Yazidis New Year, Sewol ferry disaster anniversary, Fashion Week Australia, Artistic Gymnastics Championships| April 15
The day in photos from around the world.
- A Ukrainian serviceman rides a bicycle in Shyrokyne, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Russia and Ukraine agreed in Berlin on Monday to call for the pullback of smaller-caliber weapons from the front lines of the conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
- A gosling peers out from its mother’s wings Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
- Swiss gymnast Caterina Barloggio competes in a qualifying round of the Floor exercise event of the European Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships on April 15, 2015 in Montpellier, southern France. (Pascal Guyot/Getty Images)
- Italian Vanessa Ferrari competes in a qualifying round of the floor exercise event of the European Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships on April 15, 2015 in Montpellier, southern France. (Pascal Guyot/Getty Images)
- Frankie Dettori leaps in the winners enclosure after riding to win Osaila The Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket racecourse on April 15, 2015 in Newmarket, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
- Australian model Miranda Kerr (L) performs with “pear fairy” Funassyi, the unofficial mascot of the city of Funabashi in suburban Tokyo, as she takes part in a promotional event during her visit on April 15, 2015. The 31-year-old model reportedly arrived the day during her promotional tour in Asia. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Getty Images)
- A model parades an outfit by Australian designer Akira Isogawa during Fashion Week Australia in Sydney on April 15, 2015. (William West/Getty Images)
- A model presents a creation by Triya during the 2016 Summer collections of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 14, 2015. (Nelson Almeida/Getty Images)
- A model displays a dress by Australian designer Steven Khalil during a parade of his garments at Fashion Week Australia in Sydney on April 15, 2015. (William West/Getty Images)
- A model parades a dress by Australian designer Steven Khalil during a parade of his garments at Fashion Week Australia in Sydney on April 15, 2015. (William West/Getty Images)
- A man dressed as a ancient Roman centurion walks by the Colosseum in the center of Rome on April 15, 2015 (Filippo Monteforte/Getty Images)
- Boston Marathon survivor Jeff Bauman, right, walks past one of two blast sites with Carlos Arredondo, who helped save his life, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Boston marked the second anniversary of the 2013 marathon bombings with a subdued remembrance that includes a moment of silence, the pealing of church bells and a call for kindness. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
- Tony Moreno touches the body of a whale on the beach in Pacifica, Calif., Wednesday, April 15, 2015. The carcass of the 50-foot sperm whale washed ashore at the Pacifica beach just south of San Francisco. Officials from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito say it’s not immediately clear how the animal died or what would be done with it. A necropsy is planned for Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
- Jamie Ingram of Derventio (L) and Kyle Chisholm of Kirkless start the Men’s Junior 200m Butterfly Final on day two of the British Swimming Championships at Aquatics Centre on April 15, 2015 in London, England. (Clive Rose/Getty Images)
- In this Tuesday, April 15, 2015 photo, Yazidis gather at the holy shrine of Lalish, 57 kilometers (35 miles) north of militant-held Mosul, Iraq, as thousands celebrate the New Year, their first since Islamic State militants swept through the area last summer. The Islamic State militants view Yazidis as apostates, departing from their radical interpretation of Islam, and demanded that they convert to Islam or pay a religious fine. (AP Photo/Seivan M.Salim)
- People celebrate the water festival, an important part of the Dai ethnic group new year celebration, on a square in Jinghong in southwest China’s Yunnan province on April 15, 2015. The act of pouring water is a show of blessings and good wishes as the region marks the Buddhist New Year. (Getty Images)
- A handout picture taken on April 12, 2015 and released on April 15, 2015 by Spanish Salvamento Maritimo shows Oleg Neydenov Russian trawler being towed out to sea after a fire broke out on board while it was moored at Las Palmas port on the Spanish Gran Canaria island. The Russian boat that had been accused of illegal fishing sank near the Canary Islands on April 15, 2015, without causing casualties, Spanish rescuers said. (Getty Images)
- A group of devotees throw vermillion powder to other devotees in celebration of the new year during the Sindoor Jatra Festival on April 15, 2015 in Thimi, Nepal. Sindoor Jatra Festival is celebrated each year in Thimi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, to welcome the Nepali New Year and celebrate the coming of spring. During the Festival, devotees are smeared with vermillion powder and 30 chariots containing the images of several gods and goddesses are carrying by the devotees around the town, while others sing, dance and play musical instruments. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
- A member of the U.S. Capitol Police Bomb Squad works to check and secure a gyrocopter that landed on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol April 15, 2015 in Washington, DC. Doug Hughes, a 61-year-old postal worker from Ruskin, Florida, landed the lightweight helicopter on the Capitol lawn to protest against government corruption and to promote campaign finance reform. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
- A relative of the victims of the Sewol disaster weeps during a ceremony on the eve of the first anniversary of the ferry sinking at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. A year ago, as South Korea writhed in grief and fury after more than 300 people, most of them school kids, drowned in the disaster, it seemed things would never be the same. Yet not much has really changed as the first anniversary of the Sewol disaster is marked Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
- Relatives of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster weep as they stand on the deck of a boat during a visit to the site of the sunken ferry off the coast of South Korea’s southern island of Jindo on April 15, 2015. More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy’s first anniversary. (Ed Jones/Getty Images)
- A worker attaches the name tag of a Buddhist who made donation to a lantern, for upcoming celebration of Buddha’s birthday on May 25 at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
- Fields of blossoming tulips are seen from the window of an airplane during a trip organized for the press as it flies over Keukenhof, a large flower bulb garden and showcase of the Dutch export product, near Lisse, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
- An activist stands on the table of the podium throwing paper at ECB President Mario Draghi, left, as Christine Graeff, Director General of Communications, looks on during a press conference of the European Central Bank, ECB, in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
- Brazilian natives demonstrate in demand of their rights as part of the National Mobilization Week, in Brasilia on April 14, 2015. Several Brazilian tribes are taking part in the so-called Free Land camp. (Evaristo Sa/Getty Images)
- An Iraqi Yazidi lights candles and paraffin torches outside Lalish temple situated in a valley near Dohuk, 430 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, during a ceremony to celebrate the Yazidi New Year, on April 14, 2015. The Yazidis, who number about 1.6 million, commemorate the arrival of the light into the world during the celebration. (Safin Hamed/Getty Images)
- Masaru Hashimoto (R) puts gold paint onto a carp streamer at a factory in Kazo, Saitama prefecture, some 50-kilometre north of Tokyo on April 15, 2015. The 107-year-old Hashimoto Yakichi company produces and sells handmade carp streamers popular during the upcoming Children’s Day celebrations where parents wish their boys to grow up as strong as the carp. (Toshifumi Kitamura/Getty Images)
- Two year old Mirza enjoys playing with the water of a fountain in downtown Duisburg, Germany, during warm and sunny weather on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Forecasted temperatures in Germany are up to 26 Celsius (79F). (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
- A horse peers over a stone enclosure above the north eastern Nepalese town of Lukla on April 15, 2015. Lukla is the gateway for most treks in the Khumbu region including Mount Everest. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
- A member of the equestrian police patrols on April, 15 2015 in Lyon Parc de la Tete d’Or. (Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images)
- Families of victims of a mine disaster arrive at the trial in Akhisar, Turkey, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Forty-five managers and employees of a mine in the western Turkish town of Soma, went on trial on Wednesday accused of causing the deaths of 301 miners who perished in a fire last year in Turkey’s worst mining disaster.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)
- Palestinian girls walk past rubble of a heavily damaged building on April 15, 2015 in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya which was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014. (Thomas Coex/Getty Images)
- A Palestinian man rides a cart on April 15, 2015 past the rubble of heavily damaged buildings in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya which were destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014. (Thomas Coex/Getty Images)
- Rinji, 10, a young resident of the north eastern Nepalese town of Lukla wears a plastic flower on his lapel near his school on April 15, 2015. Rinji wears a traditional Nepalese outfit of the Magar culture as he and classmates prepare a presentation for their parents in the coming days. Lukla is the gateway for most treks in the Khumbu region including Mount Everest. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
- A court officer places handcuffs on the wrists of former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez after the guilty verdict was read during his murder trial at the Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River, Mass., Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd in June 2013. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. (Dominick Reuter/Pool Photo via AP)