Today in Pictures, April 15, 2025
People picking flowers in a field near the Israel-Gaza border, a massive dust storm in Iraq, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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People picking buttercup flowers in a field near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel, on April 14, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
US singer Katy Perry kissing the ground upon returning to earth after a flight on Blue Origin New Shepard NS-31, which brought the passengers beyond the Karman line — the internationally recognised boundary of space — in Van Horn, West Texas, on April 14, 2025. Five other women were on the flight.
PHOTO: AFP
Indigenous people gathered in a circle performing a collective hug before the opening of the Alvaraes Indigenous Intercultural Games and Dances, held at Marajai Village, in Alvaraes, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, on April 14, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Motorists driving their vehicles through low visibility conditions as a massive dust storm advances on Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province on April 14, 2025. Around 1,500 people were sent to hospitals with respiratory problems on April 14 as a storm hit central and southern Iraq, health officials said.
PHOTO: AFP
Workers carrying solar panels to be installed in the desert at the Ningguoyun Lingwu 1 million kilowatt photovoltaic project in Lingwu, in China’s northern Ningxia region, on April 14, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Ukrainian emergency workers searching through the rubble at the site of a missile attack in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, on April 14, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Russian missile strike on April 13 on the Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 34 people, the authorities said, as European and US leaders condemned one of the deadliest attacks in months. Two ballistic missiles hit the centre of the north-eastern city, close to the Russian border, the Ukrainian authorities said.
PHOTO: AFP
The coffin of former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in the main hall of the National Mosque during his state funeral in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 15, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A crowd packs Triana Bridge as people gather to watch the San Gonzalo brotherhood crossing during the Holy Monday procession in Seville on April 14, 2025. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
PHOTO: AFP
A newborn Malayan tapir calf (Tapirus indicus), born on March 29 at the Bioparc zoo in Fuengirola. The baby tapir was born after 13 months of gestation and is the first of this endangered species to be born in Spain.
PHOTO: AFP
