Photos Of The Week #14

The sun rises behind the Eiserne Steg pedestrian bridge in Frankfurt, Germany, early on April 2. (AP/Michael Probst)

Nepalese soldiers demonstrate their skills during horse-racing festival in Kathmandu. (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar)

A soldier holds a rifle as he patrols the Russian northern military base on Kotelny Island, beyond the Arctic Circle. (AFP/Maksim Popov)

A woman walks past crosses at a Soviet-era mass grave site in Kuropaty in the capital Belarusian capital, Minsk. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)

Local residents pray next to the line of wooden crosses marking the Soviet-era mass grave site in Kuropaty, in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on April 4. (AP/Sergei Grits)

Indian cricketer Shreyas Iyer heads to practice at a sports ground covered with fumigation smoke ahead of a T20 match in New Delhi on April 4. (AP/Altaf Qadri)

People prepare to fly kites to mark World Migratory Bird Day in the city of Aqaba, Jordan, on April 4. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)

Afghan women walk near a brick factory as smoke rises from a chimney on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)

Heavy fog is seen shrouding the city skyline in Sydney, Australia, on April 3. (Reuters/Dan Himbrechts)

A newspaper vendor watches the world go by in Moscow. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

British and EU flags are reflected on a wet pavement in London. (Reuters/Hannah McKay)

A man crosses a flooded street in the city of Khorramabad in the western Iranian province of Lorestan. (AP/Saeed Soroush)

Russian firefighters battle a blaze at a former paper mill in Kaliningrad on April 1. (Vitaly Nevar/Tass)

The U.S. Capitol is framed amid blooming cherry trees in Washington D.C. (AP/Scott Applewhite)

People balance on a slackline over the Emmaus Monastery in Prague. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)

Supporters of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in Turkey wave flags and light torches to celebrate local election results in Istanbul on April 1. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)

An Afghan health worker marks the little finger of a child after administering a polio vaccination to children in Kandahar. (epa-EFE/Muhammad Sadiq)

The Stepova coal mine just before dawn in Pershotravensk in eastern Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)