The Week in Pictures: April 19 - 26

Participants are doused in colors at the finish of the Color Run, a 5-kilometer (3-mile) run at the Great Park in Irvine, Calif., April 22. Racers begin the run in white shirts and as they pass each kilometer they are doused by volunteers with a different color of "magical" dust.


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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir waves to soldiers in Heglig, Sudan, April 23. Al-Bashir vowed not to negotiate with South Sudan after it occupied the Heglig region. Gen. Kamal Abdul Maarouf, a Sudanese army commander who led the battles in Heglig, said the army had killed 1,200 South Sudanese troops in fighting in the area, an account South Sudan denied.

Bernardo, 77, left, talks to a young woman during a meeting between the sexes in the village of Candeleda, Spain, April 21. Sixty-eight women were bused in from the big city of Madrid to meet with the local men in hopes that some will form relationships and settle in the village, where single men vastly outnumber single women.

A forest fire burns in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 24.

Shipwright Kevin Finch works on one of the lifeboats on the clipper Cutty Sark a day before it is due to be officially reopened by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in Greenwich, southeast London, April 24. The Cutty Sark is the world's last surviving tea clipper and has been extensively restored following a fire in 2006. It reopens to the public on April 26.

Kashmiri porters on horseback travel past walls of snow along the Srinagar-Leh highway in Zojila, April 25. The 275-mile-long highway was opened for the season by Indian army authorities after remaining snow at Zojila Pass had been cleared. The pass connects Kashmir with the Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region, a tourist destination popular among foreigners for its monasteries, landscapes and mountains.

Ian Desmond, left, of the Washington Nationals is doused with Gatorade by his teammates as he is interviewed by MASN's Kristina Akra after hitting the game-winning sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park on April 21, Washington, D.C.


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Volunteers Francis Aitken, right, and Deborah Westmancote put in place some of the thousands of clay figures that make up Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles" artwork, in Barrington Court, near Ilminster, England, April 25. The acclaimed work, on loan from the Arts Council Collection, consists of 40,000 clay figures. It is being exhibited in three normally empty rooms of the Barrington Court, a Tudor manor house belonging to the Britain's National Trust, an organization that preserves outdoor spaces and historic buildings in the U.K.

Students are sprayed by policemen with a water cannon during a protest near the Malacanang Palace, the official home of the president of the Philippines, in Manila, April 25. The demonstrators were protesting alleged police brutality that they say happened two days earlier during demolition of squatters' houses in Paranaque, south of Manila. The group criticized the continued silence of Philippine President Benigno Aquino.

A giant puppet is prepared to roam the streets of Liverpool, England, April 22, as part of French street theater company Royal De Luxe's performance of "Sea Odyssey." In the three-day production, three giant puppets are brought to life to tell a love story inspired by the sinking of the Titanic.

Team USA competes in the Team Free routine during the FINA Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Qualification event at the London Aquatics Centre, April 21, in London.

An exiled Tibetan carries a portrait of the Dalai Lama after celebrating the 23rd birthday of the Panchen Lama at the Tibetan Welfare Centre in Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 25. Tibetans in exile have demanded the release of the Panchen Lama, who disappeared into Chinese custody in 1995 after being chosen by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spirirual leader. Chinese authorities selected another child as the Panchen Lama, widely seen as Tibetan Buddhism's second-most important spiritual leader.


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A person stands next to ballots displayed on a table in a polling station in Lyon, France, on April 22, as part of the 2012 French presidential election first-round vote. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande came out ahead and will face runner-up President Nicolas Sarkozy in the deciding round on May 6.