Welcome to "Moving Image," our slideshow of the best photos of the week from around the world.
The following photos tell the story of the most compelling events this week, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences with a single click. The images that stopped us in our tracks the past seven days ranged from a gorgeous multi-colored art installation to snapshots of police riots in Paris.
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Hostesses stand before the Formula One Grand Prix at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday, April 21, 2013. (Hassan Ammar / AP) (credit:Hassan Ammar / AP)
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Protesters during the Marcha de las Putas (March of sluts) aks for respect to women on April 20, 2013 in Quito, Ecuador. Marcha de las Putas movement was born in Canada and now is present in UK, US, Mexico, Colombia, Australia and India.(Edu Leon / LatinContent / Getty Images) (credit:Edu Leon / LatinContent / Getty Images)
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Bsam Ali, 11, swims in polluted water at a slum area on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, April 22, 2013. Hundreds of countries globally, mark International Earth Day on April 22, to help raise ecological awareness and support environmental protection. (Hani Mohammed / AP (credit:Hani Mohammed / AP)
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The sun sets behind the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, Friday, April 26, 2013. Elsewhere, dozens of mostly masked protesters are hurling stones and firebombs in clashes with riot police at Egypt’s presidential palace in a Cairo suburb. Protests have become a weekly routine in Egypt, as the country has plunged in turmoil during most of the past two years since 2011 uprising which ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak out of power. (Amr Nabil / AP) (credit:Amr Nabil / AP)
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People walk through a tulip field in full bloom at the Tanto Tulip Festival on April 22, 2013 in Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan. Hundreds of thousands of tulips in three hundred varieties are displayed at the popular Spring flower festival at Tanto Tulip field in Hyogo Prefecture. (Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty Images) (credit:Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty Images)
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, and artist Ugo Rondinone are framed in the in the rock sculpture "Human Nature," as they react during a press conference on Monday, April 22, 2013 in New York. Rondinone, a Swiss-born and New York based artist, created a public art installation of nine colossal human-shaped figures made of rough bluestone, that will transform New York's Rockefeller Plaza for seven weeks. (Bebeto Matthews / AP) (credit:Bebeto Matthews / AP)
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Mourners leave the funeral for Boston Marathon bomb victim Krystle Campbell, 29, at St. Joseph's Church in Medford, Mass., Monday, April 22, 2013. (Elise Amendola / AP) (credit:Elise Amendola / AP)
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Fans react while watching Colorado Avalanche's P.A. Parenteau (15) high-stick St. Louis Blues' David Backes (42) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Denver. The Avalanche won 5-3. (Barry Gutierrez / AP) (credit:Barry Gutierrez / AP)
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Riot police fires tear gas toward demonstrators, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Paris. France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge demonstrations that tapped into intense discontent with the Socialist government. Within hours, fiery clashes broke out between protesters and riot police. (Christophe Ena / AP) (credit:Christophe Ena / AP)
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A soldier guards the Cenotaph at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on April 25, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand. Veterans, dignitaries and members of the public today marked the 98th anniversary of ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) Day, April 25, 1915 when allied New Zealand and Australian First World War forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Commemoration events are held across both countries in remembrance of those who fought and died in all wars. (Phil Walter / Getty Images) (credit:Phil Walter / Getty Images)
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Designer Susana Soares looks towards an installation of illuminated insect traps at the Wellcome Collection in London, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The exhibition of Illuminated room-high insect traps, dramatic Iight projections of creepy crawlies and 3D printing of food made from bugs is a new installation called "Insects au Gratin" which explores the benefits of eating bugs, as part of a new season called Who's the Pest? organised with Pestival - the cultural organisation dedicated to our relationship with insects and the natural world. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP) (credit:Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP)
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A Bangladeshi woman survivor is lifted out of the rubble by rescuers at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. By Thursday, the death toll reached at least 194 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete. (Kevin Frayer / AP) (credit:Kevin Frayer / AP)
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A full moon rises behind a statue of a Kansas Indian on top of the Kansas Statehouse Wednesday, April 24, 2013, in Topeka, Kan. (Charlie Riedel / AP) (credit:Charlie Riedel / AP)
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Apartment towers and the International Commerce Centre, tower at center, are seen through a work of art entitled "Poetic Cosmos of the Breath" by Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno, which is part of an exhibition called "Mobile M+: Inflation!" at the waterfront of West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong Wednesday, April 24, 2013. (Vincent Yu / AP) (credit:Vincent Yu / AP)
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Rescue workers walk to BaoXing county, one of the hardest hit areas of the earthquake zone, on April 21, 2013 in China. A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on the morning of April 20, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured. (Lam Yik Fei / Getty Images) (credit:Lam Yik Fei / Getty Images)
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Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill (17) stands on a stage as the Miami Dolphins unveil their new uniforms during an NFL football draft party, Thursday, April 25, 2013 in Miami. (Lynne Sladky / AP) (credit:Lynne Sladky / AP)
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