Photos Of The Week #16

Bloodstains are seen on the wall and on a statue of Jesus Christ at St. Sebastian's Church after an attack in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21. More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured in eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday. (AP)

Activists of a local LGBT community put tape over their mouths as they protest against discrimination in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)

A woman displaced from Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor Province carries a hen as she walks in the Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Al-Hasakeh Governorate in northeastern Syria. Dislodged in a final offensive by a Kurdish-led ground force and coalition air strikes, thousands of wives and children of IS fighters have flooded in from a string of Syrian villages south of the Al-Hol camp in recent months. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Linesman Scott Cherrey pulls Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals off of Andrei Svechnikov of the Carolina Hurricanes during the first period in game three of the Eastern Conference first round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs in Raleigh, North Carolina. Svechnikov was knocked out and entered the concussion protocol following the fight. Svechnikov needed to be helped off the ice by his teammates following the brawl. (AFP/Getty Images/Grant Halverson)

A man wades through a flooded street after heavy rain in Islamabad, Pakistan. At least 49 people have been killed as torrential rains wreaked havoc, damaging more than 100 houses, since the beginning of April in parts of Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Sohail Shahzad)

People offer funeral prayers for Pakistani villagers killed after the roof of their house caved in due to heavy rains, in Charsadda. (AP/Muhammad Sajjad)

A woman working as a cashier at a public toilet looks out of her enclosure in Kyiv. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

A rider and his horse fall to the ground while playing kokpar, a traditional game between two teams competing to throw a goat carcass, or a replica of a goat carcass, into a scoring circle, during the first Asian Equestrian Championship near Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)

Norwegian citizen Frode Berg, convicted of spying on Russia, is seen in the defendant's cage prior to his guilty verdict at the Moscow City Court on April 16. The court sentenced Berg to 14 years in a high-security penitentiary. (epa-EFE/Maxim Shipenkov)

Water bottles bearing portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin were on sale during the anniversary ceremony of the Panorama-360 viewing platform on the 89th floor of the Federation Tower in Moscow on April 17. (epa-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov)

The steeple of the landmark Notre Dame Cathedral collapses as the cathedral is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15. (AFP/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)

Firefighters tackle the blaze as flames and smoke rise from the Notre Dame Cathedral as it burns in Paris on April 15. (AP/Michel Euler) 

A vehicle burns during an antigovernment protest in Tirana on April 13. (AFP/Gent Shkullaku)

Kremlin guards perform at the Cathedral Square during a ceremony of the changing of the guard in the Kremlin in Moscow. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Drivers compete during the Jeep Sprint Festival organized by the Offroad Kings club in the village of Ozernoe, Kyrgyzstan, on April 14. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)

Filipino children shower flower petals onto Catholic devotees holding decorative palm fronds during a procession to mark Palm Sunday in Las Pinas City, south of Manila, on April 14. (epa-EFE/Francis R. Malasig)

An Afghan girl holds a baby as pigeons fly overhead in the courtyard of the Hazrat-e Ali shrine, or Blue Mosque, in Mazar-e Sharif. (AFP/Farshad Usyan) 

A member of a church choir rests between singing duties during a service in a church in Echmiadzin, Armenia.