Friday April 1, Our World In Pictures
PARIS — Reform Is Fought Ferociously: Demonstrators face riot police officers during a protest on Thursday. Tens of thousands of workers and youths took to the streets of the country to protest, sometimes violently, a government reform meant to make it easier to hire and fire employees and to relax the country’s strict 35-hour workweek. As train drivers, teachers and others went on strike, student organizations and seven employee unions combined to condemn the Socialist government’s bill, which they argue will badly erode hard-won worker protections.
IRAQ — Flowers Mark Spot: Members of security forces place flowers at the site where the tent of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was, inside the heavily guarded Green Zone, in Baghdad on Friday.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.