Pictures Of The Day: Live Photos From Friday 4th April 2014

The Best News Pictures Of The Day

Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images, from around the world chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Tahira Mirza and Michael Cripps.

A goat sheep crossbreed spotted on an Irish Farm. The as yet un-named Geep (a cross breed of a goat and a sheep) with its mother on Paddy Murphy's farm in Ballymore Eustace, Co Kildare.

David Shepherd, Tunnel Construction manager for Crossrail (right) and Roger Escoda, Contracts Tunnel manager for Drogados Cisk inspect the hole made after the thousand tonne tunneling machine, Victoria, breaks into the underground station at Whitechapel, marking the three quarter point in the construction of Crossrail's train tunnels.

Prince Harry sits on a swing during a visit to the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London.

Prince Harry Visits Queen Elizabeth Park

A man wearing the outfit of iconic movie villain Darth Vader (R), who announced he was running for president as the official candidate of the Ukrainian Internet Party (UIP), and another wearing the outfit of movie villain Darth Maul (L), surrounded by men dressed as Emperor's Royal Guards take part to a protest action in front of the Central Election Commission building in Kiev.

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Darth Vader Denied Presidency

A medium-lift VS07 Soyuz rocket lifts off in Kourou, French Guiana. The European Space Agency says it has successfully launched the first in a series of satellites that will form the nucleus of its new Copernicus monitoring system aimed at providing better and quicker information about natural disasters and other catastrophes.

Masha Alekhina, Nadya Tolokonnikova and America Ferrera attend the 5th Annual Women In The World Summit at the David Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York

A Norwegian skydiver has captured the unbelievable moment he was almost hit by a falling meteorite...READ FULL STORY HERE

Cameron Diaz, Kylie Minogue and Russell Crowe during the filming of the Graham Norton Show at the London Studios, south London, to be aired on BBC One on Friday evening.

A meerkat guards colored Easter eggs at the zoo in Hannover, Germany, Thursday, April 3, 2014. The zoo keepers surprised the animals with an Easter egg hunt on the first day of the Lower-Saxon Easter school holidays.

CBS Chicago's Jay Levine takes a swap at an Obama protestor during a live broadcast. NBC Chicago's Mary Ann Ahern then catches the rest of the encounter on air.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, have an audience with Pope Francis, during their one-day visit to Rome on April

The Queen And Duke Of Edinburgh Visit Rome And The Vatican City

Queen Elizabeth II Meets The Pope In Rome

Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrives at Ciampino airport, near Rome, for an official visit. Queen Elizabeth II will meet Pope Francis for the first time on a visit that is also the 87-year-old monarch's first foreign trip since 2011.

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