Week in Pictures: April 11th – 17th 2011

The week’s best photos

<p>A boy holds a sweet potato snack for his father at a charcoal factory at a slum in Manila, The Philippines on April 12, 2011. According to a national survey conducted in March, some 20.5 percent of the country (about 4.1 million families) have claimed to have gone hungry at least once in the past three months.  (REUTERS/Erik de Castro)</p>

A boy holds a sweet potato snack for his father at a charcoal factory at a slum in Manila, The Philippines on April 12, 2011. According to a national survey conducted in March, some 20.5 percent of the country (about 4.1 million families) have claimed to have gone hungry at least once in the past three months. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro)

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