World in focus - best photos for April 18, 2019

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

A bride and groom jump over a skipping rope as they pose during a wedding photo shoot at a park in Pyongyang, North Korea

Wild bluebells blooming in Hallerbos, a forest also known as the "Blue Forest" near Halle, Belgium. AFP

Tourists walk past portraits of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Vajiralongkorn, Queen Sirikit and Princess Sirindhorn at the Big Buddha temple in Phuket. AFP

A woman walks past graffiti drawn on the wall in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. AFP

A child looks on as Kashmiri voters queue at a polling station in Mujgund on the outskirts of Srinagar. EPA

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Palma de Mallorca. AFP

A staff member wearing a mock space suit poses in the Gobi Desert near the C-Space Project Mars simulation base outside Jinchang, Gansu Province, China. Reuters

Sudanese protestors chant slogans and flash victory signs during a protest outside the army complex in the capital Khartoum. AFP

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Reuters

A gaucho rides an untamed horse during Creole week celebrations in Montevideo, Uruguay. Reuters

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