Images from around the world


Soldiers, students and civilians gather at a rally denouncing South Korean President Lee Myung-baka in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 20. (Vincent Yu/AP)



Protesters chant slogans during an anti-government rally in Manama, Bahrain, on April 19. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)



People walk around the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum prior to the 17th annual remembrance of the deadliest domestic bombing in U.S. history in Oklahoma City on April 19, 2012. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)



The nuclear power plant Goesgen and the river Aare at twilight in the Swiss town of Niedergoesgen on April 18. (Michael Buholzer/Reuters)




A man, right, gestures toward the camera as two others take a rest after sniffing glue at the Oriental Market in Nicaragua on April 16, 2012. (Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)




Ashok Aswani, a 63-year-old doctor poses as Charlie Chaplin in Adipur, India on April 16 in celebration of Chaplin's birthday. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)




Chris Patrie attends the NRA annual meeting on April 13, 2012 in St. Louis, Mo., ahead of speeches by all three U.S. Republican presidential candidates. (Whitney Curtis/Getty)




George Zimmerman makes his first court appearance in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., on April 12. (Gary W. Green/Reuters)




A Syrian man reads a newspaper in Damascus on April 12, 2012, the first day of a UN-backed ceasefire in the country. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty)




Peruvian miner Javier Tapia, left, is comforted by his wife and child after being rescued from a collapsed mine in Ica, Peru, on April 11. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)




Village schoolmaster Yoo Bok-yeob, queues up to cast his ballot at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Nonsan, South Korea. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Resuources)




Participants attend a street carnival to mark the end of Easter celebration in Lagos, Nigeria on April 9. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)




A man dressed as a zombie clown participates in the 5th Zombie Parade in Brussels, Belgium, on April 7. (Yves Logghe/Associated Press)


Bonus
Day in pictures: 20 April 2012

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Fatime Abd Rahmane looks at her daughter, Kaltouma Abdoulaye, who is recovering from severe malnutrition in the intensive care tent of a clinic in Mondo, Chad. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children aged under five in Chad's Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe malnutrition this year




Sixteen Amish women and men charged with beard and haircutting attacks against fellow Amish have pleaded not guilty in an Ohio court. Prosecutors say the attacks were part of a feud directed by a breakaway Amish bishop, Samuel Mullet.




Face Britain, a light show consisting of over 200,000 self portraits by children, is projected onto Buckingham Palace in London to form a montage image of Her Majesty the Queen in London




Police and the FBI in New York are excavating a Manhattan basement as they seek clues into the 1979 disappearance of a six-year-old boy. Etan Patz vanished on his way to catch a school bus on the first day he was allowed to travel to school alone. His remains have never been found.




An Afghan shaves himself at a traditional bath house in Kabul. After a one-hour session inside the steam-filled rooms, people go on to the mosque for communal Friday prayers




Workers stand together at a brick factory in Imadol on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.




A child looks at the Little Girl Giant, a giant marionette created as part of Sea Odyssey, a love story based around the sinking of the Titanic, in Stanley Park, Liverpool.




Firemen extinguish a blaze in Manila in the Philippines. According to local authorities, about 150 families lost their homes, but no one was reported killed in the incident.