From rapper DMX's memorial to a leaping cow in Sweden - today's best pictures

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

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  The casket of US rapper DMX is carried on a monster truck in Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, for a private memorial on Saturday. DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died at the age of 50 on April 9 after a heart attack. EPA

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  Terraced rice paddy fields in Congjiang in Guizhou province, south-west China. AFP

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  A man standing on a sand dune flies a drone at sunrise in the desert near the city of Nasiriyah, southern Iraq. AFP

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  People fish in Numazu, Shizuoka prefecture, as Mount Fuji looms in the background. At 3,776 metres in height, it is Japan’s tallest mountain. AFP

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  A dancer performs the Tanoura, an Egyptian version of a Sufi dance, in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters

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  Russia’s Angelina Melnikova celebrates on the podium after winning the women’s all-round uneven bars final at the 2021 European Championships in Artistic Gymnastics, held in Basel, Switzerland. Reuters

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  People take part in a traditional torchlight procession to mark the 106th anniversary of the mass murders of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, in Yerevan, Armenia. Armenians worldwide commemorate April 24 as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. EPA

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  Pedestrians walk on Skanderbeg Square in the Albanian capital Tirana. Albania’s general election, which is under way, is seen as pivotal to the country’s ambitions to join the European Union after an acrimonious campaign marred by a deadly gunfight between supporters of rival parties. AFP

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  Volunteers take part in a beach clean-up, organised to mark Earth Day, in Keelung, Taiwan. Reuters

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  A woman takes a selfie during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Washington state, US. Reuters

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  A cow frolics after being released to pasture, having spent months indoors in Berte Gard, near Falkenberg, Sweden. Reuters

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