The Week in Pictures

Duke’s Nolan Smith (2) and teammates celebrate after the Blue Devils defeated the Baylor Bears, 78-71, in the NCAA South Regional basketball final on Sunday. Duke advanced to the Final Four of the tournament.  (Eric Gay / Associated Press)

Tennessee’s Brian Williams reacts after his team’s 70-69 loss to Michigan State in the NCAA Midwest Regional basketball championship game Sunday.  (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)

Tennessee’s Melvin Goins reacts in the locker room after his team’s 70-69 loss to Michigan State in the Midwest Regional championship game. Michigan State advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA tournament.  (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)

A woman takes part in a Palm Sunday memorial at a cemetery in Frumusani, in southern Romania. Orthodox residents gather at midnight, light fires at relatives’ graves and share food in their honor.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

A penitent of the El Amor brotherhood takes part in a Holy Week procession in Cordoba. Hundreds of processions are held across Spain during Easter week.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

Chile’s Cristina Bello competes in the rhythmic gymnastics event at the South American Games on Sunday.  (Fernando Vergara / Associated Press)

One of the 31 life-size statues of Antony Gormley’s public art exhibition Event Horizon seems to look down on Madison Square Park. The life-size body forms of the artist, cast in iron and fiberglass, will perch on rooftops and populate the sidewalks in the park and the Flatiron District until Aug. 15. Event Horizon is the British sculptor’s first public art exhibition in the U.S.  (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

Medics treat a Palestinian boy at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis after he was wounded by shrapnel from Israeli tank fire . Two Israeli soldiers, including an officer, and two Palestinian militants were killed in an exchange of fire inside Gaza near the border with Israel, an Israeli army spokesman said.  (Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Images)

Members of Argentina’s Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Co. perform at the 12th Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogota, Colombia.  (William Fernando Martinez / Associated Press)

Great Britain’s cycling team rides on day three of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.  (Bryn Lennon / Getty Images)

Villagers wade through a flooded area. Floods inundated villages after an overflowing river burst its banks, forcing residents to evacuate.  (Achmad Ibrahim / Associated Press)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Women’s History Month celebration in Washington.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press)

An emperor tamarin monkey at a rainforest-like habitat at the London Zoo.  (Ben Stansall / AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama makes a new friend in the crowd after speaking on the healthcare overhaul at the University of Iowa.  (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press)

Confetti fills the air as a police officer stands guard on the field before an Argentinian soccer league match between Boca Juniors and River Plate on Thursday.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

Getafe’s Venezuelan forward Nicolas Fedor, left, vies for the ball with Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas during a Spanish league football match at Alfonso Perez stadium on Thursday near Madrid.  (Javier Soriano / AFP / Getty Images)

Children accompany their parents en route to a National Federation of Peasants demonstration against the government in Asuncion, Paraguay.  (Noberto Duarte / AFP/Getty Images)

Jake Locke runs to greet his father, Thomas Locke, a pilot for the VFA-14 Tophatters Strike Fighter Squadron based at the air station near Fresno. The squadron was returning from an eight-month deployment aboard the aircraft carrier Nimitz.  (Gary Kazanjian / Associated Press)

Synnoeve Solemdal of Norway, left, and Mari Laukkanen of Finland lie on the snow after crossing the finish line during the women’s 7.5K sprint event of the Biathlon World Cup on Thursday.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty Images)

Construction is underway in the disputed East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, where Israel recently announced plans to build 1,600 residences.  (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)

This elephant calf, nicknamed “Mr. Shuffles,” continues to make progress at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, after a traumatic birth in which he was initially pronounced dead.  (Greg Wood / AFP/Getty Images)

Peter Gabriel performs in Berlin in support of his new CD, “Scratch My Back.”  (Berthold Stadler / AFP/Getty Images)

David Nalbandian of Argentina returns a shot during his victory over Lukasz Kubot of Poland at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.  (Al Bello / Getty Images)

Canada’s Anabelle Langlois and Cody Hay perform during the pairs free-skating competition at the World Figure Skating Championships in Turin, Italy.  (Yuri Kadobnov / AFP/Getty Images)

Firearms go up in flames as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to eradicate illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the center of increasing violent crime in the region.  (Tony Karumba / AFP/Getty Images)

Demonstrators dressed as Na’vi tribesmen characters from the the film “Avatar” protest against the Asian Development Bank and other multilateral banks for continuing to encourage the privitization of potable water services and water resources.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

People stretch out their arms to receive sacred offerings given out by a priest during Ram Navami, marking the birth of the Hindu god Rama.  (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)

Illegal firearms are burned as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to curb the illicit weapons that are at the center of increasing violent crime in the country.  (Tony Karumba / AFP/Getty Images)

Sunita Saha, whose fiance was one of 24 people killed in a fire that tore through a seven-story building, waits to receive his body in front of a morgue.  (Bikas Das / Associated Press)

An Afghan refugee girl, center, talks to her friend at a mosque in a poor neighborhood during a class on how to read verses of the Koran.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Names cover the Dignity Memorial Wall, which was unveiled at an opening ceremony at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier.  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden smile as the president prepares to sign healthcare legislation.  (Charles Dharapak / AP Photo)

Rubbish fires burn in a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where more than a million people are still living in makeshift camps more than two months after the devastating earthquake.  (Jorge Saenz / Associated Press)

A woman walks her dog along the 16th Street mall as a spring storm brings in cold temperatures, high winds and snow. Forecasters are predicting up to two feet of snow in the foothills west of Denver.  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Kashmiri Muslims work on the banks of Dal Lake as the sun sets in the background in Srinagar. Kashmir valley is witnessing above-normal temperature this spring, a phenomenon attributed by some environmentalists to global warming.  (Farooq Khan / EPA)

A woman sits on a park bench amid blossoming crocuses.  (Clemens Bilan / AFP / Getty Images)

Staff member Robert Marx cleans a Tyrannosaurus at a dinosaur park in Kleinwelka that features some 200 dinosaur likenesses.  (Ralf Hirschberger / EPA)

A crime investigation unit looks for evidence at the scene of a slaying in Ciudad Juárez. The border city has been racked by violent drug-related crime and has quickly become one of the most dangerous cities in the world. As drug cartels have been fighting over ever lucrative drug corridors along the United States border, the murder rate in Juárez has risen to 173 slayings for every 100,000 residents.  (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)

Google fans light candles on the Google logo at its Chinese headquarters in Beijing. Google has relocated and redirected visitors to its servers in Hong Kong.  (Feng Li / Getty Images)

Jeremie Heitz of Switzerland, in action at a competition in Verbier.  (Jean-Christophe Bott / Associated Press)

Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, is on hand for President Obama’s signing of the healthcare bill in the East Room of the White House.  (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

A laborer sorts fruit at a market on the outskirts of Allahabad, India.  (Diptendu Dutta / AFP/Getty Images)

A man bathes at a camp for displaced people in Port-au-Prince.  (Jorge Saenz / Associated Press)

Argentine artist Nicolas Garcia Uriburu, accompanied by Greenpeace activists, throws a substance into the Riachuelo River to turn it bright green in protest of pollution in Buenos Aires.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

A maid works in dim emergency lighting at a hotel whose electricity was cut off for 24 hours by the government. Venezuela has sanctioned 96 companies in Caracas for not complying with a decree to cut energy consumption by 20%.  (Miguel Gutierrez / AFP/Getty Images)

Stefan Vinke as Siegfried performs during a rehearsal of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung at Festspielhaus.  (Miguel Villagran / Getty Images)

Actor Johnny Depp signs autographs at the premiere in Japan of “Alice in Wonderland.”  (Franck Robichon / EPA)

A worker helps to demolish a ship to recycle the valuable steel at a ship-breaking yard in the Cilincing area of Jakarta. Ships are driven onto the beach strip there at high tide, where demolition begins. Ship breaking is most often carried out in developing countries, where the health risks from potentially hazardous materials and environmental concerns associated with the demolition go largely unchecked. The demand from developed countries has caused steel prices to rise in recent years, making the practice that much more attractive.  (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)

Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao waves to fans during a victory motorcade in Manila. Pacquiao flew home to a hero’s welcome after defending his world title and immediately began a political fight. Pacquiao is running for office in the Philippines.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

Four thousand baby bottles containing polluted water stand on the Bundesplatz railway station in Bern, Switzerland. The action was organized by Helvetas: Swiss Assn. for International Cooperation to highlight the U.N.’s World Water Day.  (Peter Klaunzer / Associated Press)

A Pakistani man showers in a water reservoir. Monday is World Water Day, spearheaded by the U.N. environment program to shine a light on water pollution and other issues. The theme is “Clean Water for a Healthy World.”  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Pakistani villagers who live in remote areas of Pakistan search for drinking water. Scarcity of drinking water in remote villages is common in Pakistan, and villagers have to walk miles to sources of water.  (Pervez Masih / Associated Press)

White phosphorous munitions are blown up by U.N. and Hamas military engineers in the southern Gaza Strip. The munitions being igniting had remained unexploded since the Gaza war.  (Mohammed Saber / EPA)