First responders work at the site of an Israeli airstrike that struck an apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
A woman and an injured man, center, are rescued by firefighters from a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A man feeds birds on a street in Tel Aviv, Israel, after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire with Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)A woman walks past a mural in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Suzanne Morrison, mother of Matthew Perry, leaves the court after a federal judge handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, who pleaded guilty to selling “Friends” star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Rex A. Heuermann, pleads guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings, at a court hearing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool)Pope Leo XIV looks at a basketball as he meets athletes from the Harlem Globetrotters who attended his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Atlanta Braves pitcher Dylan Lee delivers during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)Migrants run to board a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 in Malo-les-Bains, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)People walk by the coffin of Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu, flanked by honor guard soldiers, at the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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