Photos of the Week, March 21-27, 2015

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Photos of the Week, March 21-27, 2015

FEEDING TIME--A Swallowtail butterfly prepares to land on some wisteria Monday, March 23, 2015, in Spring, Texas. Temperatures were near 80 in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

HEY, SOMEONE'S GONNA HAVE TO KICK IN FOR GAS MONEY--Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi move a tank from the al-Anad air base in the country's southern province of Lahej March 24, 2015. Fighters from Yemen's dominant Houthi movement drew closer to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's refuge in Aden on Tuesday, taking over two towns north of the port city as columns advanced from different directions. REUTERS/Stringer

NOT THE NORMAL BUS STOP--A school bus dropping children off from school passes in front of another bus which crashed into a house at the Windermere Development in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania March 24 2015. The school bus carrying nine elementary school students careened off the road and crashed into a occupied home in suburban Philadelphia home on Tuesday, and no injuries were reported, police said. REUTERS/Mark Makela

GOLD MEDAL HONORS--Golf legend Jack Nicklaus looks back toward House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi before he was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal "in recognition of his many contributions to the game of golf and his service to the community and the nation" during a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 24, 2015. At right is Speaker of the House John Boehner. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

BUS CRASH REACTION--The family whose home was crashed into by a school bus reacts to the damage at the Windermere Development in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania March 24 2015. The school bus carrying nine elementary school students careened off the road and crashed into a occupied home in suburban Philadelphia home on Tuesday, and no injuries were reported, police said. REUTERS/Mark Makela

A SINKING FEELING--A vehicle sitting at the bottom of a large sinkhole is shown in this handout photo provided by the south Amboy Police Department in Amnboy, New Jersey March 24, 2015. The large sinkhole, believed to have been caused by an underground water main break, forced the evacuations of four New Jersey homes about 20 miles south of Newark, after suddenly forming early on Tuesday, crumbling part of a roadway and swallowing a car, police said. REUTERS/Amboy Police Dept/Handout via Reuters

LANDSLIDE ANNIVERSARY--Friends and members of the Spillers family stand together during a moment of silence in Oso, Wash., for the victims of the landslide that happened a year ago. A solemn crowd gathered to honor 43 people who lost their lives a year ago in the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. A moment of silence was observed at 10:37 a.m. at the site on Highway 530. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Genna Martin)

LIVING HISTORY--In this photo taken Monday, March 23, 2015, Dale Nitz carefully climbs down his ladder after hanging a large American flag in front of his Veterans Living History Museum on Bay Street in downtown Port Orchard,Wash. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Meegan M. Reid)

OUTSIDE WORK--Maintenance workers are silhouetted against the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Saturday, March 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

TRAIN ACCIDENT--Passengers of a moving train react as they move past the site of a train accident near Bachhrawan village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, March 20, 2015. Police and rescue workers used gas cutters to rip apart the wreckage to find people who were feared to be trapped after three coaches of a passenger train derailed in northern India. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

WORKING FOR THE MONEY--Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

PERU LANDSLIDE--Peruvian police try to remove a car that was stuck in the mud and stones after a landslide in Chosica, March 24, 2015. Seven people were killed and more were feared dead in Peru after a massive landslide buried parts of a town amid heavy rains, authorities said on Tuesday. Six were missing and 25 injured in the disaster in Chosica, some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) east of Lima, said Alfredo Murgueytio, the head of the National Civil Defense Institute, Indeci. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

GUEST OF HONOR--Ethan Siegel, from Portland, Ore., flourishes an acrylic light saber at the booth of prop maker John Clark as the 33rd annual MidSouthCon starts to wind down in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, March 22, 2015. Siegel, an astrophysicist, was the convention's science guest of honor, delivering talks about interstellar travel, the ultimate fate of the universe, and parallel dimensions during the three-day convention. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

REPAIR WORK--A Filipino fisherman joins others as they work on the repairs of their boat at a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines Monday, March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

TUNNELING IN--INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA - MARCH 19: A general view inside the Brenner Base tunnel during the inauguration of the tunnel construction of the Brenner Base railway tunnel on March 19, 2015 near Innsbruck, Austria. The tunnel will run beneath the Brenner Pass and form part of a new rail connection between Munich and Florence. With a planned length of 64 kilometers it will be the longest railway tunnel in the world. (Photo by Jan Hetfleisch / Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

SUNRISE RUN--MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 21: Competitors run in the Men's 5000 Metre Run during the IAAF Melbourne World Challenge at Lakeside Stadium on March 21, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

SILENT PROTEST--Protesters, with their mouths taped, stage a protest against the Spanish government's new security law, known as "Ley Mordaza" ("Gag Law"), in central Madrid March 26, 2015. The bill was approved by the conservative-led Spanish parliament Thursday afternoon, despite heavy opposition from some politicians and activist groups, who say the law violates the right to protest, limits freedom of expression and gives more power to police. REUTERS/Susana Vera TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

WATER WALK--A Pakistani woman fetches clean water to her home in Islamabad's slums in Pakistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. There is a scarcity of fresh drinking water in Pakistan among a population of around 180 million. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

NODDLE THIS--A chimpanzee channels "The Force" while playing with a pool noodle "light saber" on Star Wars Character Day at the Knoxville Zoo on Saturday, March 21, 2015 in Knoxville, Tenn. For one day, the zoo offered free admission to children dressed as their favorite Star Wars characters, along with Star Wars coloring books and pool noodles for their chimps. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Adam Lau)

CORNERSTONE OF PEACE--A small U.S. flag is placed with flowers in front of one of the "Cornerstone of Peace" monument walls on which the names of all those who lost their lives, both civilians and military of all nationalities, in the Battle of Okinawa are engraved at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa Sunday, March 22, 2015. On June 23, Okinawa will mark the 70th anniversary of the nearly three-month battle, said to be one of the bloodiest and costliest of the World War II in the Pacific, conducted by the U.S. forces before Japan's surrender. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

SERBIAN ANNIVERSARY--People hold candles during a minute of silence in front of a destroyed military headquaters as Serbia marks the 16th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign in Belgrade March 24, 2015. Serbia on Tuesday marked the 16th anniversary of the beginning of NATO's air war against the country, then a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

OCEAN MARATHON--AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 18: In this handout image provided by the Volvo Ocean Race, MAPFRE tackles steep and angry seas as they pass East Cape, the eastern-most point of New Zealand during the start of Leg 5 from Auckland to Itajai on March 18, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 is the 12th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain on October 04, 2014, the route, spanning some 39,379 nautical miles, visits 11 ports in eleven countries (Spain, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, China, New Zealand, Brazil, United States, Portugal, France, The Netherlands and Sweden) over nine months. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier ocean yacht race for professional racing crews. (Photo by Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

TROOPER SHOT--In this Tuesday, March 24, 2015 photo, officers work the scene where a Wisconsin State Patrol trooper just three months out of the academy died in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect also believed to have killed another motorist, in Fond du Lac, Wis. The suspect also died in the shootout. (AP Photo/The Reporter, Doug Raflik)

PEACE MARCHERS--Students dance during the March for Peace, Life and Justice in downtown San Salvador March 26, 2015. Thousands of people participated in the march organizated by the Salvadoran goverment as an answer against the violence in El Salvador, according to local media. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

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FEEDING TIME--A Swallowtail butterfly prepares to land on some wisteria Monday, March 23, 2015, in Spring, Texas. Temperatures were near 80 in the Houston area. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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