From cosmonauts returning to Earth from space to British policemen dancing - today's best pictures

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft lands near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with three crew members after completing their six-month mission on the International Space Station. AFP

Kate Rubins is helped out of the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft minutes after the Nasa astronaut, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov, arrived in the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. AFP

Demonstrators hold up their phones with the light shining near the Brooklyn Center police station during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb. AFP

People look at lava gushing down the slopes of Pacaya Volcano near El Patrocinio village in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala. AP Photo

Colombian soldiers carry out military exercises, near the Buenavista Air Base, in La Guajira, Colombia. EPA

Prisoners kneel behind a gate before their release at Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. Three thousand prisoners have been freed from prison to ease the pressure on the country's prisons in view of the pandemic. EPA

Families of migrants go under a barbed-wire fence while being escorted by a local church group to the location where they turn themselves in to the US Border Patrol in the hope of securing asylum, after crossing the Rio Grande river into the US from Mexico, in Roma, Texas. Reuters

A health worker wearing a full protective suit cools down with an electric fan during a free Covid-19 test for at-risk people amid the coronavirus pandemic in Bangkok, Thailand. EPA

A policeman dances with people partying along a street in Soho, Central London, as Britain eases coronavirus restrictions. Reuters

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Updated: April 18, 2021, 11:56 AM