The bow section of the stricken container ship Rena remains above water about 14 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The remains of the ship are stuck on a rock reef six months after it ran aground. (Reuters)

Election posters showing 174 candidates for Seoul's constituencies in the April 11 general elections are strung together over the Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

Several cars are overturned after a tornado passed the area in Lancaster, Texas. (AP)

A policeman controls the crowd gathering at the scene of a landslide in Mathare valley slum after boulders, rocks and mud tumbled down a hillside overlooking the slum, smashing into the houses and burying the occupants in Kenya's capital Nairobi. (Reuters)

Boys ride a motorbike on their way back home after taking a bath in a canal at Chachura village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (Reuters)

Team Denmark cyclists Rasmus Christian Quaade, Casper Folsach, Lasse Norman Hansen and Christian Ranneries compete in the Men's Team Pursuit qualifying session at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. (Reuters)

Flowers and various offerings near graves at a Chinese cemetery during Qingming Festival in Singapore. Qingming, also known as Grave Sweeping Day, is a day on which Chinese honor the dead by cleaning family graves and burn offerings aimed at appeasing the dead in their afterlife. (AP)

Hippopotamuses cool off on a hot day in a pond at a zoo in New Delhi, India. (Reuters)

An Owl butterfly on a wet leaf at the zoo in Krefeld, western Germany (AP)

Tibetan exiles light cedar leaves to purify air as they wait to welcome their spiritual leader Dalai Lama outside a small Buddhist temple near Rewalsar, a small hill town 90 miles from Dharmsala, India. (AP)

Sand dunes and snow in the Gobi Desert, located south of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar. (Reuters)

People carry the coffin of Neslisah Sultan, 91, last in line to the dynasty that once ruled the Ottoman empire, in Istanbul, Turkey. Once known as Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire and Princess of Egypt, Sultan was the granddaughter of the last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI. She was to be buried in a family vault after a religious ceremony in the grounds of the former Yildiz imperial palace. (AFP)

A young girl jumps over small fountains during sunny weather in Duisburg, Germany. (AP)

A rescued pit bull catches drops of water from a volunteer of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society at a coffee farm lot in San Pablo city, Laguna province, south of Manila. Dozens of pit bulls, rescued from a dog-fighting ring will be put down by animal welfare activists who say there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from again being used in underground arenas. (AP)

Penitents walk to their church during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain. (AFP)

Two trucks lie on their sides on a bridge at Toyama city, western Japan. A typhoon-like spring storm brought strong gusts and heavy rains to Japan, causing traffic chaos. (AFP)

Aline Pellegrino of Brazil chases the ball during the women's friendly soccer match against the U.S. in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)

Towering Supertrees Grove, which are part of horticultural themed gardens, sit in the Garden by the Bay in Singapore. The 101-hectare Gardens by the Bay will include two greenhouses and 220,000 plants from almost every continent. (AFP)

Supporters wave from a car during a campaign of Phyu Phyu Thin, unseen, a well-known HIV activist and a candidate of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party, in Minglataungnyunt township in Rangoon. (AP)

An Afghan carries a bundle of wood in Nahr-i Sufi near the DHQ (Char Dara District Police Headquarters) in the province of Kunduz. (AFP)

African Union soldiers fire artillery in a front-line position during fighting in the district of Daynile, south of capital Mogadishu. Somalia's al Qaeda-linked militants clashed with African Union and Somali government troops. (Reuters)

Young girls wear the traditional black 'mantillas' during a children

Visitors brace themselves from the rotor wash of the Marine One helicopter as President Barack Obama lifts off from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington as he travels to Vermont and Maine for campaign fundraising events. (AP)

A Palestinian youth climbs over a fruit stall as a mounted Israeli policeman disperses hundreds of Palestinian protesters during a demonstration marking Land Day in east Jerusalem. (AFP)

Damaged buildings in the old city of Homs, Syria (Reuters)

Sculptures entitled Blue Men, by Ofra Zimbalista, on the wall of a building on Borough High Street in south London. (Reuters)

Doves are seen inside a dress made of chocolate presented at the first Salon du Chocolat (Zurich Chocolate Show) in Zurich, Switzerland. (Reuters)

Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and his co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini, from Italy, drive their Citroen DS3 WRC during the Portugal FIA World Rally Championship

A butterfly on a flower in a garden in central Baghdad, Iraq (AFP)

Kashmiri schoolgirls stand inside the tulip garden, called Siraj Bagh, after its opening in Srinagar, India. Siraj Bagh houses around two million tulips of 23 different varieties and claims to be Asia's largest tulip garden in Kashmir. (Reuters)

A Syrian refugee waves a Turkish flag as he sits atop a tent at the Reyhanli refugee camp in Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border. (Reuters)

Police officers fire tear gas to disperse student protesters during a demonstration outside the parliament building in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)

Students of the Batasan Hills High School attend their graduation ceremony in Quezon City, east of Manila. March is the month of graduation festivities nationwide in Philippines. (AFP)

Police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators during a protest against a government attempt to railroad a new education bill through parliament in Ankara, Turkey. (AFP)

Thousands of farmers hold up sticks as they make their way to the Plaza de Armas as part of the annual National Farmers Federation march, to demand land reforms from their government in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP)

A man looks at sculptures made by the Dutch sculptor Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden (1420 - 1473) at the Notre-Dame museum in Strasbourg, eastern France, as part of an exhibition dedicated to his work. Gerhaert is considered the most influential northern European sculptor of the 15th century. (AFP)

A employee holds a Belle Epoque diamond and emerald necklace during an auction preview at Christie's in London. It is estimated to fetch between $1.3 million and $1.5 million at its auction in Geneva on May 14. (Reuters)

Vehicles destroyed by a tsunami are seen in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, an area damaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Reuters)

France's President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, greets a local resident as he visits the medieval city of Guerande, western France. (AP)

A tear gas canister fired by Indonesian police officers explodes in the air during a protest against the government's plan to raise fuel prices in Jakarta. The Indonesian government plans to raise fuel prices by about 33 percent next month to avoid a budget deficit due to expensive fuel subsidies. (AP)

Colombian judicial police transport the remains of FARC rebels killed during a dawn attack in Meta, at the Military Base Apiay in Villavicencio. (Reuters)

A rainbow appears as a tourist takes pictures of the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River in Jixian county, Shanxi province, China. (Reuters)

Burmese soldiers march during the ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary Armed Forces Day held at the parade ground in Naypyitaw. (AP)

A coffin carrying Tonga's King George Tupou V is carried on a giant black and gold-topped catafalque by 150 pallbearers to the Royal Tombs in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa. Tonga's King, 63, who ushered in democracy to the South Pacific archipelago, was buried in a ceremony that mixed traditional Polynesian ritual with Christian hymn singing. He died suddenly in Hong Kong on March 18. (Reuters)

U.S. servicemen sit after boarding a transport plane before leaving for Afghanistan at the U.S. transit center at Manas airport near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Reuters)

An exterior view shows The Titanic Belfast building in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The six-floor building which opens in April, will tell the story of the Titanic from the ship's construction in Belfast to her sinking in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage one hundred years ago. (Reuters)

A sprinkler sprays water onto flowers at Waddon Pond in south London as Britain continue to enjoy warm weather. (AP)

A girl walks with her dog in a snow clad park in Minsk, Belarus. (AFP)

Rafael Nadal of Spain keeps his eye on the ball as he returns a shot from Kei Nishikori of Japan during the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Florida, USA. (AP)

A model presents a creation by Chinese fashion label Doveral during China Fashion Week in Beijing. (Reuters)

NASA successfully launches five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. (NASA/Wallops)

Vehicles, at left, line up in front of a gas station in Cairo, Egypt. An acute fuel shortage has disrupted Cairo's already congested traffic, with long lines of vehicles snaking around gas stations, and drivers spending the night in their cars. (AP)

Indian laborers load coal onto trucks at a coal depot on the outskirts of Jammu. India's scandal-plagued government lost around $200 billion over the past 18 months by selling coalfields to companies without competitive bidding, according to a leaked audit report that the auditor itself called misleading. (AP)

Anti-government protesters attend a rally to demand the prosecution of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh during their weekly Friday prayers in Sana'a. (Reuters)

A masked police officer searches for clues at Mohamed Merah's apartment building in Toulouse, France. Mohamed Merah, who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died on March 22, 2012, after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment, authorities said. (AP)

A Balinese man hits another with fire during a ritual ahead of Nyepi day in Ubud Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Nyepi is a day of silence to celebrate the Balinese new year, reserved for self-reflection, where people are not allowed to use lights, light fires, work, travel nor enjoy entertainment. (Reuters)

A farmer checks a plastic film that covers an asparagus field at a farm near Kutzleben, central Germany. (AP)

South Africa's Cecil Afrika is tackled in the game against Wales during the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament. (AFP)

Wearing their traditional costumes Turkmens celebrate Newroz (New Year) holiday in the capital Ashgabat with a portrait of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in the background. (AFP)

Residents fetch water in small bottles and jerrycans in the Mathare slum, Nairobi, Kenya, where a water shortage continues. (AFP)

Members of the media work during a raid on a five-story building to arrest a suspect in the killings of three children, a rabbi on Monday at a Jewish school, in Toulouse, France. (Reuters)

A man cleans fish outside his makeshift shelter in suburban Manila, Philippines. (AP)

The sun sets behind a high voltage tower in Bangkok, Thailand.(AP)

A villager works on agricultural plots that has been newly planted with vegetable seeds near a U.S. military base in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan. (Reuters)

A farmer carries cucumbers from his field to sell in the markets in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. (Reuters)

Huang Sufang reacts as she sees a part of her house being taken down by demolition workers at Yangji village in central Guangzhou city, Guangdong province, China, March 21, 2012. Huang, who is a resident of Yangji village, clashes with demolition workers as they mistakenly take down a part of her home, which is not included in the demolition project, local media reported. (Reuters)

State trumpeters of the Household Cavalry dressed in their summer uniforms at Wellington Barracks show uniforms that will be worn for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, London, March 21, 2012. (Reuters)

Maycol Errani performs on horses during a rehearsal of the new show of Swiss National-Circus Knie in the town of Rapperswil east of Zurich, Switzerland. (Reuters)