MARCH 30: Amphibious assault vessels of the South Korean Marine Corps launch smoke bombs as they move toward shore during a U.S.-South Korea joint military drill.
MARCH 30: In this image from a U.S. Coast Guard video, a crew member of the disabled tall ship Liana's Ransom jumps onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter during a rescue mission on Monday. Coast Guard air and sea craft, including the Portland-based cutter Ocracoke, rescued nine crew members from the Canadian pirate ship replica after it became disabled in heavy seas. The vessel was later towed to a shipyard in Eliot, Maine, for repairs.
MARCH 30: Wendy Wilson, left, and Carnie Wilson perform with Beach Boy Brian Wilson at "Brian Fest: A Night To Celebrate The Music Of Brian Wilson" in Los Angeles. The event coincided with the release of 72-year-old Wilson’s latest solo effort, "No Pier Pressure."
MARCH 30: Actress Katie Holmes attends the premiere of "Woman In Gold" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has a role in the saga of how Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” came to leave Vienna during World War II to take up permanent residence in the United States.
MARCH 30: Window shutters create a curious juxtaposition in this mural painted on a house in a Rome neighborhood.
MARCH 30: "Babu" enjoys a ride on Brian Dean's shoulders as they stroll down a road in Glens Falls, New York.
MARCH 30: Bella Galvan-Aguliar tosses corn into the air for geese in Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville, Calif.
MARCH 30: A member of the Charlotte Hornets' "Honey Bees" performs during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Boston Celtics in Charlotte, N.C., Monday.
MARCH 31: A woman crosses the Millennium Bridge in London during strong winds.
MARCH 31: Georgia Ball Keely, 4, holds still as a Danaus chrysippus, or "plain tiger," butterfly lands on her nose at the Natural History Museum in London. Hundreds of live tropical butterflies filled the butterfly house for an exhibition at the museum starting this week.
MARCH 31: A woman takes advantage of warm spring temperatures on a beach in Nice, France.
MARCH 31: A cargo ship plies the Mississippi River toward New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
MARCH 31: Boys swim in a river in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, in southern Philippines.
MARCH 31: Supporters of victorious presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari collide during celebrations in Kano, Nigeria. Africa's most populous nation witnessed history with its first democratic transfer of power.
MARCH 31: Row after row of photovoltaic panels covera hill in Les Mees, France. The solar farm is the biggest in France, consisting of 112,780 individual solar panels covering 500 acres and generating about 100 megawatts – enough to power 14,300 homes.
MARCH 31: A man whose livelihood depends on selling recyclable wastes is surrounded by Marabou storks as he collects trash in a dump on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital of Kampala. The Marabou is sometimes called the "undertaker bird" because of its shape from behind: cloak-like wings and back, skinny white legs, and sometimes a large white mass of "hair."
MARCH 31: A Cambodian farmer transports rice hay the "old school" way – by oxcart – in a remote rural area near the Mekong River north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The crop is among the farmers' traditional sources of income, along with fish and chili peppers.
MARCH 31: A child model presents a creation during China Fashion Week in Beijing.
MARCH 31: A panel of judges sizes up a competitor before declaring a beauty contest winner.
MARCH 31: A pig waits to compete in a beauty contest for pigs at a farm in Hajmas, southwest Hungary. The contest, although held a day ahead of April 1, was organized to mark April Fools' Day.
MARCH 31: Hooded penitents from the "La Candelaria" brotherhood line up to enter a church to take part in a procession in Seville, Spain. Hundreds of such processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
MARCH 31: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande attend a ceremony before a joint Franco-German cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin.
MARCH 31: Heather Mack, from Chicago, Ill., holds her 2-week-old daughter inside a cell before the beginning of her trial in Bali, Indonesia. Mack, 19, and boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, are being tried separately on a charge of premeditated murder in the death of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, at a hotel on the resort island last August. Indonesian prosecutors are seeking jail sentences of 15 years for Mack and 18 years for Schaefer if they are found guilty, but a panel of judges could ignore the request and impose the maximum, death by a firing squad, if they are convicted.
APRIL 1: A member from the Iraqi security forces beats an Islamic State insurgent, who was captured in Tikrit. Iraqi troops and Shi'ite paramilitary fighters were battling Islamic State on Wednesday in northern Tikrit, which officials described as the Sunni Muslim militant group's last stronghold in the city.
APRIL 1: Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, works out at a gym in Tokyo. Miyamoto originally hadn't planned to enter a Japanese beauty contest because she figured her multiracial origins meant she couldn't win.
APRIL 1: A couple embrace at a cathedral in Guatemala City.
APRIL 1: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had some fun on April Fool's Day. He posted this photo of himself on his Facebook page with the message "Jordan's crossover is no joke!" That's Michael Jordan's signature on the cast, naturally.
APRIL 1: A boy looks at fish-shaped balloons installed over a water fountain to mark April Fools' Day, called "Poisson d'Avril" in France, in the center of Nice.
APRIL 2: A Pacific bluefin tuna swims in a tank in the Tokyo Sea Life Park, the last of nearly 160 tuna and bonito fish that once populated the vast tank and that died for unknown reasons over recent months.
APRIL 2: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy uses a gas torch to burn off remains of leaven from a makeshift stove in preparation for Passover in the city of Ashdod, Israel. Passover commemorates the flight of Jews from ancient Egypt, as described in the Exodus chapter of the Bible. According to the account, the Jews did not have time to prepare leavened bread before fleeing to the promised land.
APRIL 2: A sparrow drinks the nectar of a cherry blossom in full bloom at Ueno Park in Tokyo.
APRIL 2: A macaque looks out from a cage in Kunming, Yunnan province, China. About 93 wild animals were rescued from local markets and restaurants by police and an animal protection group and were being transported to a national park to be released back into the wild, according to local media.
APRIL 2: Water flows wastefully over a sidewalk from sprinklers operating at a home in Rancho Cordova, Calif. California Gov. Jerry Brown this week ordered a 25 percent overall cutback in water use by cities and towns, but not farms, in the most sweeping drought measures ever undertaken by the nation's most populous state.
APRIL 2: A South American gaucho tries to hang onto a wild horse during the Criolla del Prado rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay. Riders come from all over Uruguay and neighboring countries to participate in the rodeo that involves riding a wild horse for eight to ten seconds, depending on the competition category. The city has organized the annual rodeo during Holy Week since 1925.
APRIL 2: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and staff watch a tablet in Lausanne, Switzerland, as President Barack Obama makes an address from the White House on a tentative agreement in the Iran nuclear talks. The preliminary deal between Iran and six world powers could lead to an end to the 12-year nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West, though details must be worked out.
APRIL 3: Chinese tourists take photographs in Red Square during a snowfall in Moscow.
APRIL 3: An Indian Christian plays the role of Jesus Christ during a re-enactment of the crucifixion, to mark Good Friday, in Mumbai, India.
APRIL 3: Pope Francis lies as he prays in a ritual act of prostration during the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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