Week in photos - April 12, 2013

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Week in photos - April 12, 2013

Look at some of the headlines from the past week, in photos.

Chilean students march through the streets demanding free education, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Amish girls play softball after class during an end of the school year celebration on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 in Bergholz, Ohio. The celebration was also part of a farewell picnic for four women and one man from this tight-knit group in rural eastern Ohio who will enter prison on Friday, April 12, joining nine already behind bars on hate crimes convictions for hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish. (AP Photo/Scott R. Galvin)

U.S. soldiers evacuate a dead body as they arrive to the scene after a NATO helicopter crashed in a field killing two American service members, near Gerakhel, eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force said the cause of the crash is under investigation but initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time. It did not immediately identify the nationalities of those killed. But a senior U.S. official confirmed they were Americans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Two employees Christie's auction house wearing white gloves pose for the media as they hold a painting by US abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock entitled Number 19, during a press preview in London, Wednesday, April, 10, 2013. The work is expected to sell for some 16.3 - 22.8 million pounds (US$25-35 million euros19-26.7 million) when sold at auction in New York on May 15 .(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Jefferson Memorial is framed by cherry blossom trees in full bloom along the Tidal Basin on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Flowers are laid by staff members in front of the wax statue of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, right, following her death in an exhibition center in Shenzhen, China Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Margaret Thatcher, the combative "Iron Lady" who infuriated European allies, found a fellow believer in Ronald Reagan and transformed her country by a ruthless dedication to free markets in 11 bruising years as prime minister, died Monday, April 8, 2013. She was 87 years old. The wax statue at left is of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

An EMT works in the back of an ambulance as it leaves an Suwanee, Ga., subdivision after an explosion and gunshots were heard near the scene where a man was holding four firefighters hostage Wednesday, April 10, 2013. A police spokesman said the suspect was dead and none of the hostages suffered serious injuries. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Demonstrators console each other across the highway from the Florida State Correctional facility near Starke, Fla., Wednesday, April 10, 2013, as they await the execution of Larry Eugene Mann. Mann was sentenced to death for the 1980 abduction and murder of 10-year-old Elisa Vera Nelson as she rode her bike to school. Mann was pronounced dead at 7:19 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday following a lethal injection. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

Martin Martinez, center, and his wife, Blanca Martinez, third from left, gather for a photo outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices during an immigration vigil, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in Las Vegas. During the process in which Blanca Martinez, a U.S. citizen, applied for a petition for her husband to obtain a Green Card, Martin was detained by ICE officials for nearly two weeks and nearly deported back to El Salvador before being released. The vigil was held to honor all who have been detained or deported by ICE. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Women from the Indian state of Haryana listen to a speaker, unseen, while participating in a rally criticizing the rise in crimes against women in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Actor Dustin Hoffman takes a photograph during a press conference to promote his film "Quartet" in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta arrives for his presidential inauguration at Kasarani, near Nairobi in Kenya Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Uhuru Kenyatta, 51, the son of Kenya's first president, was sworn in as Kenya's fourth president Tuesday in a stadium filled with tens of thousands of Kenyans and a dozen African leaders, becoming the second sitting African president to face charges at the International Criminal Court, over allegations he helped orchestrate the vicious tribe-on-tribe violence that marred Kenya's previous 2007 presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tiger Woods wipes his forehead on the 11th green during the first round of the Masters golf tournament Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Joe Roe takes a photo, Thursday, April 11, 2013, of a group gathered at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., for National Day of the Cowboy. Included in the group are royalty from the Benton Franklin Fair and Rodeo. A resolution was later passed in the Washington Senate recognizing the day as a chance to honor men and women who live by traditional cowboy traits such as hard work, loyalty, and care of the land. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Peru's Congresswoman, Quechua Indian Claudia Coari, center, and Bolivia's politicians Patricia Mansilla, left, visit the indigenous neighborhood of Monimbo in Masaya, Nicaragua, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Coari and Mansilla are in Nicaragua, along with legislators from Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela, for the 13th ordinary session of the Indigenous Parliament of America. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

President Barack Obama hugs Newtown, Conn., family members after speaking at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn., Monday, April 8, 2013. Obama said that lawmakers have an obligation to the children killed and other victims of gun violence to act on his proposals. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama bows his head in prayer before awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to Chaplain (Captain) Emil J. Kapaun, U.S. Army, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Kapaun received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and as a prisoner of war from November 1-2, 1950.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In this Thursday, March 28, 2013 photo, a Pakistani internally displaced girl Amina Bibi attends class at a school rebuilt by the Pakistani army, in Tank, the bordering town of South Waziristan, the Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan attends. After battling Taliban militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan for over a decade, the Pakistani military is engaged in a new fight. This time it's for the hearts and minds of the people who are returning to the region after living for years as refugees in their own country and harbor a longstanding mistrust of the central government. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Firefighters salute the flag draped casket containing the remains of Philadelphia firefighter Capt. Michael Goodwin at St. Michael�s Lutheran Church on Thursday, April 11, 2013, in Philadelphia. Goodwin died Saturday in a roof collapse while battling a fire in a three-story building in the city's Queen Village section. He was 53. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

In this March 24, 2013 photo, distributed by RIA Novosti Agency on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin poses for the camera as he plays with his dogs Yume, an Akito-Inu, front, and Buffy, a Bulgarian Shepherd in an undisclosed location of Moscow region.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

A North Korean soldier, center top, looks at the southern side as South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister told lawmakers Wednesday as Pyongyang prepared to mark the April 15 birthday of its founder, historically a time when it seeks to draw the world's attention with dramatic displays of military power. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Cassie Foe hugs classmate Christian Wilson after leaving from the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas, where she witnessed a man getting stabbed Tuesday, April 9, 2013. A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at the community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Melissa Phillip) MANDATORY CREDIT

People celebrate outside the Parliament after lawmakers passed the "marriage equality project" in Montevideo, Uruguay,Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Their vote makes Uruguay the third country in the Americas after Canada and Argentina to eliminate laws making marriage, adoption and other family rights exclusive to heterosexuals. In all, 11 other nations around the world have already taken this step. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

US artist Patti Smith, right, is greeted by Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

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Chilean students march through the streets demanding free education, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

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