Today in Pictures, April 7, 2025
Watermelon season in Pakistan, aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Customers buying watermelons at a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 7, 2025. In Pakistan, watermelon season typically runs from April to September, with the peak harvest and availability occurring during the summer months, especially from June to August.
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A damaged Buddha statue is pictured in the ancient city of Inn Wa on the outskirts of Mandalay, Myanmar, on April 6, 2025, following the devastating March 28 earthquake. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened buildings across the nation, killing more than 3,400 people and making thousands more homeless.
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A participant igniting a tree-trunk cannon to create an explosive sound using carbide and water during the Kuluwung Festival, a two-day traditional sound battle held annually between two villages on opposite sides of a river in Balekambang, West Java, Indonesia, on April 5, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Ladies Day fashions on display on the second day of the Grand National Festival horse race meeting at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, north-west England, on April 4, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
McLaren fans cheering as they hold cardboard cutouts of McLaren's Australian driver Oscar Piastri and British driver Lando Norris ahead of the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit in Suzuka, Japan, on April 6, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A resident carrying a woman as others wade through floodwaters in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 6, 2025. Heavy downpours in Kinshasa have left around 30 people dead while wreaking havoc in the central African megacity.
PHOTO: AFP
Participants taking part in the 31st Pyongyang International Marathon in Pyongyang on April 6, 2025, as part of celebrations marking the birth of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung in 1912. The last edition of the marathon was held in 2019 before the pandemic, during which the nuclear-armed state sealed its borders in an effort to contain the virus.
PHOTO: AFP
This aerial view showing the damage left by a tornado in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, on April 6, 2025. Violent storms battering the central-eastern US have killed at least 16 people, officials said.
PHOTO: AFP
