April 15, 2013. A Syrian boy holds a satellite antenna as he travels on the back of a truck in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. In all, some 1.3 million people have so far fled Syria to neighbouring countries since the beginning of the conflict, which has cost well over 70,000 lives.Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty Images
From the Boston marathon bombing and Margaret Thatcher’s funeral to the bird flu outbreak in China and the lighter side of North Korea, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
April 12, 2013. Indian slum residents weep as they stand near their burnt shanty in Bawana on the outskirts of New Delhi. A fire broke out in a slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, a local report said, with one person reported dead and another five injured.Manan Vatsyayana—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 17, 2013. Guests take their seats during the Ceremonial funeral of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral in London.WPA Pool / Getty ImagesApril 13, 2013. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (not visible) ignites fireworks at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Thousands of people gathered outside Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, home to Rembrandt van Rijn's "The Night Watch" and other Dutch masterpieces, as Queen Beatrix declared the national museum open on Saturday after a decade-long renovation.Michael Kooren—ReutersApril 17, 2013. A young Hindu girl from Pakistan cries after being flung on the ground by her mother during a protest against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan outside the United Nations office in New Delhi. Altaf Qadri—APApril 15, 2013. A man comforts a victim on the sidewalk at the scene of the first explosion near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. John Tlumacki—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. An Israeli woman lays down at the grave of a fallen soldier relative at Mount Herzl military cemetery as Israel marks Memorial Day in Jerusalem.Abir Sultan—EPAApril 16, 2013. Two people living in a slum cover themselves in plastic sheets to protect themselves from the rain in Bijbehara, some 55 kilometres south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.Javed Dar—Zuma PressApril 15, 2013. A keeper tries to feed Melani, a 15-year-old female Sumatran tiger that has been suffering from an undiagnosed digestive disorder for the past five years, in her cage at Surabaya Zoo in Surabaya, Indonesia. The emaciated female Sumatran tiger was in critical condition at Indonesia's largest zoo Wednesday and may have to be put down after another rare tiger died at the problem-plagued facility earlier this month. APApril 15, 2013. A Syrian boy holds a satellite antenna as he travels on the back of a truck in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. In all, some 1.3 million people have so far fled Syria to neighbouring countries since the beginning of the conflict, which has cost well over 70,000 lives.Dimitar Dilkoff—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 12, 2013. A monument to the late Pope John Paul II is seen covered with a piece of fabric before its inauguration ceremony on a street in Lima, Peru.Enrique Castro-Medivil—ReutersApril 12, 2013. Friends and relatives mourn during the funeral ceremony of shooting victims in the village of Velika Ivanca, about 40 km (25 miles) southwest of Belgrade. A Serbian war veteran who killed 13 relatives and neighbors in a dawn rampage in a Serbian village this week, before turning the gun on himself, died in hospital on Thursday. Serbs were stunned by the massacre on Tuesday in a sleepy rural region southwest of the capital. Marko Djurica—ReutersApril 12, 2013. Protesters loyal to the Shi'ite al-Houthi rebel group burn an effigy of a U.S. aircraft during a demonstration to protest against what they say is U.S. interference in Yemen, including drone strikes, after their weekly Friday prayers in the Old City of Sana'a. Khaled Abdullah—ReutersApril 12, 2013. An employee holding a knife stands next to chickens on a processing production line at a slaughter house in Shanghai. Designated slaughter houses started to intensively purchase from breeders live poultry which passed official quarantine inspection at controlled prices in Shanghai on Friday, in order to prevent the transmission of the H7N9 virus, according to local media reports. ReutersApril 12, 2013. Ultra-orthodox Jewish men gather on a rooftop the funeral of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem.Bernat Armangue—APApril 12, 2013. A local resident sits on a trunk amid the burnt debris of her hut after a fire broke out in a slum area in New Delhi.Adnan Abidi—ReutersApril 13, 2013. A reveller who had climbed onto a ledge outside the National Gallery leaps into the crowd during an outdoor party celebrating the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at Trafalgar Square in central London. Chris Helgren—ReutersApril 13, 2013. Young Egyptian men walk on a barricade erected by security forces during the Egyptian Revolution in close proximity to the Tahrir Square in Cairo.Oliver Weiken—EPAApril 13, 2013. Fatima Khatun 25, kisses the head of her eighteen month old daughter, Roona Begum, suffering from Hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, at their hut in Jirania village on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura.Arindam Day—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 14, 2013. Israeli soldiers place Israeli flags with black ribbons on the graves of fallen soldiers at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv.Ariel Schalit—APApril 14, 2013. North Korean soldiers stand guard inside Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Stadium.David Guttenfelder—APApril 14, 2013. Marathon runners pass by a long row of North Korean soldiers as they cross a bridge in Pyongyang.David Guttenfelder—APApril 14, 2013. Runners rest inside Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.David Guttenfelder—APApril 14, 2013. Tibetan Buddhist monks attend a mass prayer in memorial for victims of the earthquake which hit Yushu county three years ago, in Yushu, Qinghai province.ReutersApril 14, 2013. Scuderia Ferrari takes the chequered flag winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International circuit, in Shanghai, east China. Hoch Zwei—Zuma PressApril 14, 2013. Kids play football on the beach in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 14, 2013. A girl infected with the new H7N9 bird flu strain draws a picture with a nurse at Ditan Hospital in Beijing. Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region, while the death toll has risen to 13 from a total of 60 infections after two more deaths in Shanghai. Suzie Wong—ReutersApril 14, 2013. A man throwing ducklings into a stove at a duck farm in Zhangzhou, south China's Fujian province. The duck farm has had to kill more than 400 thousand new born little ducks every week after H7N9 bird flu affected the domestic poultry market.STR—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. A boy is smeared with vermillion powder while celebrating "Sindoor Jatra" vermillion powder festival at Thimi, near Kathmandu. The festival is celebrated to mark the Nepalese New Year and the beginning of spring season in Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar—ReutersApril 14, 2013. A Hindu devotee hanging from a rope throws offering towards other devotees during the "Chadak" ritual in Kolkata. Hundreds of Hindu devotees attend the ritual, held to worship the Hindu deity of destruction Lord Shiva, on the last day of the Bengali calendar year.Rupak De Chowdhuri—ReutersApril 15, 2013. A Bahraini woman holds a placard against the upcoming Bahraini Formula One Grand Prix, during an anti-regime rally in support of jailed activists in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama. Under the banner "Democracy is our right," the mainly Shiite opposition is holding a week of protests that began on April 12 to coincide with the lead-up to the race. Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. Bahraini women shout anti-regime slogans during a rally in support of political activists held in prison in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama.Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. Police officers with their guns drawn hear the second explosion down the street. The first explosion knocked down a runner at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. John Tlumacki—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. Victims are in shock and being treated at the scene of the first explosion that went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.John Tlumacki—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. Bystanders help an injured woman at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon.John Tlumacki—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. A woman kneels and prays at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon.John Tlumacki—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesApril 15, 2013. British members of the Royal Navy line a street during the rehearsal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral near St. Paul's Cathedral, in London.Kerim Okten—EPAApril 15, 2013. A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.David Guttenfelder—APApril 15, 2013. French matador Sebastian Castella is gored by a bull during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in Sevilla.Cristina Quicler—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 16, 2013. Dummies of Palestinian prisoners and posters hang on the wall of the Saraya prison that was formerly used by Israeli security, in central Gaza City, Gaza Strip.Ali Ali—EPAApril 16, 2013. A chicken slaughter employee cleans broilers at ShengHua chicken slaughter in a suburb of Shanghai.EPAApril 16, 2013. A tree among several thousands of tons of used tyres piled in a ten-hectare installation for recycling in Lachapelle-Auzac, France.Eric Cabanis—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 16, 2013. Pakistani paramedics treat an injured blast victim as an other victim waits for treatment at a hospital following a suicide bomb attack on a election campaign rally in Peshawar.Hasham Ahmed—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 16, 2013. Free Syrian Army fighters take their position as one points his weapon from the top of a building in Deir al-Zor.Khalil Ashawi—ReutersApril 16, 2013. A Lion Air Boeing 737 lies partially submerged in the water two days after it crashed on landing at Bali's international airport near Denpasar.Sonny Tumbelaka—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 16, 2013. A bathtub ring marks the high water line, as a recreational boat approaches Hoover Dam as it makes its way along Black Canyon on Lake Mead, near Boulder City, Nev. Julie Jacobson—APApril 15, 2013. Officials wearing protective suits investigate one of two blast sites near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.Elise Amendola—APApril 16, 2013. Carlee Soto, sister of Victoria Soto, a teacher killed at the Sandy Hook Elemenatry School is overcome during a vigil outside of the U.S. Capitol. Families, friends and survivors of the Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora, and Newtown gathered at the #NoMoreNames vigil to remember and demand congressional action on gun legislation.Pete Marovich—Zuma PressApril 16, 2013. People gather with candles during a vigil for eight-year-old Martin Richard, from Dorchester, who was killed by an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon at Garvey Park in Boston.Jared Wickerham—Getty ImagesApril 17, 2013. The coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is carried by the Bearer Party after the funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Suzanne Plunkett—ReutersApril 17, 2013. The coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is carried by the Bearer Party as it arrives for her funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral, in London.Stefan Wermuth—PA Photos/ABACA PressApril 17, 2013. The Archbishop of London, Richard Chartres (C), walks behind the coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher during her funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral in London.Stefan Wermuth—ReutersApril 17, 2013. The sun rises behind a former pit cage from Easington Colliery, the only reminder on the site of the pit at Easington in England. Former miners and their families held a commemoration party for the closure of the pit at Easington Colliery.Ian Forsyth—Getty ImagesApril 17, 2013. A protester takes part in a rally staged by Ukrainians suffering from infectious diseases such as HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis in front of Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers building to protest the lack of drugs for treatment in Kiev.Gleb Garanich—ReutersApril 17, 2013. Palestinians carry portraits of prisoners while attending a rally to highlight the situation of some 4700 Palestinians currently jailed in Israel during a rally on the annual Palestinian Prisoners' Day in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Atef Safadi—EPAApril 17, 2013. Pakistani villagers look at a victim from last night's suicide attack, during a funeral procession in Peshawar on Wednesday.Mohammad Sajjad—APApril 17, 2013. A woman paints masks representing Pope Francis in a factory in Niteroi, 20 Km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 17, 2013. A resident looks on as emergency workers fight a house fire after a nearby fertilizer plant exploded in West, Texas.Rod Aydelotte—Waco Tribune Herald/AP April 18, 2013. The remains of an apartment complex next to the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas. 14 people, including 10 first responders, were killed and more than 150 people were injured when the fertilizer company caught fire and exploded.Erich Schlegel—Getty ImagesApril 18, 2013. A refugee woman waits for medication at a treatment center run by humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at the Yida camp in South Sudan's Unity State.Andreea Campeanu—ReutersApril 18, 2013.
A US army soldier does pull-ups prior to dinner outside the dining facility at the Forward Base Honaker Miracle at Watahpur District in Kunar province, Afghanistan.Manjunath Kiran—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 18, 2013. Filipino children jump into a murky river in Manila.Francis R. Malasig—EPAApril 18, 2013. A teacher instructs during a drawing class at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. Alexander F. Yuan—APApril 18, 2013. North Korean children sing during a performance at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea.Alexander F. Yuan—APApril 18, 2013. A female guide and a North Korean official, partially seen at right, watch visiting journalists while children, reflected in a mirror, practice a dance in a classroom at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea.Alexander F. Yuan—APApril 18, 2013. Sarah Shallbetter cries as she watches a broadcast of President Barack Obama speaking at an interfaith service at Cathedral of the Holy Cross on a video screen at the BoMA restaurant in Boston.Matt Rourke—APApril 19, 2013. Police officers surround a house in Watertown, Massachusetts during a manhunt for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Samantha England—Reuters April 19, 2013. An FBI officer stands in front of the boat at 67 Franklin St. where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was hiding in Watertown, Massachusetts,.Lucas Jackson—Reuters April 19, 2013. Neighbors use cameras to record images of the boat at 67 Franklin St. where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was hiding, before being taken into custody by police, in Watertown, MassachusettsLucas Jackson—Reuters
