PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

A nun cries as the body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter’s Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Pope Francis tours St. Peter’s Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter’s Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
New York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People attend the Old Fashioned Fest at a park in Santiago, Chile, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father’s cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People with photos of their relatives who were deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador, for being alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang, cry and pray outside El Salvador’s embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
A woman stands at her home where she has the news on her TV, showing U.S. President Donald Trump, in Villa Caleta, a community in Panama that used to benefit economically by being on the route migrants took after crossing the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S., April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
People wear virtual reality headsets as they immerse themselves in “Teleport to Venezuela,” a 35-minute VR documentary by Noa Iimura exploring life in Venezuela, as the film’s national and European tour kicks off in the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S., in Doral, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

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