Pictures Of The Day: The Best Images From Around The World On Friday 24th April 2015

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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 and Tahira Mirza.

Pictures of the Day 24th April
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U.N. Special Envoy for Refugees and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, right, and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antnio Guterres, left, brief the U.N. Security Council on Syria's refugee crisis, Friday, April 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(02 of23)
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CANAKKALE, TURKEY - APRIL 24: Prince of Wales, Charles is seen after laying a wreath during a commemoration ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Canakkale Land Battles on April 24, 2015 at the Canakkale Martyrs' Memorial, Turkey. (Photo by Aykut Unlupinar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(03 of23)
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Protestors stand next to an 'Only Fool and Horses' type Robin Reliant with a side panel reading 'HSBC: Tax Dodgers and Crooked Traders' as they demonstrate outside HSBC's Annual General Meeting, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, as HSBC is to consider moving its headquarters out of the UK, chairman Douglas Flint revealed today. (credit:Yui Mok/PA Wire)
(04 of23)
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Founding clients of 10Ten Talent Pele (R) and Jack Wilshere (L) pose for photographs during the Launch of 10Ten Talent on April 23, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images for 10Ten Talent) (credit:Tom Dulat via Getty Images)
(05 of23)
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West Indies' Marlon Samuels salutes England's Ben Stokes, as Stoke leaves the field after being caught by West Indies' Jermaine Blackwood, on the third day of their second Test match at the National Stadium in St. George's, Grenada, Thursday, April 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(06 of23)
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A Thai Buddhist monk feeds water to a tiger at the "Tiger Temple," in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Wildlife protection officials said on Thursday they found no mistreatment of the more than 100 tigers at the temple, one of the country's most popular destinations for foreign tourists. Famous for the iconic image of tame-looking big cats living with Buddhist monks, the temple has been accused of drugging the creatures to make them stay calm, an allegation the monks and the veterinarian who takes care of the animals, have denied. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(07 of23)
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BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 23: Kylie Minogue attends the Kylie Minogue For Sloggi Collection Presentation - Press Conference on April 23, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Isa Foltin/Getty Images) (credit:Isa Foltin via Getty Images)
(08 of23)
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The tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia (credit:Action Press/REX)
(09 of23)
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This glittering tapestry of young stars flaring into life in the star cluster Westerlund 2 has been released to celebrate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th year in orbit and a quarter of a century of discoveries, stunning images and outstanding science.The cluster resides in the prolific stellar breeding ground called Gum 29, some 20 000 light-years away in the constellation Carina.
(10 of23)
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LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 23: Actress Cara Delevingne attends The CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards Brought to you by The Coca-Cola Company at OMNIA Nightclub at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on April 23, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for CinemaCon) (credit:Ethan Miller via Getty Images)
(11 of23)
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ENSENADA, CHILE - APRIL 23: General view of Ensenada town covered of ash after the Calbuco volcano erupted near Puerto Varas in the Llanquihue Region, Chile on April 23, 2015 in Ensenada, Chile. The volcano Calbuco erupted on April 22, it´s considered as one of the most potentially dangerous in Chile, erupted for the first time in more than 42 years. It generated a huge cloud of ashes which is affecting the South of Chile and Argentina. (Photo by Ivan Konar/LatinContent/Getty Images) (credit:Ivan Konar/CON via Getty Images)
(12 of23)
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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 24: Soldiers on horseback take part in the Anzac Day eve street parade on April 24, 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand. The parade was organised to remember the centenary of the Gallipoli landings on April 25, 1915. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) (credit:Hagen Hopkins via Getty Images)
(13 of23)
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WASHINGTON, USA - APRIL 23: Hundreds of people march through the streets of Baltimore to seek justice for the death for Freddie Gray who died from injuries suffered in Police custody in Baltimore, USA on April 23, 2015. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(14 of23)
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YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - APRIL 21: Filipino death-row prisoner Mary Jane Veloso, wearing an Indonesian traditional costume, poses during a fashion show to mark Indonesian woman's emancipation Kartini day at Wirogunan prison in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on April 21, 2015. Mary Jane who was convicted by an Indonesian court for attempting to smuggle heroin into Indonesia is now on death row. Indonesia's attorney general in reports on 07 April was cited as saying that 10 death-row convicts including Filipino maid Veloso would be executed together for the sake of 'efficiency.'Â (Photo by Jefri Tarigan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(15 of23)
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A man uses a smartphone in front of an Apple store display advertising the Apple watch in Hong Kong on April 24, 2015. The watch officially launched in the southern Chinese city but Apple -- which opened pre-orders on April 10 -- is taking a different approach than it has for the iPhone and iPad, which traditionally draw huge crowds to its retail stores for product launches. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PHILIPPE LOPEZ via Getty Images)
(16 of23)
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A view of the tent where a funeral service for 24 migrants drowned while trying to reach the Southern coasts of Italy took place, in Msida, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, Thursday, April 23, 2015. The migrants died as a smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(17 of23)
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Indian Muslim devotees travel in an auto rickshaw during the Urs festival in Ajmer, India, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Thousands of devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisht for the annual festival marking the saint's death anniversary. (AP Photo/Deepak Sharma) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(18 of23)
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In this Wednesday, April 15, 2015 photo, Sudanese fishermen sail through river algae while fishing on the Nile River on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan. The worldâs longest river, the Nile courses through 11 countries, ending in Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Its main tributaries, the Blue and the White Niles, meet just north of Khartoum. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(19 of23)
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RAMSGATE, ENGLAND - APRIL 23: UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage celebrates St George's Day with a pint in the Northwood Club after meeting veterans on April 23, 2015 in Ramsgate, England. Saint George is the Patron Saint of England, who was born of Christian parents in Cappadocia, an area which is now in Eastern Turkey, in the 3rd century. Various countries commemorate his death on April 23 every year. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) (credit:Peter Macdiarmid via Getty Images)
(20 of23)
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NAPLES, ITALY - 2015/04/23: Oath of the cadets the 'Frecce Tricolori' Italian Air Force in Pozzuoli. (Photo by Paola Visone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit:Pacific Press via Getty Images)
(21 of23)
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A view of the Roman Forum with the new illumination, designed by Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, in downtown Rome, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP Photo) ITALY OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(22 of23)
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This view from Puerto Varas, southern Chile, shows a high column of ash and lava spewing from the Calbuco volcano, on April 23, 2015. Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday, spewing a giant funnel of ash high into the sky near the southern port city of Puerto Montt and triggering a red alert. Authorities ordered an evacuation for a 10-kilometer (six-mile) radius around the volcano, which is the second in southern Chile to have a substantial eruption since March 3, when the Villarrica volcano emitted a brief but fiery burst of ash and lava. AFP PHOTO/DAVID CORTES SEREY/AGENCIA UNO (Photo credit should read DAVID CORTES SEREY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DAVID CORTES SEREY via Getty Images)
(23 of23)
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President Barack Obama walks the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, Fla., Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Obama visited the Everglades on Earth Day to talk about how global warming threatens the U.S. economy. He says rising sea levels are putting the "economic engine for the South Florida tourism industry" at risk. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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