Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children pray at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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 boy holds his school book found amongst the rubble of a destroyed building, following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)State Deserter Response Force (SDRF) personnel travel on a boat headed to rescue affected people after a pre monsoon heavy rain on a flooded road in Guwahati, India, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)David Anthony Burke, whose stage name is D4vd, is arraigned Monday, April 20, 2026, in Los Angeles on charges of killing a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his car. (Ted Soqui/Pool Photo via AP)Israeli soldiers and relatives visit a military cemetery ahead of the annual Memorial Day honoring fallen soldiers and victims of nationalistic attacks in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Palestinian youth play while swimming in a port basin in Gaza City, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)People walk through the gate of the Nazi concentration camp bearing the inscription “Arbeit macht frei” as they arrive for the remembrance ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the camp’s liberation, in Oranienburg, Germany, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)People grieve as they comfort each other outside the scene of a mass shooting, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)A woman talks on her cellphone as she walks past a billboard showing Rais Ali Delvari, a national hero in an early 1900 uprising against British forces in southern Iran in the Persian Gulf, right, and the late Revolutionary Guard’s navy chief Alireza Tangsiri, who was killed in the U.S.-Israeli strike in late March 2026, commanding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, on a building at a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Barber Mohammad Mehdi cuts the hair of his client Ayman Al Zein inside his shop, which was damaged in an Israeli airstrike that also damaged Al Zein’s shop, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Pope Leo XIV listens to a girl as he arrives at the Parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Luanda, Angola, for a meeting with bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, and pastoral workers Monday, April 20, 2026, on the eighth day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)Former President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani sing “Wheels on the Bus” to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K in the Bronx in New York, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)A robot starts off for the Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Half Marathon on the outskirts of Beijing on Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A Kashmiri Muslim pilgrim, in white, is given a farewell hug by her relative as she leaves for the annual hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)Displaced people cross on foot a destroyed bridge as they return to their villages, following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, in Tayr Felsay village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)France’s Arthur Fils jumps in the pool after his victory against Russia’s Andrey Rublev in the ATP Barcelona Open tennis final in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)Manchester City’s Erling Haaland heads the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and and Arsenal, in Manchester, England, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)A minibus drives past an empty checkpoint where a mannequin dressed as a soldier stands in downtown Khartoum, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)The sun sets behind St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral located on Kronstadt Island in the Gulf of Finland, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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