Kuwait City, Kuwait: Firefighters from the national guard, the army and the oil industry joined efforts to contain a huge fire in a dump for more than 5m used tyres | Yasser Al-zayyat/AFP
Manama, Bahrain: an anti-government protester flashes a victory sign in front of riot police during an anti-government rally demanding the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja | Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Pyongyang, North Korea: Performers sit beneath a screen showing images of leader Kim Jong-un at a theatre during celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung | Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Bangkok, Thailand: Buddhist monks pray while promoting world peace at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple | Sukree Sukplang/Reuters
Bucharest, Romania: a Sphynx cat watches a referee during an international feline beauty competition | Vadim Ghirda/AP
Tel Aviv, Israel: Hrity, a migrant from Eritrea, covers her face as she poses for a photograph | Nir Elias/Reuters
Vlasenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina: A woman visits a grave | Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Tchyllah, Chad: Boys sit on the sand in a desert village in the Sahel. The region has been hit by a food crisis | Ben Curtis/AP
Kuwait City, Kuwait: Firefighters from the national guard, the army and the oil industry joined efforts to contain a huge fire in a dump for more than 5m used tyres | Yasser Al-zayyat/AFP
Kabul, Afghanistan: A vendor sells goldfish in the Wazir Akbar Khan district | Johannes Eisele/AFP
Manama, Bahrain: an anti-government protester flashes a victory sign in front of riot police during an anti-government rally demanding the release of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja | Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
Pyongyang, North Korea: Performers sit beneath a screen showing images of leader Kim Jong-un at a theatre during celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-sung | Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Members of the Free Syrian Army pray near their weapons in the outskirts of Taftanaz village, east of Idlib city April 12, 2012 | -/Reuters