Pictures Of The Day: Monday 18th April

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Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post UK 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.

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A worker cleans the statue of King Sejong ahead of the coming of spring at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 18, 2016. King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), created the Korean alphabet, hangeul, in 1446. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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The F1 car â named Betsafe BGF1 and driven by an anonymous driver - deafened the streets of Manchester as it roared past local residents, as the driver waved to other cars on the road and even politely stopping to let a hoard of school children cross the road. The racing car also found time to take a pit stop at a local drive-through restaurant, much to the bemusement of the fast food workers. Gumball fans will be excited to know that the Team Betsafe F1 car will be in Dublin at the start of the rally and also at select UK locations over the course of the event. Technical specs and more information about the car are also available now on Betsafe.com (http://go.betsafe.com/gumball3000). Team Betsafe built this unique F1 car in collaboration with top Formula 1 experts from Only The Fast and its special camo wrapping was designed by one of the rising stars of automotive photography Oskar Bakke.
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Actor Johnny Depp and wife Amber Heard leave the Southport Magistrates Court on Australia's Gold Coast, April 18, 2016. Hollywood actor Johnny Depp's wife, actress Amber Heard, appeared in a Queensland court Monday charged with illegally smuggling the couple's Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country on a private jet while Depp was shooting a Pirates of the Caribbean movie last year. REUTERS/Dave Hunt/AAP ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NEW ZEALAND.
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Mia West is seen running through bluebells at South Weald Country Park in Essex.
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A mask on the statue of Lord Nelson in LondonÕs Trafalgar Square after Greenpeace activists climbed the landmark as part of a morning of protests to highlight air pollution in Britain.
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Luke Jones at the top of NelsonÕs Column in LondonÕs Trafalgar Square after he and another Greenpeace activist climbed the landmark as part of a morning of protests to highlight air pollution in Britain.
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INDIO, CA - APRIL 17: Record producer Calvin Harris performs onstage during day 3 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 17, 2016 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella)
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Firefighters work a fire at an auto wrecking yard in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley as a huge plume of thick, black smoke rises over them on Sunday, April 17, 2016. The Fire Department is calling the fire a major emergency but no injuries have been reported and no buildings are threatened. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Anti-government demonstrators burn a Workers Party flag after the lower house of Congress voted to impeach Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 17, 2016. The measure now goes to the Senate. Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks in managing the federal budget to maintain spending and shore up support. (AP Photo/Joedson Alves)
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A lone bison is blanketed by snow as the animal stands at the buffalo overlook along Interstate 70 as a severe spring storm packing high winds and heavy, wet snow sweeps over the intermountain West Saturday, April 16, 2016, near Evergreen, Colo. While the storm is starting later than predicted, forecasters are expecting driving snow to pummel the region Saturday night into Sunday, which has forced the cancellation of hundreds flights out of Denver's airport. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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A demonstrator holds a Aedes aegypti mosquito doll depicting Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff during a march demanding her impeachment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Today's vote will determine whether the impeachment proceeds to the Senate. Rousseff is accused of violating Brazil's fiscal laws to shore up public support amid a flagging economy. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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A migrant girl plays near the fire, by a tent, on the makeshift camp, at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday, April 17, 2016. More than 11,000 people have been stuck here for more than a month amid hopes that the border would reopen. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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The Washington Monument is captured in the refelcting pool on the National Mall in Washington before daybreak, Sunday, April 17, 2016. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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TOPSHOT - The picture shows an aerial of the largest active volcano in Japan, Mount Aso, in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture on April 16, 2016. A powerful earthquake hit southern Japan early on April 16, authorities said, sending panicked residents out of their homes in a region where nerves were already frayed by a swarm of strong shaking. / AFP / JIJI PRESS / STR / Japan OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - A Pakistani Kashmiri resident sits on cracks land following landslides in Danna village, some 48 kilometers from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani part of Kashmir on April 16, 2016. Hundreds of people have been shifting to safer places as their houses have been destroyed as large areas started moving downward in the land due to massive landslides. Pakistan last week ended the search for 23 people buried by a landslide in the north, after last week's heavy rains that authorities said killed 117 people. / AFP / SAJJAD QAYYUM (Photo credit should read SAJJAD QAYYUM/AFP/Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - A man carries a child at the migrant and refugee makeshift camp near the village of Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border on April 16, 2016.According to statistics released on on April 8 by the International Organization of Migrants (IOM), more than 152,000 people have arrived in Greece by sea from Turkey since January 1, nearly three-quarters of whom were Syrians. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused neighbouring Macedonia on April 11, 2016 of 'shaming' Europe by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at migrants desperately trying to break through a border fence. Tensions are still running high after April 10's violence, which saw 250 refugees and migrants hurt at the flashpoint Idomeni crossing as they tried to force their way into Macedonia. / AFP / DANIEL MIHAILESCU (Photo credit should read DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - People participate in the 'Colour Run 2016' in Paris on April 17, 2016.The Colour Run is a five kilometres paint race without winners nor prizes, while runners are showered with colored powder at stations along the run. / AFP / PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo credit should read PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - Troops from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force search for survivors at a landslide site after earthquakes in Minami-Aso, Kumamoto prefecture, on April 17, 2016. At least 41 people are known to have died in the double disaster, with up to eight still missing -- feared buried in shattered houses or under torrents of mud. / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)
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TOPSHOT - Atalanta's supporters follow the game under rain during the Italian Serie A football match Atalanta vs AS Roma on April 17, 2016 at the Azzuri d'Italia stadium in Bergamo. / AFP / OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Oscar Pistorius speaks to members of his legal team before appearing for a postponement of his sentencing hearing at the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, April 18, 2016. REUTERS/Marco Longari/Pool
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Malaysian Special Forces personnel demonstrate a hostage-rescue operation during the opening day of 15th Defence Services Asia Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur on April 18, 2016.Considered as one of the world's top defence and security exhibitions, the four-day exhibit remains the Asia-Pacific's vital procurement hub for defence and security. / AFP / MOHD RASFAN (Photo credit should read MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - APRIL 18: Malaysian Army personnel particpate in a military demonstration at The 15th Defence Services Asia on April 18, 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Defence and security companies from more than 60 countries are attending the 15th Defence Services Asia (DSA) to promote and display some of the world's most sophisticated land, air & sea defence hardware. (Photo by Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images)
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KUMAMOTO, JAPAN - APRIL 18: Crack parking lot is seen after the earthquake in Minamiaso, Kumamoto, Japan on April 16, 2016. The magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Kyushu, just after the earthquake killed 9, at least 26 new fatalities by this earthquake, total death toll from the series of earthquake rises to 42. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks at a press conference for the New York Veterans Police Association at the Hilton Garden Inn on April 17, 2016 in Staten Island New York City, NY, USA. Photo by Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM
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Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officers unveil the 15th century painting "Madonna with Child", attributed to Renaissance painter Cima da Conegliano (Gian Battista Cima), during a press conference on recovered paintings seized by the Nazis in 1944 in Camaiore near Lucca, at the Brera Art Gallery, in Milan, Italy, Monday, April 18, 2016. The paintings were seized from the Italian villa of Prince Felix Bourbon-Parma, then Prince of Luxembourg, and kept by the Supreme Comander of all SS forces Italy Karl Wolff at his residency of the Castle Dornsberg, near Merano, South Tyrol before being sent to Germany. The paintings were found on Dec. 3, 2014 in Milan. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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EDITORIAL USE ONLYThe British built Vauxhall Astra has been modified in homage to Queen Elizabeth II in celebration of her 90th birthday on Thursday April 21st, London.
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