April 15, 2016
A Pakistani migrant stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos sits behind a cross near the port of Mytilini. Pope Francis will visit the island Saturday joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Athens Archbishop Ieronymos II.
Rescue teams search through damaged houses to check for trapped people in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan. Aftershocks rattled communities in southern Japan as businesses and residents got a fuller look Friday at the widespread damage from an unusually strong overnight earthquake.
A boy chants slogans through a gap in a national flag raised by Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, during a protest against Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen.
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, center, walks over the marathon finish line on the third anniversary of the bombings in Boston.
High school students hold candles to pay their respects to the victims of sunken ferry Sewol during a ceremony on the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking in Ansan, South Korea.
A Sotheby's employee looks at a painting by Farhad Moshiri, Untitled from The Jar Series, at Sotheby's auction rooms in London. The painting is expected to bring 100,000-150,000 UK pounds (141,882-212,824 US dollars) when it is auctioned in the first-ever single owner Modern and Contemporary Iranian sale, called Alchemy: Objects of Desire on April 21.
Lower house members who support impeachment for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff demonstrate during a session to review the request, at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia.
A reporter walks past a replica of the Goddess of Democracy in the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong. The operators of the world’s only museum chronicling the Chinese government’s brutal 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square say it faces closure because of a legal dispute.
South Korean conservative activists shout slogans as police block them from attempting to release balloons with leaflets during a rally at the border city with North Korea, in Paju, South Korea. A North Korean launch of a missile on the birthday of its revered founder appears to have failed, South Korean and U.S. defense officials said Friday.
Tourists float in the Dead Sea, Israel.
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, spin prayer wheels at the Paro Taktsang Monastery, Bhutan. The royal couple are on a seven-day tour of India and Bhutan.
A jogger passes a patch of blooming tulips on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
An Indian man dressed as Hindu Goddess Kali puts fire in his mouth during a procession to celebrate the Ram Navami festival in Allahabad, India.
People stroll under blooming cherry trees in Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm, Sweden.