World in focus – best photos for April 11, 2017

An elephant sprays tourists with water in celebration of the Songkran Water Festival in Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, Thailand. Chaiwat Subprasom / Reuters

An Iraqi boy sits outside a house that was damaged during the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic states militant in Hammam al-Alil city south of Mosul, Iraq. Suhaib Salem / Reuters

An elderly man sits on a bench in front of the barrels and sandbags blocking a road crossing from the south, Greek Cypriot, to the north, Turkish Cypriot breakaway controlled areas in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. Talks aimed at reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus resumed after a two-month halt. Petros Karadjias / AP

An opposition fighter walks in a field of poppies in a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. Mohamad Abazeed / AFP

Fishermen anchor their boat at dawn off the coast of Koh Samui in Thailand. Toby Melville / Reuters

Penitents from ‘Cristo de la Buena Muerte’ or ‘Good Dead Christ’ brotherhood take part in a procession in Madrid, Spain, in the early hours of Tuesday. Hundreds of processions are taking place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP

A visitor walks among paintings, books and religious objects during a press preview at the exhibition: “The Luther Effect: 500 Years Of Protestantism In The World” at the German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum) in Berlin, Germany. Michele Tantussi / Getty Images

A demonstrator is arrested by riot police while rallying against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro’s government in Caracas, Venezuela. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters

A Hindu devotee showers in water pouring from 22 water spouts during Balaju Purnima, also known as the full moon festival, in Katmandu, Nepal. Hundreds of devotees gathered to take a ritual bath and pay reverence to the water spouts in hopes of being granted protection from illness, and a better life. Narendra Shrestha / EPA

A look at the best photos from around the world for today.