Helsinki, Finland: Figure skaters perform during the opening ceremony at the ice hockey world championships
Cairo, Egypt: Protesters take shelter during
clashes with police outside the Ministry of Defence weeks ahead of
presidential elections
Montana, US: Nate Cummins rides the night before the 'super moon' during an annual horse drive
Quebec, Canada: A protester kicks a teargas
canister back towards police during a demonstration against tuition fee
hikes in Victoriaville
Anamã, Brazil: Children stand on the porch of
their home which has been flooded by the rising Rio Solimoes, one of the
two main branches of the Amazon river. While a swath of the Amazon is
under a state of emergency during one of the worst floods on record,
Brazil's north-eastern region faces its worst drought in the last 30
years
Srinagar, India: Dog catchers chase a dog during a
sterilisation drive. Authorities in the Indian area of Kashmir have
started to sterilise stray dogs after increased reports of dog attacks
on people. According to statistics from a government hospital, more than
500 dog bites are reported every month in the city
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A
makeshift refugee camp on the grounds of Saint Egidio school in the
village of Mugunga. People have been displaced after clashes erupted on
29 April in the eastern Nord Kivu province between the army and
deserters of a former rebel group whose leader is wanted by the
international criminal court
Havana, Cuba: A tourist sits on the seafront
boulevard El Malecon. Cubans seem generally pleased that economic change
is afoot. Some like the idea of striking out on their own, with an
opportunity to earn more than the basic state wage
Luzon, Philippines: A boy shows off his catch. A
recent paper by the Asian Development Bank estimated that increasing the
price of basic food staples, such as rice, would reduce gross domestic
product and increase poverty
Gaza City, Palestine: A boy plays with sheep and a horse on the beach
Moscow, Russia: Dancers perform during the dress
rehearsal of The Jewels at the Bolshoi Theatre. The ballet by George
Balancine will open on 5 May
Islamabad, Pakistan: Abla Zahir, six, sits on the
ground holding her brother Yaseen, one, while waiting to receive a
ration of rice during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a
shrine of the famous Sufi saint Beri Imam
London, England: Competitors are silhouetted as
they go over the water jump in a women's 2,000-metre steeplechase B
final during the British universities and colleges sport athletics
championship at the Olympic stadium
Monaco: PlanetSolar arrives in the harbour as it
achieves the first global circumnavigation using only solar energy. The
biggest solar boat ever built travelled through the Atlantic Sea, Panama
canal, Pacific Ocean and returned to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez
Canal