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Buzi, Mozambique: Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, six, under plastic sheets at a shelter, after Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique last week Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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- A mourner is supported during a mass funeral at St Sebastian’s Catholic church following the attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday
- Sri Lanka bombings: Islamic State claims responsibility for attacks
- Protesters hit the railings of a bridge with stones during a protest near the military headquarters in the capital
- People dress up as colourful versions of Roman soldiers as they celebrate Easter Sunday
- Sri Lanka imposes curfew after at least 207 killed in attacks
- Photographers on the red carpet at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Moscow International Film Festival at the Rossiya Theatre
- A woman swims in the sea in front of Perch Rock lighthouse
- Smoke rises from the debris of the Bingxiong refrigeration company building, which was demolished on Thursday
- Indian paramilitary soldiers push their bus out of the mud at a polling equipment distribution centre. Elections for the Srinagar constituency are scheduled for this week
- Activated in March 2018, the Yamakura dam floating solar power plant is the largest of its type in Japan. It was constructed on the surface of the Yamakura dam reservoir and generates enough electricity to power nearly 5,000 households
- Vine growers use anti-frost candles to protect the young vines
- A worker tends to fermentation barrels, part of the traditional manufacture of soy sauce
- An Iraqi civil defence member displays a human skull from an unearthed mass grave of Kurds
- Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction
- The scene after a domestic Summit Air aircraft and a helicopter crashed at Lukla airport
- People are seen behind soap bubbles created by a street artist in front of the Brandenburg Gate
- A girl stands near flood waters in the village of Bamdezh. Residents have been relocated to a freight train by the authorities after their houses were surrounded by flood
- The owner of the so-called Flintstone’s House in an affluent suburb of San Francisco is being sued by the town over claims that the outdoor installations were installed without permits.
- A girl walks an Akita dog dressed in a military uniform
- Yinka Shonibare with his work, The British Library, at Tate Modern, the latest artwork to be acquired by Tate
- People light candles during a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro stadium as part of the 25th commemoration of the 1994 genocide
- Supporters of Malawi’s DPP ruling party dance during the official launch of its manifesto and election campaign at Kamuzu Institute for Sports ahead of next months elections.
- Two stray dogs walk along a railway line located in the Siberian Taiga forest.
- Houthi female supporters attend a rally commemorating the anniversary of the killing of founder of the Houthi movement, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi. The founder of the Houthi movement, Hussein al-Houthi was killed in the 2004 conflict between the Shiite Houthi fighters and the former regime of president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
- Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a Liberal Party caucus meeting on Parliament Hill i
- A giant Buddha reopens to the public after renovation in Leshan, Sichuan province. Standing 71 metres, it is believed to be the world’s tallest stone Buddha statue
- Get your style quotient right as per your zodiac sign. Take cue from Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone
- Remote-controlled machines begin dismantling a cooling tower at the Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power station on the banks of the Rhine
- A volunteer demonstrates a method of torture known as ‘Pau de Arara’ in memory of the dead, disappeared, tortured and political prisoners by the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964 – 1985), during an event organized by the NGO Rio de Paz , in front of the Museum of Art
- A collage by the artist JR is unveiled in the courtyard of the Louvre to mark the 30th birthday of the museum’s glass pyramid.
- Workers at an event organised by the Gujarat Federation of Trade Unions to demand better pay and conditions
- A supporter at a campaign rally of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto
- Rachel Turnbull, an English Heritage conservator, with Madonna of the Pomegranate, long thought to have been a fake but recently confirmed as from the workshop of Botticelli
- A customer goes shoe shopping
- Children queue for food at an evacuation centre in Dondo, Mozambique
- Churchill’s policies contributed to 1943 Bengal famine – study
- Christchurch memorial: standing ovation for Ardern at New Zealand service
- Fog smothers skyscrapers over the city in the eastern province of Zhejiang
- Kumbh Mela: cleaning up after the world’s largest human gathering
- High-rise fire in Dhaka prompts people to jump from building
- No more distortion of history
- An aerial view of flooding in northern Iran. State TV said villages near rivers and dams in several provinces had been evacuated for fear of rising water after days of torrential rain
- The Venezuelan artist Deborah Castillo licks the boots of a man dressed as a soldier during her performance Lamebrasil, Lamezuela – Questioning Power in Latin America
- US President Donald Trump holds up a signed Proclamation on the Golan Heights alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House. US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights, a border area seized from Syria in 1967.
- Hanaa Ahmad Ali Bahr, a malnourished girl sits on her father’s lap in a shanty town
- Cars piled up after a flash flood in the southern city. The provinces of Fars, Kurdistan, Qom and Isfahan are also on alert for imminent flooding
- Shattered glass covers shoes left on the seat of a car that was damaged after a rocket hit a house north of the city
- A ‘super bloom’ of wildflowers covers the hills around Diamond Valley Lake
- Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, six, under plastic sheets at a shelter, after Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique
- Cruise ship Viking Sky drifts during storm conditions off the west coast of Norway
- Artists Lukas Janusauskos (left) and Patrick McCrossen with their cardboard sculpture of Atlas
- A crab stuck in a plastic bag floats in Verde Island Passage near Batangas Bay
- A journalist livestreams using multiple devices outside the Great Hall of the People
- Chelsea moves into top 4 after draw with Burnley
- Teen ‘gang-raped’ in Keraniganj; 6 held
- Expatriates’ welfare is govt’s responsibility
- Global warming shrank Indian economy by 31%: Study
- Parents using both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes are more motivated to quit
