Good Friday photos from across the globe; Christians mark Easter, Holy Week.
Penitents take part on the Holy Week procession of the Cofradia Jesus Yacente on March 29, 2013 in Zamora, Spain. Easter week is traditionally celebrated with processions in most Spanish towns.
(Pablo Blazquez Dominguez - AFP/Getty Images)Tapping into a vast lithium bounty, President Evo Morales envisions a smartphone and electric car battery-charged Bolivian revolution.
A Japanese tourist couple walks on Bolivia's Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat said to also have one of the richest deposits of lithium.
(Aizar Raldes - AFP/Getty Images)Invoking his grandmother's wisdom, Pope Francis got spontaneous in celebrating his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square this morning.
Pope Francis leads a mass in St. Peter's Square as part of the Palm Sunday celebration on March 24, 2013 at the Vatican. Palm Sunday marks the start of the holy week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
(FILIPPO MONTEFORTE - AFP/Getty Images)David Beckham in China as soccer 'ambassador'
David Beckham plays with a group of Chinese youngsters during a promotional event in Tiantai Stadium in Qingdao, Shandong province, on March 22, 2013.
(STR - AFP/Getty Images)Beginning exactly two years ago with a string of protests galvanized by the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war has since claimed nearly 70,000 lives as rebels try to dislodge Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
A father holds his nine year-old son, wounded by shrapnel, outside the field hospitalon November 19, 2012, in the town of Maaret Al-Numan in southern Idlib province.
(AFP - AFP/Getty Images)The 2013 Maha Kumbh Mela saw a record number of devotees descend on Allahabad.
Bihari Hindu priests smear coloured powder on each other after the completion of a ritual at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad on March 6, 2013. The Kumbh Mela in the town of Allahabad saw up to 100 million worshippers gather over 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings.
(AFP - AFP/Getty Images)Hugo Chavez joining group of famous, embalmed world leaders
An employee makes an adjustment to a sculpture of the Soviet Union's founder Vladimir Lenin displayed at the Museum of the Soviet Union in Moscow on March 4, 2013. The museum displays an exhibition of objects reflecting all aspects of life in the Soviet State, the museum officials said. AFP PHOTO / ANDREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
(ANDREY SMIRNOV - AFP/Getty Images)UFC 157 photos: Ronda Rousey, Liz Carmouche make history
Ronda Rousey fights Liz Carmouche during their UFC bantamweight title bout at Honda Center on February 23, 2013, in Anaheim, California.
(Jeff Gross - Getty Images)People around the world are protesting this week, from Greece and Bulgaria to Pakistan and India.
Indian workers participate in a rally during a two-day strike called by trade unions opposing the current UPA government's economic policies in Hyderabad on February 20, 2013. Millions of India's workers walked off their jobs in a two-day nationwide strike called by trade unions to protest at the "anti-labour" policies of the embattled government. Financial services and transport were hit by the strike called by 11 major workers' groups to protest at a series of pro-market economic reforms announced by the government last year, as well as high inflation and rising fuel prices.
(NOAH SEELAM - AFP/Getty Images)Moon's 70-year-old widow, Hak Ja Han, presided over the ceremony at the church's headquarters in Gapyeong, east of the capital Seoul.
Some 3,500 identically-dressed couples – many of mixed nationality who had met just days before – took part in a mass wedding at the Unification Church's headquarters in Gapyeong, east of the capital Seoul, on Sunday. It was the first such event since the death of the church's founder, Sun Myung Moon, five months ago.
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