Known as the "Wildest Show in the South", inmates compete for cash during "Convict Poker" in the Angola Prison Rodeo in Angola, Louisiana, April 24, 2022. The last inmate seated wins cash.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary brought back their fan-favourite Angola Prison Rodeo. LSP has not held the event since October 2019 due to COVID. Both shows sold out and brought over 20,000 people to the event.
Des Moines, US
Bam Bam sits on the throne after being crowned the winner of the annual Drake Relays beautiful bulldog contest in Iowa
Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP
Local residents receive drinking water at a distribution center in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine, April 25, 2022. Toretsk residents have had no access to water for more than two months because of the war.
Kyiv area morgues at breaking point
Bodies are being piled in refrigerated trucks in front of the morgues, as authorities struggle to handle the number of dead. “We weren’t prepared for this,” said a coroner of a village a few kilometres from the capital.
Portraits are placed next to coffins of from right Kira Glodan, three month old, her mother Valerya Glodan 28 and grandmother Lyudmila Yavkina 54, killed in their apartment by shelling during a funeral ceremony at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine.
The pack rides past the Champvent Castle during the first stage of the Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour cycling race, 178 kms from La Grande Beroche to Romont in Champvent, western Switzerland.
Lithuanian musician Darius Mazintas plays a piano in front of the Central House of Culture destroyed during Russia’s invasion in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, Ukraine 26 April 2022. Reuters
Russia has deployed trained dolphins during its invasion of Ukraine to protect a Black Sea naval base. The Russian Navy has placed two dolphin pens at the entrance to Sevastopol harbor, sheltered just inside a sea wall. The pens were moved there in February, around the time of the invasion of Ukraine, according to a review of satellite imagery. https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/tr...ng-black-sea-naval-base-satellite-photos-show
A Ukrainian soldier, Commander Serhiy Volyna, holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol has pleaded for the West to rescue everyone trapped in the complex - as the allied forces did at Dunkirk in the famous Second World War operation.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Motorists stand next to their cars on a main road as a two minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
Beijing has closed schools and suspended weddings and funerals in the city of 22 million in an effort to avoid plunging China’s capital into a Shanghai-style Covid lockdown.
WARSAW, April 28 (Reuters) - The European Union should penalise countries that use roubles to pay for Russian gas, Poland's climate minister said, following Moscow's decision to cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria over their refusal to do so.
UK military personnel boarding a Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, which will form part of one of the largest shared deployments since the cold war. Photograph: Sharron Flyod/Ministry of Defence/Crown Copyright/PA
About 8,000 British Army troops are to take part in exercises across eastern Europe to combat Russian aggression in one of the largest deployments since the cold war.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
An emergency worker is helped by locals to carry a man to an ambulance following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv.
Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP
Kyiv, Ukraine
Iryna asks for money to support a centre for abandoned dogs next to a poster that reads ‘Heroes don’t die’. Iryna is a volunteer who works in a shelter where they care for abandoned dogs.
Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP
