This photo essay presents a diverse range of global events, from everyday life to significant occurrences.
Andrew Robertson, a piper, playing at sunset standing on Salisbury Crags above Edinburgh, while his girlfriend Tierney Reid waits out of shot nearby to propose to him
TOM DUFFIN/SOLENT NEWS
Iranian soldiers take part in a parade to commemorate Army Day at the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran
VAHID SALEMI/AP
A young Kirk’s dik-dik, named Pistachio, arrives at Chessington World of Adventures Zoo in time for the long Easter weekend
CHESSINGTON WORLD OF ADVENTURES
Activists dressed as President Putin; Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany; and President Trump pose with a fake nuclear bomb during a protest in front at Reichstag building in Berlin
HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/EPA
Young refugee girls practice taekwondo before an event at the Kalobeyei Sports Complex, near Kakuma refugee camp — Kenya’s second-largest settlement
LUIS TATO/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
People enjoy the golden hour at sunset after a balmy day at Birubi Point, north of Sydney in Australia
MARK BAKER/AP
The Hokan-ji Temple, in the Gion district of Kyoto, is known for its historic wooden buildings, tea houses, geishas and women wearing traditional kimonos
AYTUG CAN SENCAR/GETTY IMAGES
Children punch the air as protesters, largely Houthi supporters, in Yemen show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
KHALED ABDULLAH/REUTERS
Kaori Sakamoto, from Japan, at the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating 2025, held in Tokyo. Teams from all over the world compete in a number of events with two men, two women, one pair and one ice dance entry
YOHEI OSADA/AFLO SPORT/ALAMY
The “butterfly tide” in the Qiantang River in China, a rare phenomenon in which two converging tidal waves form a striking pattern in the water
QIAN WEIZHONG/GETTY IMAGES
A young Ukrainian soldier from the 127th Brigade in the trenches near the border with Russia
DAVID ALLIGNON/ZUMA PRESS WIRE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
A surfer in the middle of a barrel as they take on the sets at the Queenscliff “Bombora” — a wave that forms over a submerged offshore reef or rock and breaks heavily, forming a large swell — off Manly Beach in Sydney
CAMERON SPENCER/GETTY IMAGES
A duckling perches on top of a pupil’s hat at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow, after children helped to incubate and hatch eggs
Fourteen paintings created by the artist Chris Gollon that tell the story of Easter hang at the grade I listed church of St John on Bethnal Green — designed by Sir John Soane — as a fundraising campaign to restore it starts
©RUSSELL SACH
A bloodied actor portraying Jesus takes part in commemorating the Passion of Christ in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland
OMAR MARQUES/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES
An attendee of the Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 event in Chiba city arrives in full Stormtrooper attire
RICHARD A BROOKS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Dozens of racing pigeons are released at an Up North Combine contest in Worksop begins
LEE SMITH/REUTERS
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