The World Coal Carrying Championships in England, damage from an earthquake in Taiwan, a destroyed hospital in the Gaza Strip, a beekeeper at work in Ukraine, cherry tree blossoms in Germany, an appearance of the Easter bunny at the White House, rally racing in Kenya, flooding in west-central France, and much more
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Dancers perform during auditions to become a Radio City Rockette at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 3, 2024. #
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Maximilian Günther of Maserati MSG Racing celebrates his win on the podium during the Formula E Tokyo E-Prix on March 30, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. #
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People reach their arms through the bars of a fence around a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Good Friday, March 29, 2024. #
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Rows of submerged poplar trees are seen as the Vienne River floods in Chinon, France, on April 1, 2024. More than a hundred people were evacuated from their homes in Indre-et-Loire and Vienne, and a kayaker was reported missing in Haute-Vienne, following heavy river flooding in west-central France. #
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Visitors pose in front of a tulip field at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar on April 3, 2024. #
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A farmer pollinates pear blossoms in an orchard in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, China, on April 1, 2024. #
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Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin compete during Day Two of the FIA World Rally Championship Kenya on March 29, 2024, in Naivasha, Kenya. #
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Drones carry out a coordinated spraying operation in a wheat field in Binzhou city, in China's Shandong province, on April 1, 2024. #
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Kite flyers and fans take part in the Blossom Kite Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2024. #
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Yuri Ponurenko tends to his beehives in the Ukrainian village of Bohorodychne as fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues in Donetsk Oblast, on March 30, 2024. Yuri has stayed through most of the fighting in the former frontline village which changed hands 13 times. He now lives in his absent neighbors home after his was destroyed. #
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A periodical cicada nymph is held in Macon, Georgia, on March 27, 2024. This periodical cicada nymph was found while digging holes for rosebushes. Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries. #
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A child participates in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn on April 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C. #
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The Easter bunny makes a guest appearance in the White House briefing room in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2024. #
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Fletcher, a white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, has been trained by French falconer Jacques-Olivier Travers at "Les Aigles du Leman" park, a raptor aviary and reintroduction center in Sciez, Haute-Savoie, France, seen on March 28, 2024. #
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A stork flies to its nest on cliffs high above the Atlantic Ocean in Cabo Sardao, Portugal, on March 29, 2024. #
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Local residents ride past a damaged building following a violent earthquake in Hualien City, Taiwan, on April 4, 2024. At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured by a powerful earthquake that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings as far as Japan and the Philippines. #
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A picture shows the destruction in the dialysis unit of Gaza's devastated Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024, two days after the Israeli military withdrew from the hospital complex amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. #
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An effigy representing "the abuser" is burned during the traditional "burning of Judas," the biblical figure who supposedly betrayed Jesus, during Easter celebrations in El Cementerio, Caracas, Venezuela, on March 31, 2024. #
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A boy dressed in a hay suit walks through a village as part of an Easter celebration called "Marching Judas" in the village of Stradoun near Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, on March 30, 2024. #
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A model presenting creations by Arjun Putra checks her makeup backstage during Indonesia Fashion Week at the Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 31, 2024. #
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A woman poses by "Leaf Spirit" by Simon Gudgeon at the Form 24 show at Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorchester, England, on April 2, 2024. #
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Cherry trees bloom along the Old Town, in Bonn's Cherry Blossom Alley, on March 31, 2024, in Bonn, Germany. #
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People walk through rolling hills of wildflowers following a wet and rainy winter in Chula Vista, California, on April 2, 2024. #
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A farmer looks at flattened wheat crops following heavy rain and strong wind, at a field on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, on March 30, 2024. #
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A view of "Oasis," the control center for Kalyon Solar Power Plant, which monitors the solar electricity generation data of more than 3.5 million panels, in the Karapınar district of Konya, Turkey, on April 2, 2024. The outer surface of the building is inspired by different solar panel designs, and the cover materials prevent the interior of the building from overheating. #
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An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic solar panels in Yinchuan, in China's Ningxia region, on March 31, 2024. #
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Low clouds cover the landscape below the Shijiazhai Interchange Bridge in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province, China, on March 29, 2024. #
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The sun rises behind the Statue of Liberty and the skyline of Brooklyn in New York City on March 30, 2024, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. #
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Raad al-Ghalibi, an inhabitant of the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, in Dhi Qar province, sails home on his boat to prepare the Iftar fast-breaking meal on April 2, 2024, during the month of Ramadan. Ghalibi lived in the marshland with his family and raised buffaloes, but because of the drought in recent years, he sent his family to live in a more hospitable area in the country and remained in the marshland with his brother to look after his cattle. #
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A herd of wild Asian elephants bathe at Khamrenga wetland in Thakurkuchi village, outskirts of Guwahati, India, on April 1, 2024. #
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Milton Doyle and Will Magnay of the JackJumpers pour a bucket of water over Scott Roth, their head coach, after winning game five of the National Basketball League Championship Grand Final Series between Melbourne United and Tasmania JackJumpers at John Cain Arena, on March 31, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. #
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Competitors race during the World Coal Carrying Championships in Gawthorpe, England, April 1, 2024. #
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Muslim worshippers perform prayer rituals on Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny), one of the holiest nights during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, at the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighborhood, on April 3, 2024. #
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An aerial view of a stand of dawn redwood trees in Haihong Wetland Park in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, on March 30, 2024. #
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Visitors walk in a field of nemophila flowers on Miharashi no Oka Hill at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, on April 2, 2024. #
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