The National View’s photo editors pick the best of the day from around the world
Updated: April 24, 2014, 12:00 AM
Best photography from around the world April 24
Tourists swim in clear water near Kut island, eastern Thailand. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
Relatives of victims of the ‘Sewol’ ferry embrace following scuffles that broke out at Jindo harbour. The confirmed death toll on April 24 stood at 171, but 131 were still missing as dive teams searched in near pitch-black conditions for bodies trapped in the ferry’s interior. Nicolas Asfouri / AFP Photo
A Filipino man sleeps on a cart under a motorway overpass in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The writing on the sign reads ‘No sleeping in this place.’ Aaron Favila / AP Photo
An Indian man casts his vote at a polling booth in Alwar. Prakash Sing / AFP Photo
Chinese honour guards prepare for the arrival of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Queen Margrethe II is on a visit to China from April 24 to 28. Wang Zhao / AP Photo
A Palestinian street vendor reads a newspaper the day after rival Palestinian leaders from the West Bank and Gaza Strip forged a new reconciliation agreement in Gaza City. Under the rapprochement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Islamist Hamas which rules Gaza, the sides agreed to form a ‘national consensus’ government within weeks. Mohammed Abed / AFP Photo
Members of Turkish historical Ottoman Band (in Turkish Mehteran) pose during the commemoration of the Battle of Gallipoli in front of the Turkish Mehmetcik Monument in Gallipoli, Turkey. The Anzac day ceremonies in Gallipoli remember those who died in the 1915 Anzac landings of World War I. Tolga Bozoglu / EPA
A woman visits the site of the Rana Plaza building collapse in search of her lost daughter as people gather to remember those who died and mark the one-year anniversary of the incident, at Savar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thousands of mourners on 24 April commemorated the victims of last year’s factory collapse near the Bangladeshi capital that killed more than 1,100 people, mostly garment workers. Abir Abdullah / EPA