1/30 26 April 2016

Iraqi supporters of the Sadrist movement hold national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration to press for reforms outside Baghdad's Green Zone

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2/30 26 April 2016

Syrians help a wounded youth following an air strike on the Fardous rebel held neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo

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3/30 26 April 2016

Palestinian students supporting Hamas take part in a rally during an election campaign for the student council at the Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah

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4/30 26 April 2016

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5/30 25 April 2016

Egyptian riot police fire tear gas towards protesters as they demonstrate in Cairo against the handing over of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia

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6/30 25 April 2016

A member of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) stand guard at the military site in Juba, after the arrival of new troops and their chief of staff. Rebel spokesman William Ezekiel said that 195 troops landed along with South Sudan's top rebel military commander Simon Gatwech Dual, to provide security for Machar, who he said hoped to return on 26 April

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7/30 25 April 2016

A woman works at a factory using traditional method to produce soy sauce in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, China

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8/30 25 April 2016

A doctor carries a child as refugees disembark from the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) vessel at Pozzallo's harbour in Sicily, Italy

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9/30 25 April 2016

A pilot looks up from a U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter as it prepares to refuel in mid-air with a KC-135 refuelling plane over European airspace during a flight to Britain from Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania

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10/30 25 April 2016

A man jumps into Tolly's Nullah to cool off on a hot day in Kolkata, India

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11/30 24 April 2016

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (not pictured) guides on the spot the underwater test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile
12/30 24 April 2016

People perform yoga at a tea culture park to promote the tea there, in Enshi, China
13/30 24 April 2016

Dancers perform a lion dance under a shower of sparks from molten iron during a folk art performance in Pinglu county, China
14/30 24 April 2016

Nepalese people lit candles to create the shape of historic nine-storey Dharara tower and Kasthamandap temple to mark the first anniversary of the 2015 earthquakes at Bashantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal
15/30 24 April 2016

At dusk the blast furnaces are lit up at the now-closed Bethlehem Steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After Bethlehem Steel's blast furnaces went silent 20 years ago, the local economy bounced back as new industrial parks filled with e-commerce companies and white-collar businesses fleeing New York's higher costs
16/30 23 April 2016

Syrian civil defence volunteers evacuate people from a damaged building following a reported airstrike in the rebel-held neighbourhood of Tareeq al-Bab in the northern city of Aleppo
17/30 23 April 2016

A Syrian family run in a forest in Macedonia after illegally crossing Greek-Macedonian border near the city of Gevgelija. Some 50,000 people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have been stranded in Greece since the closure of the migrant route through the Balkans in February
18/30 23 April 2016

"Solar Impulse 2", a solar-powered plane piloted by Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland, flies over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, before landing on Moffett Airfield following a 62-hour flight from Hawaii
19/30 23 April 2016

Electric energy generating wind turbines are seen on a wind farm in the San Gorgonio Pass area on Earth Day, near Palm Springs, California. San Gorgonio Pass is one of the largest wind farm areas in the United States
20/30 22 April 2016

South Korea railway workers struggle to put a derailed passenger train back on track in the southern port city of Yeosu. The train derailed, leaving the locomotive driver dead and eight passengers injured
21/30 22 April 2016

A Hindu holy man displays his hair after taking a dip in the waters of the river Shipra during the Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Ujjain, India
22/30 22 April 2016

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays before burning leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover
23/30 21 April 2016

Israeli workers place a new section of Israel's separation concrete barrier in the Cremisan Valley, adjacent to the Christian Palestinian town of Beit Jala, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The original route of the barrier was slated to separate the Cremisan monastery from the neighbouring convent and vineyards but following a Palestinian appeal Israels High court issued two separate rulings in 2015 ordering the government to consider alternative routes while allowing work to continue on the segment of the barrier not directly impacting the monastery and the convent
24/30 21 April 2016
25/30 21 April 2016

Sixty-year-old villager Guo Leiting, flies his home-made helicopter in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China
26/30 21 April 2016

Fishermen eat on the beach with Queen Elizabeth II projected on the Rock of Gibraltar in background to mark her 90th birthday
27/30 21 April 2016

Shinto priests holding traditional umbrellas walk to the main shrine for a ritual to cleanse themselves during the annual Spring Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan
28/30 21 April 2016

Government forces surrender themselves to Kurdish fighters in the city of Qamishli, Syria
29/30 20 April 2016

Camels are seen during an off-road mapping recognition excercise ahead of the Silk Way Rally 2016 in the Gobi desert, some 2,000kms (1,100 Miles) northwest of Beijing
30/30 20 April 2016

Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) rangers pile up elephant ivory onto a pyre, at Nairobi's national park in preparation for a historic burning of tonnes of ivory, rhino-horn and other confiscated wildlife trophies. Kenya on 30 April 2016 will burn approximately 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory, almost all of the country's total stockpile

sport

Football

Dortmund open to re-signing Liverpool target Gotze

Jürgen Klopp is rumoured to be interested in a reunion with the 23-year-old midfielder

Rugby union

Carter closes on clean sweep as Racing reach final

Leicester Tigers 16 Racing 19: Maxime Machenaud's try and the boot of Carter ensures Anglo-French rivalry will resume in the European Champions Cup final

Voices

Kehinde Andrews The problem with 'no platforming' isn't what you think

Joe Anderson Finally the city of Liverpool has justice

It’s no exaggeration to say there can’t be many families across Liverpool without a friend or relative who was there that day

culture

Film

Code 8: The anti-superhero movie that's crowdfunded $1.7 million

Instead of being billionaire superheroes, most ‘specials’ live in poverty and resort to crime

Music

Beyoncé's Lemonade film and the uneven history of the visual album

Visual albums tend to be an afterthought, pegged on to deluxe editions or re-releases - until now.

tv & radio

Game of Thrones season 6 episode 2 & 3 titles and plot synopses

We'll see the return of Bran and some new Greyjoys

books

J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts screenplay to be published

It will initially be released as an eBook via website Pottermore

lifestyle

Fashion

A singular label and a seductive vision power fashion’s best

The age of the multi-line fashion behemoth may be closing. These days, a succinct message and a single name seems to bring home the bacon, says Alexander Fury