Good News Photos
Lucy Brown, owned by Nancy Brown of Johnston, Iowa, sits on the throne after being crowned the winner of the 32nd annual Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog, held April 25 in Des Moines, Iowa. The pageant kicks off the Drake Relays festivities at Drake University, where a bulldog is the mascot.
A petunia is seen through a raindrop falling off a leaf in a garden in Overland Park, Kan. Widespread rains in the Midwest have brought flood warnings in several states in April.
Dutch sunbathers enjoy the warm April weather in Scheveningen.
Caroline Kilel of Kenya hits the tape at the finish line to win the women's division of the 115th Boston Marathon on April 18.
A skater cools off in Madrid on April 17 as spring temperatures rose in many parts of Spain.
Yolanda King, 3, the only grandchild of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and her mother Arndrea King, return to their seats April 15 after ringing the bell to begin the ceremony to mark the restoration of the sanctuary of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where the Rev. King Jr. preached in Atlanta.
Tourists stand in the Siraj Bagh garden, where more than a million tulips are in full bloom, on April 14 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. The largest tulip garden, at the foothills of Zabarwan range, takes part in the annual tulip festival in the beginning of the spring season in April.
Children at a school in St. Petersburg, Russia, watch a model rocket blasting off April 12 during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned flight into space.
A man cycles under cherry blossoms on a warm and sunny day in downtown Frankfurt, Germany, on April 11.
Visitors gather under cherry blossoms trees at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on April 10, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.




