Godzilla and an Olympic voyage: photos of the weekend

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Nice, France

Llamas are walked during the third edition of La Marche des Animaux (The Animals’ Walk) in the southern French Riviera city

Two llamas are walked along a seaside promenade by two people holding their leashes, as people look on

Donetsk, Ukraine

A priest sprinkles holy water on believers during the Orthodox Palm Sunday service at a church in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine

A priest sprinkles holy water on believers

Cairo, Egypt

A Coptic Orthodox Christian priest throws holy water during a Palm Sunday mass at the Samaan el-Kharaz monastery in the Mokattam Mountain area

A priest with his back to the camera throws holy water a crowd of people facing him, including a man in a white shirt with his arms raised in the air

Guangzhou, China

Destroyed and damaged buildings in an affected area after a tornado hit southern China

Overhead shot of destroyed and damaged buildings

Gaza City

Palestinian Christians hold Palm Sunday mass at the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius church amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas

Palestinian Christians wearing headscarves, with one woman holding an ancient text

Bangkok, Thailand

Enthusiasts perform yoga during a sunrise event on a runway at Suvarnabhumi airport

Women in white crop tops with black leggings perform yoga on mats placed on the runway

Alexandra, South Africa

Supporters of opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) gather during a campaign rally on Saturday near Johannesburg

People, many wearing red, stand behind a metal fence as security guards look on

Venice, Italy

Pope Francis visits the Giudecca women’s prison during his Sunday pastoral visit to Venice, where he told them he very much wanted to meet them as they held a special place in his heart

Pope Francis shakes the hand of a woman seated alongside others at the prison

Kent, UK

Thousands of tonnes of illegal waste dumped within Hoad’s Wood nature reserve in Ashford. The ancient woodland is designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) due to its vast array of birds, insects and trees. Campaigners have said the bluebell woodland has turned into a ‘desolate wasteland’

Aerial view of tonnes of illegal waste dumped in a clearing surrounded by trees

Corinth, Greece

The Bélem, a three-masted sailing ship from 1896 that is carrying the Olympic flame from Greece to Marseille in France, sails after crossing the Corinth canal

A three-masted ship sails between steep cliffs on a canal

London, UK

The Tweed Run London bike ride, starting at the Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings at Spa Fields on Saturday. Participants don tweeds and brogues and cycle through London, stopping along the way to take tea, have a picnic and ending with an ‘old-fashioned knees-up in the afternoon’

Participants in the Tweed Run cycle through London, with a man in a cap with a child on one bike, a woman in a 50s-style red outfit on another, and a man in a yellow top hat on a third bike

Georgia, US

Seniors from Marietta high school class of 2024 gather at Brumby Hall historic site for a group photo before the school’s prom on Saturday

Young women in prom gowns carrying floral bouquets

Washington DC, US

Demonstrators gather to protest against the attacks in Gaza outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday

A woman in an evening gown cowers from a man holding a dollar bill in her face, while another person shouts at her through a loudspeaker

Tel Aviv, Israel

Israeli mounted police disperse anti-government protesters

A man falls beneath a horse as mounted police move towards protesters

Herăști

, RomaniaA man prepares a barbecue as fires burn next to tombstones. Romanian Christian-Orthodox people commemorate their departed ones by setting up small bonfires in the cemeteries on Lazarus Saturday, one day before Palm Sunday and a week before Easter

A man prepares a barbecue in a cemetery as fires burn next to tombstones in Herasti, Romania

Rimini, Italy

This multi-exposure photograph shows an athlete competing in the rings during the men’s individual apparatus finals event at the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships

An athlete is shown at various stages of their performance competing in the rings

Panama City, Panama

Supporters of Panama’s former president and presidential candidate for the Popular party, Martín Torrijos, attend the campaign closing rally

Party supporters wave white flags

Tokyo, Japan

People take photographs of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, lit up with a projection mapping titled Godzilla: Attack on Tokyo that shows a 100-metre tall life-size scale display of the monster

People photographed from behind at ground level pointing their phones up towards the high-rise building on which an image of Godzilla is projected
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