Workers march in downtown Rome. Tens of thousands of workers of the three main unions protested against the labor and pension reforms recently approved by the government of premier Mario Monti, backed by the three main political parties. (AP)

North Koreans hold up plastic flowers during an unveiling ceremony of two statues of former leaders Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang. North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un led a mass rally for his late father and grandfather following the country's failed rocket launch. (AFP)

An Egyptian woman attends Friday prayers before a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo to denounce presidential candidacies of Mubarak-era officials, including the former spy chief. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, along with ultraconservative Salafis, other Islamists packed the square, the epicenter of the uprising that ousted Mubarak a year ago. (AP)

Indian Hindu devotees take part in a procession after piercing their face with a metal trident to show devotion to Hindu God Shiva during the festival of Shiva Gajan in Bainan, west of Kolkata, the capital of the eastern state of West Bengal. (AP)

Christian worshippers carry crosses as they take part in the Eastern and Orthodox Church's Good Friday procession in the Old City of Jerusalem. Thousands of worshippers retraced the route Jesus took along the Via Dolorosa to his crucifixion in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. (Reuters)

A boy rides past graffiti on his bicycle in Sanaa, Yemen. (Reuters)

Women try to dodge water as they celebrate the Songkran water festival, the Thai New Year, in Bangkok. (AP)

Indian laborers work to construct a temporary bridge over the River Ganges for the upcoming Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India. The month-long festival will begin in Allahabad on Jan. 14. (AP)

A bumblebee above a tulip bloom (Tulipa fosteriana Pirand) at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' (Erfurt Garden Construction Exhibition) in Erfurt, Germany. (AP)