Darrin Zammit Lupi—Reuters
April 19, 2013. A child stands in the doorway of a mud-built house constructed by Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM- Good Jesus) for a widow it provides care for in Gatumba, outside Bujumbura. SYM is a Jesuit-run project seeking to prevent the spread of AIDS as well as to alleviate the suffering of those affected. According to the African Jesuit AIDS Network, in late 2011, it was reported that more than 60,000 Burundians needed treatment for HIV, but less than 25,000 had access to antiretroviral drugs.
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April 19, 2013. A 5-year-old girl, according to police, is wheeled into a hospital for treatment after she was raped and tortured in New Delhi. Officials say the child is in serious condition after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. Police say the girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents.
Mostafa Elshemy—AP
April 19, 2013. Egyptian protesters clash near a bus belonging to Muslim Brotherhood supporters burns after it was reportedly set alight by anti-government protesters in Cairo. Clashes erupted between several hundred opponents and supporters of Egyptís Islamist president during a rally by his allies, calling on him to "cleanse the judiciary" of alleged supporters of the old regime.
Raminder Pal Singh—EPA
April 19, 2013. An Indian girl dressed as Hindu Goddess, Kali prepares to take part in a religious procession taken out on the occasion of Ramnavmi festival in Amritsar, India. The festival commemorates the birth of Hindu God Lord Rama.
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April 19, 2013. This new Hubble image, captured and released by the ESA-NASA Hubble Heritage to celebrate the telescope's 23 year in orbit, shows part of the sky in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33.
Dominick Reuter—Reuters
April 20, 2013. Nicole Collier Lynch, sister of slain MIT police officer Sean Collier, hugs a Wellesley police officer during a vigil at the Town Common in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Collier, 26, was shot multiple times in his car on as Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan tried to evade capture.
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April 20, 2013. Watertown Police officer Brandon O'Neill stands and listens to a pastor's words during a candlelight vigil at Victory Park in Watertown, Massachusetts. A manhunt for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing ended after he was apprehended on a boat parked on a residential property in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Dado Ruvic—Reuters
April 20, 2013. Bosnian Muslim women stand near graves before a mass funeral in the town of Vlasenica, in the Serbian part of Bosnia. The remains of some 11 Bosnian Muslims, killed by Serb forces during the country's 1992-1995 Bosnian war, were exhumed from mass graves near Vlasenica with more expected to be found.
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April 20, 2013. A giant panda climbs a tree in the Bifengxia Base of China Conservation and Research Centre for the giant panda after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the city of Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan province.
Jianan Yu—Reuters
April 22, 2013. A new-born baby which was born in a relief tent is attended by medical staff after an earthquake, which claimed nearly 200 lives, hit Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province. |