AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in April 2025.

A nun cries as the body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Nuns watch the funeral of Pope Francis from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A youth touches the Angels Unaware boat sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

New York Mets' Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, as he is attended at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Clouds are reflected on the water of lake Walchensee near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

People attend the Old Fashioned Fest at a park in Santiago, Chile, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father’s cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

People with photos of their relatives who were deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador, for being alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang, cry and pray outside El Salvador’s embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

A woman stands at her home where she has the news on her TV, showing U.S. President Donald Trump, in Villa Caleta, a community in Panama that used to benefit economically by being on the route migrants took after crossing the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S., April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A penitent playing the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by performers playing the role of Roman soldiers during the Way of the Cross procession in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A child gets a ride on a dolly in the Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem during final preparations for the Passover holiday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike as they are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Kashmiri women inspect the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials said was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Monghama village in Tral, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A vlogger who dressed up to look like a humanoid robot poses for photos at the Shanghai auto show, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

People wear virtual reality headsets as they immerse themselves in "Teleport to Venezuela," a 35-minute VR documentary by Noa Iimura exploring life in Venezuela, as the film's national and European tour kicks off in the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S., in Doral, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

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Lead photo: Girls ride the Tempest at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

This collection was curated by photographer Jenny Kane and photo editor Sydney Shaefer.