The week in photos from April 12 to April 17
A drop of sweat falls from the face of Rafael Nadal of Spain's during his quarter-final match against his compatriot David Ferrer at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Smoke billows during an air strike on the Republican Palace in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz.Reuters
Tiger Woods of the United States reacts to a shot from the pine straw on the ninth hole during the final round of the 2015 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.David Cannon/Getty Images
A flock of twenty swans and a few geese parade from their winter home to the Avon River in Stratford, Ont., Hundreds of people came to watch the annual spring Swan Parade.Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press
Dead fish float near a rower as he puts his boat on the water at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, in Rio de Janeiro. About 500kg of fish have been removed from the lagoon since last week after sea cold water got into the lagoon. The lagoon will host 2016 Olympic rowing and canoe sprint competitions.Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
An Egyptian vendor blows bubbles at the Giza Zoo, in Giza, Egypt during Sham el-Nessim. The holiday, practiced since the time of the Pharaohs, signifies the arrival of Spring.Hassan Ammar/The Associated Press
An Iraqi Yazidi lights paraffin torches at Lalish temple near Dohuk, northwest of Baghdad, during a ceremony to celebrate the Yazidi New Year.Safin Hamed/AFP / Getty Images
Dozens of riot police remove squatters from a derelict building in Rio de Janeiro, which was supposed to be turned into a luxury hotel for the Olympic Games by Brazil's once-richest-man Eike Batista, whose oil and mining empire collapsed.Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
A Ukrainian serviceman rides a bicycle in Shyrokyne, eastern Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine agreed in Berlin on Monday to call for the pullback of smaller-caliber weapons from the front lines of the conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives.Evgeniy Maloletka/The Associated Press
A gosling peers out from its mother's wings Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif.Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated Press
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor takes to the sky at the Gulf Coast Salute open house and air show over Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida.US AIR FORCE/Reuters
Riot police stand guard with red paint on their shields, thrown by anti-establishment protesters during a demonstration against high security prisons in Athens.Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters