LAST WEEKS IN PICS

A bird sits in a cherry tree at a park in Tokyo on April 1. Cherry trees bloomed in Tokyo on March 31, five days later than usual, Japanese authorities announced.

Cambrie Thornton, left, and Royal Thornton sit outside their destroyed home, April 4, in Forney, Texas. Multiple tornadoes touched down across the Dallas-Fort Worth area on April 3.

Nicholas Weichel, son of Rhode Island National Guard Sgt. Dennis Weichel Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan, stands next to his father's casket during funeral services at the state Veterans Cemetery in Exeter, R.I., April 2. Weichel was struck and killed by an armored vehicle March 22 while saving an Afghan child.

Penitents from the "La Candelaria" brotherhood find shelter from the rain as a couple walks along the street during a storm in Seville, Spain, April 3. Most of the processions were canceled in Seville due to bad weather during the Easter Holy Week.

Young Slovaks dressed in traditional costumes throw a bucket of water at a girl as part of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla, Slovakia, April 9. Slovakia's men splash women with water to symbolize youth, strength and beauty for the upcoming spring season.

This citizen-journalist image obtained by The Associated Press on April 6 shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in recent shelling in Taftanaz, Syria.

A full moon rises behind the New York City skyline as seen from Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, N.J., April 6.

Reshma Bano wails as she holds the body of her 3-month-old daughter Neha Afreen outside a hospital morgue in Bangalore, India, April 11. Afreen was admitted to the hospital on April 8 after allegedly being battered by her father for being born a girl. Police said the father confessed to the crime and was in custody, according to media reports.

A municipal worker washes the upper part of the 230-foot-high monument to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, at Gagarin Square in Moscow, April 11. Russia celebrated Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, the anniversary of Gagarin making the first manned space flight in 1961.