Today in Pictures, May 4, 2022

Residents use hoses to collect drinking water from a tanker truck during a hot summer day in New Delhi, Fossil of an ammonite is embedded in the new pavement of a shopping area in Bangkok and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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May 04, 2022, 04:55 PM

Residents use hoses to collect drinking water from a tanker truck during a hot summer day in New Delhi on May 3, 2022. PHOTO: AFP

The fossil of an ammonite is embedded in the new pavement of a shopping area in Bangkok on May 3, 2022. - Experts from Thailand's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment told AFP on May 3 it had verified dozens of fossil structures found on a shopping street in Bangkok, laid down apparently as decorations by the building contractors, were the genuine remains of ammonites -- marine mollusc animals that emerged in the fossil record some 400 million years ago, until their extinction around 66 million years ago. PHOTO: AFP

Monks dust Buddha statues at Jogye Temple in downtown Seoul, South Korea, 04 May 2022, ahead of the Buddha's birth anniversary. Buddhists in several parts of the world prepare to celebrate Gautama Buddha's upcoming birthday on 08 May 2022. PHOTO: EPA

Riders crash as they cross the finish line during the 161 km between Dunkirk and Aniche, first stage of the "4 jours de Dunkerque" (Four days of Dunkirk) cycling race, in Aniche northern France, on May 3, 2022. - Dutch rider Arvid de Kleijn (Human Powered Health) was declared winner of the first stage of the Four Days of Dunkerque on May 3, 2022 in Aniche, after Australian rider Sam Welsford was dropped. Welsford (Team DSM) was the first to cross the line, but was considered responsible for the crash that sent Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Soudal) and Daniel McLay (Arkea Samsic) to the ground. PHOTO: AFP

A vendor sells merchandising during the traditional "Alasitas" fair, in the city of Puno in the southern highlands of Peru, on May 3, 2022. - Bolivians celebrate the 'Alasitas' festival, which in Aymara language means "buy me," in which people buy miniature miniature cars, furniture, food -- pretty much anything -- representing their hopes for the coming year. PHOTO: AFP

People gathering on the beach as Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain at 3,776 meters (12,388 feet), is seen from Shonan Kaigan Park in Fujisawa, south of Tokyo, during the "golden week" holiday. PHOTO: AFP

People stand next to the carcasses of dead sheep in the village of Hargududo, 80 kilometers from the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 07, 2022. - There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia. The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa for 40 years is pushing 20 million people towards starvation, according to the UN, destroying an age-old way of life and leaving many children suffering from severe malnutrition as it rips families apart. PHOTO: AFP

A couple photographs damage in a neighborhood destroyed by previous fighting in Irpin, Ukraine, May 3, 2022. PHOTO: The New York Times

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