April 9, 2012. A North Korean woman cleans a portrait of the late North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim Il Sung at an office in Pyongyang.Ng Han Guan—AP
From North Korea’s rocket Unha-3 and the Trayvon Martin case to wildfires in the New York City metropolitan area and the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
April 8, 2012. A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket, which is sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang.Bobby Yip—ReutersApril 9, 2012. A North Korean woman cleans a portrait of the late North Korean leaders Kim Jong Il, right, and Kim Il Sung at an office in Pyongyang.Ng Han Guan—APApril 8, 2012. A North Korean soldier stands at a check point seen from a train heading to North Phyongan Province, about 50 km (35 miles) south of the border town of Sinuiju along North Korea's west coast.David Guttenfelder—APApril 11, 2012. Parliamentary election posters are hung across Chunggye stream in a campaign to boost votes in Seoul.Kim Kyun-Hoon—ReutersApril 10, 2012. People wearing 3D glasses watch the film "Titanic 3D" at a movie theater in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China.ReutersApril 9, 2012. A U.S. Army soldier checks his gear before a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.Baz Ratner—ReutersApril 7, 2012. U.S. soldiers from Charlie troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th brigade, 82nd Airborne division, smoke cigarettes before a joint mission with the Afghan Army in the Maiwand district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Baz Ratner—ReutersApril 9, 2012. An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Spc. Antonio C. Burnside of Great Falls, Mont., upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del.Jose Luis Magana—APApril 11, 2012. A firefighter helps battle a brush fire in the Meadowlands near Metlife Stadium in Carlstadt, N.J.Michael Bocchieri—Getty ImagesApril 10, 2012. Firefighters contain a wildfire that started in a wood compost at the former Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, N.Y.Todd Heisler—Reuters April 12, 2012. A firefighter stands amid the disaster caused by an oil pipeline explosion in San Isidro Mazatepec, 30 km from Guadalajara city, Jalisco State, Mexico.Hector Guerrero—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 6, 2012. A child runs through a fountain in an overflow park during the 2012 Sydney Royal Easter Show at the Sydney Showground. Mark Kolbe—Getty ImagesApril 12, 2012. Students wait for the arrival of Mexico's President Felipe Calderon before the inauguration of the Small Brothers school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Ramon Espinosa—APApril 9, 2012. Syrian refugees watch the border from Oncupinar Refugee Camp in Kilis, Turkey.IHA / AFP / Getty ImagesApril 10, 2012. The carcass of the world's most well-preserved baby mammoth, named Lyuba, is displayed in Hong Kong.Aaron Tam—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 10, 2012. A Pakistani boy swims in a water reservoir to cool off as the temperature rises, while others wait their turn, next to a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APApril 11, 2012. The Canadian navy submarine HMCS Windsor is lowered into the water from a dry dock after undergoing a five year refit at CFB Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Windsor is one of four former Royal Navy Upholder class submarines that Canada had purchased. Paul Darrow—ReutersApril 11, 2012. Sailors of Team Artemis Racing climb on their boat after they capsized during the first Fleet Race of the America's Cup World Series (ACWS) off Naples.Mario Laporta—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 9, 2012. Tourists enjoy the weather and sun on the beach of Giglio Island near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia.Francesa Baldi—EPAApril 6, 2012. Britain's Victoria Pendleton lies on the track after crashing during her semifinal against Australian Anna Meares in the women's sprint at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne.Rick Rycroft—APApril 10, 2012. A woman tries a weapon at the LAAD Security 2012 Fair in Barra da Tijuca, near Rio de Janeiro.Christophe Simon—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 9, 2012. A police officer stands near evidence markers at a crime scene in Ajijic on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico.Alejandro Acosta—ReutersApril 9, 2012. A victim of a bomb explosion receives treatment at St Gerard's Catholic hospital in Kaduna, Nigeria.Sunday Alamba / APApril 6, 2012. A player takes a shot in the British and World Marble Championships in Tinsey Green, England.Peter Macdiardmid—Getty ImagesApril 7, 2012. A disabled Afghan boy waits for treatment at an ICRC hospital for war victims at the Orthopedic Center of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Parwiz—ReutersApril 6, 2012. Shutter-happy cherry blossom viewers take pictures of two cats on a branch at Ueno Park in Tokyo.Natsuki Sakai—Nippon News / ABACA USAApril 11, 2012. Syrian refugee children look out of a bus after they arrived from Syria at the Oncupinar refugee camp in Kilis near Syria border. Syria pounded protest hubs, despite mounting pressure from world powers, as peace envoy Kofi Annan said there is still a chance to salvage his plan to halt hostilities within hours. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 12, 2012. A blind Palestinian student is wheeled by her classmate into a courtyard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)-run al-Nour (Light) School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Children in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem—ReutersApril 11, 2012. Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton listens during a news conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington.Jacquelyn Martin—AP11 April 2012. A vehicle driven by agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and containing George Zimmerman arrives in the sally port of the Seminole County Correctional Facility to drop off Zimmerman following an announcement by special prosecutor Angela Corey in the Trayvon Martin shooting case in Sanford, Florida, USA. Corey detailed plans to charge George Zimmerman with second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The Sanford Police Department's failure to arrest Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watch captain, following the shooting death of 17 year-old Martin in February has lead to wide-spread protest. Brian Blanco—EPAApril 9, 2012. A woman takes a photo as U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.Kevin Dietsch—ABACA USAApril 9, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama does pushups during basketball shooting drills at the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.Brendan Smialowski—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 8, 2012. Kickboxers train at the youth club in Juba, South Sudan. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah—ReutersApril 7, 2012. Young Chinese gymnasts train at a special sport school in Hefei, east China's Anhui province.AFP / Getty ImagesApril 8, 2012. Pablo Leal Requejo plays the role of an angel during the 'Bajada del Angel' Eastern Holy Week celebration in Penafiel, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APApril 6, 2012. An actor dressed as Jesus Christ is seen on the cross in a re-enactment of Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday in Caracas' biggest slum, Petare.Jorge Silva—ReutersApril 6, 2012. Penitents from 'Jesus Yacente' brotherhood take part in a procession in Zamora, Spain.Daneil Ochoa de Olza—APApril 8, 2012. Haitians participate in a ritual during the Voodoo Festival at Souvenance village, Gonaives, Artibonito Department, northern Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.Eliana Aponte—Xinhua / ZUMA PressApril 12, 2012. Ethiopian Orthodox worshipers pray during the Washing of the Feet ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of Orthodox Easter.Ronen Zvulun—ReutersApril 10, 2012. A woman, who came from a rural area to find a job, sleeps on luggage as her daughter rests on top of her at Shenyang railway station in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.ReutersApril 10, 2012. Elderly people nap in a day care center for the aged in Pudong New Area in Shanghai.Barcroft Media / LandovApril 7, 2012. People take part in the International Pillow Fight Day in Trafalgar Square in London.Olivia Harris—ReutersApril 12, 2012. Children dressed as Hindu goddesses wait to participate in a parade during the Gajan festival in Calcutta, India. This festival runs for a month and ends with the beginning of the Bengali New Year in the month of April. The main object of this festival is to celebrate the marriage of the sun and the earth. Piyal Adhikary—EPAApril 12, 2012. Hindu holy men step over children as a ritual to bless them during a religious procession to mark the Gajan festival in Kolkata. Devotees offer prayers during the month-long festival in hopes of winning the god's favour and ensuring fulfilment of their wishes, as the festival ends on the last day of the Bengali calendar year on April 13. Rupak De Chowdhuri—ReutersApril 13, 2012. Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, about 165 km (100 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad.Mian Khursheed—ReutersApril 9, 2012. Goats and their handlers, known as jockeys, race around the bend in the "derby" during the Carnbee / Mt. Pleasant Tobago Community Council's goat race and family day at the Mt. Pleasant multiplex in Trinidad and Tobago.Andrea De Silva—ReutersApril 8, 2012. Memorial flags and rock piles are left on the main track to Mt. Everest near Lobuche, Nepal, in memory of those who have died.PA Photos / Landov13 April 13, 2012. A handout photo provided by Gerry Hofstetter Marketing shows a projection of the 'Titanic' on a 500-metre-long iceberg in the Northern Polar sea of Greenland. Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter projected pictures of the Titanic on a giant iceberg to mark the 100th anniversary of its maiden voyage Titanic. The ship sank on 15 April 1912. Mike Kessler—EPAApril 13, 2012View of the fountains of lava and ash from the new crater southeast of Etna, seen from Montagnola, Nicolosi, Italy, EPA/FRANCESCO PAPPALARDOFrancesco Pappalardo—EPAApril 12, 2012, A handout image made available by the European Southern Observatiory ESO showing a new picture of the dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The underlying blue picture shows an earlier picture obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The new ALMA image has given astronomers a major breakthrough in understanding a nearby planetary system and provided valuable clues about how such systems form and evolve. ALMA has so far only observed a part of the ring. ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/NASA/ESA HUBBLE TELESCOPE/EPAApril 13, 2012. The Juche Tower rises above early morning fog in Pyongyang. North Korea launched a long-range rocket, South Korea's defence ministry and US officials said, with Japan saying that the launch had appeared to have failed. Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
