The NCAA Men's National Championship in Arizona, anti-government protests in Venezuela, flooding in Australia, a rabbit track and field competition in the Czech Republic, a terror attack in St. Petersburg, a Mega Bubblefest Laser Show in California, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 4/1–4/7
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Theo Pinson of the North Carolina Tar Heels dunks in the first half against Przemek Karnowski of the Gonzaga Bulldogs during the 2017 NCAA Men's Final Four National Championship game at University of Phoenix Stadium on April 3, 2017 in Glendale, Arizona. #
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In this April 1, 2017, picture a man wears the traditional 'Tora' outfit used during the carnival while posing for a picture during a gathering of different villages' carnival masks and characters in the small village of Casavieja, Spain. These festivals, held across central and northwestern Spain, most often coincide with festivities celebrating the advent of spring, mixing Carnival and bizarre pagan-like rituals with mock battles between good and evil. #
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Spanish rescuer Daniel Calvelo, 26, carries a four-day-old baby girl during a search and rescue operation by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, in the central Mediterranean Sea, some 22 nautical miles north of the Libyan town of Sabratha, on April 1, 2017. #
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Shortly after being released, a relocated rhino charges a Nepalese forestry and technical team. The release was part of a relocation project in Shuklaphanta National Park on April 4, 2017. #
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Chinese students and their parents take part in a chess contest during an Open Day at a primary school in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province on April 6, 2017. #
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A Viking re-enactor stands in front of a 25-foot tall wicker wolf as it is burned ahead of the reopening of the Jorvik Viking Center on March 31, 2017 in York, United Kingdom. The wolf was burned as night fell in a ceremony involving Viking re-enactors carrying flaming torches and representing a symbolic beacon calling the Vikings back to York ahead of the reopening of the popular attraction on April 8. #
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Workers celebrate by posing inside the giant teeth of Seattle’s tunnel-drilling machine, Bertha, the world's largest tunnel-boring machine at its completion into the disassembly pit in Seattle, Washington, on April 4, 2017. #
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Houses on a hill painted with vivid colors in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, on April 4, 2017. The initiative, promoted by the Crime Prevention Secretariat seeks to motivate young people from communities under pressure of violence to participate and paint murals in their communities. #
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Informal settlers, who have been occupying a mass housing project for police for almost a month now, play basketball in Pandi township, Bulacan province, Philippines, on April 5, 2017. President Rodrigo Duterte, in addressing the 120th anniversary of the Philippine Army, asked the troops to give in to the occupation by the informal settlers of the police mass housing project and promised to build another housing project for them. #
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A picture shows the damaged train carriage at Technological Institute metro station in Saint Petersburg on April 3, 2017. 14 people were killed and dozens injured Monday in the terror attack. #
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Spanish King Felipe and Queen Letizia watch the Moon projected on the surface of Geo-Cosmos, a sphere with a diameter of 6.5 meters, with Chief Executive Director Mamoru Mori, at Miraikan, or National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, on April 5, 2017. #
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A rabbit jumps over an obstacle during a rabbit track-and-field competition on the sidelines of a hunting exhibition in Kromeriz, about 60 kilometers east of Prague, on April 1, 2017. About 100 rabbits took part in the competition, including disciplines as long jump, high jump and running on a flat track. #
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A sailboat is hoisted into the Great Salt Lake on April 6, 2017, about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Dozens of beached sailboats that spent two years on the shore of Utah's drought-stricken Great Salt Lake were hoisted on cranes back into the briny waters after winter storms raised lake levels. #
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Children reach for bubbles created by bubble artist Deni Yang during his Mega Bubblefest Laser Show at the Discovery Cube Science Center in Santa Ana, California, on April 6, 2017. Deni who is the son of famed bubble master Fan Yang has followed in his fathers footsteps and travels the world performing his bubble shows. #
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Abu Haitham, a 57-year-old rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army's 18 March Division, sits in a building on the front line in the southern city of Daraa, on April 2, 2017. #
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A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, on April 4, 2017. #
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U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross fires a Tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea which U.S. Defense Department said was a part of cruise missile strike against Syria on April 7, 2017. #
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Orange, yellow and purple wildflowers paint the hills of the Tremblor Range, April 6, 2017 at Carrizo Plain National Monument near Taft, California. After years of drought an explosion of wildflowers in southern and central California is drawing record crowds to see the rare abundance of color called a super bloom. #
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Mermaid Hales Parcells greets children as she performs at the Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach, Virginia,on April 3, 2017. The Aquarium presents a mermaid show one night each week during the month of April. #
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Seth Skirving, 5, watches floodwaters of the Logan River, caused by Cyclone Debbie, flow over the Mt Lindesay Highway in Waterford West near Brisbane, Australia, on April 1, 2017. #
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Chase Crain participates in the bulldogging competition at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo on April 1, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee. The Bill Pickett Rodeo is the nation's only touring black rodeo competition. The rodeo celebrates western heritage and the contributions that black cowboys and cowgirls have made to the sport of rodeo. #
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A demonstrator protects himself after a tear gas canister fired by police riot crashed against his skateboard during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 6, 2017. Tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down Venezuela's capital on Thursday, blocking the city's main artery to protest what they call an attempted coup by the socialist administration. #
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