Best photos of April 7: From boys at the Door of No Return to Artemis II celebrations in space

Children covered in white paint pose for a photograph near the Door of No Return in Ouidah, Benin. The memorial to enslaved Africans marks the point where they were forced on to transatlantic slave ships. AFP
War damage to a building in Tehran, Iran, is framed by a curtain placed on the Golestan Palace, a Unesco World Heritage site. AFP
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for an appeal trial over charges he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election, at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Paris. AFP
Visitors walk through an art installation in Chinatown in Sydney, Australia. Reuters
Commuters travel on an overcrowded public bus in Islamabad, Pakistan. State-run public transport in the capital city and province is free throughout April, after Pakistan's government drastically raised fuel prices due to the Iran war. AFP
Wind scatters water from a fountain in Berlin as a man shoots video on his mobile phone. AFP
A displaced man sleeps on a street next to a billboard showing Beirut's Marina. The Middle East war has displaced upwards of a million people in Lebanon. AFP
Artemis II crew members Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover give a thumbs up aboard the Orion spacecraft after their historic journey around the far side of the Moon. AFP

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April 07, 2026

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