Today in photos

Penitents make a dancing of the dead a during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain. Midwest City firefighters search for a residents rings in a home destroyed by fire in Midwest City, Okla. And two leopard cubs play in an enclosure in Nehru Zoological park in Hyderabad, India. View a slideshow of these images and more.

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Fri., April 10, 2009

Penitents make a dancing of the dead a during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain, Friday, April 10, 2009.

Manu Fernandez Associated Press
Hooded penitents from the 'Dolors' brotherhood take part in a procession during an Easter Holy Week procession in Verges, Spain, Friday, April 10, 2009. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.

Manu Fernandez Associated Press
Women dressed as Virgin Mary take part in Holy Week celebrations in the neighborhood of Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, Friday, April 10, 2009. Every year hundreds of residents from this working-class neighborhood carry crosses up a nearby hill in one of Mexico's largest Holy Week celebrations.

Eduardo Verdugo Associated Press
Christian worshippers carry the cross of the Latin Patriarchate in the Christian Quarter towards the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, during the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 10, 2009. Hundreds of Christian clergymen, worshippers and pilgrims marked Good Friday at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christian tradition says Jesus was crucified and resurrected.

Kevin Frayer Associated Press
A young Muslim boy in a podium offers prayers along with others at the Jama Masjid in the old part of New Delhi, India, Friday April 10, 2009. One of India's most influential Muslim clerics Syed Ahmed Bukhari said in a speech Friday that political parties have no interest in secularism rather they are hungry for power itself. India will hold general elections in five phases beginning April 16.

Gemunu Amarasinghe Associated Press
A female protester with her face covered with the British flag is seen during a rally outside the goverment building in Chisinau, Moldova, Friday, April 10, 2009, demanding that the communist government resign. Police were overwhelmed by more than 10,000 protesters on Tuesday, who ransacked both the presidential building and parliament to protest the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Ivan Sekretarev Associated Press
A woman wears a headscarf to protect against wind-blown dust in Beijing, China, Friday, April 10, 2009.

Greg Baker Associated Press
An anti-government protester and supporter of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sleeps after spending an overnight protest at the Victory monument intersection in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, April 10, 2009. Protesters who brought areas of the Thai capital to a standstill in a push to oust the government say they will stage demonstrations at a summit of 16 Asian nations at a beachside resort.

Wason Wanichakorn Associated Press
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland leaps up to check on his chip shot out of a bunker on the second hole during the second round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., Friday, April 10, 2009.

David Phillip Associated Press
Coffins of victims are lined up during the funerals for quake victims in L'Aquila, central Italy, Friday, April 10, 2009. Four days after the major earthquake that made L'Aquila and many nearby towns and villages uninhabitable, the official death toll has reached 287, and most of the victims are here, in L'Aquilia.

Luca Bruno Associated Press
A woman with a toddler gets closer to the white coffin of a child victim, prior to the funerals for quake victims in L'Aquila, central Italy, Friday, April 10, 2009. Four days after the major earthquake that made L'Aquila and many nearby towns and villages uninhabitable. The death toll has reached 287.

Luca Bruno Associated Press
Midwest City firefighters, from left, Mike Musshefen, Tim Lawson and Captain Mark Zeckser, search for a residents rings in a home destroyed by fire in Midwest City, Okla., Friday, April 10, 2009. Firefighters mopped up hot spots Friday from wind-driven wildfires that injured at least 34 people in western and central Oklahoma and destroyed more than 100 homes.

Sue Ogrocki Associated Press
Residents of Mena, Ark., look over a tornado damaged home, Friday, April 10, 2009 in Mena, Ark. Battered residents of this western Arkansas town waited for day light Friday to dig out from a "direct hit" by a tornado that killed three people, injured at least 24, and flattened homes and businesses, including a manufacturing plant.

Mike Wintroath Associated Press
An unidentified woman places flowers on the mailbox at the home of Capt. Richard Phillips in Underhill, Vt., Friday, April 10, 2009. Phillips, the American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates, made a desperate escape attempt Friday but was recaptured.

Toby Talbot Associated Press
Brown bear Pedro lies on the ground as the zoo visitors shadows of the Baerengraben ditch are silhouetted on the ground in Bern, Switzerland, Good Friday, April 10, 2009.

Peter Klaunzer Associated Press
Two leopard cubs play in an enclosure in Nehru Zoological park in Hyderabad, India, Friday, April 10, 2009.

Mahesh A Associated Press
Blues Jay Williams wins a line out against the Lions in a Super 14 rugby match, Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, April 10, 2009.

Wayne Drought Associated Press