CNN Site Map for Section World (Galleries) for April - 2015
DateTitle
- 2015-04-30Maysa prays before her turn on stage during the final contest for Miss São Paulo 2015.
- 2015-04-29Connor McDonnell has traveled the world to capture some of the planet's biggest artists. Here he is with MTV presenter Laura Whitmore.
- 2015-04-29Homosexuality is illegal in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former President of Iran, famously said during a 2007 trip to the United States, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country." For a year, photographer Laurence Rasti,
- 2015-04-29Child soldier use around the world
- 2015-04-29The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis took this picture of the International Space Station after leaving it in July 2011. Atlantis was the last shuttle to visit the station, which was first launched in 1998 and built by a partnership of 16 nations.
- 2015-04-28A police car escorts an ambulance carrying the coffin bearing the body of one of the eight executed drug convicts as it arrives in Nusakambangan port in Cilacap after the executions at Nusakambangan maximum security prison island on Wednesday, April 29.
- 2015-04-27This Rolex 6263 Daytona "Albino", one of only three in the world, is one of the top lots at an upcoming Phillips auction in Geneva, on May 10.
- 2015-04-27A massive earthquake centered less than 50 miles from Kathmandu rocked Nepal with devastating force early Saturday. Hundreds have been killed. Americans Rob and Kari Stiles in Kathmandu described the scene as a "war zone."
- 2015-04-2770,000 people were killed or presumed dead on May 31, 1970, when a 7.9 earthquake hit Chimbote, Peru.
- 2015-04-27An injured person is loaded onto a rescue helicopter on Sunday, April 26, at Everest base camp. The bodies of those who died lie under orange tents. The devastating earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday set off avalanches that left large numbers of climbe
- 2015-04-27Kathmandu's nine-story Dharahara tower is shown in July 2013.
- 2015-04-26Britain's Queen Elizabeth lays a wreath during a service to commemorate Anzac Day and the centennial of the Battle of Gallipoli at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London on Saturday, April 25. A century ago, Allied troops came ashore at Gallipol
- 2015-04-25This NASA satellite image from space shows the Sarychev Volcano in Russia erupting on June 12, 2009. Click through the gallery to see other stunning images of volcanoes captured from space.
- 2015-04-24A housing development meets the edge of undeveloped desert in Cathedral City, California, on Friday, April 3. California Gov. Jerry Brown has imposed mandatory water restrictions on residents, businesses and farms in the drought-ravaged state, ordering ci
- 2015-04-24Cape Town artist Lorraine Loots spends at least an hour each day creating a painting the size of a thumbnail.
- 2015-04-24Getty Images special correspondent John Moore has taken the top prize in Sony World Photography Awards 2015 for his early exposure of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia's capital Monrovia.
- 2015-04-24The Hubble Space Telescope was launched April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard the space shuttle Discovery. NASA calls Hubble the "most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope." Hubble has given us new
- 2015-04-24Rwandan conservationist Edwin Sabuhoro (middle) worked with former poaching communities to create a flourishing cultural village visited by tourists from all over the world.
- 2015-04-24Migrants are rescued from the Aegean Sea, off the coast of the Greek island of Rhodes, on Monday, April 20. Greek authorities said that at least three people died after their wooden boat ran aground. There has been a recent surge in the number of migrants
- 2015-04-24Angad Ray, a flower seller, balances devdar leaves on his head. Photographer Ken Hermann visited the wholesale flower market Malik Ghat in Kolkata, India, for his project "Flower Man."
- 2015-04-23A tree's branches in the Paris district of La Defense in March 2014. French photographer Fabien Le Coq has taken this vantage point for all of the images in his "Treesome" series.
- 2015-04-22This flawless, 100-carat diamond sold for $22 million, including buyer's premium, at Sotheby's New York's Magnificent Jewels sale on April 21. It's one of only six diamonds over 100 carats to ever be sold at auction.
- 2015-04-21Arthur Bloom, right, rehearses with members of the MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band at Bloom's home in Washington. Through his nonprofit, Bloom is using music to help hundreds of injured troops recover their lives.
- 2015-04-21Program participants and volunteers chant at the start of a Roberta's House peer support session in Baltimore. Annette March-Grier, center, founded Roberta's House to help children and their families cope with grief -- particularly the trauma of
- 2015-04-21Patricia Kelly grooms a horse on her farm in Hartford, Connecticut. Kelly's nonprofit, Ebony Horsewomen, teaches horseback riding and animal science to at-risk youths, offering them an alternative to the streets.
- 2015-04-21After witnessing the pain and fear that children with cancer endure, Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg founded a program that provides free martial arts classes so kids can learn to control their pain and feel powerful.
- 2015-04-21The top 10 CNN Heroes of the year pose on stage with their awards during the annual tribute show in New York.
- 2015-04-21Jon Burns was inspired to start his volunteer group, Lionsraw, while he was surrounded by passionate fans at a soccer game. "It was like an untapped army," he said. "And I started asking myself, 'What could I do if we could mobilize so
- 2015-04-21While working as a teacher in Guatemala, Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes saw his students struggling with drugs and gangs -- issues that his own generation faced as well. So at 23, he turned part of his family's home into a community center and started Los
- 2015-04-21Iranian air force jets -- a MiG-29, from left, an F-4 Phantom and an F-14 Tomcat -- escort a Boeing 747 as they perform a flyover during a parade marking National Army Day on Saturday, April 18.
- 2015-04-20Mozambican Emmanuel Sithole, left, was walking down a street in Johannesburg's Alexandra Township when four men surrounded him on Saturday, April 18. Sithole pleaded for mercy, but it was already too late. The attackers bludgeoned him with a wrench a
- 2015-04-20The bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, is the deadliest terror attack in the country's history. Eighty-five people were killed.
- 2015-04-18The sky over Sanaa, Yemen, is illuminated by anti-aircraft fire during a Saudi-led airstrike on Friday, April 17. The coalition's warplanes have been carrying out strikes against Houthi rebels since President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi fled the country i
- 2015-04-17A member of a bomb squad approaches a small personal aircraft called a "gyrocopter" after it landed on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, April 15. The aircraft's pilot, a mailman from Florida named Doug Hughes, was arrested af
- 2015-04-17Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Revolutionary Command Council vice chairman / Northern Region commander / Deputy secretary general, Ba'th Party Regional Command / Deputy commander, Iraqi armed forces.
April 17, 2015: killed in a security operation in Iraq, ac
- 2015-04-16Real-life soldiers from Western Sahara are made to look like toy soldiers in a photo project by Simon Brann Thorpe. Western Sahara is a long-disputed region of northwestern Africa.
- 2015-04-15In November 1942, the SS City of Cairo was sunk by a German U-boat while carrying 100 tons of silver.
- 2015-04-15Wanderland is Hermès' tribute to the 19th-century flâneur, and the curiosity and sophistication they embodied. (The elephant in a porcelain store, seen here, is the French equivalent of a bull in a China shop.)
- 2015-04-15Zemi Yenus was a successful beautician in the U.S. But upon returning to Ethiopia, her son Jojo Yusuf, pictured left, was diagnosed with autism.
- 2015-04-15¿Cuánto cuesta el iPad del papa Francisco?
- 2015-04-14Hong Kong island's narrow streets and winding highways had a taste of the city's custom and classic motorcycles with the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride.
- 2015-04-14MARCH 31 - CHONGQING, CHINA: People take photos of the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport. The aircraft, the first to be completely sustained by the sun's rays, took off from Mandalay, Myanmar's se
- 2015-04-14Después de que los militantes de Boko Haram secuestraron a más de 200 niñas nigerianas hace un año, millones de personas en todo el mundo se unieron a una campaña en las redes sociales para rogar por su regreso seguro. En la foto, Alasholuyi Kehinde.
- 2015-04-14A greater adjutant stork flies over the Boragaon landfill in Guwahati, India. The endangered bird attracted photographer Timothy Bouldry to the area.
- 2015-04-14A doctor, center, with the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army, walks with a group of survivors at the entrance to the newly liberated Auschwitz I concentration camp in January 1945. The Red Army liberated the camp on January 27, 1945. Above the gate is
- 2015-04-13Zofia Bocian was 10 when she and her Polish family were deported to Russia's Siberia region in 1940. They were among hundreds of thousands of Poles deported by the invading Soviets during World War II. Recalling the sub-zero temperatures, she told ph
- 2015-04-09Beatrice Tsang worked in marketing, finance and the film industry before turning her passion for baking into a profession.
- 2015-04-08Trust, una nano escultura realizada por el artista Jonty Hurwitz, con residencia en Londres, es tan minúscula que puede parase sobre un cabello humano.
- 2015-04-07This is the 40th year that camera maker Nikon has held its Small World competition, which seeks the best magnified images melding science and art. Last year, freelance photographer Wim van Egmond won first place for this magnified image of marine plankton
- 2015-04-07Jeannete Valenzuela and Katherine Gonzalez dress in costume for a religious festival in Ayquina, Chile, last July. Photographer Andres Figueroa spent time in the Atacama Desert chronicling festivals that attract thousands of people to otherwise quiet mini
- 2015-04-07Trust, a nano-scultpure by London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz, is so tiny it can stand on a human hair.
- 2015-04-07En esta foto tomada en febrero, Jeff Gusky (a la izquierda), un fotógrafo y médico de Texas, lee el grafiti en una antigua cantera de yeso en la "Cite Souterraine" (ciudad subterránea) en Naours, al norte de Francia. A la derecha se ve Matthieu
- 2015-04-06A relative grieves after identifying a body at a funeral home in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 6, 2015. Several days earlier, gunmen stormed Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, and killed at least 147 people. The Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant gro
- 2015-04-06People walk on a street covered with mud in Copiapo, Chile, on Thursday, April 2. Floods in the north of the country have left killed at least 25 people and left more than 100 missing, with death tolls expected to rise.
- 2015-04-06CNN's Andrew Stevens tries Hong Kong's latest sensation -- Jenny's butter cookies. Tourists and locals queue up for hours to get their hands on a tin.
- 2015-04-06In this photo taken in February, Jeff Gusky, left, a photographer and physician from Texas, reads graffiti in a former chalk quarry at the Cite Souterraine (Underground City) in Naours, northern France. At right is Cite Souterraine manager Matthieu Beuvin
- 2015-04-06Un grupo de personas camina en una calle inundada en Copiapó, Chile, el jueves 2 de abril. Las lluvias en el norte del país han cuasado la muerte de más de 20 personas y más de 100 desaparecidos. Se espera que aumente el número de muertos.
- 2015-04-05Más de 3.000 personas fueron evacuadas en marzo de 2015 tras la erupción del volcán Villarrica en Chile.
- 2015-04-05Pope Francis greets the crowd from the central loggia of St Peters' basilica after the 'Urbi et Orbi' blessing for Rome and the world.
- 2015-04-05Una encendida luna de sangre se ve desde San Clemente, California, en las primeras horas de la mañana del 4 de abril.
- 2015-04-05Así como Navidad cuenta con su árbol, ornamentos y Santa Claus, la Pascua tiene elementos periféricos: un conejo y sus huevos de colores.
- 2015-04-05El Gran Colisionador de Hadrones está situado en el CERN, la Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear, cerca de Ginebra, Suiza. Esta es Globo de Ciencia e Innovación del CERN , que alberga un pequeño museo sobre la física de partículas en el int
- 2015-04-05