• The artwork Floating Earth by Luke Jerram, on display at the Royal Albert Dock, in Liverpool. The 10-metre installation, created using Nasa imagery and featuring a soundtrack by composer Dan Jones, has been installed to coincide with the arrival of the Eurovision Song Contest in the city. EPA
    The artwork Floating Earth by Luke Jerram, on display at the Royal Albert Dock, in Liverpool. The 10-metre installation, created using Nasa imagery and featuring a soundtrack by composer Dan Jones, has been installed to coincide with the arrival of the Eurovision Song Contest in the city. EPA
  • A firefighter aims a water cannon at a blazing heap of used car tyres and other parts at a scrapyard in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
    A firefighter aims a water cannon at a blazing heap of used car tyres and other parts at a scrapyard in Budapest, Hungary. EPA
  • Flames rise from a burning fuel tank at a depot in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. AP
    Flames rise from a burning fuel tank at a depot in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. AP
  • A woman walks past damaged buildings as she carries a child in Uman, about 215km south of Kyiv, after Russian missile strikes targeted several Ukrainian cities overnight. AFP
    A woman walks past damaged buildings as she carries a child in Uman, about 215km south of Kyiv, after Russian missile strikes targeted several Ukrainian cities overnight. AFP
  • People look on from a building on the day of a free concert by Spanish singer Rosalia at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Reuters
    People look on from a building on the day of a free concert by Spanish singer Rosalia at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Reuters
  • A helicopter takes off during the Aurora 23 joint military exercise between Swedish troops and US Marines in Skovde, Sweden. EPA
    A helicopter takes off during the Aurora 23 joint military exercise between Swedish troops and US Marines in Skovde, Sweden. EPA
  • A swan roosts in the reeds, on an islet of Lake Velence, in western Hungary. EPA
    A swan roosts in the reeds, on an islet of Lake Velence, in western Hungary. EPA
  • Wakinyan Snow of Alberta, Canada, prepares to dance in the junior boys' traditional competition at the 40th anniversary of the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque. Tens of thousands of people gathered in New Mexico, US, on Friday for what organisers bill as the largest powwow in North America. AP
    Wakinyan Snow of Alberta, Canada, prepares to dance in the junior boys' traditional competition at the 40th anniversary of the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque. Tens of thousands of people gathered in New Mexico, US, on Friday for what organisers bill as the largest powwow in North America. AP

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Today's best photos: from 'Floating Earth' in Liverpool to Gathering of Nations

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

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April 29, 2023

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Flying
There is no simple way to get to Punta Arenas from the UAE, with flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi requiring at least two connections to reach this part of Patagonia. Flights start from about Dh6,250.

Touring
Chile Nativo offers the amended Los Dientes trek with expert guides and porters who are met in Puerto Williams on Isla Navarino. The trip starts and ends in Punta Arenas and lasts for six days in total. Prices start from Dh8,795.

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Libya's Gold

UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves. 

The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.

Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.

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Updated: April 30, 2023, 12:44 PM
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