Whirling dervish, British royal fandom, Israel’s Independence Day | April 23
The day in photos from around the world.
- New York Mets’ Bartolo Colon (40) tags out Atlanta Braves’ A.J. Pierzynski (15) during the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
- Royal fan Terry Hutt, aged 79, with his Union flag designed outfit, flags and signs stands across the street from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in London, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Britain’s Kate the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth to her second child with her husband Prince William at the hospital in the coming days or weeks. A small number of dedicated royal fans are waiting or camping outside the hospital awaiting the imminent birth. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
- Light shines on a mourner as bishops process into Holy Name Cathedral for the funeral Mass of Cardinal Francis George on Thursday, April 23, 2015 in Chicago. George died last Friday at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
- The Calbuco volcano erupts near Puerto Varas, Chile, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile. Authorities ordered the evacuation of the 1,500 inhabitants of the nearby town of Ensenada, along with residents of two smaller communities. (AP Photo/Diego Main/Aton Chile)
- Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, listens during a news conference Thursday, April 23, 2015, in Clayton, Mo. The parents of Michael Brown filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday against the city of Ferguson, Mo., over the fatal shooting of their son by a white police officer, a confrontation that sparked a protest movement across the United States. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
- A police officer holds an EU flag outside the paint-spattered entrance of the European Commission office, during a march to protest migrant deaths in the Mediterranean in central Athens, on Thursday, April 23, 2015. European Union leaders on Thursday started committing new resources to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit convened after hundreds of migrants drowned in the space of a few days, and were discussing laying the ground for military action against traffickers.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
- This undated photo provided by NASA shows an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing a breeding ground for stars in the Constellation Carina, about 20,000 light years from Earth. Friday, April 24, 2015, marks the 25th anniversary of Hubble’s launch. (NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/A. Nota, Westerlund 2 Science Team via AP)
- Coffins are shoulder carried in Msida, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, Thursday, April 23, 2015, during a funeral service for 24 migrants drowned while trying to reach the Southern coasts of Italy. The migrants died as a smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)
- A HondaJet is displayed at the venue of a press conference at a hangar at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Thursday, April 23, 2015. Honda, known for making motorcycles and cars, is showing its new sleek business jet in Japan for the first time, billing it as quiet, quick and green. The jet, on show at the airport on Thursday, is the culmination of founder Soichiro Honda’s longtime dream to have a plane in Honda Motor Co.’s lineup. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
- Egyptian dancers in traditional costumes perform Sufi dance known as “whirling dervish” in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Whirling dervishes of al-Tannura entertain visitors with their colorful and artistic spinning dance. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
- Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters walk down a street after regaining control of the northern neighborhoods, following overnight heavy clashes with Islamic State group militants, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 23, 2015. (AP Photo)
- Displaced people from Ramadi wait to receive humanitarian aid from the United Nations World Food Programme at a camp in al-Shurta neighborhood in west Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 23, 2015. In the two weeks since militants from the Islamic State group overran central Ramadi, thousands of people have streamed out of the city, fleeing the brutal clashes between the extremists and Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)
- Israeli Air Force planes fly over the Mediterranean sea during Israel’s 67th Independence Day, in Tel Aviv, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Israel is celebrating its annual Independence Day, marking 67 years since the founding of the state in 1948. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
- President Barack Obama pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 23, 2015. The president took full responsibility for deaths of American, Italian hostages, expresses apologies. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 23, 2015, as the Senate is expected to vote on the nomination of Loretta Lynch as the next attorney general. The vote to confirm Lynch, who would be the first female African American Attorney General, has been delayed for over five months. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)