The Week in Pictures: April 10 - April 16 - NBC News.com

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Trees are stripped and uprooted on a street in Fairdale, Ill., at dawn on April 10 after a tornado destroyed much of the town the previous night, killing two people.




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Colored powder covers the face of a man during the Bisket Jatra Festival on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 15. The festival marks the Nepali new year.




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Workers pick asparagus near Ruhlsdorf, Germany, on April 10. Summer temperatures accompanied the start of the harvest season at Brandenburg's asparagus farms.




Barry Kough / Lewiston Tribune

Passerby Jason Warnock, 29, rescues 23-year-old Mathew Sitko from his SUV after it left the road and was stopped by a chain link fence just short of a 30-foot vertical drop in Lewiston, Idaho, on April 15.




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A relative of a victim of the Sewol ferry disaster holds a flower as he stands on the deck of a boat during a visit to the site of the sunken ferry off the coast of South Korea's southern island of Jindo on April 15. Relatives visited the site on the first anniversary of the disaster which killed 304 people, mostly high school students.




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Syrian emergency services personnel try to pull a woman out from under the rubble of a building following a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces on the rebel held Bustan al-Qasr district in the east of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 13.

The Syrian civil war has killed at least 220,000 people and displaced 11 million, according to the U.N.




Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

A tractor collects golf balls on a driving range in the Palm Springs area on April 13. The average daily water usage per person in Palm Springs is 201 gallons, more than double the California average. California's cities and towns would be required to cut their water usage by up to 35 percent or face steep fines under proposed new rules, the state's first-ever mandatory cutbacks in urban water use as the state enters its fourth year of severe drought.




Yves Herman / Reuters

A vehicle is surrounded by fields of flowers near the Keukenhof park, also known as the "Garden of Europe," in Lisse, Netherlands on April 15.




David Goldman / AP

Mourners look on as the casket of Walter Scott is removed from a hearse for his funeral on April 11 in Summerville, S.C.

Scott was shot to death by a white police officer. A video taken by a witness showed the officer firing eight shots at Scott's back as he was running away. Scott was apparently unarmed.




China Stringer Network / Reuters

Students take an examination on an open-air playground at a high school in Yichuan, in China's Shaanxi province on April 11. More than 1,700 freshmen students took part in the exam, which was the first attempt by the school to administer it outside.




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An Asiana Airlines airplane sits in the grass after it skidded off the runway while landing at Hiroshima airport in western Japan on April 15. About 20 people received minor injuries, officials said. The Airbus A320 was arriving from the South Korean capital of Seoul.




Carlos Barria / Reuters

A woman plays with a kitten in downtown Shanghai, China, on April 12.




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Heidi Pham of Minneapolis walks along the Tidal Basin on April 11 in Washington, D.C., as the city's cherry trees neared their peak bloom.