

transgender, during an army draft held at a school in Klong Toey, the dockside

slum area in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 5, 2015.

American Civil War re-enactors dressed as Confederate cavalry and artillery

take part in a re-enactment of the Battle of Appomattox at the Appomattox

Court House National Historical Park in Virginia on April 8, 2015.