Aprile 01, 2016
1 A demonstrator stands outside the Istanbul courthouse, where Turkish opposition Cumhuriyet daily's editor-in-chief Can Dundar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul attend their trial. The two face possible life terms on spying charges over a news report accusing President Erdogan's government of seeking to illicitly deliver arms bound for neighboring Syria.
2 A man looks at a memorial site for the victims of the Brussels attacks at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels, Belgium. The city archive started collecting messages and drawings Friday to protect and preserve them.
3 Schoolchildren pray inside their classroom for the victims of Kolkata's collapsed flyover bridge, in Agartala, India. The bridge, which was under construction, killed at least 23 people and injured 80 more on Thursday.
4 New police officers take the oath of office during the New York City Police Department Police Academy graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden in New York.
5 Manor driver Rio Haryanto of Indonesia steers his car during the second free practice session ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in Sakhir, Bahrain. The Grand Prix will be held on Sunday.
6 Kashmiri Muslims cry as they pray upon seeing a relic believed to be hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed during a festival to mark the death anniversary of Abu Bakr, one of the companions of Prophet Mohammad, at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.
7 A view of a tulip field in Zhumadian, Henan province, China, March 31, 2016.
8 A general interior view of the Pantheon Dome monument after its restoration in Paris, France. The Pantheon Monument reopened to the public after a two-and-a-half-year renovation.
9 A Saudi man leads camels as he heads back home from a training center near the city of Tabuk, located some 1,500 km northwest of the capital Riyadh.
10 A runner taking part in the Palestine Marathon passes by the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
11 A model displays a creation by Indian designer Amit Aggarwal during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India.
12 A woman looks at cherry blossoms in almost full bloom in Tokyo, Japan.
Aprile 03, 2016
1 Dozens of professional singers and a few hundred people sing famous Belgian songs at a memorial site for the victims of the Brussels attacks at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels.
2 A visitor takes photographs of Mount Bromo, an active volcano and popular tourist destination, in Probolinggo, East Java province, Indonesia, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
3 Men collect their belongings from their makshift shop which was damaged by flood water after heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan.
4 Emergency personnel examine the scene after an Amtrak passenger train struck a backhoe, killing two people, in Chester, Pennsylvania. The southbound Palmetto train running from New York to Savannah, Georgia, had about 341 passengers and seven crew members aboard when it struck the backhoe.
5 Competitors run down the Champs Elysees below the Arc de Triomphe at the start of the 40th Paris Marathon in France.
6 Children holding lanterns parade ahead of the Qingming Festival, or the Tomb Sweeping Day in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China, April 2, 2016.
7 Participants take part in International Pillow Fight Day in Kennington Park in south London, Britain April 2, 2016.
8 A military instructor helps a boy to shoot a Kalashnikov machine gun armed with blanks during a military show outside St. Petersburg, Russia.
9 A Bengal cat is seen during the Mediterranean Winner 2016 cat show in Rome, Italy.
10 People admire cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Japan. People all over the country go out to see cherry blossoms this weekend as the country's iconic flower is full bloom.
11 Men dressed in ancient Roman costumes walk along the ancient Appian Way in Rome, Italy.
12 Storks sit on their nest at sunrise near the village of Vereskovo, west of Minsk, Belarus.
13 Ethnic Chinese Malaysians visit the graves of their ancestors at a cemetery on the eve of the annual 'Qingming' festival in Kuala Lumpur.
Aprile 04, 2016
1 Pakistani villagers wade across a flooded road after heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar. Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed dozens of people in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
2 A pedestrian walks in the snow in Albany, New York. An early spring cold front is bringing snow and gusty winds to the Northeast after the region had one of its mildest winters on record.
3 Election posters of 376 candidates for Seoul's constituencies in the April 13 general elections are hung over the Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, South Korea.
4 A red tulip surrounded by yellow flowers in a park in London
5 A fisherman carries a sailfish on his head to the fish market in Hamarweyne near the port of Mogadishu, Somalia.
6 Canoists on the Potomac River pause to watch the sunset in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2016
7 French firemen wearing chemical protective suits take part in a mock chemical attack exercise at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne in preparation of security measures for the UEFA 2016 European Championship.
8 An early morning fog covers the makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece.
9 Dolly Parton accepts the Tex Ritter Award from presenter Katy Perry (R) at the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 3, 2016.
10 An aerial view shows that people burn joss paper money as they pray at a public cemetery during Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Festival, in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, China.
Aprile 05, 2016
1 Smoke and fire billow during a controlled explosion by Yemeni experts to destroy bombs and mines laid by Houthi rebels in the southern city of Aden.
2 Gunnery sergeant Christopher Willingham, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, poses with retired U.S. Marine dog Lucca, after Lucca received the PDSA Dickin Medal, awarded for animal bravery, equivalent of the Victoria Cross, at Wellington Barracks in London. The 12-year-old German Shepherd lost her leg on 23 March 2012, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after she discovered a 30-pound improvised explosive device. As she searched for additional IEDs, a second device detonated, instantly blasting her front left leg. Lucca completed more than 400 separate missions in Iraq and Afghanistan during six years of active service protecting the lives of thousands of troops.
3 People demonstrate against Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson in Reykjavik, Iceland, April 4, 2016, after a leak of documents — the so-called Panama Papers —stoked anger over his wife owning a tax haven-based company with large claims on the country's collapsed banks. Gunnlaugsson became the first major casualty of the Panama Papers' revelations, stepping down Tuesday.
4 Counterterrorism forces escort people fleeing their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State group in Hit, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq.
5 A voter casts his ballot in the Wisconsin presidential primary at a voting station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
6 Migrants, most of them from Pakistan, protest inside the entrance of Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos against the EU-Turkey migration deal.
7 A fishing boat heads out to sea as the sun rises in Bal Harbour, Florida, USA.
8 A cyclist passes cherry trees in Erfurt, central Germany.
9 A butterfly emerges from its cocoon at the botanical garden in Prague, Czech Republic.
10 Performers rehearse during a fire show for the opening of a Circus Festival in Dublin, Ireland, April 4, 2016.
11 Pink flamingos stand in the water at the Ras al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
Aprile 06, 2016
1 A woman touches a virtual reality 3D glasses as she and a man sit in a car prior to the shareholders' meeting of the Daimler AG in Berlin, Germany.
2 An Indian student demonstrates martial arts skills during a sports event at a college in Amritsar.
3 Migrant children wearing life jackets wait for a dinghy to sail off for the Greek island of Lesbos from the Turkish coastal town of Dikili, Turkey.
4 Pope Francis talks with Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Myers, a 5-year-old girl from Ohio, U.S., who suffers from a genetic disease known as Usher syndrome, which leads to blindness and hearing loss, at the end of the weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.
5 Fireworks explode over a reproduction of Hogwarts Castle, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs under the direction of composer John Williams, during a special preview opening of "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood in University City, California, April 5, 2016.
6 Drivers stand among trucks on the E411 highway from Brussels to Luxembourg as they protest against road charging, near Spontin, Belgium.
7 A Pakistani migrant threatens to hang himself from a utility pole during a demonstration inside the Moria registration center on the Greek island of Lesbos.
8 Bangladeshi woman collects arsenic-tainted water from a tube-well in Khirdasdi village, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 5, 2016. A new report estimates that some 20 million Bangladeshis are still being poisoned by arsenic-tainted groundwater drawn from government wells.
9 A woman walks in a yard where tea leaves are dried at a tea company in Dening, Fujian Province, China.
10 Raindrops and trees are reflected in a puddle in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
11 Demonstrators take part in a protest against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori and against the 1992 coup by her father, former President Alberto Fujimori, in downtown Lima, Peru, April 5, 2016.
Aprile 07, 2016
1 Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, center, releases birds at the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow's Kremlin to mark the Russian Orthodox holiday of the Annunciation.
2 A Georgian Orthodox nun attends a religious service marking the Annunciation at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, near Tbilisi.
3 Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra weeps as she takes part in Songkran festival celebration with opposition Puea Thai party members at the party headquarters in Bangkok.
4 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (C) rides the New York City Subway with Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz (L).
5 Migrants and refugees clash with riot police during a protest to call for the reopening of the borders at their makeshift camp in the northern border village of Idomeni, Greece.
6 A member of a Chinese honor guard holds a red flag while losing his balance due to strong winds as he waits for the arrival of Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
7 A view of the old part of Tbilisi, Georgia, on a bank of the Kura River
8 Ethnic Armenian soldiers stand next to a cannon at artillery positions near the Nagorno-Karabakh's town of Martuni.
9 This photo provided by the San Bernardino County Fire Department shows a helicopter making a drop on a wildfire that started in western Arizona and jumped the Colorado River into California, near Needles, California, April 6, 2016.
10 Seven-month old female giant panda cub Nuan Nuan plays inside the panda enclosure at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The cub is the offspring of Xing Xing and Liang Liang, two giant pandas on loan to Malaysia from China since 2014.
11 A model displays 'The Unique Pink' - the largest Fancy Vivid Pink pear-shaped diamond ever offered at auction, at Sotheby's auction rooms in London.
12 Spanish banderillero Jose Maria Fernandez "Alcalareno" is tackled by a bull during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, April 6, 2016.
13 Students from a martial arts school attend a training session as they perform Shaolin Kung Fu and other practices in Dengfeng, Henan Province, China.
14 Cincinnati Reds' Tucker Barnhart scores on a double by Reds' Scott Schebler, as Philadelphia Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz attempts the tag during the third inning of a baseball game, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
15 Pre-school children look at the Gloriosa, the trinity bell from 1721 and the world's largest free-swinging medieval bell, in the Erfurt Cathedral, in Erfurt, Germany.
16 This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. Light from background stars skims by the black hole. (Credits: ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI)
17 An Astana team cyclist trains ahead of Sunday's 114th edition of the Paris-Roubaix cycling classic, in Haveluy, northern France.
Aprile 08, 2016
1 A life jacket floats on the sea near the port of Dikili district in Izmir, Turkey, where a ferry carrying a second group of migrants deported from Greece was scheduled to arrive Friday.
2 Student protesters shout after they were released by the new government's general amnesty at Tharrawaddy court, Tharrawaddy, Bago division, Myanmar.
3 A woman holds flower petals in her hands before throwing them into the Manzanares river during an event marking International Roma Day in Madrid. Members of Spain's gypsy community held the ceremony to symbolize the departure of their ancestors from India and their exodus across the world.
4 Ivory Coast soldiers stand at guard during a ceremony in Abidjan to honor soldiers killed in last month's al-Qaida attack on the beach resort town of Grand Bassam.
5 A woman touches a wall made of elastic fabric, part of the artistic installation 'Sidewalk ' by Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti, at the 'Architecture as Art' exhibition at the Hangar Bicocca, in Milan, Italy.
6 A red flag and a black one reading "Nuit Debout" (Rise Up at Night) are seen on the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, during a social media-driven movement against a labor law proposal.
7 Giant green sea turtles are seen in a pool at a turtle conservation center after they were seized from poachers in Bali, Indonesia. Police seized a total of 45 illegally-caught sea turtles Thursday.
8 South Korean women smile as they cover their heads with scarves against the sun and wind before a weekly demonstration of the military honor guard at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul. The demonstrations resumed after being suspended during the winter.
9 A photographer covers his camera from colored paint as he documents the Festival of Colors organized by the Indian Cultural Center in Cairo, Egypt. Throwing color is a traditional Hindu way to enthusiastically embrace the changing season and celebrating spring.
10 Martin Kaymer, Bill Haas and Rory McIlroy are seen on the 2nd green during the second round of the 2016 Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia. (Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports)
11 Katie Lanivich takes a photograph with a Detroit Tigers bobble head before a baseball game against the New York Yankees in Detroit, Michigan.
12 A photo of Aretha Franklin by Linda McCartney is seen behind a camera during the press preview at the exhibition 'Sixties' by Linda McCartney in the Avant-garde House of Art in Apolda, Germany.
13 A Maharashtrian woman dressed in traditional costume attends celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival in Mumbai, India.
14 A general view of construction work on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge on Lantau island in Hong Kong, April 7, 2016. The project entails a series of bridges and tunnels crossing part of the Pearl River Estuary that will connect Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai in mainland China.
Aprile 10, 2016
1 People listen to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she speaks during a campaign event at the Queens borough of New York, USA.
2 President Andrzej Duda (L) lays a wreath at the graves of the Presidential plane crash victims during a ceremony marking the 6th anniversary of the crash, at the Powazki Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria Kaczynska and 94 others died on 10 April 2010 when Polish presidential plane crashed in Smolensk, Russia.
3 A migrant man throws a can of the tear gas back toward Macedonian police during a protest at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece.
4 A Quechua indigenous woman casts her vote during general elections in Iquicha, Peru.
5 A samurai warrior look-like is standing for a photo request near a tore wooden gate (rear) at Itsukushima Shrine before the Group of Seven countries' foreign minister visit the shrine on Miyajima Island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.
6 Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, plays cricket as former Indian cricket captain Dilip Vengsarkar watches at Oval Maidan in Mumbai, India.
7 Indian artists perform a folk dance in a wheat field during the Baisakhi festival celebrations in Suchetgarh, about 25 km from Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir.
8 A general view of the Real Maestranza bullring during the traditional Seville Fair Horse and Carriages Exhibition on the occassion of the April Fair, in Seville, southern Spain.
9 A competitor wearing a kilt and standing on a barrel throws a bowling ball during the 'Brigaball' contest at the annual Bundanoon Highland Gathering, showcasing traditional Scottish events, held in the town of Bundanoon, located southwest of Sydney, Australia, April 9, 2016.
10 Ballet dancers perform an outside routine, as part of the Month of Dance in San Sebastian, in front of Concha Bay, Spain.
11 A participant attempts to roll a straw bale from one place to the next as quickly as possible at the Straw Bale Olympics in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
12 Volunteers paint the border fence between the United States and Mexico to give the illusion of transparency during the "Borrando la Frontera" (Erasing the Border) Art Project in Mexicali, Mexico April 9, 2016.
13 Thousands of runners are seen during a long exposure crossing the Reichsbrucke bridge over the Danube river, during the Vienna City Marathon, Austria.
Aprile 11, 2016
1 Ethnic Yao minority women brush their long hair as part of a performance during the local Long Hair Festival, to celebrate the third day of the third lunar month which is regarded as a traditional festival for many ethnic minorities in Huangluo village of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
2 Kazakh herdsmen watch a hawk hunt a rabbit during a local festival in Yining county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.
3 A schoolgirl is soaked with water thrown by an elephant during the Songkran Festival celebration, also known as the water festival in the ancient world heritage city of Ayutthaya, Thailand.
4 A man sleeps on a girder between the two pillars of a bridge on the Sabarmati river during a hot day in Ahmedabad, India.
5 A devotee with his body painted arrives to perform during a ritual as part of the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival at Sona Palasi village, in West Bengal, India.
6 A couple poses for wedding pictures in a park in Luoyang, Henan Province, China, April 10, 2016.
7 People jump off a bridge, which has a height of 30 meters, in Hortolandia, Brazil, April 10, 2016. According to organizers, 149 people were attempting set a new world record for "rope jumping", in which people, tied to a safety cord, jump off a bridge.
8 Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization forces fire towards positions of the Islamic State group in the town of Besher, during a military operation to regain control of the small town, outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, April 10, 2016.
9 Indonesian Public Order Agency security officers pull up protesting residents from the road during the demolition of illegal houses at a slum area in Jakarta. According to media reports, more than 500 makeshift houses and permanent residences were demolished as the government plans to increase public spaces and tourist attractions in the area.
10 Suad Keserovic cleans a stone ball in Podubravlje village near Zavidovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Keserovic claimed that the stone sphere is 3.30 meters in diameter and the estimated weight is about 35 tons. Hundreds of tourists from around the world have visited this stone.
11 Turkish riot police use tear gas and water cannons to disperse Besiktas supporters trying to pass security barriers in front of Besiktas' new stadium, the Vodafone Arena in Istanbul, before the Turkish Super League soccer match between Besiktas Istanbul and Bursaspor.
12 Members of the Malaysia's Civil Defence Force hold a python that was caught near a flyover in Penang.
13 A Christie's employee holds 'The Mendes-France Baule Mask' from Ivory Coast at Christies's auction rooms in London.
Aprile 12, 2016
1 A Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier adjusts a hat of a member of an honor guard as they prepare a welcome ceremony for visiting Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
2 Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron watches as Prince Harry lays a wreath at the memorial service for victims of the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis and the Tunisian holiday resort of Port El Kantaoui in Sousse, at Westminster Abbey in central London.
3 A boy sits on his ball next to a border fence on the Greek side of the border, as Macedonian police stand guard on the Macedonian side, near the Greek village of Idomeni.
4 Performers take part in a traditional dance during a ceremony to mark the Myanmar Water Festival at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, to mark the New Year according to the traditional lunar calendar.
5 Parachutists land on a field near Burglengenfeld, southern Germany. Soldiers from the U.S., Britain and Italy took part in the airborne maneuver which is part of the military exercise "Saber Junction 16."
6 A Pakistani vendor heads home carrying his unsold balloons, in Lahore, during sunset.
7 People walk through a dust storm on the banks of the Ganga river in Allahabad, India.
8 A U.S. Air Force twin-engined T-38C supersonic jet trainer passes in front of the sun at supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are caught photographically for research. NASA is using a modern version of schlieren imagery to visualize supersonic flow phenomena with full-scale aircraft in flight. The results will help engineers design a quiet supersonic transport.
9 Members of the impeachment committee celebrate after voting on the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2016.
10 An Afghan boy carries a shovel on his shoulder as he walks in a poppy field in Zhari district of southern Kandahar province, April 11, 2016.
11 Activists take part in a demonstration outside the European Commission (EC) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, ahead of statements by the EC on the effectiveness of existing measures against tax evasion and money-laundering in light of the recent Panama Papers revelations.
12 Swiss player Roger Federer serves to Guillermo Garcia Lopez of Spain during their match at the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco.
13 Alister Shipman from Britain and Hannah Simpson from Northern Ireland, winners of a competition on the Airbnb accommodation site, look at a shark tank from an underwater bedroom at the Aquarium de Paris, France, April 11, 2016. The winners were offered a free one night stay in the underwater bedroom.
14 People fly kites during the 30th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer in northern France.
15 Tourists float in the Dead Sea, Israel.
Aprile 13, 2016
1 A Buddhist nun walks in line with novice nuns to receive food from people during the Songkran Festival at the Sathira-Dhammasathan Buddhist Meditation Center in Bangkok, Thailand.
2 An aerial view of flower field in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
3 A Chinese man wearing a mask passes by a sculpture during a smoggy day in Beijing.
4 Nepalese devotees pull ropes tied to the chariot of Hindu god Bhairava, as houses destroyed by last year's earthquake are seen during Bisket Jatra festival in Bhaktapur.
5 Lucy Lu, a student from China, takes a photograph under a blossom-covered tree in St James' Park in London.
6 Soldiers of the presidential guard march up the ramp of the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 12, 2016.
7 This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis wearing a helmet as he jokes with French firemen of Paris (Pompiers de Paris) at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican.
8 Queen Maxima (R) and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (C) pose in a giant picture frame as they tour the "Hollaender-Saal" (Dutchmen Hall) of the Alte Pinakothek museum in Munich, southern Germany.
9 Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA captured this brightly lit night image of the city of Chicago, Illinois, from the International Space Station, on April 5, 2016.
10 The tongue of a Hindu devotee is pierced with a metal skewer during the annual Shiva Gajan religious festival in Banga village in West Bengal, India. Hundreds of faithful devotees offer sacrifices and perform acts of devotion during the festival in the hopes of winning the favor of Hindu god Shiva and ensuring the fulfillment of their wishes, and also to mark the end of the Bengali calendar year.
11 Trees and water marks are seen on previously submerged land at Guri dam in Bolivar state. Drought has turned parts of Venezuela's Guri dam, one of the world's biggest, into desert, though the government is optimistic there will be rain within weeks to drive the vast installation that provides the bulk of the OPEC nation's power.
12 Firemen rescue a boy whose head is stuck between protective bars outside a window in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
13 A soldier from Indonesia's Rapid Reaction Strike Force (PPRC) jumps from the back of an Air Force transport plane during a parachute training exercise in Tarakan, North Kalimantan province, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
14 Women in Thimphu, Bhutan, prepare for the visit of Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge.
Aprile 14, 2016
1 A devotee is smeared with a vermillion powder while celebrating the "Sindoor Jatra" vermillion powder festival at Thimi, in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
2 Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge reacts after shooting an arrow at Changlimithang Archery Ground in Thimphu, Bhutan.
3 European Parliament member Anneliese Dodds of the UK holds her baby as she takes part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
4 People flee their homes during fighting between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State group during a military operation to regain control of Hit, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, April 13, 2016.
5 Graffiti on the side of a broken boat shows the faces of a migrant woman and children by Italian street artist Eron inside the Treccani Institute in Rome.
6 People stand and watch the sunset at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, April 13, 2016.
7 President Barack Obama blows a soap bubble using a 3-D printed bubble wand designed by Jacob Leggette, 9, of Baltimore, Maryland, while touring the 2016 White House Science Fair in Washington, April 13, 2016.
8 Electrical machine builder Oleg Glebov works at the stator windings of a generator in the Erfurt Generator Plant of the German Siemens AG in Erfurt, central Germany.
9 Foreign and Thai revelers dance amid foam during a foam party, a part of the annual Songkran celebration, the Thai traditional New Year also known as the water festival in Bangkok, Thailand.
10 Visitors stand inside the installation 'Le mie prigioni' (My Jails), by architect Alessandro Mendini, part of the 'Fuori Salone' exhibitions during the Design Week, in Milan, Italy.
Aprile 15, 2016
1 A Pakistani migrant stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos sits behind a cross near the port of Mytilini. Pope Francis will visit the island Saturday joined by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Athens Archbishop Ieronymos II.
2 Rescue teams search through damaged houses to check for trapped people in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan. Aftershocks rattled communities in southern Japan as businesses and residents got a fuller look Friday at the widespread damage from an unusually strong overnight earthquake.
3 A boy chants slogans through a gap in a national flag raised by Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, during a protest against Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen.
4 Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, center, walks over the marathon finish line on the third anniversary of the bombings in Boston.
5 High school students hold candles to pay their respects to the victims of sunken ferry Sewol during a ceremony on the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking in Ansan, South Korea.
6 A Sotheby's employee looks at a painting by Farhad Moshiri, Untitled from The Jar Series, at Sotheby's auction rooms in London. The painting is expected to bring 100,000-150,000 UK pounds (141,882-212,824 US dollars) when it is auctioned in the first-ever single owner Modern and Contemporary Iranian sale, called Alchemy: Objects of Desire on April 21.
7 Lower house members who support impeachment for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff demonstrate during a session to review the request, at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia.
8 A reporter walks past a replica of the Goddess of Democracy in the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong. The operators of the world’s only museum chronicling the Chinese government’s brutal 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square say it faces closure because of a legal dispute.
9 South Korean conservative activists shout slogans as police block them from attempting to release balloons with leaflets during a rally at the border city with North Korea, in Paju, South Korea. A North Korean launch of a missile on the birthday of its revered founder appears to have failed, South Korean and U.S. defense officials said Friday.
10 Tourists float in the Dead Sea, Israel.
11 Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, spin prayer wheels at the Paro Taktsang Monastery, Bhutan. The royal couple are on a seven-day tour of India and Bhutan.
12 A jogger passes a patch of blooming tulips on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
13 An Indian man dressed as Hindu Goddess Kali puts fire in his mouth during a procession to celebrate the Ram Navami festival in Allahabad, India.
14 People stroll under blooming cherry trees in Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm, Sweden.
Aprile 17, 2016
1 Eleven new priests lay on the ground during a ceremony in which Pope Francis ordained them, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
2 Rescue workers search for missing people at a massive landslide caused by a magnitude 7.3 strong earthquake in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
3 Boys cry as they find out that their sister has been killed in an earthquake in Pedernales, Ecuador. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency.
4 Two police armored vehicles stand in a flooded street due heavy rains in Santiago, Chile.
5 The Washington Monument is captured in the refelcting pool on the National Mall in Washington before daybreak.
6 Princess Charlene attends the final match of the Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco.
7 Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men prepare matza, traditional unleavened bread eaten during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, in the southern city of Ashdod.
8 The pack compete in front of the Hubertus mill during the Amstel Gold Race in Beek, The Netherlands.
9 Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is surrounded by cars as she rides her bicycle followed by security guards near Alvorada Palace, the presidential residence, in Brasilia.
10 Snowboarders in fancy costumes, depicting a firefighter and fire victim, slide down before an attempt to cross a pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at the Bobrovy Log ski resort on the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
11 People covered in colourful chalk powder dance at the finish line during the Parisian edition of the 'Color Run' in Paris, France.
12 Michael Phelps competes in the 200-meter individual medley final during the Arena Pro Swim Series swim meet in Mesa, Arizona, USA, April 16, 2016.
Aprile 18, 2016
1 The Villarrica Volcano is seen at night in Chile. Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes.
2 A depiction of a gas mask placed by environmental protest group Greenpeace is seen on a statue of Britain's Queen Victoria near Buckingham Palace in London, England.
3 Migrants ask for help from a rubber dinghy as they are approached by the SOS Meditrranee's ship Aquarius, background, off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, April 17, 2016. The European Union's border agency says the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy more than doubled last month.
4 Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, breaks the tape ahead of Kurt Fearnley, of Australia, center, and Ernst Van Dyk, of South Africa, in the wheelchair division of the 120th Boston Marathon.
5 Alberto Lopez, right, helps his wife Glenda wade through floodwaters as they evacuate their flooded apartment complex in Houston, Texas. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods and forcing the closure of city offices and the suspension of public transit.
6 A South Korean worker cleans a statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin ahead of the coming of spring at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul.
7 A man cools off in a stream during hot weather in Islamabad, Pakistan.
8 Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest completely blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the "Blue Forest", near the Belgian city of Halle.
9 A migrant holds a banner reading "Your silence killing us " during a demonstration on rail tracks at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni.
10 A view of a flooded commercial center in Santiago, Chile, April 17, 2016.
11 Girls perform yoga at a tea plantation as a part of TV program selecting members for a female performance group in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, April 17, 2016.
12 Oil pour into the the Polcevera stream that connects the port of Genoa with the Po Valley, Italy, after a pipeline belonging to the oil plant of 'Iplolm' ruptured.
13 Two boats lie on cracked ground in a dry area in Ca Mau province, Vietnam. Vietnam is facing the most serious drought of the last 90 years, according to a statement by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
14 Lightning illuminates the night sky during a storm over Guwahati, India.
Aprile 19, 2016
1 An Afghan man carries a girl who was injured in a suicide bomb blast in Kabul. A huge explosion rocked Kabul as Taliban militants attacked the Afghan Ministry of Defense, killing at least 30 people.
2 Chinese artist Kong Ning wears a gown to promote her poetry works at a book fair in Beijing.
3 Fidel Castro sits as he clasps hands with his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, right, and Second Secretary of the Central Committee, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, moments before the playing of the Communist party hymn during the closing ceremonies of the 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, in Havana.
4 A worker installs a new mural of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II by Frederick Wimsett, to mark her 90th birthday celebrations in central London. The longest-reigning monarch in British history turns 90 on Thursday.
5 A devotee gets into a trance during a religious procession dedicated to Goddess Mariamman in Mumbai, India.
6 A Sri Lankan daily wage laborer carries a sack of cabbage on a street in Colombo.
7 A white great Egret (Egretta alba) takes off in the Hortobagy National Park, situated some 200 kms east of Budapest, Hungary.
8 Sumo wrestlers compete during the annual 'Honozumo' ceremonial sumo tournament dedicated to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.
9 An Israeli woman takes a selfie in a buttercup field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel, just outside the Gaza Strip, April 18, 2016.
10 Lutz Bachmann (L), co-founder of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), arrives with his wife Vicky at a courtroom for his trial to be charged with incitement over Facebook posts in a court in Dresden, Germany.
11 A Thai wearing costume of a robot character stands next to passengers on a Skytrain during a promotion of the upcoming Bangkok Entertainment Week 2016, in Bangkok, Thailand.
12 Indian women seek blessings from the Mayong 'Kings' as they take part in the age-old, traditional 'Gohain Uliuwa Mela' festival in Mayong village, in the Morigaon district of Assam state.
13 A colorful butterfly sits on a branch of wheat in a field in Peshawar, Pakistan.
14 A black spot on the sun is visible in the upper right of this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Such spots are evidence that this is an area of complex magnetic activity on the sun, which can sometimes lead to solar eruptions sending light and radiation out into space. This region produced a solar flare at 8:29 p.m. EDT on April 17, 2016.
Aprile 20, 2016
1 Actress Katerina Lehou, as high priestess, lights the Olympic Flame, during the final dress rehearsal of the lighting of the Olympic flame at Ancient Olympia, in western Greece. The flame will be transported by torch relay to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which will host the Aug. 5-21, 2016 Olympics.
2 A royal fan adjusts her Union flag glasses, in Windsor, England. Royal fans are gathering in Windsor ahead of Thursday's celebrations for the 90th birthday of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
3 Korean artist Choi Jeong Hwa's work 'Flower Chandelier' is on display in his exhibition 'Happy Together' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland.
4 The workers at a workshop in al-Moez street at al-Hussein district in Old Cairo, Egypt, cut dried, dyed fabrics into standard sizes before selling them.
5 A man jokes around after taking some pictures of a section of highway that collapsed due to a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Chacras, Ecuador, April 19, 2016.
6 A man holds his head in his hands as he sits among bed frames burned by a fire which tore through a refugee camp in Diavata, northern Greece, threatening the lives of over 2,300 people who live there. More than a dozen tents were destroyed in the blaze.
7 An environmental activist is pulled from the stage during the annual shareholders meeting of German power supplier RWE in Essen.
8 Empty shelves are seen after items sold out at a store following a series of earthquakes in Kumamoto, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo.
9 Competitors climb on their way to the 'Col De Riedmatten' pass and 'Col De Tsena Refien' pass, during the Glacier Patrol race near Arolla, Switzerland, 20 April 2016.
10 Spanish soldiers of the 7th Airborne Light Infantry Brigade 'Galicia' fire a howitzer Light Gun L118 during maneuvers with other units from the Training Center 'San Gregorio' in preparation for NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) within the NATO Response Force (NRF) in Zaragoza, Spain, 19 April 2016.
Aprile 21, 2016
1 Queen Elizabeth II meets well wishers during a walkabout close to Windsor Castle as she celebrates her 90th birthday, in Berkshire, England.
2 A rowing team passes the Memorial Bridge during practice on the Potomac River early in the morning in Washington.
3 Pakistani policeman stand guard as a health worker administers polio drops to a child during a polio vaccination campaign after a day after gunmen staged an attack in Karachi.
4 The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a 41-gun Royal Salute in Hyde Park, in London. The salute marks the 90's birthday of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
5 Customers watch android robot "Aiko Chihira" at the reception of Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo.
6 A dead fish lies on a dried up part of Osman Sagar lake on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. Severe drought like conditions are affecting millions of people spread over 12 states across the country.
7 Olympic flame first torch bearer, Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias (R) passes the torch to the second bearer, former volleyball player Giovane Gavio from Brazil, as they attend the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the site of ancient Olympia, Greece.
8 Pakistani farmers gather at a fruit market to sell watermelons in Lahore.
9 Residents cover their heads with their hands during a simultaneous earthquake drill inside the police headquarters in Quezon city, metro Manila.
10 People take refreshments during the official opening of South Africa's first Starbucks store, also the US coffeehouse chain's first store in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Johannesburg.
11 Indonesian youth stand on a grave as they fish at a cemetery inundated by floodwaters after a heavy downpour caused a nearby river to burst its banks in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Aprile 22, 2016
1 Flowers lay on a T-shirt signed by fans of singer Prince at a makeshift memorial place created outside the Apollo Theatre in New York. The pop star died Thursday at the age of 57.
2 Demonstrators from the environmental group Greenpeace paint their faces white to highlight coral bleaching in Sydney, Australia, on Earth Day.
3 Tais Minga embraces her mother as they wake up inside a building normally used to store small fishing boats, where four families took shelter after losing their homes in the earthquake in Pedernales, Ecuador. Ecuadorians are sleeping outside and struggling to find food and water as aftershocks continue to rock towns flatted by Saturday’s powerful earthquake.
4 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds his granddaughter as he signs the Paris Agreement on climate change at U.N. headquarters in New York .
5 Ethnic Albanians hold a large Albanian flag, during a protest by ethnic Albanian civic organizations and several minor political parties demanding the establishment of the rule of law, in front of the parliament building in Skopje, Macedonia.
6 Buddhist monks and novices gather to receive alms at Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple, in what organizers said was a meeting of over 100,000 monks, in Pathum Thani, outside Bangkok, Thailand.
7 Children receive schooling as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power visits the Malkohi Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Yola, Nigeria. Power is traveling to Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region.
8 A Filipino worker riding on top of a vehicle dodges campaign posters hanging across the streets of Manila, Philippines. Campaign posters can be seen on almost every corner of the city as the country prepares to vote for a new president and other officials on May 9.
9 People hold beer glasses as they attend the 500th anniversary ceremony of the German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) in Ingolstadt, Germany.
10 Members of the Keep N It Real Social Aid & Pleasure Club march with the New Wave Brass band at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana.
11 Rafael Nadal celebrates his victory over Fabio Fognini, of Italy, during the Barcelona Open tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain.
12 A volunteer adjusts a traditional Ukrainian Easter egg "Pysanka," as part of the upcoming Easter celebration, in central Kyiv, Ukraine.
13 An artist jumps as traditional drummers perform the royal drum dance during a UNESCO-organized drum festival in Gitega, near the Burundian capital, Bujumbura.
14 A woman walks her dog atop a hill at the Tio Pio park in Madrid, Spain. The park is a high viewpoint frequented mostly by locals due to its view of the Spanish capital skyline.
Aprile 24, 2016
1 Nepalese gather to attend a candlelight vigil over an art of Dharhara Tower and Kasthamandap temple to mark the one year anniversary of devastating earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2 German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama review the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover, northern Germany. Obama is on a two-day official visit to Germany.
3 Christians hold candles during the Palm Sunday mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City.
4 Coptic Orthodox Christians attend a Palm Sunday mass in the Samaan el-Kharaz Monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area of Cairo, Egypt.
5 A reveler falls from the chair as he participates in the office chair racing in Tainan city, southern Taiwan.
6 Racka sheep are seen during celebrations of the start of the new grazing season in the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy, Hungary, April 23, 2016.
7 Solar Impulse 2 flies over San Francisco, April 23, 2016. The solar-powered airplane, which is attempting to circumnavigate the globe to promote clean energy and the spirit of innovation, arrived from Hawaii after a three-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
8 A runner in a fancy ear costume takes part in the 2016 London Marathon in central London.
9 Thousands of cyclists raise their bikes during a march called "I Bike Budapest" in Budapest, Hungary, 23 April 2016. The mass parade was organized by the Hungarian Cyclists' Club to urge officials to build further tracks for cyclists in the streets and on the roads.
10 People hold up face masks with William Shakespeare's portrait during celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death in the city of his birth, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Britain, April 23, 2016.
11 People take part in a pillow fight during a flash mob in Kyiv, Ukraine.
12 Emilia Pechinkova, a 24-years-old Bulgarian Pomak bride, is seen after the "gelina" or face painting ceremony carried out by female guests and relatives in preparation for her three-day wedding ceremony in in the village of Draginovo, 100 kms southeast of Sofia.
13 Artist Chin Chih Yang performs "Kill Me or Change" with 30,000 cans falling and burying the artist underneath a mountain of garbage, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan, April 23, 2016.
Aprile 25, 2016
1 A combination of pictures shows U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as they try the virtual reality device PMD during the opening tour of the Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany.
2 Indian Lambadi tribal villagers fill containers with drinking water from a leaking pipe on a roadside at Chandampet Mandal in Nalgonda east of Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Telangana.
3 Security personnel take a nap behind one of the halls of Auto China 2016 auto show in Beijing.
4 A veteran from Papua New Guinea wears a traditional head dress as he marches during the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) Day march through central Sydney, Australia.
5 A crow drinks water from a tap on a hot day in Ahmadabad, India. India is grappling with severe water shortages and drought affecting more than 300 million people, a quarter of the country's population. Thousands of distressed farm animals have died, and crops have perished, with rivers, lakes and ponds drying up and groundwater tables sinking.
6 A soldier patrols at Maelbeek metro station in Brussels. For the first time since the March 22 attacks, all of the Brussels metro lines are operating at full schedule again. The Maelbeek station reopened after being closed for more than a month due to the terrorist bombing that killed 16 people and wounded many more.
7 Members of the Kyrgyz special forces unit demonstrate their skills during a training exercise in Bishkek.
8 A girl types on a computer as she demonstrates the interior of the new Volvo S90 during the Auto China 2016 auto show in Beijing.
9 Blooming tulips are covered in snow on a field in Hohenschaeftlarn, southern Germany. A low pressure zone over northern and eastern Europe brought polar air with cold temperatures and snow to Bavaria.
10 This Handout photo shows giraffes investigating the police cars parked at the Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, central Germany where some 250 of the police involved in the Obama visit were staying. Obama is in Germany on the last leg of his tour of Europe and the Gulf, planning to underscore close ties with Chancellor Angela Merkel and make the case for a controversial transatlantic free trade agreement (TTIP).
11 Suraya Bara, an Indian white tiger, rests with its newly born cubs in their enclosure at Liberec Zoo, Czech Republic.
Aprile 26, 2016
1 The Moose Lodge is serving as a polling station in White Plains, Maryland. Maryland is one of five states that is holding their primary elections today.
2 Junior doctors hold placards as they take part in the start of a 48-hour strike on their picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital in London.
3 An elderly Tibetan woman, who was among those waiting to receive the Dalai Lama, gets emotional as the spiritual leader greets devotees upon arrival at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics near Dharmsala, India.
4 Syrians help a wounded youth following an air strike on the Fardous rebel held neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
5 Seattle Mariners' Kyle Seager (15) and Robinson Cano share congratulations as Ketel Marte looks on after the team beat the Houston Astros in a baseball game on April 25, 2016, in Seattle.
6 People relax after applying mud on their bodies to cool off on a hot summer day on the banks of the Kanchon Mala lake in the outskirt of Agartala, India.
7 A Serbian Orthodox pilgrim immerses himself in the waters of the Jordan River at the Qasr al-Yahud baptismal site, near the West Bank city of Jericho, as part of an Easter pilgrimage to the holy Land.
8 Commuters walk on a platform to catch a train at the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris. France's six rail unions have issued a joint call for a one-day strike that is set to disrupt local and national train traffic, but not international lines.
9 Demonstrators fall onto the ground as Turkish policemen (L) disperse a protest of pro-secular Turks outside the Parliament in Ankara.
10 Candidates, many barefoot and unable to afford running shoes, are seen tagged with chips used to record their distance, wait for their turn to run during a recruitment drive for Uttar Pradesh state police, in Allahabad, India.
11 Alexander Burinin, left, former Chernobyl liquidator, his wife Olga and grandson Georgy visit Mitino Cemetery in Moscow, Russia on the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
12 Models present creations of the Rosa Clara 2016 collection during the first day of the Barcelona Bridal Week in Barcelona.
13 This handout photo made available by Tierpark Nordhorn shows a male vulture brooding an abandoned egg at Tierpark Nordhorn Zoo, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
14 Indian employees of the Namma Metro Rail carry out inspection work near a tunnel that will connect two major parts of Bangalore.
Aprile 27, 2016
1 A worker adjusts lanterns for the upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 14 at the Bongeun temple in Seoul, South Korea.
2 Actresses playing the role of Priestesses perform during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flame in the Panathenaic Stadium, where the first modern games were held in 1896, in Athens, Greece.
3 A car passes snow-covered trees near Hofsgrund, Germany.
4 A tugboat and barge transporting NASA's only remaining space shuttle external tank, makes it through the Miraflores locks in the Panama Canal, April 26, 2016. The external tank is crossing the Panama Canal during its journey to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, as part of the Space Shuttle Endeavour display.
5 Dutch King Willem-Alexander, left, and his daughters Princess Ariane, third right, Princess Alexia, second right, and Crown Princess Catharina-Amalia, right, dance during King's Day celebrations in Zwolle, the Netherlands.
6 Visitors look at an Arcfox-7 electric sports car by Chinese automaker BAIC on display at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition.
7 A woman and a young boy cover their noses as the walk past a massive carcass of a whale at a popular California surfing spot in San Clemente, April 26, 2016.
8 Lola Webber of the Humane Society International (HSI) comforts a dog in a cage during a publicized rescue event involving the closure of a dog farm organised by HSI in Wonju, south East of Seoul, South Korea. The dogs were being transported to the U.S. The dogs in the farm, one of thousands across the country, were bred specifically for consumption and confined in their cages from birth until slaughtered for their meat.
9 Members of the Samaritan sect take part in a traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
10 A Palestinian man touches the Mandela statue during the inauguration of Nelson Mandela Square in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 26, 2016.
11 Kohei Kono of Japan and Inthanon Sithchamuang of Thailand fight during their WBA super flyweight title match in Tokyo, Japan.
12 A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policeman near the scene where two Palestinians where shot dead by Israeli forces near Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
13 People successfully flee with groceries and fuel on a boat on the Uraricoera River during Brazil’s environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state.
14 A child carries buckets of water as people wait to get drinking water from a donor's truck at a village of Dala township at outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar suffers from drought and drinking water shortages in at least 10 regions due to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
15 Indian devotees of Trikal Bhawanta casting rose petals before a burial ritual during the month-long Simhastha Kumbh Mela festival in Ujjain, some 180 km from Bhopal. Trikal Bhawanta asked her devotees to bury her alive in protest to being denied permission to take a holy dip during the Kumbh mela, a news report said.
16 A fishing squacco heron near Pusztaszer, some 140 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary
Aprile 28, 2016
1 An injured woman reacts at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria.
2 People walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
3 A ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) stands guard near approximately a dozen pyres of ivory, in Nairobi National Park. The wildlife service has stacked 105 tons of ivory consisting of 16,000 tusks, and a ton of rhino horn, from stockpiles around the country, in preparation to be torched on April 30, 2016, to encourage global efforts to help stop the poaching of elephants and rhinos.
4 A boy floats in a pond to cool off on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Kolkata, India.
5 Garbage collectors look at rescue teams (not pictured) working at the site where a massive pile of garbage collapsed at a landfill dumpsite in Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 27, 2016.
6 Anti-frost candles burn in a vineyard in Flaesch, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Due to unseasonally low temperatures, wine growers are attempting to protect their grape shoots with additional warmth from the anti-frost candles.
7 Women observing religious rites light fires next to graves in the village of Copaciu, southern Romania, ahead of Orthodox Easter, celebrated this year on May 1.
8 The laser light installation 'Global Rainbow - Peace Will Win' by Puerto Rican-born artist Yvette Mattern, beams seven rays of the colors of the rainbow past the 'Siegessaeule' (Victory Column) in Berlin, Germany, 27 April 2016.
9 Volkswagen cars are presented to media inside a delivery tower prior to the company's annual press conference in Wolfsburg, Germany.
10 A 23-day-old hamadryas baboon plays with a stuffed toy at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens in the southern city of Mysuru, India. The baboon, was abandoned by its mother after its birth on April 4, according to a zoo vet.
11 A man operates machinery holding material to make compost, at the Highline Mushroom Farm, Canada's largest mushroom grower, in Leamington, Ontario.
12 The pack in action during the second stage, over 173.9 km between Moudon and Morgins during the 70th Tour de Romandie UCI ProTour cycling race in Morgins, Switzerland.
13 A member of the Australian ballet performs in the scene from "Scent of the Love" during the dress rehearsal for the national premiere of Symphony in C that comprises five short ballet works at the Opera House in Sydney.
14 A Russian Soyuz 2.1A rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites, lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kms from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia.
Aprile 29, 2016
1 A veteran's motorcycle club hold flags outside a memorial service for U.S. Marine Cpl. Christopher Orlando at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Hingham, Massachusetts. Orlando and 11 other Marines died Jan. 14 in a midair collision of two helicopters during a nighttime training mission off Hawaii's coast.
2 A sentence is written in the mud at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni. Some 54,000 people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have been stranded on Greek territory since the closure of the migrant route through the Balkans in February.
3 Workers demonstrate in Buenos Aires against government cuts in public expenditure and jobs. Argentina's President Mauricio Macri faces mass street protests after major labor unions vow to demonstrate against job cuts imposed under his economic reforms.
4 A former circus lion peers from inside a cage transporting it to South Africa, at the port of Callao, Peru. Thirty-three lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are heading back to their homeland to live in a private sanctuary. The operation is the largest ever airlift of lions, organized and paid for by Animal Defenders International (ADI).
5 Orthodox Christian worshippers hold crosses before a procession along the Via Dolorosa on Good Friday during Holy Week in Jerusalem's Old City.
6 The Olympic flame is transported by a rowing boat of the Lausanne-Sport on Lake Leman before arriving at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
7 A referee puts an ogre mask to make a baby, being held by a college sumo wrestler, cry to win in the Naki Sumo, or crying baby contest at Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo. The babies participated in the annual traditional ritual performed as a prayer for healthy growth.
8 A taxi driver prepares to take part in a slow convoy in Lisbon, Portugal to protest against cab giant Uber, which they accuse of illegally undercutting their business. Between 3,000-4,000 cabbies were participating, according to two industry bodies organizing the protest.
9 A Kashmiri Muslim protester jumps in the air to avoid stones thrown at him by Indian police during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Government forces fired tear gas and pellet guns to stop rock-throwing Kashmiri youths after Friday prayers.
10 Students play Chinese chess during a school competition in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.
11 People play on a beach along the Arabian Sea on a hot summer day in Mumbai, India.
12 A Sri Lankan man waters his vegetable garden cultivated on the banks of river Kelani in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Many Sri Lankans living in urban areas maintain kitchen gardens for their daily consumption.
13 Emirati girls in traditional outfit, usually worn in their village by elderly women, look on during the al-Gharbia Watersports festival near al-Mirfa beach outside Abu Dhabi.
14 A woman crosses a landscape covered with yellow flowers as the sun sets on a spring day in Unzue, near Pamplona, northern Spain, April 28, 2016.
