Pope Francis arrives as he celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption
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Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte's house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General's Office aimed at seizing luxury watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Martin Mejia/AP hide caption
Saturday
David Walker, a sailor killed in the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor, is memorialized at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Soon, a rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate that he has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hide caption
Judge Alla Nazarova attends a hearing in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in Moscow on Nov. 25, 2021. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP hide caption
Opinion: Russian Jehovah's Witnesses remain devout despite facing bans
A group gathering in Qaryut village southeast of Nablus, West Bank, on March 15, 2015, plant an olive tree as they mark the 12th anniversary of the death of U.S. activist Rachel Corrie, who died when she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003. Nidal Eshtayeh/Anadolu/Getty Images hide caption
21 years after her death in Gaza, Palestinians remember U.S. activist Rachel Corrie
A view of the Hong Kong skyline is pictured before the lights were turned off to mark the Earth Hour environmental campaign on March 25, 2023. Bertha Wang/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Visitors take photographs in front of posters of the TV show Blossoms Shanghai at the Peace Hotel, in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Director Wong Kar-wai's First TV Series 'Blossoms Shanghai' evokes memories of a more open and optimistic period in China. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli soldiers are seen near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP hide caption
In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme. Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto hide caption
Mercy me: Photos show what humans have done to the planet in the Anthropocene age
Maynor Suazo Sandoval (right) and his mother visiting the Niagara Falls, in New York state. Martin Suazo Sandoval hide caption
'A generous man': Baltimore bridge worker helped family, community in Honduras
Chocolate Easter bunnies wait to be decorated at a shop in Belgium. Virginia Mayo/AP hide caption
A Palestinian boy waits with his pot among a crowd in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, while trying to get a small amount of soup from one of the few soup kitchens, on Feb. 26. Omar El Qattaa for NPR hide caption
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich looks out from inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pretrial detention, at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, on Feb. 20. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A researcher holds up a sandy De Winton's golden mole. Nicky Souness/Endangered Wildlife Trust hide caption
Once lost to science, these "uncharismatic" animals are having their moment
People walk by a poster to promote the movie Oppenheimer on Friday in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption