World in Pictures

A woman sitting in a beach chair enjoys a sun bath on a beach in Travemuende, northern Germany. Spring brought warm and sunny weather to wide parts of the country. (AFP)
Thai army soldiers rest on a walkway near a skytrain station in the Silom Road financial district in Bangkok on April 19. Thai soldiers patrolled Bangkok's business district on Monday to keep thousands of anti-government protesters from marching there, raising fears of fresh violence in the polarised country. (Reuters)
The Jewel of Muscat, a reconstructed replica of a ninth century Omani trading ship, sails into the harbour of Galle, 116 km (72 miles) south of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, on April 19. The ship, built in a traditional design without nails and sewn together with coconut fibers, left Oman on February 15 to re-enact the old trade routes used by Arab traders, with its final port of call in Singapore, according to the organisers of the voyage. (AFP)
Family members of one of the Spanish soldiers who died in Haiti in a helicopter crash on Friday, walk towards the hearse as their remains were repatriated to a military base in Rota, southern Spain on April 19. Four Spanish soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in earthquake-stricken Haiti on Friday, UN and local officials said. (Reuters)
Pope Benedict XVI addreses a gathering of cardinals as he marks the fifth anniversary of his pontification at the Vatican on April 19. Pope Benedict XVI reached the five-year mark as pontiffwith the Roman Catholic church mired in crisis over its handling of paedophile priest scandals. (AFP)
An Osprey sits atop a utility pole as the Vehicle Assemble Building sits partially obscured by fog on April 19 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA managers waived off the first landing opportunity for the space shuttle Discovery due to rain and low clouds in the area. (AP)
German artist Neo Rauch (R) and his wife Rosa Loy pose in front of Rauch's painting 'Kalimuna' at Pinakothek der Moderne art museum on April 19 in Munich, Germany. Due to his 50th birthday Rauch is honoured by retrospective exhibitions at Leipzig and Munich. The Munich retrospective runs until 15th of August 2010. (Getty Images)
Volunteers stand near a replica of Prague's Saint John of Nepomuk statue inside the Czech pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 site on April 19. The original statue is found on the medieval Charles Bridge in Prague. (Reuters)