April 6, 2015

Smoke rises after an explosion at a chemical plant in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, China.

President Barack Obama makes a face as he reads "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. Thousands of children gathered at the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll.

People enjoy a picnic in Rome's Villa Pamphilii park, Italy, on Easter Monday.

Kashmiri women weep as they watch the funeral procession of Mushtaq Ahmad Wani, an Indian policeman, in Arigam, south of Srinagar. Three unarmed policemen including Wani were killed in south Kashmir after suspected separatist militants opened fire on them during their visit to a neighboring village for investigating a land dispute, police said.

The moon rises over the New York City skyline seen from West Orange, New Jersey, April 5, 2015.

A young Slovak dressed in traditional costume (C) throws a bucket of water over a girl as part of Easter celebration in the village of Trencianska Tepla, northwestern Slovakia.

Jewish men draped in prayer shawls read from the Torah scrolls as they perform the Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) during the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Boys in traditional dresses symbolically beat a girl (L) with small whips during a traditional Easter festivity on Easter Monday in the village of Vlcnov in the southeastern region of the Czech Republic. The whipping of girls on Easter Monday is a tradition that is not intended to cause suffering and a part of the UNESCO Cultural Heritage named Ride of the Kings.

A general view shows destruction in Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the refugee camp after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP.

An Afghan health worker gives a vaccination to a child during a polio campaign in Kandahar, south of Kabul.

Britain's Prince Harry reacts as he shakes hands with members of the public displaying a sign reading 'Red Heads Rule' after visiting the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

A woman walking in a winter forest in Mason Neck State Park, Virginia, USA. (Photo taken by Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

People take part in the Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival along 5th Avenue in New York City, April 5, 2015.

A woman enjoys the sun on the banks of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about 13° C (55.4° F), in the Taiga district outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.