1/30 11 April 2016

A boy and an elephant splash each other with water during the celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailand's Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok
2/30 11 April 2016

Members of Malaysia's Civil Defence Force pose with a python, that they estimated to be 7.5m (24.6 ft) long and 250kg (551 pounds) in weight, caught near a construction site in Paya Terubong, Penang
3/30 11 April 2016

A man sleeps on a girder between the two pillars of a bridge on the Sabarmati river during a hot day in Ahmedabad, India
4/30 10 April 2016

An Indian survivor is treated at a hospital following a fire at the Puttingal Devi Temple in Paravur. A massive fire swept through a temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala, killing more than 100 people and injuring at least 280 after thousands gathered to watch a fireworks display
5/30 10 April 2016

A refugee carries a fellow injured man during clashes with Macedonian police next to a border fence at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece
6/30 10 April 2016

People jump off a bridge, which has a height of 30 meters, in Hortolandia, Brazil. According to organizers, 149 people were attempting set a new world record for "rope jumping", in which people, tied to a safety cord, jump off a bridge
7/30 10 April 2016

Thousands of runners are seen during a long exposure crossing the Reichsbrucke bridge over the Danube river, during the Vienna City Marathon in Austria. This year, around 42 thousand participants were estimated to take part at the Vienna Marathon
8/30 10 April 2016

Two men waiving life jackets next to a large sign "Help" made of palm leaves as a US Navy P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft spotted them on the deserted island of Fanadik in Micronesia. The US military said it has helped rescue three stranded men from a deserted Pacific island, after the shipmen used palm fronds to spell the word "HELP" and held up lifejackets. Navy airplane crew members spotted the survivors and shared their location with relatives as well as with ships in Guam. A small boat then picked the men up and took them to Pulap in Micronesia
9/30 9 April 2016

Members of the sect of Legio Maria (Latin for Legion of Mary) attend the funeral service for one of the sects founders, Cardenal Wilson Oweno Obimos, in the western Kenya town of Kisumu. Legio Maria also known as Legio Maria of African Church Mission, is an African initiated church or new religious movement popular among particularly the Luo people of western Kenya. It was initiated by repeated appearances of a mystic woman to several Roman Catholic members delivering messages on the incarnation of the son of God as a black man
10/30 9 April 2016

Ethnic Yao minority women brush their long hair as part of a performance during the local Long Hair Festival, to celebrate the third day of the third lunar month which is regarded as a traditional festival for many ethnic minorities in Huangluo village of Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. More than 80 women in the village have hair longer than 1.4 metres, with the longest reaching 2.3 metres, according to local media
11/30 9 April 2016

A woman carries a flags and fork as she walks with her children in the center of eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, after marking the second anniversary of the proclamation of the so called People's Republic of Donetsk. Some 10 000 of the people took part in the march and in the the rally in the center of the city
12/30 9 April 2016

Syrian children run with balloons past heavily damaged buildings in the neighborhood of Jobar, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus
13/30 9 April 2016

French high school students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Marseille
14/30 9 April 2016

A paramilitary policeman looks on as a performer waits before a memorial ceremony for the Yellow Emperor, or Huangdi, in Xinzheng, in China's Henan province. The Yellow Emperor, said to have lived around 5000 years ago, is considered the founder of the nation and the ancestor of all Chinese people, according to myth and some historical accounts
15/30 8 April 2016

Mexican soldiers take part in an operation to destroy a poppy plantation in the mountains in the municipality of Zirandaro, Guerrero State. Mexico suffers from a fierce dispute between drug cartels who fight over turf and trafficking routes to the United States
16/30 8 April 2016

Spanish matador Morante de la Puebla performs a pass with capote on a bull during a bullfight at the Maestranza bullring, in Sevilla
17/30 8 April 2016

Northern Lights seen near the town of Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
18/30 8 April 2016

A Russian army sapper works in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
19/30 8 April 2016

Newly-released political student protester and family members cry after being reunited in Tharrawaddy town, Bago Region. A Myanmar court in nearby Tharrawaddy town freed dozens of jailed students, in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged that the release of activists and political prisoners would be the first priority of her new government
20/30 7 April 2016

Kashmiri Muslim women mourn during the funeral of Waseem Ahmad Malla, a suspected militant, in Pehlipora village in Shopian district in south Kashmir. Two suspected militants, one of whom was Malla, were killed during a gunbattle with Indian security forces in Shopian
21/30 7 April 2016

Ethnic Armenian soldiers stand next to a cannon at artillery positions near the Nagorno-Karabakh's town of Martuni. Armenia’s president has warned an outbreak of fighting in the region could lead to full-scale war, as a third day of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenian-backed separatists has seen soldiers killed on both sides, in the most intense violence in the area in years
22/30 7 April 2016

Students from a martial art school attends a training session as they perform Shaolin Kung Fu and other practices in Dengfeng, Henan Province, China
23/30 7 April 2016

A pro-police supporter yells while protesters charged with rioting during the Mong Kok protests arrive to court in Hong Kong. Protesters appeared in court again over rioting after officials tried to clear illegal street hawkers from the busy commercial neighbourhood of Mong Kok on Lunar New Year
24/30 7 April 2016

A Swiss guard stands guard at the Vatican
25/30 7 April 2016

A man shoulders a coffin with the remains of a loved one who was slain more than two decades ago by Shining Path rebels, as he walks to the cemetery for a group burial service, in Ccano, a village in the Huanta area of Ayachcuo department, Peru. Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori's base of support is in places like Ccano, where promises to build roads, clinics and schools recall her agronomist father's own legacy of delivering aid to the long-overlooked countryside
26/30 6 April 2016

A Bangladeshi woman collects arsenic-tainted water from a tube-well in Khirdasdi village, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report estimates that some 20 million Bangladeshis are still being poisoned by arsenic-tainted groundwater drawn from government wells. Arsenic is a naturally occurring and toxic element found in the soil and groundwater of some areas of the world, including vast delta regions like in eastern India and Bangladesh, where rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal
27/30 6 April 2016

A Bahraini woman sits watching flags during the funeral of Ali Abdulghani, 17, whose family says died of injuries suffered in a police chase, in the Shiite village of Shahrakkan, south of Manama
28/30 6 April 2016

A woman walks in a yard where tea leaves are dried at a tea company in Dening, Fujian Province, China
29/30 6 April 2016

A child sits in a tent at dusk at the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border village of Idomeni. A plan to send back refugees from Greece to Turkey sparked demonstrations by local residents in both countries days before the deal brokered by the European Union is set to be implemented
30/30 5 April 2016

Pink flamingos stand on the mud flats at the Ras al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary with the Dubai skyline in the background, on the outskirts of the city

sport

Football

Vardy reveals collectivism central to 'The Leicester City Method'

The collective is more important than the individual at the King Power Stadium

Rugby union

Toulon stunned as Machenaud kicks champions into touch to end reign

Racing Metro 16 Toulon 12: Machenaud took over kicking duties after Dan Carter suffered injury to eliminate three-time champions Toulon from the European Champions Cup

Voices

Sunny Hundal Zac Goldsmith's questionable relationship with Imran Khan

Editorial Inter-Muslim faith a small issue compared to intolerance of Muslims

The discovery of a hate literature against Ahmadi Muslims at a London mosque is chilling, but it does not infer the emergence of an internecine war in Britain

culture

Film

Captain America: Civil War almost featured The Wasp

The character made it into one of the drafts

Music

Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo has set a new album chart record

It is the first album to top the Billboard 200 with over half of its units coming from streams

tv & radio

Game of Thrones season 6 opening credits features Kit Harrington's nam

Or perhaps it is because he appears as a corpse

books

60 everyday words and phrases you never knew came from Shakespeare

Ever found yourself hungover after 'too much of a good thing' or been left 'in stitches' at a joke? Shakespeare's influence is still widespread today

lifestyle

Fashion

Breaking ground

Florals are a tried, tested but somewhat tired fashion trope – but not this season, as all manners of designers give them all manners of makeovers. Alexander Fury plucks the best of the bunch of the season’s reimagined blooms

Food & drink

A Hackney restaurant is tackling prejudice against refugees

Kashmira Gander talks to the women behind Mazi Mas, a Hackney restaurant that is staffed entirely by refugee and migrant women

travel

Ride the rails in style: 5 new train journeys

From a new bullet train line in Japan to added stops on the Trans-Siberian, there’s never been a better time to see the world in luxury

Design

Hidden steam-bent timber extension wins over planners - and adds £600k

Securing permission to add a two-storey extension to a Victorian house in a south London conservation area required a lot of imagination - and curved timber.