Week in pictures 10 Apr 2021
Here is the top news photography from the past week:
LONDON: A screen with an image and a message about Britain’s Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth, at Piccadilly Circus after he died at the age of 99 (Hannah McKay/Reuters)
BELEM: A health worker at a charity hospital in Belém, Brazil, sings and prays for a Covid-19 patient as part of Easter celebrations on Sunday, April 4 (Tarso Sarraf/AFP/Getty Images)
MARS: NASA's Perseverance rover took a selfie on Mars with the Ingenuity helicopter on Tuesday, April 6. The 4-pound helicopter is sitting about 13 feet away from the rover (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
ARLINGTON: Fans fill the seats of Globe Life Field for the Texas Rangers' season opener in Arlington on Monday, April 5. It was one of the first full-capacity sporting events that we've seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic (Jeffrey McWhorter/AP)
BELFAST: A bus was set on fire in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday, April 7. Unionists and nationalists in the country have been clashing with police and each other. Unrest first broke out last week amid rising tensions relating to Brexit and unionist anger over a decision by police not to prosecute leaders of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein for allegedly breaking coronavirus restrictions during the funeral of a former leading IRA figure (Jason Cairnduff/Reuters)