• Fashion designer and DJ Virgil Abloh performs on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. AFP
    Fashion designer and DJ Virgil Abloh performs on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. AFP
  • Soldiers gather as they attend a ceremony ahead of the upcoming Indonesia's general election in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reuters
    Soldiers gather as they attend a ceremony ahead of the upcoming Indonesia's general election in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reuters
  • Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing makes a pit stop during the F1 Grand Prix of China at Shanghai International Circuit. Getty Images
    Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing makes a pit stop during the F1 Grand Prix of China at Shanghai International Circuit. Getty Images
  • Revellers use water guns to spray at one another as they celebrate the Buddhist New Year, locally known as Songkran, in Bangkok. AFP
    Revellers use water guns to spray at one another as they celebrate the Buddhist New Year, locally known as Songkran, in Bangkok. AFP
  • Gelete Burka celebrates winning the women's elite race in the Paris Marathon. Reuters
    Gelete Burka celebrates winning the women's elite race in the Paris Marathon. Reuters
  • Filipino children shower flower petals onto Catholic devotees holding decorative palm fronds during a procession to mark Palm Sunday in Las Pinas City, south of Manila. EPA
    Filipino children shower flower petals onto Catholic devotees holding decorative palm fronds during a procession to mark Palm Sunday in Las Pinas City, south of Manila. EPA
  • Baptised Sikh men take a holy dip in the sacred pond of the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh places on the occasion of the Visakhi festival in Amritsar, India. EPA
    Baptised Sikh men take a holy dip in the sacred pond of the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh places on the occasion of the Visakhi festival in Amritsar, India. EPA
  • An Indonesian woman, living in Malaysia, faints as she waits with others in their embassy to cast overseas ballots ahead of the country's general election, in Kuala Lumpur. AFP
    An Indonesian woman, living in Malaysia, faints as she waits with others in their embassy to cast overseas ballots ahead of the country's general election, in Kuala Lumpur. AFP
  • Members of the North Yorkshire Moors Moorland Organisation battle a gorse bush fire on moorland in Guisborough, England. Getty Images
    Members of the North Yorkshire Moors Moorland Organisation battle a gorse bush fire on moorland in Guisborough, England. Getty Images
  • Participants attend a rehearsal understood to be for a 'mass games' performance, in Pyongyang, North Korea. AFP
    Participants attend a rehearsal understood to be for a 'mass games' performance, in Pyongyang, North Korea. AFP

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World in focus - best photos for April 14, 2019

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