April 26, 2012. A victim watches a broadcast of the trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor, taking place in the Hague, inside the Special Court in Freetown, Liberia.Issouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty Images
From the first round of voting in the French presidential elections and the crisis between Sudan and South Sudan to the continuing eruption of Mt. Etna and a plane crash in Pakistan, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
April 23, 2012. The burnt body of a boy killed during an air strike by the Sudanese air force is covered with sheets in a market in Rubkona near Bentiu, South Sudan.Goran Tomasevic—ReutersApril 23, 2012. A Bahraini Shiite Muslim woman mourns during the funeral of Salah Abbas, 36, whose body was found late last week after he was allegedly shot dead by security forces, in the Shiite village of Bilad Al-Qadim, near Manama, Bahrain.AFP / Getty ImagesApril 22, 2012. An Indian boy takes a dip in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.Mustafa Quraishi—APApril 20, 2012. Blanc Dalefre poses for a portrait next to his bus decorated with the face of FC Barcelona's soccer player Lionel Messi in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Ramon Espinosa—APApril 24, 2012. North Korea's new commander in chief, Kim Jong-Un, is displayed on a giant screen during a concert on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army in Pyongyang.Ng Han Guan—APApril 24, 2012. Pakistani Nori Basheer, 25, who was displaced by the 2010 floods, plays with her son Baber, while sitting outside her makeshift tent in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APApril 22, 2012. In the finale of the Sea Odyssey, the giant deep sea diver, the little giant girl and her dog Xolo sail along the River Mersey through pyrotechnic smoke watched by thousands of people in Liverpool, England.Christopher Furlong—Getty ImagesApril 24, 2012. Space suits of U.S. astronaut Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Revin and Padalka are ready for a crew's training session at the Star City space center outside Moscow.Sergei Remezov—ReutersApril 24, 2012. Night view of an area affected by a forest fire at La Primavera, near Guadalajara, Mexico.Ulises Ruiz Basurto—EFE / ZUMA PressApril 22, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney addresses the Franklin County Lincoln Day Dinner in Greencastle, Pa.Jae C. Hong—APApril 22, 2012. An Israeli soldier holds a small Israeli flag before he lays it on the graves of fallen soldiers during a ceremony at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. Abir Sultan—EPAApril 20, 2012. Israeli soldiers watch a Palestinian man wearing a mask as he pokes his head over a wall during clashes in the weekly Friday demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Salah against the construction of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamesh.Abbas Momani—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 20, 2012. New stone fields mark the barracks of the Nazi death camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, around 50 km (31 miles) north of Berlin.Markus Schreiber—APApril 20, 2012. A dead donkey lies partially covered by the wind-swept sand in an area of desert where villagers take dead animals to avoid the smell and potential for disease affecting them, near the village of Dala in the Sahel belt of Chad.Ben Curtis—APApril 20, 2012. People smoke marijuana joints at 4:20 p.m. as thousands of marijuana advocates gather at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.Robert Galbraith—APApril 21, 2012. Pakistan army troops stand in the scattered remains of a Boeing 737 passenger plane at the site of plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad.Anjum Naveed—APApril 22, 2012. A Sphynx cat watches a referee during an international feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania.Vadim Ghirda—APApril 22, 2012. A person stands next to ballots displayed on a table in a polling station in Lyon, France.Jeff Pachoud—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 22, 2012. Filipino workers perform maintenance on a globe structure outside a mall in Pasay, south of Manila.Aaron Favila—APApril 23, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama and his teleprompters are reflected in the glass ceiling roof as he delivers remarks at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.Jason Reed—ReutersApril 23, 2012. Performers dance in the performance 'Thousand-hand Bodhisattva' during the opening of the Beijing International Film Festival in Beijing.How Hwee Young—EPAApril 23, 2012. Colombian special forces conduct a military exercise during the visit of U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Colombian Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, at Tolemaida military base in Melgar, Tolima department, Colombia.Eitan Abramovich—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 23, 2012. A SPLA soldier looks at warplanes as he lies on the ground beside a road to take cover during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona near Bentiu, South Sudan.Goran Tomasevic—ReutersApril 24, 2012. The infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that the Sombrero galaxy, named after its appearance's similarity in visible light to a wide-brimmed hat, is in fact two galaxies in one according to NASA.JPL-Caltech / NASA / ReutersApril 24, 2012. A member of a military honor guard adjusts the curtains in preparation for a welcoming ceremony for South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Adrian Bradshaw—EPAApril 24, 2012. French incumbent President, and 'Union pour un Mouvement Populaire' (UMP) party candidate for the 2012 French Presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy, center, shakes hands with supporters during a campaign rally in Longjumeau, France.Christophe Karaba—EPAApril 24, 2012. Palestinians are reflected in mirrors as they sit outside their store in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem—ReutersApril 24, 2012. An Indian Hindu devotee swings her head in trance inside the Balaji Kama Kheda Temple, in Kama Kheda, Rajasthan, India.Kevin Frayer—APApril 24, 2012. A Thai volunteer walks with tigers at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand. Rungroj Yongrit—EPAApril 24, 2012. Clouds are seen behind the diving platforms of an old Russian pool on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in the city of Kabul.Johannes Eisele—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 24, 2012. Riot police are seen during a protest by farmers against land seizure for luxury Ecopark resort in Van Giang Van Giang district, in Vietnam's northern Hung Yen province, outside Hanoi.ReutersApril 24, 2012. Mount Etna throws out lava as the volcano continues to erupt throughout the month of April in Catania, Italy.Angela Platania—ZUMA PressApril 25, 2012. Chicago Cubs center fielder Tony Campana leaps into the ivy but can't catch St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday's two-run home run in the eighth inning at Wrigley Field in Chicago.Brian Cassella—Chicago Tribune / MCT / ZUMA PressApril 25, 2012. A rose hangs on the wall of names at the Armored Corps memorial for fallen soldiers after a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day for soldiers and civilians killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs, in Latrun, near Jerusalem.Ariel Schalit—APApril 25, 2012. People mourn the death of a bomb blast victim in Lahore, Pakistan.K.M. Chaudary—APApril 25, 2012. Kashmiri porters on horseback travel past walls of snow along the newly-reopened Srinagar-Leh highway in Zojila, about 108 km (67 miles) east of Srinagar, India.Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 25, 2012. Filipino protesters react as they are hit by water cannons from anti-riot police who tried to prevent them from entering the gates leading to the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila.Aaron Favila—APApril 26, 2012. Tong, a seven-year-old chimpanzee, drinks water from a pipe that an official sprayed to cool him off as temperatures rose to nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok.Apichart Weerawong—APApril 26, 2012. Palestinian beekeepers inspect hives at an apiary near the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Bureij.Mohammed Abed—AFP / Getty ImagesApril 26, 2012. A victim watches a broadcast of the trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor, taking place in the Hague, inside the Special Court in Freetown, Liberia.Issouf Sanogo—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 26, 2012. U.S. soldier Nicholas Dickhut from 5-20 infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne points his rifle at a doorway after coming under fire by the Taliban while on patrol in Zharay district in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.Baz Ratner—ReutersApril 26, 2012. Rupert Murdoch is driven from The Royal Courts of Justice with his wife Wendi Deng Murdoch after giving evidence to The Leveson Inquiry in London.Peter Macdiarmid—Getty ImagesApril 26, 2012. An Indian shepherd woman carries a lamb as she walks across a dried pond on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India.Mahesh Kumar A.—AP
