Pics of the week

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Reuters / Monday, April 06, 2015
Members of a music band rest before the procession of "Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem", in Constancia, Portugal April 6, 2015. This benediction has been held annually for about 200 years. In the past, goods were transported by the Tagus river in small boats to Lisbon, 100 km south. As the navigation was dangerous, sailors blessed their boats every year during the festivity of "Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem". REUTERS/Rafael Marchante




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Reuters / Monday, April 06, 2015
The continent of Australia is shown in this handout photo taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Scott Kelly and provided by NASA, April 6, 2015. Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko began their one-year mission aboard the space station on March 27, 2015. By doubling the length of this mission, researchers hope to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration


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Reuters / Monday, April 06, 2015
Luke Personius, 12, (top) surfs past Kevin Elliott, 12, before school at sunrise in Hermosa Beach, California March 31, 2015. The group of friends surf at sunrise most mornings, then shower outside and walk to school. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson


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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
People mourn next to a coffin as the remains of 25 Kosovo Albanians killed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, found in the village of Rudnica, are reburied during a ceremony in the village of Rezalle, Kosovo, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Agron Beqiri



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
A boy holds his father's rifle as they attend a protest by followers of the Houthi movement against the Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Worshippers run while carrying a statue of the Risen Christ during an Easter Sunday procession in Cospicua, outside Valletta, Malta, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
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, April 6, 2015. REUTERS/Lukas Coch/Pool

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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
People take part in the Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival along 5th Avenue in New York City, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Eric Thayer



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Pigeons fly past devotees gathering on the roof of the houses to observe religious rituals of Rato Machhindranath at Bungamati in Lalitpur, Nepal, April 5, 2015. Rato Machhindranath is known as the god of rain and both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath for good rain to prevent drought during the rice harvest season. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Sivakorn, a 21-year-old transgender, gets measured during an army draft held at a school in Bang Na in Bangkok, April 3, 2015. Thai men over 21 must serve in the army. Those who volunteer serve six months, but others choose the annual lottery, which goes on for 10 days in recruitment centres around Thailand. Only those not considered physically capable of service, the mentally ill and those who have significantly


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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron feeds an orphaned lamb during a visit to Dean Lane Farm near Chadlington, southern England, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Leon Neal/Pool


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Reuters / Monday, April 06, 2015
People stand in a line to enter a government employment office in Madrid, Spain, April 6, 2015. The number of Spaniards registered as jobless fell by 1.3 percent in March from a month earlier, or by 60,214 people, leaving 4.45 million people out of work, data from the Labour Ministry showed on Monday. REUTERS/Andrea Comas



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Pope Francis leads the Easter mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Max Rossi


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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Italian military forces march as they arrive in St. Peter's square before Pope Francis leads the Easter mass at the Vatican, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Max Rossi

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Reuters / Monday, April 06, 2015
A woman enjoys the sun on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about 13 Celsius (55.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the Taiga district outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, April 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Pope Francis waves at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 5, 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi



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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
A relative of a victim onboard sunken ferry Sewol, holding a victim's portrait, cries during a rally to call for an independent inquiry into the matter and to urge the government to salvage the sunken ferry Sewol as soon as possible, in central Seoul, April 5, 2015. South Korea said it would pay about $380,000 (257,305 pounds) in compensation for each of the 250 students who died in last year's ferry disaster


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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Boys play soccer on a driftwood soccer court, on the banks of the Rio Negro or Black River in Catalao community near Manaus, in Amazonas state, Brazil, April 4, 2015. Residents of Catalao, a village of houseboats, built a floating wooden soccer court, since the village field was flooded by the full Rio Negro. According to the Geological Survey of Brazil (CPRM), the full Rio Negro this year is expected to reach close to the record


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Reuters / Sunday, April 05, 2015
Hector Gaitan sits during celebrations marking his 111th birthday in Managua, Nicaragua, April 5, 2015. Gaitan has at different times in his life been a telegraph operator, a miner, a guerrilla, an artist and a Nicaraguan Railway Company railroad employee. Gaitan said he knew Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto C. Sandino, after whom the Sandinista political movement is named, and who died in 1934. Born in 1904, Gaitan has lived long enough to see the rise and fall of the Somoza dictatorship which ruled Nicaragua till 1979. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas