Today in Pictures, April 9, 2026
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, a firefighting robot in Singapore, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A fireball rising from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Abbasiyeh, on the outskirts of Tyre, Lebanon, April 8.
PHOTO: AFP
Rescuers working at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, April 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Children who fled their homes after Israeli evacuation orders playing by their tents at their makeshift encampment in Beirut, Lebanon, April 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Locals watching as people retrieve belongings from a partially sunken houseboat after it developed a hole, along the banks of the Jhelum River in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, April 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Children holding the hose for a firefighting robot during RoboFest 2026 at the Science Centre Singapore, April 9.
ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
Visitors posing for pictures amongst tulips in bloom grown for Tulleys Tulip Fest at Tulleys Farm, West Sussex, Britain, April 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A member of Aceh's Sharia police wielding a rattan stick during a public flogging in Banda Aceh on April 7. A couple was publicly flogged in Indonesia's staunchly Islamic Aceh province on April 7 for having sex outside of marriage, in the country's only region to apply a version of Sharia law.
AFP
A woman sitting on a wooden chaise lounge at the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria in Virginia, US, April 8.
PHOTO: REUTERS
