Best pictures from April 22
A Greater Adjutant Stork flies by a ragpicker looking for recyclable items at a garbage dump on Earth Day, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. People across the globe hold events to celebrate the Earth's environment and spread awareness on how to conserve its natural resources on Earth Day, observed annually on April 22.Anupam Nath/The Associated Press
A Nepalese Hindu devotee lights an oil lamp during the last day of a Mahayagya, holy rituals that last for seven days, near Pashupatinath temple in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. The Mahayagya was organized by Hindu devotees to welcome Nepali New year, for peace in Nepal and to generate income to construct a temple of Goddess Laxmi in Sankhu on the outskirts of Katmandu.Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press
Joerg Beckmann watches his different kites during calm winds from east at the beach of the North Sea island Norderney, Germany, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.Ingo Wagner/The Associated Press
Mason Mitchell, a young member of the Cowboys and Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers and indigenous leaders, participates in protests against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington April 22, 2014. The latest delay to a final decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will reinforce a White House strategy to energize President Barack Obama's liberal-leaning base before fall elections in which Democrats risk losing control of the U.S. Senate.GARY CAMERON/Reuters
This April 10, 2014 photo shows a view of the field from inside Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, in Chicago. With Boston’s Fenway Park and Wrigley the only two stadiums in the majors with primary manual scoreboards, it has been a job largely shrouded in mystery until the Cubs allowed The Associated Press climb the steel ladder through the steel floor of the scoreboard for a rare visit to mark Wrigley’s 100-year anniversary.Kiichiro Sato/The Associated Press
The shadow of a visitor taking a picture is cast on a board with messages wishing safe return of missing passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from a South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago.Lee Jin-man/The Associated Press
Women walk past spring flowers in Commissioners Park in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 22, 2014.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge stand in front of Uluru in the Northern Territory of Australia, April 22, 2014. Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine are undertaking a 19-day official visit to New Zealand and Australia with their son George.POOL/Reuters
A gunman guards during a news conference by Vacheslav Ponomarev leader of the pro-Russian gunmen, alongside a local reporter, in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. In town after town in the beleaguered east, it’s hard to tell who’s in control - and the situation in Slovyansk is just one of the most dramatic examples. Since the unrest began, pro-Russia insurgents have adopted a strategy of electing so-called people’s leaders: mayors and regional governors who claim to represent the people’s will, despite their questionable background and skills for the job. One reportedly is under criminal investigation, another is an Internet blogger.Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press
Armed pro-Russian men get ready to fire shots into the air during a burial ceremony for Pavel Pavlenko, one of three men killed in a shootout days earlier, in Aleksandrovka, Ukraine, April 22, 2014. Hundreds of residents of the eastern Ukrainian city under the control of pro-Russian militants came to the service at the Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit Tuesday, and many held leaders in Kiev responsible for their deaths.MAURICIO LIMA/The New York Times
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women pray during the last vacation day of the Jewish Passover holiday at Tel Aviv port, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, April 22, 2014.Oded Balilty/The Associated Press