Girls who survived what activists said was a ground-to-ground missile attack by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold hands at Aleppo's Bab al-Hadeed district on April 7, 2015. #

An Israeli boy swims next to sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank village of Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley on April 8, 2015, during the Jewish Passover holiday. Thousands of Israelis spent the day outdoors, picnicking and touring the country during the eight-day Passover holiday, which commemorates the Israelites' exodus from Egypt some 3,500 years ago. #

A whirlwind kicks up a column of volcanic ash on the slope of Mount Sinabung volcano following an eruption on April 1. According to Indonesian authorities, about 3,500 people were displaced after the February 2014 eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano located in Sumatra Island and many are still living in evacuation centers as the volcano remains active. #

A life-size Godzilla head is seen through a window of the "Gozilla View Room" of Hotel Gracery Shinjuku at Kabukicho shopping district in Tokyo on April 9, 2015. Godzilla is a main feature of the new commercial complex, comprising a 970-room hotel, movie theaters, and restaurants. #

Renato Dias, 39, writes in his notebook as he poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 17, 2015. Dias, who has been using crack for about four years, says he uses his notebook as a form of distraction. He writes about superheroes and dreams of becoming one. #

An unexploded rocket remains embedded in a field near the village of Dmitrivka, Ukraine, on April 7, 2015. As a tenuous ceasefire brings a lull to Ukraine's yearlong conflict between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian troops, the lurking danger of landmines threatens lives as well as economic recovery, particularly on once rich agricultural lands. #

The dog owner Laura Aquilina strolls with her 2-year-old Rottweiler Brutus, who was recently fitted with prosthetics on all four paws, and is currently learning to use them near Aquilina's home in Loveland, Colorado. Brutus lost all four paws to frostbite as a puppy while under care of a breeder, and Aquilina began caring for him about a year ago. #

A hand is seen as Iraqi forensic teams recover dead bodies from a mass grave in the presidential compound of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, Iraq, on April 6, 2015. Iraqi forensic teams began excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by ISIS militants as they swept across northern Iraq. #

A competitor smiles during a break as he attends the 3rd Russian Beard and Mustache Championships in Moscow on April 4, 2015. Participants are judged in seven various categories depending on the length and type of moustache and beard, according to organizers. #

A woman enjoys the sun on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about 13 Celsius (55.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the Taiga district outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on April 6, 2015. #

The Japanese artist Nishida Jun presents "Hand Exoskeleton," gloves which transform the dimensions of the user's hands to reproduce those of a child, in order to understand their perception, on April 8, 2015, in Laval, western France, as part of the 17th international conference and exhibition of virtual technologies. #

A construction worker holds a turtle for sale on a street near a construction site in Beijing on April 7, 2015. In China, turtles are raised as pets, as well as for food. #

Jewish men draped in the Talith traditional prayer male shawl perform the Priestly Blessing during the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on April 6, 2015. At least 50,000 Jewish worshipers attended the prayer ceremony, which involves Jews from the Cohanim priestly caste gathering to bless the crowds in a ritual which dates back to biblical times, as Israel marked the week-long Passover festival, remembering the Jews' escape from slavery in Egypt. #

Pakistani mourners offer funeral prayers for laborers killed by Afghan Taliban militants during a ceremony in Charsada on April 9, 2015. Seven Pakistani laborers who were abducted two months ago in Afghanistan have been killed by Taliban militants. #

The Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron feeds orphaned lambs on Dean Lane farm near the village of Chadlington, England, on April 5, 2015. Britain goes to the polls for a general election on May 7. #

Crews search wreckage on the IL-72 after a tornado came through the town earlier in the day on April 9, 2015, in Fairdale, Illinois. According to reports, seven people were injured and one person was killed when tornadoes and thunderstorms passed through the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. #

Schoolchildren listen to their teacher at a government-run school in Allahabad, India, on April 9, 2015. According to the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2015, two out of three countries where lower secondary education was not compulsory in 2000 had changed their legislation by 2012, including India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. According to the report, rural India saw substantial improvement in nearly all aspects of school facilities and infrastructure between 2003 and 2010. #

A man stands next to a lion which was anaesthetized in a truck in Champetieres, France, during the evacuation of more than 160 animals from the Bouy zoo which is in compulsory liquidation and whose owner was jailed for international trafficking of protected species by an organized gang, on April 9, 2015. #

Smoke billows from a Saudi-led airstrike on Sanaa, Yemen, on April 8, 2015. A state-run broadcaster in Iran is reporting that the Islamic Republic has sent a navy destroyer and another vessel to waters near Yemen amid a Saudi-led airstrike campaign. #

An internally displaced Pakistani girl from a tribal area attends her daily lesson at a madrassa, a school for the study of Islam, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 6, 2015. #

A boy poses with a soccer ball on a driftwood soccer court, on the banks of the Rio Negro, or Black River, in Catalao community near Manaus, in Amazonas state, Brazil, on April 4, 2015. Residents of Catalao, a village of houseboats, built a floating wooden soccer court, since the village field was flooded by the full Rio Negro. According to the Geological Survey of Brazil (CPRM), the full Rio Negro this year is expected to reach close to the record set in 2012, when the river reached 29.97 meters. #

Members of a music band rest before the procession of "Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem," in Constancia, Portugal, on April 6, 2015. This benediction has been held annually for about 200 years. In the past, goods were transported by the Tagus River in small boats to Lisbon, 100 kilometers south. The sailors, as the navigation was dangerous, blessed their boats every year during the festivity of "Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem." #

A model displays a spectrum mask made in Taiwan during the Taipei International Cosmetics Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 4, 2015. The spectrum mask is made by high-power LED beam therapy with 415nm and 630nm wave lengths for face beauty treatment and sells for NT $12,000 ($388). #

Gary Saurage stands near an alligator safely hauled out of a rural pond in Grove, Texas, on April 6, 2015. Saurage said Tuesday, April 7, 2015, that the 11-foot reptile joins more than 400 other alligators at Saurage's Gator County preserve in Beaumont, Texas. #

A warplane belonging to Libyan pro-government forces is seen minutes before an explosion in an area under control by members of the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries, an alliance of former anti-Qaddafi rebels who have joined forces with Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, in Benghazi, Libya, on April 7, 2015. #

An army officer writes a number on the arm of Thanompong, a 21-year-old transgender person, during an army draft held at a school in Klong Toey, the dockside slum area in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 5, 2015. Thai men over 21 must serve in the army. Those who volunteer serve six months, but others choose the annual lottery, which goes on for 10 days in recruitment centers around Thailand. Only those not considered physically capable of service, the mentally ill, and those who have significantly altered their physical appearance, such as transgender people, are exempt. #

American Civil War re-enactors dressed as Confederate cavalry and artillery take part in a re-enactment of the Battle of Appomattox at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in Virginia on April 8, 2015. April 8 marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to Union forces commanded by the General Ulysses S. Grant in the McLean House at Appomattox, Virginia. The surrender marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War in 1865. #