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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 boy removes oil spilled on Itapuama beach, in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho.
- A woman walks in front of a damaged Talbots store after a tornado struck on Sunday night
- Newspaper front pages replicate a heavily redacted government document, alongside an advertising campaign challenging laws that in effect criminalise journalism and whistleblowing
- People enjoy 27C weather in the coastal zone of the Greek capital
- Nasa astronauts Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch inside the Quest airlock, preparing the spacesuits and tools they will use on their first spacewalk to replace a failed power controller
- The anti-Brexit group Led By Donkeys spells out their message in a field near Swindon
- Farmworkers demonstrate against the government’s accusations of the farming industry being the cause of atmospheric pollution via gases emitted from their farms.
- Farmers block the road with their tractors near the headquarters of the the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in a protest against nitrogen policies
- Protesters read mock-up newspapers as they block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank
- Autumn colours at a poplar forest in Inner Mongolia
- Floods in Nagano prefecture after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan provoking landslides and overflowing rivers
- A 40ft sperm whale is spotted off the coast of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland
- An aerial view of geese in Sihong County
- An officer measures a whale shark carcass on Teluk Betung beach
- Hoarfrost on a faded sunflower on a sunny morning
- A Moroccan addict stands in a cemetery overlooking Tetouan. Heroin use is a relatively recent development that is growing exponentially
- Turtles warm themselves by sitting on a tree branch in a park
- Sri Lankans pray in the street near St Anthony’s Shrine one week on from the attacks that killed over 250 people on Easter Sunday
- More than two thousand people gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral to pray for victims of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka
- Firearms are displayed at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Indianapolis
- A field of suitcases is arranged at the Central Customs Stadium, the dog training centre of the federal customs service
- Plastic waste floats in a sewage canal
- Children play near the port. Despite the war on the capital’s doorstep, many residents are trying to carry on with life as best they can
- Elizabeth Olsen, left, poses for a selfie with fans as she arrives at the premiere of Avengers: Endgame at the Los Angeles Convention Center
- Sri Lanka told of extremist network months before blasts – sources
- A mourner is supported during a mass funeral at St Sebastian’s Catholic church following the attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Remote-controlled machines begin dismantling a cooling tower at the Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power station on the banks of the Rhine
- 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.
- Children queue for food at an evacuation centre in Dondo, Mozambique
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Amazon rainforest ‘close to irreversible tipping point’
- Cricketers call off strike as BCB accepts demands
- Katrina Kaif always wanted to start make-up brand
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- Hubble gives astronomers best look at interstellar comet
