Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over the Washington skyline as seen from a NASA T-38 aircraft. Discovery completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. (NASA/Robert Markowitz)

People gather to watch the arrival of the space shuttle Discovery, tethered to the top of a modified 747 jumbo jet, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (AFP)

A Kashmiri vegetable vendor holds a basket of bread at a floating market in the interiors of the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. (Reuters)

Black smoke rises from oil containers as firefighters try to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Nasr Petroleum Company refinery in the Egyptian port city of Suez. (Reuters)

A parachutist glides past an Orthodox cross during a performance after an Orthodox Easter service in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. (Reuters)

Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures in the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway. Breivik, who admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre, is set to take the stand in his terror trial. (AP)

Supporters of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wave the National League for Democracy's party flags at a ceremony to mark the country's New Year Day in her constituency of Kawhmu township. (Reuters)

Lories sit on the head and arms of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a bird park in Marlow, northern Germany. (AFP)

A full-size model of Japan's popular robot animation character Gundam emits white smoke as it stands in front of a new shopping mall in Tokyo's Odaiba waterfront area. (AP)

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto is taken in a cortege together with Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf towards the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. (Reuters)