Week in pictures 5 April 2025
MANDALAY: Buddhist monks stand on rubble as they clear up debris at the damaged Thahtay Kyaung Monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Tuesday, April 1. Myanmar was hit by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake on March 28. More than 3,000 people are confirmed dead in the war-ravaged country, but experts fear the true death toll could take weeks to emerge.(Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON DC: President Donald Trump announces new tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, April 2 (Evan Vucci/AP)
MALTEPE: Protesters in Maltepe, Turkey, rally in support of Istanbul Mayor Ekreme Imamoglu on Saturday, March 29. Protests have been taking place across Turkey since the jailing of Imamoglu – the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Imamoglu was arrested on corruption charges at his home last month, just days before he was to be nominated as a candidate in the 2028 presidential election. He has denied the charges against him (Kemal Aslan/AFP/Getty Images)
TITUSVILLE: A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft soars into the night sky after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, on Monday, March 31. It was carrying a cryptocurrency billionaire and three guests for a dayslong trip that will orbit directly above Earth’s North and South poles — a feat never attempted before (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images)
YAKUTSK: Scientists perform a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, on Thursday, March 27. The carcass was dug up this past summer in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)
JERUSALEM: A girl is tossed into the air Sunday, March 30, as people gather for Eid al-Fitr prayers by the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem's Old City. The Islamic holiday marks the end of Ramadan (Mahmoud Illean/AP)
PAVLOHRAD: Displaced Ukrainian nurse Kateryna comforts her cat Abu at a transit center in Pavlohrad, Ukraine, on Monday, March 31. They fled from the city Kostyantynivka, which is on the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russia (Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)
BOSTON: Japanese figure skating pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara perform during the exhibition gala at the World Championships in Boston on Sunday, March 30. They won gold two days earlier (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
WONOSOBO: A hot-air balloon festival takes place in Wonosobo, Indonesia, on Wednesday, April 2 (Devi Rahman/AFP/Getty Images)
HALIFAX: A partial solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, March 29 (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press/AP)