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The Week in Pictures: April 5 - 12

An early start to the wildfire season in New Jersey, a Navy jet crashes into an apartment building in Virginia, menacing clouds roll in above a landscape in Germany, Russia preps for a space anniversary and more.

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Early wildfires

CARLSTADT, NJ - APRIL 11: A firefighter helps battle a brush fire in the Meadowlands near Metlife Stadium on April 11, 2012 in Carlstadt, New Jersey. Fire departments from around the area were on hand to bring under control one of many brush fires that have broken out in New Jersey and New York. Dry conditions, low humidity and strong winds are some of the culprits to the spreading fires. (Photo by Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images)*** BESTPIX ***
Michael Bocchieri / Getty Images North America
Image: Frogs rest in a pond where they are being raised as food, inside a factory on the outskirts of Pyongyang

Frog farm

Frogs rest in a pond where they are being raised as food, inside a factory on the outskirts of Pyongyang April 10, 2012. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (NORTH KOREA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Bobby Yip / X00306
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Crash and burn

The burning fuselage of an F/A-18 Hornet lies smoldering after crashing into a residential building in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, April 6, 2012. The Navy did not immediately return telephone messages left by The Associated Press, but media reports indicate the two aviators were able to eject from the jet before it crashed. They were being treated for injuries that were not considered life threatening. (AP Photo/Kandice Angel)
Kandice Angel / AP
Image: People wearing 3D glasses watch the film \"Titanic 3D\" at a movie theatre in Taiyuan

Titanic entertainment

People wearing 3D glasses watch the film \"Titanic 3D\" at a movie theatre in Taiyuan, Shanxi province April 10, 2012. Titanic 3D began showing in Chinese cinemas on Tuesday. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
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Image: Church Holds 'Miracles in Memphis' Event

Grab for gas

April 7, 2012 - Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. - ANNIE JACKSON (left) grabs for a $20 gas card handed out at the ''Miracles in Memphis,'' a city-wide benevolent give-a-way for those in need held at Greater Community Temple in Hickory Hill. Hundred of people showed up for the event. (Credit Image: © Mark Weber/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMAPRESS.com)
Mark Weber / The Commercial Appeal
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Rites of spring

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, 145 km north of Bratislava on April 9, 2012. Slovakia's men splash women with water and hit them with a willow to symbolize youth, strength and beauty for the upcoming spring season.AFP PHOTO/SAMUEL KUBANI (Photo credit should read SAMUEL KUBANI/AFP/Getty Images)
Samuel Kubani / AFP
Image: U.S. Army soldiers carry an injured comrade to a helicopter during a firefight with Taliban during a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province

Emergency evacuation

U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha troop, 4-73 Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division carry an injured comrade to a helicopter during a firefight with Taliban during a mission in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan April 9, 2012. Picture taken April 9, 2012. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT TRANSPORT)
Baz Ratner / X02483
Image: April Weather in Southern Bavaria

Rolling in

April 10, 2012 - Geislatsried, Bavaria, Germany - A spectacular cloudy sky is pictured above an Allgaeu landscape near Geislatsried, Germany, 10 April 2012. Souther Bavaria enjoyed typical unsettled April weather with a mix of clouds, rains and sunshine. Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand (Credit Image: © Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/ZUMAPRESS.com)
Karl-josef Hildenbrand / DPA
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Burying the dead

This citizen journalist image obtained by the Associated Press on Friday, April 6, 2012, shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in recent shelling in Taftanaz, Syria. (AP Photo) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL
Anonymous / Citizen Journalist
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Egg moon

A full moon rises behind the New York City skyline seen from Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, N.J., Friday, April 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Julio Cortez / AP
Image: Reshma Bano holds her dead baby daughter

Gender selection

Reshma Bano wails as she holds the body of her three-month-old daughter Neha Afreen outside a hospital morgue in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Afreen was admitted in the hospital on April 8 after allegedly being battered by her father for being born a girl. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Aijaz Rahi / AP
Image: North Korean satellite

Satellite viewing

The satellite that North Korean officials say will be launched with the country's Unha-3 rocket, slated for liftoff between April 12-16, is shown to the media at Sohae Satellite Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea on Sunday April 8, 2012. North Korean space officials have moved a long-range rocket into position for this week's controversial satellite launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plans in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
David Guttenfelder / AP
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Lathered up

A municipal worker washes the upper part of the to 70-meter high monument to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, at the Gagarin Square in Moscow, on April 11, 2012. Russia celebrated today Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin making the first manned space flight in 1961. AFP PHOTO/ TOPSHOTS/ ANDREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Andrey Smirnov / AFP
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