Pilgrims walk with crosses as the Northern Cross pilgrimage makes its final leg of the journey to Holy Island, Berwick Upon Tweed, England, on Friday, April 22, 2011. For more than 30 years, groups of pilgrims celebrate Easter by crossing the tidal causeway during the annual Christian cross-carrying pilgrimage to Holy Island. The pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week.
Face masks of Britain's Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, are loaded into boxes for shipping at a production plant in Southam, central England on Friday, April 22, 2011. Over 120,000 of the masks have been sold worldwide with Mask-arade company staff working around the clock to complete orders before the Royal Wedding. Britain's Prince William will marry Kate Middleton in London's Westminster Abbey on April 29.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, backdropped with a pre-Gadhafi flag, talks during a press conference in Benghazi, Libya on Friday, April 22, 2011. McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday that Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's troops are his heroes.
Muslim women attend weekly Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, on April 22, 2011. U.S. Sen. John McCain praised Libya's rebels as his "heroes" in a visit to their de facto capital Friday, a day after the United States started flying armed drones to bolster NATO firepower and try to break a battlefield stalemate with Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
A Yemeni boy displays his body painted with the colors of his national flag during a rally in support of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, April 22, 2011. Opponents and supporters of Yemen's embattled president are marching in cities and towns across the nation for rival rallies after Friday prayers. Arabic reads on his body from right, "I love you Ali", "He will not leave, with our souls and blood", "He will not leave".
Japan's Emperor Akihito, center left, and Empress Michiko, center right, tour Otsu fishing port heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Friday, April 23, 2011.
A woman jogs down Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath as smog can be seen in the distance in London on Friday, April 22, 2011. Britain's Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has warned of a high pollution episode in the UK this weekend with elevated levels of PM10 and ozone expected until at least Sunday. A high pressure system persisting over the UK is forecast to bring warm and still conditions and that combined with the extra traffic on the roads for the Easter weekend will contribute to the smog.
Supporters of an Islamic group wave their party flags as they protest against the Syrian regime, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday, April 22, 2011. The demonstration in support of the "Syrian people" was called for by the Tahrir Party. It was not granted a license from the interior ministry. Syrian security forces have launched a deadly crackdown on demonstrations that started last month, killing more than 200 people.
A Syrian soldier behind sand bags under a traffic light in the central city of Homs, Syria, on Friday, April 22, 2011. Syrian security forces fired live bullets and tear gas Friday at tens of thousands of people shouting for freedom and democracy, wounding about 10 people on a day that could be a major test of whether President Bashar Assad's promises of sweeping reform will quell the month long uprising. Security forces opened fire in Homs, wounding at least seven people according to eyewitnesses.
A Palestinian protester throws back a tear gas canister to Israeli troops, not seen, during the weekly demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, on Friday, April 22, 2011.
An Egyptian protester waves a flag as he attends a weekly anti-Mubarak demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, April 22, 2011.
A boy enjoys a water fountain at a public swimming pool in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Friday, April 22, 2011. Due to unusual sunny and warm weather in April, some public pools opened earlier this year.