The best images from around the world for April 8
Renato Dias, 39, writes in his notebook as he poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Felipe Dana/The Associated Press
A man reacts at the site of an air strike in Sanaa, Yemen. Street battles also raged in Aden.Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
North Charleston police officer Michael Slager (R) is seen allegedly shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he runs away, in this still image from video in North Charleston, South Carolina. Slager was charged with murder after a video showed him shooting eight times at the back of Scott who was running away.Handout/Reuters
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front) laughs during a visit to the Pyongyang Weak-current Machine Plant.
An unexploded rocket lies buried in a field near the village of Dmitrivka, Ukraine. As a tenuous ceasfire brings a lull to Ukraine’s year long conflict, the danger of landmines threatens lives as well as economic recovery.Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP / Getty Images
A morgue worker at the Chiromo Funeral Parlour walks past coffins lined up ready to receive the bodies of some of those killed in the Garissa university attack in Kenya.Ben Curtis/The Associated Press
Canadian diver, Pamela Ware, surfaces during a training session in Gatineau, Quebec. Ware is expected to win a medal during the Pan Am games July 10 - 26th in Toronto.Dave Chan
Two women take a selfie before a fashion show on the streets during Shanghai Fashion Week.Johannes Eisele/AFP / Getty Images
Bubba Watson walks with his son Caleb during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament Wednesday in Augusta, Georgia.Matt Slocum/The Associated Press
The presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington is arranged identically to the way it was the night U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot through this doorway. On April 15th the United States commemorates the 150th anniversary of his assassination.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters