Today in Pictures: May 4, 2012

Sri Lankan Tamil school students ride a bicycle in Jaffna, May 4, 2012. Sri Lanka recorded an impressive 8.3 percent growth rate last year, up from 8.0 percent in 2010, the first full year after troops defeated Tamil separatist rebels in May 2009 and declared an end to nearly 40 years of fighting. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images )