News in pictures on Sunday 11.04.2010

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World
Apr 11, 2010

News in pictures on Sunday

Hungarian women in traditional costume leave a voting booth at a polling station in Mezokovesd, 130 km (81 miles) east of Budapest during parliamentary elections. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Protestors march in downtown Lisbon during a demonstration demanding the end of bullfighting in Portugal. -- PHOTO: AP

People who got soaking wet duck as they are thrown talcum powder during a celebration of the Songkran festival, the Thai traditional New Year, also known as the water festival in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The festival will officially start April 13 through April 15. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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A woman visits the exhibition "Buddha's Sacred Relics" at the Cultural Centre Hiroshima in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A collection of more than a thousand relics of Sakyamuni Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama Buddha) and other Buddhist masters is being exhibited all over the world. These relics will be stored permanently in a shrine inside the statue of Maitreya Buddha, which is being built in Kushinagar, India, and that should be completed by 2010. -- PHOTO: AFP

A pair of Caribbean flamingos extend their heads and necks in a heart shape as flamingos perform courtship dances at the Saitama Children's Zoo in Higashimatsuyama city in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. -- PHOTO: AFP

A Sudanese protester holds a placard during a demonstration to demand stability in Sudan outside the Sudanese embassy in central London. President Omar al-Bashir is pushing hard for a win in war-torn Darfur in Sudan's key elections this weekend, hoping for a boost in his legitimacy in the face of international war crimes accusations. But he faces a hostile population in a vote observers say is deeply flawed. -- PHOTO: AFP

 

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Two-year-old Dhoal, a child suffering from severe malnutrition, is swarmed with flies as he cries on a bed at a local hospital in the southeast Sudanese town of Akobo. The population in Akobo and the surrounding counties in the Jonglei state in southern Sudan are suffering from the effects of a devastating drought and tribal conflict. -- PHOTO: AFP

Picture of several pearl-like translucent multi-coloured relics which are believed to be the corporeal remains of Buddha and other masters after their cremation, are on display during the exhibition 'Buddha's Sacred Relics' at the Cultural Centre Hiroshima in Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- PHOTO: AFP

People gather in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to pay their respects to the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria. Kaczynski, his wife Maria, Poland's central bank head and the country's military chief were among 97 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport on Saturday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

 

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Ten-year-old Eshaan Jheeta casts a shadow on the ground as he spins a chakar above his head during the Vaisakhi parade in Vancouver, Canada. Vaisakhi is one of the most significant holidays on the Sikh calendar and commemorates the establishment of the Khalsa in 1699. Organisers expected close to 50,000 people to attend the parade and festivities. -- PHOTO: AP

Competitors walk in erg Merzouga three kms before the finish line of the the 25rd Marathon des Sables, some 300 kms south of Ourzazate. The Marathon des Sables is considered to be the toughest foot race in the world, covering a distance equivalent to six marathons over six days throught the southern Moroccan desert. -- PHOTO: AFP

A fan watches as cars race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series SUBWAY Fresh Fit 600 at Phoenix International Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. -- PHOTO: AFP

Wooden crosses sit in honour of the slayings of women on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. During the decade that ended in 2003, more than 100 women disappeared in Ciudad Juarez, many of them young women last seen in the city's downtown area or after boarding buses. The victims' bodies were often dumped in the desert outside the city and in open lots near maquiladoras. -- PHOTO: AP

 

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Competitors take the start of the 34th Paris Marathon on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. Ethiopian Tadesse Tola won the marathon (2h 06min 41sec) ahead Kenyan Alfred Kering and Wilson Kipsang. -- PHOTO: AFP

Bishops pray in front of the Shroud of Turin at the end of a mass celebrated by Turin Cardinal Severino Poletto (not pictured) to mark the first day of the display in ten years of the relic in the Cathedral in Turin. The mysterious and controversial Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on public display Saturday for the first time in a decade with some two million people expected to view it over the next six weeks includng Pope Benedict XVI who will pay homage to the shroud on May 2. -- PHOTO: AFP

People attend a parade at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival. -- PHOTO: REUTERS