Week in pictures 22 April 2023
TEXAS: SpaceX's Starship spacecraft, the most powerful rocket ever built, explodes in midair shortly after launching in South Texas on Thursday, April 20. It was the first test flight for the vehicle. Despite the explosion, the test met several of the company's objectives. Clearing the launchpad, for example, was a major milestone, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk congratulated team members in a post-launch tweet (Joe Skipper/Reuters)
CAICEDONIA:The Alambrado bridge is seen on Sunday, April 16, a day after it collapsed in Caicedonia, Colombia. Two police officers were killed in the collapse. Its cause is still under investigation (Edwin Rodriguez Pipicano/AFP/Getty Images)
KHARTOUM: This satellite photo shows two burning planes at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan on Sunday, April 16. People have been desperately trying to flee Sudan's capital city, where intense violence between rival factions is overwhelming hospitals. Multiple attempts to bring about a ceasefire have failed (Planet Labs PBC/AP)
BEIRUT: Protesters scuffle with members of the Lebanese army as they advance toward government buildings in Beirut on Tuesday, April 18. Earlier in the day, Lebanon's Parliament voted to postpone municipal elections in the country, which has been in a financial crisis since 2019 (Hassan Ammar/AP)
MONTECARLO:A rainbow is seen in Monte Carlo, Monaco, as a professional tennis event takes place on Saturday, April 15 (Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images)
SLOVIANSK: A rescuer searches for survivors in a residential building that was shelled in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on Friday, April 14. At least 11 people were killed and 22 were wounded in Russian strikes that pounded the city (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images)
OSWIECIM: A man with an Israeli flag participates in the annual "March of the Living," a trek between two former Nazi-run death camps in Oświęcim, Poland, on Tuesday, April 18. Israel was marking its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day (Michal Dyjuk/AP)
GANGES: French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a selfie with schoolchildren as he visits a middle school in Ganges, France, on Thursday, April 20.(Daniel Cole/AFP/Getty Images)
LANCASTER: Visitors walk in a field of wildflowers at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve in Lancaster, California, on Friday, April 14. Swaths of yellow and streaks of orange, blue and purple are painting the landscape this month as the state enjoys an.extraordinary flurry of flowers(Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
NEW YORK:Cars are piled on top of one another after a parking garage collapsed in New York City on Tuesday, April 18. One person was killed and five people were injured (Mary Altaffer/AP)