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A Bangladeshi girl dressed as a snake charmer plays a flute as she participates in New Year celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 13, 2012. Bangladeshi people will celebrate Bangla New Year tomorrow. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

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Philippines Ocea... Jellyfish glide slowly in an aquarium wall of a hotel at Manila Ocean Park, the largest oceanarium in the country, as the media was given a tour during its second anniversary celebration Tuesday April 10, 2012 in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Flyers and Pengu... Philadelphia Flyers goalie IIya Bryzgalov stands in the goal crease during the national anthem before Game 1 of an opening-round NHL hockey playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in Pittsburgh. The Flyers won 4-3 in overtime. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Lagos Water Rega... Men dressed in costumes parade during a regatta in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, April 8, 2012. Organizers held a boat regatta Sunday as part of the ongoing Lagos Carnival. The carnival will come to its height Monday as dancers and masqueraders walk through the streets of Lagos' two main islands.(AP Photos/Sunday Alamba)
Jerusalem Easter... A Christian worshipper lights candles inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Nepal Hindu Fest... Locals pull a chariot containing images of Bhairava and Bhadrakali around the city as they celebrate the Bisket Jatra Hindu festival on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April, 9, 2012. During this festival, also regarded as a New Year festival, images of the god Bhairava and his female counterpart Bhadrakali are enshrined in two large chariots and pulled to an open square after which rituals and festivities are carried out. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
Germany Easter Local residents in traditional dresses ride their decorated horses to get a blessing for men and beast near Traunstein, southern Germany, on Monday, April 9, 2012. The procession has been held since 300 years on Easter Monday. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Thailand Royal C... Thai officials pay last respect to the urn of Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda Sirisobhabannavadi before unloading from a carriage to the crematorium during the royal cremation ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, April 9, 2012. Princess Bejaratana was the only child of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) and was the first cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the King of Thailand. The Princess passed away on July 27, 2011 at the age of 86. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Japan Cherry Blo... Sparrows sit on a branch of a cherry tree in full bloom at a park in Tokyo, Monday, April 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Philadelphia Fir... Firefighters greet each other in the aftermath of a fire in a warehouse on York Street near Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia on Monday, April 9, 2012. Two firefighters died after a wall collapsed on them while they fought the massive early-morning blaze. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
North Korean Roc... A soldier stands guard in front of the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket sitting on a launch pad at the West Sea Satellite Launch Site, during a guided media tour by North Korean authorities in the northwest of Pyongyang April 8, 2012. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip)
Cycling Race Par... Riders cycle on a cobblestone-paved section of road during the classic cycling race Paris-Roubaix in Troisvilles , northern France, Sunday April 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler).
Easter Egg Roll President Barack Obama helps a little boy roll his egg to the finish line during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday, April 9, 2012, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. In the background, at left are Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
New Jersey Fire Smoke spews from the ground during a brush fire fire that blazed through 1,000 acres, Monday, April 9, 2012, in Tabernacle, N.J. The fire is the second major brush fire in southern New Jersey in less than a week. Last week two fires burned 400 acres in Winslow Township, about 20 miles southwest of Monday's blaze. Dry weather and high winds are contributing to the fires. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Singapore Zoo Ba... Bino, one-year-old Sumatran Orang Utan, peeps from behind his mother Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore. The zoo is actively involved in educating the public about wildlife conservation and has also been successful in breeding endangered species within the Zoo's premises. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
Poland Crash Ann... People take part in a memorial service outside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 10, 2012. The event was held to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2010 plane crash at Smolensk airport that killed Poland's former President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 others. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
California Water... In this undated file photo, water flows through the Southern California desert in the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles area. A pricing dispute has sharply escalated hostilities between San Diego and the agency that delivers water to much of Southern California, straining an odd partnership already defined by years of lawsuits and heated rhetoric. The San Diego County Water Authority launched a website to attack the MWD, its largest supplier, saying it wanted to lift a veil of secrecy. The site displays a trove of internal documents obtained under California’s public records law, including references to a "Secret Society" and an "anti-San Diego coalition." (AP Photo/Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, File)
Peru Trapped Min... Clothing used by miners dry on a rock wall outside the entrance of the Cabeza de Negro gold-and-copper mine where some miners are trapped in Yauca del Rosario, Peru, Tuesday April 10, 2012. Authorities say nine miners trapped inside the wildcat mine since April 5 are being supplied with sports drinks, soup and food while emergency responders work to free them. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Cherry Blossoms ... Miya Edakawa, second from right, a volunteer Japanese dance teacher, leads her dance group members during their cherry blossoms viewing party at Ueno Park in Tokyo Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Edakawa encourages the elderly to practice dancing to protect themselves from senile decay. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Georgia Annivers... People lay flowers outside the parliament building to mark the anniversary of the bloody Soviet crackdown on unarmed pro-independence supporters in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, April 9, 2012. Georgians laid flowers and lit candles outside the parliament building to honor the 21 people who were killed when Soviet forces broke up a crowd of demonstrators on April 9, 1989. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)
India Kashmir Kashmiri men employed by the government to clean the Dal Lake of weeds take a break in rain in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Set in the Himalayas at 1707-meter (5,600 feet) above sea level, Kashmir is a green, saucer-shaped valley full of fruit orchards and surrounded by snowy mountain ranges. About 100 lakes dot its highlands and plains. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
South Korea Elec... South Korean National Election Commission officials sort out ballots cast in the parliamentary election as they begin the counting process in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Earlier media surveys suggested President Lee Myung-bak's conservative ruling party and his liberal rivals were neck and neck in the race for 300 parliamentary seats. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Titanic Memorial... Passengers walk around the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship, prior to the gala dinner in the Atlantic Ocean, Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Nearly 100 years after the Titanic went down, the cruise with the same number of passengers aboard is setting sail to retrace the ship's voyage, including a visit to the location where it sank. The Titanic Memorial Cruise departed Sunday, April 8, from Southampton, England, where the Titanic left on its maiden voyage and the 12-night cruise will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the White Star liner. With some 1,300 passengers aboard, the MS Balmoral will follow the same route as the Titanic and organizers are trying to recreate the onboard experience minus the disaster from the food to a band playing music from that era. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
28th April Sprin... North Korean performers take part in the 28th April Spring Friendship Art Festival held in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Indonesia Earthq... An Acehnese woman checks her mobile phone as she and her baby evacuate to higher ground after a strong earthquake was felt in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Sumatra island, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. There were no signs of deadly waves, however, or serious damage, and a watch for much of the Indian Ocean was lifted after a few hours. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)
Employees of the... Employees of the Friends of the Earth environmental campaign group dressed up as bees Charlotte Chan, left, and Debbie O'Dowd pose for photographs in a temporary 150 square metre wildflower meadow on the south bank of the River Thames London, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. The publicity event was held Wednesday to help raise awareness of the charity's claims that in recent years Britain has lost over half the honey bees kept in managed hives and wild honey bees are nearly extinct as a result of the combination of loss of their natural habitat and intensive farming. A press release issued by the organisation also states that it would cost the UK 1.8 billion pounds ($2.861 billion, 2.181 billion euro) to hand pollinate crops without bees according to research carried out by bee experts at the University of Reading. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Belarus Subway B... People are reflected in a memorial board to victims of the subway blast in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, marking the first anniversary of explosion in the Belarus capital last year that killed 15 people and wounded some hundreds.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Barnes Museum Sc... Ellsworth Kelly's sculpture entitled "The Barnes Totem" stands in the garden of The Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Philadelphia. The art museum's new campuses is scheduled to open May 19. The Neubauer Family Foundation commissioned the sculpture. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Volvo Ocean Race... In this photograph provided by the Volvo Ocean Race, Groupama Sailing Team, skippered by Franck Cammas from France, sails under a jury rig, as they approach the finish of leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajai, Brazil, on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Groupama took third place in the leg after losing their mast while leading the race six days ago and having to suspend racing while they fixed a makeshift rig which they nursed to the finish. (AP Photo/Paul Todd/Volvo Ocean Race)
Thailand Water F... Thai children play in a pool decorated with elephant sculptures ahead of Songkran, or water festival, at Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. The annual three-day festival starts on April 13. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Preserved Baby M... The carcass of a well-preserved baby mammoth, named Lyuba, is seen during a media preview in Hong Kong April 10, 2012. Lyuba, whose carcass is 40,000 years old, was found by a reindeer herder in Yamal Peninsula in Russia in 2007. She will be exhibited at IFC Mall in Hong Kong on April 12. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)
Festival of Shiv... Indian Hindu devotees carry holy water taken from the River Ganges as they walk towards their village in the countryside, while marking the festival of Shiva Gajan in the city of Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, Thursday, April 12, 2012. The celebrations mark the final days of the Bengali calendar. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
The Scream Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is seen as it is hung for display at Sotheby's Auction Rooms in London, Thursday, April 12, 2012. The picture made with pastels is one of four versions of the composition, and dates from 1895, it will be auctioned in the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in New York on May 2, with an estimated price of 80 million dollars. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Neighborhood Wat... The remains of Trayvon Martin lie in a mausoleum at the Dade Memorial Park cemetery, Thursday, April 12, 2012, in Miami. The unarmed black teen was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. Feb. 26. Zimmerman was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Summit of the Am... Navy soldiers patrol the old city in Cartagena, Colombia, Tuesday, April 11, 2012. Leaders of the western hemisphere will meet for the 6th Summit of the Americas April 15-16. (AP Photo/Nestor Silva)
Pregnant Beluga Georgia Aquarium's resident pregnant beluga whale Maris swims in the aquarium's tank in Atlanta, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Maris, is expected to give birth by June. She the first mammal to conceive at the downtown Atlanta attraction since it opened in 2005. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Serbia Orthodox ... A girl finishes hand decorating an Easter egg in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, April 12, 2012. Traditionally Orthodox Serbs observe Easter according to the old Julian calendar which this years falls on April 15. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Russky Island Br... In this photo taken Wednesday, April 11, 2012, a general view of ongoing construction of the cable-stayed Russky Island Bridge in Vladivostok, Russia. The bridge will connect the mainland part of the city, Nazimov peninsula, with Russky Island. (AP Photo/Alexander Khitrov)
New Year Water F... A Rakhine traditional artists troupe perform on the first day of Thingyan, Myanmar's annual water festival which ushers in the New Year, Thursday, April 12, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
Nazi Concentrati... Roses lie by a 'Holocaust' sign during the commemoration ceremonies for the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, central Germany, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. On 11th April 1945, units of the 3rd US Army reached Ettersberg Hill. More than 250,000 people were held captive in the camp between 1937 and 1945, and more than 50,000 of them died during that time. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Germany Zoo Gibbon baby "Knuppy" (Hylobates lar) rests in a private Zoo in Bremen, northern Germany. His real mother rejected the baby and the owner of a garden center and private Zoo, Renate Anders, now takes care of the little gibbon. (AP Photo/dapd /Joerg Sarbach)
North Korea Unve... North Koreans wave flowers at an unveiling ceremony for statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Italy Financial ... Workers march in downtown Rome, Friday, April 13, 2012. Tens of thousands of workers of the three main unions protested against the labor and pension reforms recently approved by the government of premier Mario Monti, backed by the three main political parties. The overhaul of the country's labor practices is a key part of Monti's economic reforms and one closely watched by the financial markets. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Palestinians Eas... Ethiopian Orthodox Christian worshippers carry a cross during Good Friday processions towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Grand National H... A racegoer wears a fancy feather millinery creation on arrival for Ladies Day, the second day of the Grand National horse race meeting at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Assamese New Yea... Assamese dancers perform the Bihu, a folk dance, during celebrations to mark Rongali Bihu festival in Gauhati, India, Friday, April 13, 2012. Rongali Bihu marks the onset of the Assamese New Year and the coming of spring. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Serbia Orthodox ... A vendor arranges hand-painted decorated Easter eggs at a green market, in Belgrade, Serbia, on Orthodox Good Friday, April 13, 2012. Orthodox Serbs celebrate Easter on April 15, according to the old Julian calendar.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Baisakhi Festiva... Indian dancers perform the 'Bhangra', a Punjabi folk dance, in a wheat field as they celebrate Baisakhi festival in Jammu, India, Friday, April 13, 2012. Baisakhi is the harvest festival widely celebrated in northern India, especially in the Punjab area. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Germany Weather A visitor walks behind a flowerbed with tulips (Tulipa fosteriana Pirand ) at the horticultural exhibition 'ega' (Erfurt Garden Construction Exhibition) in Erfurt, Germany, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)