A group of Taiwanese women paratroopers after a drill held at Taiwan's northern Hsinchu airbase. (AFP)

Workers monitor the lift of the space shuttle Discovery from the the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Washington Dulles International Airport in Sterling, Virginia. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

People walk at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum before the start of the 17th annual remembrance ceremony in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Timothy McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges for the 1995 deadly bombing and was executed in 2001. (AP)

Matevz Lenarcic gestures in front of his plane after landing in Brnik Airport, Slovania. Biologist and environmentalist Lenarcic set off on January 9 on a journey around the world in an ultra-light aircraft. He aims to break the records for the lightest aircraft and the least amount of fuel used to fly around the world. (Reuters)

Mexico performs during the Teams Technical Routine during a synchronized swimming qualification event at the Aquatic Center at Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. (Reuters)

Thaneshwar Guragai spins a basketball on a toothbrush while holding the toothbrush in his mouth for exactly 22.41 seconds to break the last Guinness record of 13.5 seconds set by Thomas Connors of U.K, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Reuters)

The art work 'Five Minutes Of Pure Sculpture' by British artist Anthony MacCall at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Germany (AP)

An apprentice of beekeeper She Ping uses burning incense to drive off bees from She's face as he assists covering She's body with bees in order to break a world record in Chongqing Municipality, China. She Ping, 32, broke the world record on Wednesday by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees). (Reuters)

Harris O'Riordan plays with an umbrella during a Homecoming Parade for soldiers in Forfar, Scotland. (Reuters)

Palestinian men cross a main road as a sand storm envelops the town of Rafah along the border with Egypt in southern Gaza Strip. (AFP)

An investor reacts in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. China shares ended up 2 percent, the biggest one-day percentage rise in more than two months, led by finance and property sectors on expectations the government would ease monetary policy. (Reuters)

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe lights a flame at celebrations to mark 32 years of independence of the country, in Harare. (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI caresses a child during his weekly general audience in St. Peter square at the Vatican. (AP)

East Timorese presidential candidate and former guerrilla fighter Jose Maria Vasconcelos, popularly known as Taur Matan Ruak, hugs his wife Isabel da Costa Ferreira during a press conference declaring his victory in Dili. (AP)

Commuters travel on an overcrowded local train in Mumbai's Central line in Mumbai, India. (AP)

The Olympic rings made up of 25,000 flowers at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London to mark the 100 days to go to the start of London 2012 Olympics (AP)

A police officer inspects a pickup truck in the Delaware River in Philadelphia. (AP)

Indonesian Greenpeace activists in tiger suits crawl during a protest to call for Sumatran tiger protection at the Forestry Ministry in Jakarta. Dozens of activists staged the protest demanding the government to investigate illegal practices such as cutting down natural forests conducted by pulp and paper companies that will lead to the destruction of Sumatran tiger habitat. (AP)

An 85-ton boat is transported through Hellmonsoedt in Upper Austria province. The transport of the excursion boat from Linz to Czech Republic's Lipno dam lake causes road blocks, dismounted traffic signs and power lines. (Reuters)

Visitors look at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem. Israel marks the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War II. (Reuters)

An Afghan boy carries goods over his head as he walks up a hillside path in Kabul. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (AFP)

The Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of ash and steam high into the air, as seen from San Nicolas de los Ranchos, on the outskirts of Puebla, Mexico. (Reuters)

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)

Cambodians ride atop a vehicle as they leave Phnom Penh to return to their hometowns to celebrate the Khmer New Year. The Khmer New Year is celebrated from April 13 to 15. (Reuters)

Police block a street as opposition activists stage a protest against alleged election fraud outside the Town Hall in the city of Astrakhan in the south of Russia. (AP)

Nepal's Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on a screen of a video camera as he addresses the nation from his office in Kathmandu. (Reuters)

A Pakistani boy with his dog cross a dry stream bed on the outskirts of Islamabad. (AP)

Firefighters battle a blaze on a pipeline at the port of Leixoes in northern Portugal. One worker was killed and another seriously injured by an explosion when a gas pipeline at the port was damaged during the dismantling of an old crane. (AP)

Ethiopian Orthodox worshipers attend the Washing of the Feet ceremony at the Ethiopian section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City ahead of Orthodox Easter. (Reuters)

Hindu holy men step over children as a ritual to bless them during a religious procession to mark the Gajan festival in Kolkata, India. (Reuters)

Gymnasts perform during the 23rd European Trampoline championships in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AFP)

Baby stars are creating chaos 1,500 light-years away in the cosmic cloud of the Orion Nebula. Four massive stars make up the bright yellow area in the center of this false-color image for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Green indicates hydrogen and sulfur gas in the nebula, which is a cocoon of gas and dust. Red and orange indicate carbon-rich molecules. Infant stars appear as yellow dots embedded in the nebula. (NASA)

Acehnese people run shortly after a powerful earthquake hit the western coast of Sumatera in Banda Aceh. A massive earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, prompting an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami alert. (AFP)

Peru's President Ollanta Humala, center left wearing a white shirt, waves as he stands with nine rescued miners, wearing sunglasses, after they were freed from the Cabeza de Negro gold and copper mine in Yauca del Rosario. (AP)

Yoo Bok-yeob (L), a village schoolmaster who leads a Confucian lifestyle, queues up to cast his ballot at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Nonsan, about 190 km (118 miles) south of Seoul. South Koreans voted in parliamentary elections. (Reuters)

A scavenger collates mahjong tiles on a street in Shanghai, China. (Reuters)

North Korean scientists work as a screen shows the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, at the satellite control center of the Korean Committee of Space Technology on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The launch is set to take place between April 12 and April 14 and has prompted neighbors such as the Philippines to re-route their air traffic. (Reuters)

A gust of wind lifts the cardinals' mantles during Pope Benedict XVI's general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. (Reuters)

Malians, who fled unrest in the rebel-held northeastern cities of Gao and Timbuktu, arrive by bus in the capital Bamako. (Reuters)

Pashtun women, whose families  were displaced by a military operation last year against militants in Bara, line up to get supplies at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees supported Jalozai camp in Pakistan's northwest. (Reuters)

Elephants spray tourists with water during the Songkran water festival in Thailand's Ayutthaya province, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok. Songkran, the most celebrated festival of the year, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year. (Reuters)

Punk guys gather to cerebrate Thingyan, a four-day water festival ushering in Burmese New Year, at Bogyoke market in Rangoon. (AP)

A man, who claims that he was being persecuted by the Egyptian government, ties himself up in protest on a street lamp in Tahrir square, in Cairo. (Reuters)

Emirates Team New Zealand competes with their multihulls during the America's Cup World Series regatta in Naples, Italy. (Reuters)

Firefighters contain a wildfire that started in wood compost at the former Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, New York, April 10, 2012. (Reuters)

11,541 red chairs along Titova street in Sarajevo as the city marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war. The anniversary finds the Balkan country still deeply divided, power shared between Serbs, Croats and Muslims in a single state ruled by ethnic quotas and united by the weakest of central governments. (Reuters)

Tibetan Buddhist monks make ceremonial offerings to the Dalai Lama at the Chime Gatsal Ling monastery in Dharamsala, India. Buddhist devotees prayed for his long life at a special ceremony in the monastery. (AP)

Members of the Nazarenos brotherhood take part in a Holy Week procession in Zipaquira, Colombia. (Reuters)

People attend the inauguration of the 3 and the 4 tramway lines of Montpellier, Southern France. The trams, sold by Alstom Transport, was designed by French designer Christian Lacroix. (AFP)

A fire burning at a facility of Taiwan's state-owned oil company CPC Corp in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. (Reuters)

Honda MotoGP rider Casey Stoner (L) of Australia watches Ducati MotoGP rider Nicky Hayden of the U.S. during the free practice session of the MotoGP World Championship at the Losail International circuit in Doha, Qatar. (Reuters)

Lighted art installations of Easter eggs, created by the Salaj family in the village of Grabovnica, near Cazma, central Croatia, April 5, 2012. The Salaj family decorated their garden with more then 2700 Easter eggs along with various installations such as rabbits, chickens, roosters and similar ornaments, which are lit in the night. (Reuters)

Zach Johnson checks his ball on the first fairway during the second round the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, USA. (AP)

Dubai's Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei and German co-driver Andreas Schulz race past camels in their X-raid Mini All4 on the fifth and final 287.32km leg of the 2012 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, UAE. (AFP/2012 FIA World Cup)

A United Airlines jet taking off from Newark Liberty International Airport flies across the moon, as seen from Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, New Jersey, USA, April 5, 2012. (AP)