Thousands of people and several world leaders gathered Friday in Armenia to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War I killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. There were also rallies and remembrances in other countries around the globe.
Remembering Armenian Massacre Victims
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Visitors and revelers react at the prehistoric stones of the Stonehenge monument at dawn on Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, near Amesbury in south west Britain.
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Demonstrators pass the State Opera during a torch-bearing march marking the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, in Vienna, April 24, 2015. An Austrian parliamentary declaration describes the killings as 'genocide', a term that the Austrian government had long rejected.
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Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Krill, on podium, conducts a religious service for killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov inside the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. Karlov was fatally shot by a Turkish policeman in a gathering in Ankara.
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Lebanese Armenians carry an Armenian national flag as they march in North Beirut, April 24, 2015.