A puppet burns on Saint Walpurga's Eve, a tradition said to “ward off evil spirits and witches”, in Grossharthau, Germany on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Matthias Rietschel/Reuters)





People take part in a water gun battle as part of the annual Songkran festival, also known as water festival, the traditional Thai New Year celebrations, at the tourist spot of Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 April 2023. Thailand celebrates its first water-splashing Songkran festival following a three-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Songkran is celebrated with splashing water and putting powder on each other's faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the old year. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





A penitent wearing a crown of thorns and chains with cacti stuck to his skin, marches in a Good Friday procession in Atlixco, Mexico, Friday, April 7, 2023. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)





A Napoli fan looks on as Napoli supporters wave team flags outside the Diego-Maradona stadium in Naples on April 30, 2023 prior to the Italian Serie A football match between Napoli and Salernitana. Naples braces for its potential first Scudetto championship win in 33 years. With a 17 point lead at the top of Serie A, southern Italy's biggest club is anticipating its victory in the Scudetto for the first time since 1990. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo)





England's centre Tatyana Heard (L) runs with the ball next to France's centre Marine Menager during the Six Nations international women's rugby union match between England and France at Twickenham in south-west London on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP Photo)





Villagers wearing costumes take part in a Holy Thursday local celebration in the town of Santa Rosalia, in the municipality of Mulege, Baja California Sur state, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (Photo by Emilio Espejel/AP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen stand guard in front of a destroyed Ukrainian Antonov An-225 “Mriya”, the largest cargo aircraft in the world, at an aerodrome in Hostomel, during a donation ceremony of some ten off-road vehicles mounted with machine guns, from volunteers project HEROCAR for mobile fire groups of air defense to resist drones attacks, on April 1, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





World Press Photo of the Year award winner, Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, poses in front of his winning image of a pregnant woman being carried through the wreckage of a maternity hospital after a Russian military strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, prior to a press conference announcing the winners in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)





Artisan Gabriel Gutierrez paints a “Pachuco” version of Judas at the Santa Maria La Ribera Cultural Center in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Every Holy Saturday Mexicans get ready for the traditional “burning of Judas”. During this popular activity on the sidelines of the Holy Week celebrations of the Catholic Church, people gather in neighborhoods across the country to burn cardboard figures of Judas that represent evil. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)





Mourners attend the funeral of two British-Israeli sisters, Maia and Rina Dee, at a cemetery in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion, Sunday, April 9, 2023. The two sisters were killed in a shooting attack on Friday by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank. (Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo)





Preparing for the summer season opening this weekend, award-winning Ukrainian Sand Sculptor Slava Borecki's Ukrainian sand sculpture, sculpted at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, remains on display at Weymouth's SandWorld Sculpture Park, on April 06, 2023 in Weymouth, England. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)





The Chinese city of Xiamen is seen in the background as a Taiwanese oyster farmer carries oysters for transportation on April 09, 2023 in Kinmen, Taiwan. Kinmen, an island in the Taiwan strait that is part of Taiwan's territory, is so close to China that the deep-water port of Xiamen, one of China's biggest, lies less than three miles away across the water. It is one of the few areas of Taiwan that mainland Chinese tourists can visit without visas or permits, and has deep ties with the adjacent Fujian province of China; locals have seen a boost to their incomes from Chinese tourism in pre-pandemic times. Wartime anti-tank barricades litter the beach and also features the Zhaishan tunnel, which Taiwanese forces still reserve the right to use in wartime and for military exercises. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)





A man walks near garbage accumulated over several days in the streets since residents of the Tamborada neighbourhood have been blocking access to the K'ara K'ara landfill, due to a dispute over land prices with a local university, in Cochabamba, Bolivia on April 24, 2023. (Photo by Patricia Pinto/Reuters)





Women “costaleras” acting as “penitents” belonging to Cristo Resucitado y Nuestra Senora de Loreto brotherhood hold a structure in a ramp while others carry a statue of the Virgin Mary on a structure traditionally known as “paso”, as they leave a church during an Easter Sunday procession, the last day of Holy Week, in Ronda, Spain on April 9, 2023. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





A protester hides behind a poster reading “Macron impose, we explode” during a demonstration, Thursday, April 13, 2023 in Paris. Protesters opposed to President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular plan to raise the retirement age in France marched Thursday in cities and towns around France in a final show of anger before a decision by the Constitutional Council on whether the measure meets constitutional standards. (Photo by Lewis Joly/AP Photo)





Men of Slavic ethnic minority of Sorbs dressed in black tailcoats, ride decorated horses during an Easter rider procession near Panschwitz, Germany on April 9, 2023. (Photo by Matthias Rietschel/Reuters)





US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, is seen inside a defendants' cage before a hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest at the Moscow City Court in Moscow on April 18, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Penitents members of the “Hermandad Penitencial de las Siete Palabras” procession during Holy Week in the northwestern Spanish city of Zamora on April 5, 2023. Christian believers around the world mark the Holy Week of Easter in celebration of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)





An elderly man with poor eyesight stands up after falling into an explosion crater in the frontline town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region on April 4, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)