April 23, 2013. People celebrate in front of the Paris City Hall, hours after the French National Assembly adopted a bill legalizing same-sex marriages and adoptions for gay couples, defying months of opposition protests.Bertrand Guay—AFP/Getty Images
From funerals and prayer vigils in Boston and a deadly garment factory collapse in Bangladesh to the legalization of gay marriage in France and a giant inflatable pig in China, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
April 21, 2013. Police officers extinguish a flare as Western Sydney Wanderers fans walk to the stadium before the A-League 2013 Grand Final match between the Western Sydney Wanderers and the Central Coast Mariners at Allianz Stadium in Sydney. Brendon Thorne—Getty ImagesApril 20, 2013. Rescuers carry an injured girl to safety zone in Baosheng Township in the quake-hit Lushan County, Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Roads connected to townships like Baosheng and Taiping in Lushan were damaged or blocked by landslides due to a 7.0-magnitude earthquake which occurred on Saturday morning. Jiang Hongjing—Xinhua/LandovApril 19, 2013. Spanish matador Julian Lopez "El Juli" is gored by a bull during a bullfight at The Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. Marcelo del Pozo—ReutersApril 22, 2013. A honor guard is covered by a flag during a welcoming ceremony for U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey at the Bayi Building in Beijing.Andy Wong—APApril 20, 2013. A Burqa-clad Afghan women walks on the street on the outskirts of Herat. Afghanistan has made some progress in using the law to protect women against violence but many still suffer horrific abuse despite 11 years of Western intervention, a UN report on December 2012 showed. Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 19, 2013. A wounded protester is carried in Tahrir Square after being injured in fighting between pro and anti-Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo. Clashes erupted Friday between several hundred opponents and supporters of Egypt's Islamist president during a rally by his allies calling on him to cleanse the judiciary of alleged supporters of the old regime.Mostafa Elshemy—APApril 19, 2013. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, carrying a Bion-M satellite blasts off from a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome. Bion-M, part of the Russia's space program, is to conduct fundamental and applied research in space biology, physiology and biotechnology while in orbit, RIA-Novosti news agency reported.AFP/Getty ImagesApril 24, 2013. A North Korean boy rides in a bicycle's basket on a road north of Kaesong, North Korea.David Guttenfelder—APApril 21, 2013. Novice nuns pray at the Sathira-Dhammasathan Buddhist meditation centre in Bangkok. A group of Thai girls are choosing to spend part of their school holidays as Buddhist nuns, down to having their heads shaven at the meditation centre. The centre, founded in 1987, is a learning community for peace and harmony that has programs open to people regardless of age and gender.Damir Sagolj—ReutersApril 22, 2013. Afghan refugee boys play a traditional fighting game on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APApril 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.Darrin Zammit Lupi—ReutersApril 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.APApril 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.Mostafa Elshemy—APApril 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.Raminder Pal Singh—EPAApril 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.HO/AFP/Getty ImagesApril 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.Dominick Reuter—ReutersApril 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. Jared Wickerham—Getty ImagesApril 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.Dado Ruvic—ReutersApril 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.Li Wei—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 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.Jianan Yu—ReutersApril 21, 2013. A woman looks at her child as they rest among the wreckage after an earthquake in Lingguan town of Baoxing county, Sichuan province.China Daily/ReutersApril 22, 2013. A rubber glove being used as a marker bobs in the water after flooding in Fox Lake, Illinois.Jim Young—ReutersApril 22, 2013. U.S. Marines take a rest during the Combined Joint Logistics Over the Shore exercise as part of the two-month-long Foal Eagle series of U.S.-South Korea joint and combined field training exercises on Pohang beach, southeast of Seoul, South Korea.Kin Cheung—APApril 22, 2013. A dog looks on amid trash as polluted waters flow down a canal on the outskirts of Ahmedabad during World Earth Day. Sam Panthaky—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 22, 2013. Afghan refugee children collect water from a water point on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen —APApril 22, 2013. A student gestures with a flower to a policeman as she marches during the closing ceremony of the "Congress for Peace" in Bogota.John Vizcaino—ReutersApril 22, 2013. Police officers capture a suspected hit man after the murder of a bus driver in Zona 6 in Guatemala City.Jorge Dan Lopez—ReutersApril 23, 2013. A stained glass window reportedly broken by thieves remains damaged at the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana, Bolivia.Juan Karita—APApril 23, 2013. People celebrate in front of the Paris City Hall, hours after the French National Assembly adopted a bill legalizing same-sex marriages and adoptions for gay couples, defying months of opposition protests. Bertrand Guay—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 23, 2013. Anti-gay marriage activists hold smoke flares during a demonstration in Paris.Christophe Ena—APApril 23, 2013. Syrian Turkmen children are seen at a make-shift refugee camp some kilometers away from the Syria-Turkey border.Miguel Medina—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 23, 2013. Chinese soldiers cook breakfast in a rescue camp in Taiping town, Lushan County, Sichuan Province, China.How Hwee Young—EPA April 23, 2013. Members of the Samaritan sect place large sheep skewers into an oven during a traditional Passover sacrifice ceremony on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus. Nir Elias—ReutersApril 23, 2013. A Pakistani girl, who was displaced with her family by 2010 floods in Pakistan's Sindh province, sits next to her family's belongings among the rubble of her makeshift home, after it was destroyed, along with other homes, by the Capital Development Authority for being built on illegal lands, on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APApril 23, 2013. The coffin containing the remains of Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard is carried in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein. Four British soldiers were laid to rest with full military honors in northern France, nearly a century after they were killed in action in World War I. Denis Charlet—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 23, 2013. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two suspects in the Boston bombing, walks surrounded by reporters near her home in Makhachkala, Russia.Dmitry Kostyukov—The New York Times/ReduxApril 23, 2013. Law enforcement officers during a memorial service for Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, at Briggs Field on the university's campus in Cambridge, Mass.Josh Haner—The New York Times/Redux April 23, 2013. A woman cries during a memorial service for Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, at Briggs Field on the university's campus in Cambridge.Eric Thayer—The New York Times/ReduxApril 24, 2013. A man works on making repairs to businesses near the site of the second bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street in Boston.Justin Lane—EPAApril 23, 2013. A view of items left at a large memorial in Copley Park, down the street from the site of the first bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, on Boylston Street in Boston.Justin Lane—EPAApril 24, 2013. A carnation is placed between lists of names during a demonstration on in Istanbul marking the 98th anniversary of the massacre and deportation of Ottoman Armenians during World War I. Armenians claim that around 1.5 million people died and the masacare is described by many countries as genocide although Ankara continues to reject the term. Ozan Kose—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 24, 2013.Two men hold onto the banister as they ascend a staircase in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.Kevin Lamarque—Reuters April 24, 2013. Afghan girls look out of their home destroyed by a powerful earthquake in Charbagh village in Nangarhar province. Seven people were killed, dozens injured and many homes destroyed when a powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan.Shah Marai—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 24, 2013. A North Korean man checks his bicycle next to a painted exclamation point on a propaganda billboard in Kaesong, North Korea.David Guttenfelder—APApril 25, 2013. North Korean soldiers and civilians stand on a foot bridge to look at goldfish in a moat as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang.David Guttenfelder—APApril 24, 2013. A child tucks into an ice cream during the warm weather and sunshine in St James Park, central London.Anna Branthwaite—London News Pictures/Zuma PressApril 24, 2013. An inflatable sculpture of a pig called 'House of Treasures' by Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei on display as part of the 'Inflation!' exhibition curated by Mobile M + in Hong Kong.Jessica Hromas—Getty ImagesApril 24, 2013. Bangladeshi garment workers help evacuate a survivor using lengths of textile as a slide to evacuate from the rubble after an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 25, 2013. A Bangladeshi woman survivor is lifted out of the rubble by rescuers at the site of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka.Kevin Frayer—APApril 25, 2013.
A Bangladeshi woman reacts after identifying the body of her husband killed in the collape of an eight-storey building in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.Munir Uz Zaman—AFP/Getty ImagesApril 25, 2013. Forty-three year-old, Pilar Martin Ruiz, right, celebrates the suspension of her mother's eviction, 70 year-old Maria Del Pilar Ruiz, in Madrid.Andres Kudacki—APApril 25, 2013. Members of the Albert Battery shoot a volley of fire during the ANZAC dawn service at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club in Gold Coast, Australia. Chris Hyde—Getty ImagesApril 25, 2013. Army 1st Lt. Melissa Stockwell (Ret.) (R), who was the first female American soldier to lose a limb in the war in Iraq, recites the Pledge of Allegiance as (L-R) former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush look on during the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. Alex Wong—Getty ImagesApril 25, 2013. A worker grooms away tracks after an alligator crossed through a sand trap on the 14th hole during the first round of the PGA Tour Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La.Gerald Herbert—APApril 26, 2013. Pussy Riot band member Nadia Tolokonnikova looks out from a holding cell during a court hearing in the town of Zubova Polyana.Mikhail Voskresensky—ReutersApril 26, 2013. Amphibious assault vehicles of the South Korean Marine Corps throw smoke bombs as they move to land on shore during a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, about 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Seoul.Lee Jae-Won—Reuters
