1/23 Alisson Becker – 8 out of 10

In a game that required a clean sheet he made some crucial saves including one to deny Jordi Alba on the stroke of half-time.

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2/23 Trent Alexander-Arnold – 8 out of 10

Was strong in clearing the ball and winning defensive headers but was exceptional going forward.

AP

3/23 Joel Matip – 7 out of 10

Partnered van Dijk to perfection and kept a clean sheet against Barcelona.

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4/23 Virgil van Dijk – 7 out of 10

Commanding at the back and didn’t allow Messi to get the better of him, especially when Barca threw it all at them in the dying minutes.

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5/23 Andy Robertson ­– 6 out of 10

Looked a little slower than usual due to injury but still had a shot saved, made a last-ditch tackle and got stuck into Suarez, all before being subbed at half-time.

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6/23 Henderson – 7 out of 10

Played exceptionally well early in the first-half with enterprising runs into the box, one of which led to the opening goal.

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7/23 Fabinho – 7 out of 10

Got stuck right into the contest from the start. He clashed with Suarez, Vidal, Lenglet and Busquets and made lots of good challenges to break down Barcelona’s attacks.

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8/23 Georginio Wijnaldum (substitute) – 9 out of 10

The definition of a super-sub. Two goals in four minutes in the second half drew Liverpool level and Origi finished off the job.

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9/23 James Milner – 6 out of 10

Is a stable presence in the Liverpool mid-field, he threw himself into tackles and was able to supply balls for Mane, Origi and Shaqiri and filled in at left-back when Robertson was subbed off.

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10/23 Xherdan Shaqiri – 7 out of 10

Worked very hard to close down players but lacked control on the ball in the first half but when it mattered, he put a perfect cross in to find Wijnaldum.

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11/23 Divock Origi – 9 out of 10

Offered Liverpool some pace at the top and got into the right position to tap-in the opening goal and was the only man alert for Alexander-Arnold’s corner to give Liverpool a winner and send them through to the final.

AP

12/23 Sadio Mane – 7 out of 10

Was sharp up front especially against Roberto and Vidal on Barcelona’s right-hand side and created lots of chances for Liverpool.

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13/23 Marc-Andre ter Stegen – 6 out of 10

Made a good save to deny Robertson and was quick off his line when he sensed danger but looked less than his usual quality self.

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14/23 Sergi Roberto – 5 out of 10

Grew into the game at right back and made some good tackles in vital moments.

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15/23 Gerard Pique – 6 out of 10

Was the leader for Barcelona at the back and gave it his all making blocks and crucial times and taking the ball off Mane, Origi and Shaqiri.

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16/23 Clement Lenglet – 6 out of 10

Was a strong presence in the back line and quick out to clear the ball from Liverpool’s strikers.

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17/23 Jordi Alba – 5 out of 10

Had a tough time in defence when we all know he prefers to bomb forward leaving Busquets to cover him. When he did go forward, he had a couple of chances, but Alisson was there to deny him a goal.

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18/23 Arturo Vidal – 6 out of 10

Had a physical game and left it all out on the pitch tackling Mane, Milner, everyone really.

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19/23 Sergio Busquets – 5 out of 10

Didn’t like it when he had to cover for Jordi Alba at left-back and got lost in mid-field.

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20/23 Ivan Rakitic – 5 out of 10

Liverpool kept him quiet all night, he had a couple of decent runs down the wings but had little impact for Barcelona.

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21/23 Philippe Coutinho – 4 out of 10

Was subbed off on the hour mark with the scores level and had one shot saved by Alisson.

EPA

22/23 Lionel Messi – 6 out of 10

Fancy footwork, clinical passes and plenty of shots is par for the course for Messi but he even couldn’t drag Barcelona through to the final.

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23/23 Luis Suarez – 6 out of 10

Scrappy, aggressive and the pantomime villain as usual. His battle with Fabinho was a highlight.

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1/23 Alisson Becker – 8 out of 10

In a game that required a clean sheet he made some crucial saves including one to deny Jordi Alba on the stroke of half-time.

REUTERS

2/23 Trent Alexander-Arnold – 8 out of 10

Was strong in clearing the ball and winning defensive headers but was exceptional going forward.

AP

3/23 Joel Matip – 7 out of 10

Partnered van Dijk to perfection and kept a clean sheet against Barcelona.

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4/23 Virgil van Dijk – 7 out of 10

Commanding at the back and didn’t allow Messi to get the better of him, especially when Barca threw it all at them in the dying minutes.

EPA

5/23 Andy Robertson ­– 6 out of 10

Looked a little slower than usual due to injury but still had a shot saved, made a last-ditch tackle and got stuck into Suarez, all before being subbed at half-time.

PA

6/23 Henderson – 7 out of 10

Played exceptionally well early in the first-half with enterprising runs into the box, one of which led to the opening goal.

Action Images via Reuters

7/23 Fabinho – 7 out of 10

Got stuck right into the contest from the start. He clashed with Suarez, Vidal, Lenglet and Busquets and made lots of good challenges to break down Barcelona’s attacks.

Action Images via Reuters

8/23 Georginio Wijnaldum (substitute) – 9 out of 10

The definition of a super-sub. Two goals in four minutes in the second half drew Liverpool level and Origi finished off the job.

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9/23 James Milner – 6 out of 10

Is a stable presence in the Liverpool mid-field, he threw himself into tackles and was able to supply balls for Mane, Origi and Shaqiri and filled in at left-back when Robertson was subbed off.

Action Images via Reuters

10/23 Xherdan Shaqiri – 7 out of 10

Worked very hard to close down players but lacked control on the ball in the first half but when it mattered, he put a perfect cross in to find Wijnaldum.

REUTERS

11/23 Divock Origi – 9 out of 10

Offered Liverpool some pace at the top and got into the right position to tap-in the opening goal and was the only man alert for Alexander-Arnold’s corner to give Liverpool a winner and send them through to the final.

AP

12/23 Sadio Mane – 7 out of 10

Was sharp up front especially against Roberto and Vidal on Barcelona’s right-hand side and created lots of chances for Liverpool.

EPA

13/23 Marc-Andre ter Stegen – 6 out of 10

Made a good save to deny Robertson and was quick off his line when he sensed danger but looked less than his usual quality self.

Action Images via Reuters

14/23 Sergi Roberto – 5 out of 10

Grew into the game at right back and made some good tackles in vital moments.

Getty Images

15/23 Gerard Pique – 6 out of 10

Was the leader for Barcelona at the back and gave it his all making blocks and crucial times and taking the ball off Mane, Origi and Shaqiri.

Action Images via Reuters

16/23 Clement Lenglet – 6 out of 10

Was a strong presence in the back line and quick out to clear the ball from Liverpool’s strikers.

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17/23 Jordi Alba – 5 out of 10

Had a tough time in defence when we all know he prefers to bomb forward leaving Busquets to cover him. When he did go forward, he had a couple of chances, but Alisson was there to deny him a goal.

Getty Images

18/23 Arturo Vidal – 6 out of 10

Had a physical game and left it all out on the pitch tackling Mane, Milner, everyone really.

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19/23 Sergio Busquets – 5 out of 10

Didn’t like it when he had to cover for Jordi Alba at left-back and got lost in mid-field.

Action Images via Reuters

20/23 Ivan Rakitic – 5 out of 10

Liverpool kept him quiet all night, he had a couple of decent runs down the wings but had little impact for Barcelona.

EPA

21/23 Philippe Coutinho – 4 out of 10

Was subbed off on the hour mark with the scores level and had one shot saved by Alisson.

EPA

22/23 Lionel Messi – 6 out of 10

Fancy footwork, clinical passes and plenty of shots is par for the course for Messi but he even couldn’t drag Barcelona through to the final.

Getty Images

23/23 Luis Suarez – 6 out of 10

Scrappy, aggressive and the pantomime villain as usual. His battle with Fabinho was a highlight.

Action Images via Reuters

1/13 Joe Biden

The former vice president - poised to be a frontrunner - has announced his run. He recently faced scrutiny for inappropriate touching of women, but was thought to deal with the criticism well

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2/13 Bernie Sanders

The 2016 runner-up has announced that he will be running again in 2020

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3/13 Pete Buttigieg

The Indiana mayor and war veteran will be running for president. If elected, he would be the first openly LGBT+ president in American history

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4/13 Beto O'Rourke

The former Texas congressman formally launched his bid for the presidency in March. He intends to run on a progressive platform, stating that the US is driven by "gross differences in opportunity and outcome"

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5/13 Elizabeth Warren

The Massachusetts Senator has formally launched her bid for president in 2020. A progressive Democrat, she is a major supporter of regulating Wall Street.

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6/13 Cory Booker

The New Jersey Senator has announced that he will be running for the presidency in 2020. If he secures the nomination he said finding a female vice president would be a priority

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7/13 Wayne Messam

Mayor of the city of Miramar in the Miami metropolitan area, Wayne Messam has announced his bid. He intends to run on a progressive platform against the "broken" federal government. He favours gun regulations and was a signatory to a letter from some 400 mayors condemning President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord

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8/13 Kirsten Gillibrand

The New York Senator formally announced her presidential bid in January, saying that “healthcare should be a right, not a privilege”

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9/13 Kamala Harris

The former California attorney general will be running for president in 2020. Introduced to the national stage during Jeff Sessions’ testimony, she has endorsed Medicare-for-all and proposed a major tax-credit for the middle class

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10/13 John Delaney

The Maryland congressman was the first to launch his bid for presidency, making the announcement in 2017

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11/13 Tulsi Gabbard

The Hawaii congresswoman announced her candidacy in January, but is likely to face tough questions on her past comments on LGBT+ rights and her stance on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

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12/13 Andrew Yang

The entrepreneur has announced his presidential candidacy, and has pledged that he would introduce a universal basic income of $1,000 a month to every American over the age of 18

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13/13 Julian Castro

The former San Antonio mayor announced his candidacy in January and said that his running has a “special meaning” for the Latino community in the US

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1/13 Joe Biden

The former vice president - poised to be a frontrunner - has announced his run. He recently faced scrutiny for inappropriate touching of women, but was thought to deal with the criticism well

EPA

2/13 Bernie Sanders

The 2016 runner-up has announced that he will be running again in 2020

Getty

3/13 Pete Buttigieg

The Indiana mayor and war veteran will be running for president. If elected, he would be the first openly LGBT+ president in American history

Getty

4/13 Beto O'Rourke

The former Texas congressman formally launched his bid for the presidency in March. He intends to run on a progressive platform, stating that the US is driven by "gross differences in opportunity and outcome"

AP

5/13 Elizabeth Warren

The Massachusetts Senator has formally launched her bid for president in 2020. A progressive Democrat, she is a major supporter of regulating Wall Street.

Reuters

6/13 Cory Booker

The New Jersey Senator has announced that he will be running for the presidency in 2020. If he secures the nomination he said finding a female vice president would be a priority

Getty

7/13 Wayne Messam

Mayor of the city of Miramar in the Miami metropolitan area, Wayne Messam has announced his bid. He intends to run on a progressive platform against the "broken" federal government. He favours gun regulations and was a signatory to a letter from some 400 mayors condemning President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord

Vice News

8/13 Kirsten Gillibrand

The New York Senator formally announced her presidential bid in January, saying that “healthcare should be a right, not a privilege”

Getty

9/13 Kamala Harris

The former California attorney general will be running for president in 2020. Introduced to the national stage during Jeff Sessions’ testimony, she has endorsed Medicare-for-all and proposed a major tax-credit for the middle class

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10/13 John Delaney

The Maryland congressman was the first to launch his bid for presidency, making the announcement in 2017

AP

11/13 Tulsi Gabbard

The Hawaii congresswoman announced her candidacy in January, but is likely to face tough questions on her past comments on LGBT+ rights and her stance on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Getty

12/13 Andrew Yang

The entrepreneur has announced his presidential candidacy, and has pledged that he would introduce a universal basic income of $1,000 a month to every American over the age of 18

Getty

13/13 Julian Castro

The former San Antonio mayor announced his candidacy in January and said that his running has a “special meaning” for the Latino community in the US

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1/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

2/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

EPA

3/50 5 May 2019

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ignites the liberation fire during the Liberation festival in Almere, The Netherlands.

EPA

4/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

5/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women's 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

6/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a "million-strong" march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

7/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France's zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, "yellow vest" demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

8/50

Opponents to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

9/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

10/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

11/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading "Climate urgency: Think, vote, act" on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain's general elections. - Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

12/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

13/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

14/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

15/50 23 April 2019

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

16/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony's shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

17/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

18/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

19/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

20/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's old city

EPA

21/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

22/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is "under control", the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

23/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

AFP/Getty

24/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world's third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

25/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

26/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition 'Mirrors: In and Out of Reality' in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

27/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

28/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

29/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan's police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators' demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

30/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

31/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

32/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway's longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

33/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

Getty

34/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

35/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

36/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal's southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

37/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia's second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

38/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

39/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and "radical" feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain's increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

40/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

41/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

42/50 27 March 2019

A Palestinian protester moves a burning tire during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Reuters

43/50 26 March 2019

Palestinians sisters girls look at a destroyed Hamas site close their family's destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. According to reports, Israel continued to launch air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight after a rocket allegedly fired hit a house near Tel Aviv in central Israel injuring at least seven people

EPA

44/50 25 March 2019

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold up a proclamation recognising Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights as Netanyahu exits the White House

Reuters

45/50 24 March 2019

Abounded vessel Hagland Captain in anchor in the same area as the cruise ship Viking Sky, which had problems on March 23 during the storm over the west coast of Norway at Hustadvika near Romsdal

AFP/Getty

46/50 23 March 2019

Chris Pratt gets slimed while accepting the Best Butt-Kicker award for "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" at the Kids Choice Awards

Reuters

47/50 22 March 2019

An aerial view shows damaged buildings after an explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country

AFP/Getty

48/50 21 March 2019

A child is transported on a fridge during floods after Cyclone Idai, in Buzi, outside Beira, Mozambique

Reuters

49/50 20 March 2019

Indian Hindu devotees are sprayed with coloured water as they celebrate the Holi festival at the Kalupur Swaminarayan Temple, in Ahmedabad. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month

AFP/Getty

50/50 19 March 2019

Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier

Kalamazoo Gazette/AP

1/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

2/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

EPA

3/50 5 May 2019

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ignites the liberation fire during the Liberation festival in Almere, The Netherlands.

EPA

4/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

5/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women's 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

6/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a "million-strong" march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

7/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France's zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, "yellow vest" demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

8/50

Opponents to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

9/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

10/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

11/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading "Climate urgency: Think, vote, act" on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain's general elections. - Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

12/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

13/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

14/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

15/50 23 April 2019

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

16/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony's shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

17/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

18/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

19/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

20/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's old city

EPA

21/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

22/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is "under control", the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

23/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

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24/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world's third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

25/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

26/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition 'Mirrors: In and Out of Reality' in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

27/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

28/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

29/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan's police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators' demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

30/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

31/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

32/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway's longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

33/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

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34/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

35/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

36/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal's southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

37/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia's second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

38/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

39/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and "radical" feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain's increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

40/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

41/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

42/50 27 March 2019

A Palestinian protester moves a burning tire during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Reuters

43/50 26 March 2019

Palestinians sisters girls look at a destroyed Hamas site close their family's destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. According to reports, Israel continued to launch air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight after a rocket allegedly fired hit a house near Tel Aviv in central Israel injuring at least seven people

EPA

44/50 25 March 2019

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold up a proclamation recognising Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights as Netanyahu exits the White House

Reuters

45/50 24 March 2019

Abounded vessel Hagland Captain in anchor in the same area as the cruise ship Viking Sky, which had problems on March 23 during the storm over the west coast of Norway at Hustadvika near Romsdal

AFP/Getty

46/50 23 March 2019

Chris Pratt gets slimed while accepting the Best Butt-Kicker award for "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" at the Kids Choice Awards

Reuters

47/50 22 March 2019

An aerial view shows damaged buildings after an explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country

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48/50 21 March 2019

A child is transported on a fridge during floods after Cyclone Idai, in Buzi, outside Beira, Mozambique

Reuters

49/50 20 March 2019

Indian Hindu devotees are sprayed with coloured water as they celebrate the Holi festival at the Kalupur Swaminarayan Temple, in Ahmedabad. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month

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50/50 19 March 2019

Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier

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1/24 Six Nations Team of the Tournament

Click through the gallery to see who makes Jack de Menezes' Team of the Six Nations.

Getty

2/24 15. Liam Williams (Wales)

Has claims for the player of the tournament award after a brilliant two months. Shone in the absence of Leigh Halfpenny and handled the England kicking game with ease in Cardiff. Should have scored against France but offered so much more than tries to Wales’ Grand Slam cause and is among the very best aerial footballers.

AFP/Getty Images

3/24 14. Josh Adams (Wales)

Early in his international career but has given Warren Gatland a serious selection headache if and when Halfpenny returns, as Adams deserves to be in the starting XV on this form. Tries in three consecutive matches against Italy, England and Scotland, including a moment against the Red Rose that will live long in the memory.

PA

4/24 13. Henry Slade (England)

A breakthrough tournament for the versatile centre who finally looks to have found his place in the No 13 shirt. Glides across the field with the ball in hand and his two tries against Ireland helped England banish their Dublin hoodoo. One of the most naturally gifted players of his generation.

Getty Images

5/24 12. Hadleigh Parkes (Wales)

Has slotted in seamlessly into the Welsh midfield and saved his biggest impact for the Grand Slam-clinching finale – not just by scoring the first try immediately but also for his try-saving recovery tackle on Ireland’s Jacob Stockdale. Manu Tuilagi certainly impressed with five consecutive appearances and a demolition job on France and Italy, but he could not match Parkes’ defensive reliability.

Action Images via Reuters

6/24 11. Jonny May (England)

The tournament’s top scorer brings fans to their feet whenever he receives the ball in space. Only failed to score a try in one of his five matches and bagged rapid 29-minute hat-trick against France. His relationship with Elliot Daly has been a joy to watch.

AP

7/24 10. Finn Russell (Scotland)

Alongside Beauden Barrett as the most potent attacking threats at 10 in the world. The way he brought Scotland back into the match against England was breath-taking to watch, and he also impressed in the defeat against Wales. Missed the game against France with concussion, but you can see why Racing 92 offered him the chance to make it big in the Top 14.

Action Images via Reuters

8/24 9. Ben Youngs (England)

The most consistent option at 9 as he became England’s most-capped scrum-half with his 85th appearance on the final weekend. Significantly improved his kicking game for the tournament and will head to the World Cup as the unrivalled No 1.

Getty Images

9/24 1. Rob Evans (Wales)

Decimated Tadhg Furlong on the scrum as Wales worked out the Irish pack at the set-piece, and he stood up brilliantly in his other big tests against Kyle Sinckler and WP Nel. Mako Vunipola had early claims to the spot but only played one-and-a-half games, whereas Evans is in the most sustained form of his career.

PA

10/24 2. Jamie George (England)

Makes playing rugby look enjoyable as he does it with a smile on his face – especially when he bagged his try against Italy. Mr Reliable at the lineout throughout the tournament and probably the most mobile hooker in the Six Nations.

PA

11/24 3. Kyle Sinckler (England)

Took a lot of unfair criticism following the Wales defeat and continues to serve an education that will do him only good moving beyond this championship. Looks for work in the back line and possesses the handling ability to warrant his roaming role.

Getty Images

12/24 4. George Kruis (England)

Really stepped up his game in the absence of Maro Itoje and Courtney Lawes and deserves a lot of plaudits for how he ran the lineout in Dublin. Scored a try as well as set one up for Brad Shields with charge-downs against Italy and can be proud of what he offered the tournament.

Action Images via Reuters

13/24 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)

A leader by example and the undoubted man of the series. Knew exactly how to get into England and put them under pressure in ways they couldn’t cope, and his sheer defiance to let what looked a bad knee injury forced him off against Ireland was inspiring. Deserved to lift the trophy off a Grand Slam, and he revelled in the moment when it finally came.

AP

14/24 6. Josh Navidi (Wales)

If Jones was the player of the series, then Navidi was the breakthrough star of the campaign. Looked at home in the No 6 shirt despite his preference to be on the openside and even got a run out at No 8 against Italy, ensuring he was one of few players to play in every match. His work-rate around the breakdown and in defence was extraordinary.

Action Images via Reuters

15/24 7. Tom Curry (England)

Looks like the answer to England’s openside flanker search, and at just 20 years old, he could well be a long-term option at that. Picked up the first two tries of his international career against Wales and Scotland, and it was that display in a losing effort in Cardiff that really stood out.

AFP/Getty Images

16/24 8. Billy Vunipola (England)

By no means did he set the world on fire, but he was the outstanding No 8 of the championship by quite some distance. Having missed the bulk of the last two tournaments with injury, it was a welcome sight to see the powerhouse back-row out there.

Getty Images

17/24 16. Ken Owens (Wales)

Brilliant in the loose and would have challenged for the starting shirt if his lineout didn’t falter too often.

Getty Images

18/24 17. Mako Vunipola (England)

Could have been the player of the Six Nations had his tournament not ended in the second round.

REUTERS

19/24 18. Tomas Francis (Wales)

Has well and truly usurped Samson Lee as Wales’ first-choice tighthead prop and enjoyed a very impressive campaign.

REUTERS

20/24 19. Cory Hill (Wales)

Injury cruelly ended his participation after the halfway stage, but his impact in the victory over England cannot be ignored.

Getty Images

21/24 20. Justin Tipuric (Wales)

Unlucky to miss out on the starting back-row and was at his disruptive best to plot the English downfall in Cardiff.

AFP/Getty Images

22/24 21. Antoine Dupont (France)

Brought life to a dying French side and looks like a real player to watch for the future.

Getty Images

23/24 22. Gareth Anscombe (Wales)

Answered his critics in style after Warren Gatland put his faith in him. Twenty-point haul as Wales secured the Slam was the perfect reward.

Getty Images

24/24 23. Manu Tuilagi (England)

How delightful was it to see him back in the England shirt and running at full tilt? Two tries against Italy and a destructive display in Dublin were reminders of why England have missed him so much.

REUTERS

1/24 Six Nations Team of the Tournament

Click through the gallery to see who makes Jack de Menezes' Team of the Six Nations.

Getty

2/24 15. Liam Williams (Wales)

Has claims for the player of the tournament award after a brilliant two months. Shone in the absence of Leigh Halfpenny and handled the England kicking game with ease in Cardiff. Should have scored against France but offered so much more than tries to Wales’ Grand Slam cause and is among the very best aerial footballers.

AFP/Getty Images

3/24 14. Josh Adams (Wales)

Early in his international career but has given Warren Gatland a serious selection headache if and when Halfpenny returns, as Adams deserves to be in the starting XV on this form. Tries in three consecutive matches against Italy, England and Scotland, including a moment against the Red Rose that will live long in the memory.

PA

4/24 13. Henry Slade (England)

A breakthrough tournament for the versatile centre who finally looks to have found his place in the No 13 shirt. Glides across the field with the ball in hand and his two tries against Ireland helped England banish their Dublin hoodoo. One of the most naturally gifted players of his generation.

Getty Images

5/24 12. Hadleigh Parkes (Wales)

Has slotted in seamlessly into the Welsh midfield and saved his biggest impact for the Grand Slam-clinching finale – not just by scoring the first try immediately but also for his try-saving recovery tackle on Ireland’s Jacob Stockdale. Manu Tuilagi certainly impressed with five consecutive appearances and a demolition job on France and Italy, but he could not match Parkes’ defensive reliability.

Action Images via Reuters

6/24 11. Jonny May (England)

The tournament’s top scorer brings fans to their feet whenever he receives the ball in space. Only failed to score a try in one of his five matches and bagged rapid 29-minute hat-trick against France. His relationship with Elliot Daly has been a joy to watch.

AP

7/24 10. Finn Russell (Scotland)

Alongside Beauden Barrett as the most potent attacking threats at 10 in the world. The way he brought Scotland back into the match against England was breath-taking to watch, and he also impressed in the defeat against Wales. Missed the game against France with concussion, but you can see why Racing 92 offered him the chance to make it big in the Top 14.

Action Images via Reuters

8/24 9. Ben Youngs (England)

The most consistent option at 9 as he became England’s most-capped scrum-half with his 85th appearance on the final weekend. Significantly improved his kicking game for the tournament and will head to the World Cup as the unrivalled No 1.

Getty Images

9/24 1. Rob Evans (Wales)

Decimated Tadhg Furlong on the scrum as Wales worked out the Irish pack at the set-piece, and he stood up brilliantly in his other big tests against Kyle Sinckler and WP Nel. Mako Vunipola had early claims to the spot but only played one-and-a-half games, whereas Evans is in the most sustained form of his career.

PA

10/24 2. Jamie George (England)

Makes playing rugby look enjoyable as he does it with a smile on his face – especially when he bagged his try against Italy. Mr Reliable at the lineout throughout the tournament and probably the most mobile hooker in the Six Nations.

PA

11/24 3. Kyle Sinckler (England)

Took a lot of unfair criticism following the Wales defeat and continues to serve an education that will do him only good moving beyond this championship. Looks for work in the back line and possesses the handling ability to warrant his roaming role.

Getty Images

12/24 4. George Kruis (England)

Really stepped up his game in the absence of Maro Itoje and Courtney Lawes and deserves a lot of plaudits for how he ran the lineout in Dublin. Scored a try as well as set one up for Brad Shields with charge-downs against Italy and can be proud of what he offered the tournament.

Action Images via Reuters

13/24 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)

A leader by example and the undoubted man of the series. Knew exactly how to get into England and put them under pressure in ways they couldn’t cope, and his sheer defiance to let what looked a bad knee injury forced him off against Ireland was inspiring. Deserved to lift the trophy off a Grand Slam, and he revelled in the moment when it finally came.

AP

14/24 6. Josh Navidi (Wales)

If Jones was the player of the series, then Navidi was the breakthrough star of the campaign. Looked at home in the No 6 shirt despite his preference to be on the openside and even got a run out at No 8 against Italy, ensuring he was one of few players to play in every match. His work-rate around the breakdown and in defence was extraordinary.

Action Images via Reuters

15/24 7. Tom Curry (England)

Looks like the answer to England’s openside flanker search, and at just 20 years old, he could well be a long-term option at that. Picked up the first two tries of his international career against Wales and Scotland, and it was that display in a losing effort in Cardiff that really stood out.

AFP/Getty Images

16/24 8. Billy Vunipola (England)

By no means did he set the world on fire, but he was the outstanding No 8 of the championship by quite some distance. Having missed the bulk of the last two tournaments with injury, it was a welcome sight to see the powerhouse back-row out there.

Getty Images

17/24 16. Ken Owens (Wales)

Brilliant in the loose and would have challenged for the starting shirt if his lineout didn’t falter too often.

Getty Images

18/24 17. Mako Vunipola (England)

Could have been the player of the Six Nations had his tournament not ended in the second round.

REUTERS

19/24 18. Tomas Francis (Wales)

Has well and truly usurped Samson Lee as Wales’ first-choice tighthead prop and enjoyed a very impressive campaign.

REUTERS

20/24 19. Cory Hill (Wales)

Injury cruelly ended his participation after the halfway stage, but his impact in the victory over England cannot be ignored.

Getty Images

21/24 20. Justin Tipuric (Wales)

Unlucky to miss out on the starting back-row and was at his disruptive best to plot the English downfall in Cardiff.

AFP/Getty Images

22/24 21. Antoine Dupont (France)

Brought life to a dying French side and looks like a real player to watch for the future.

Getty Images

23/24 22. Gareth Anscombe (Wales)

Answered his critics in style after Warren Gatland put his faith in him. Twenty-point haul as Wales secured the Slam was the perfect reward.

Getty Images

24/24 23. Manu Tuilagi (England)

How delightful was it to see him back in the England shirt and running at full tilt? Two tries against Italy and a destructive display in Dublin were reminders of why England have missed him so much.

REUTERS

1/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

2/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

EPA

3/50 5 May 2019

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ignites the liberation fire during the Liberation festival in Almere, The Netherlands.

EPA

4/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

5/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women's 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

6/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a "million-strong" march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

7/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France's zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, "yellow vest" demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

8/50

Opponents to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

9/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

10/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

11/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading "Climate urgency: Think, vote, act" on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain's general elections. - Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

12/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

13/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

14/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

15/50 23 April 2019

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

16/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony's shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

17/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

18/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

19/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

20/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's old city

EPA

21/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

22/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is "under control", the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

23/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

AFP/Getty

24/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world's third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

25/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

26/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition 'Mirrors: In and Out of Reality' in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

27/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

28/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

29/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan's police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators' demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

30/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

31/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

32/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway's longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

33/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

Getty

34/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

35/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

36/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal's southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

37/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia's second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

38/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

39/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and "radical" feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain's increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

40/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

41/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

42/50 27 March 2019

A Palestinian protester moves a burning tire during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Reuters

43/50 26 March 2019

Palestinians sisters girls look at a destroyed Hamas site close their family's destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. According to reports, Israel continued to launch air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight after a rocket allegedly fired hit a house near Tel Aviv in central Israel injuring at least seven people

EPA

44/50 25 March 2019

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold up a proclamation recognising Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights as Netanyahu exits the White House

Reuters

45/50 24 March 2019

Abounded vessel Hagland Captain in anchor in the same area as the cruise ship Viking Sky, which had problems on March 23 during the storm over the west coast of Norway at Hustadvika near Romsdal

AFP/Getty

46/50 23 March 2019

Chris Pratt gets slimed while accepting the Best Butt-Kicker award for "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" at the Kids Choice Awards

Reuters

47/50 22 March 2019

An aerial view shows damaged buildings after an explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country

AFP/Getty

48/50 21 March 2019

A child is transported on a fridge during floods after Cyclone Idai, in Buzi, outside Beira, Mozambique

Reuters

49/50 20 March 2019

Indian Hindu devotees are sprayed with coloured water as they celebrate the Holi festival at the Kalupur Swaminarayan Temple, in Ahmedabad. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month

AFP/Getty

50/50 19 March 2019

Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier

Kalamazoo Gazette/AP

1/50 7 May 2019

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo wave as they walk to Insein prison gate as they were freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar

Reuters

2/50 6 May 2019

Students sit in circles as they read the Koran on the first day of Ramadan at Ar-Raudhatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in Koran was during its last 10 nights

EPA

3/50 5 May 2019

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ignites the liberation fire during the Liberation festival in Almere, The Netherlands.

EPA

4/50 4 May 2019

Demonstrators wearing bees masks and costumes lie on the ground during a demonstration for biodiversity called by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Paris.

AFP/Getty Images

5/50 3 May 2019

Caster Semenya celebrates after winning the women's 800m at the IAAF Diamond League competition in Doha

AFP/Getty

6/50 2 May 2019

Children chant slogans as they watch a demonstration outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Crowds of Sudanese protesters began converging in Khartoum for a "million-strong" march to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers ran into trouble

AFP/Getty

7/50 1 May 2019

People hold blue, white and red smoke bombs as they demonstrate to mark May Day in Toulouse. France's zero-tolerance approach to protest violence will be tested, when a mix of labour unionists, "yellow vest" demonstrators and hardline hooligans are expected to hit the streets on Labour Day

AFP/Getty

8/50

Opponents to Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles, loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Madur

AP

9/50 29 April 2019

In this aereal view officials measure a giant teddy bear measuring more than 20 meters long and 4 tons of weight, which entered the Guiness Book of World Records as the biggest of its kind in Xonacatlan, Mexico state.

AFP/Getty Images

10/50 28 April 2019

Competitors ride their bikes along sand dunes during the Stage 1 of the 14th edition of Titan Desert 2019 mountain biking race around Merzouga in Morocco

AFP/Getty

11/50 27 April 2019

Greenpeace activists hold banners reading "Climate urgency: Think, vote, act" on top of the Columbus (Colon) Monument in Barcelona on April 27, 2019 as part of an awareness campaign on the eve of Spain's general elections. - Spain returns to the polls on April 28 for unpredictable snap elections marked by the resurgence of the far-right after more than four decades on the outer margins of politics.

AFP/Getty

12/50 26 April 2019

A security officer stands guard outside St. Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Reuters

13/50 25 April 2019

Palestinian beekeepers inspect beehives at the honey-bee farm in the east of Khan Younis town, near the border with Israel, southern Gaza Strip. The beekeepers collect honey and wax from beehives at this time of this year

EPA

14/50 24 April 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects a Russian honor guard after arriving at a railway station in Vladivostok, for the summit to be held with Russian President Vladimir Putin

EPA

15/50 23 April 2019

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he holds the granddaughter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah after he arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during the third phase of general election in Ahmedabad

Reuters

16/50 22 April 2019

A woman living near St Anthony's shrine runs for safety with her baby after police found explosive devices in a parked vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Bombings on Easter Sunday ripped through churches and luxury hotels killing at least 290 people

AP

17/50 21 April 2019

Police and security personnel stand guard outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Sri Lankan capital Colombo after a bombing attack; one of eight across the country on Easter Sunday

EPA

18/50 20 April 2019

A protester walks amid tear gas deployed by security services on the 23rd week of Gilets Jaunes protests in Paris

Getty

19/50 19 April 2019

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem

Reuters

20/50 18 April 2019

Christian worshippers take part in the procession of the holy Thursday, during the Catholic Washing of the Feet ceremony on Easter Holy Week, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's old city

EPA

21/50 17 April 2019

A young girl runs past UWSA military contingents before a parade held to mark the 30th anniversary of Wa State in Panghsang, also called Pang Kham of autonomous Wa region, north-eastern Myanmar. Wa declared itself as an independent State on 17 April 1989. Although the government of Myanmar does not recognize the sovereignty of Wa State, Myanmar military has adopted a ceasefire with the state since 9 May 1989. Wa State has been notorious for drug smuggling in the Golden Triangle of the last 30 years, although it declared its region a drug-free zone in 2005

EPA

22/50 16 April 2019

Firefighters spray water as they work to extinguish the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The huge blaze that devastated the cathedral is "under control", the Paris fire brigade said early on April 16 after firefighters spent hours battling the flames

AFP/Getty

23/50 15 April 2019

Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris

AFP/Getty

24/50 14 April 2019

Indonesian soldiers and police at a general security roll call for the upcoming general elections in Jakarta. Some 192 million Indonesians are set to cast a ballot in the world's third-biggest democracy, with a record 245,000 candidates vying for positions from the presidency and parliamentary seats all the way down to local council jobs

AFP/Getty

25/50 13 April 2019

Hindu devotees throw holy flammable powder onto a fire as they perform rituals during Gajan Festival celebrations in Kolkata. The festival falls on the last day of the Bengali calendar which also coincides with the birth of Lord Shiva, according to Hindu mythology

AFP/Getty

26/50 12 April 2019

A woman visits the exhibition 'Mirrors: In and Out of Reality' in Barcelona, Spain. Maths, physics and photonics melt in this exhibition presented by Cosmocaixa in which visitors can enter a big kaleidoscope to walk through and experience with the effects and particularities of mirrors. The exhibition will be open to public until 6 June 2019

EPA

27/50 11 April 2019

Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of general election in Alipurduar district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India

Reuters

28/50 10 April 2019

The first ever photo a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes, conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no mater or light can escape

Event Horizon Telescope/National Science Foundation/Reuters

29/50 9 April 2019

Sudanese protesters chant slogans as they rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan's police ordered its forces to avoid intervening against protesters as three Western nations threw their weight behind demonstrators' demands for a political transition plan in the country

AFP/Getty

30/50 8 April 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plays with a handball given to her by the German Handball Federation's president as she received the German national handball team at the Chancellery in Berlin

AFP/Getty

31/50 7 April 2019

People hold candles as they attend a night vigil and prayer at the Amahoro Stadium as part of the 25th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda. April 7 begins 100 days of mourning for more than 800,000 people who were slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began

AFP/Getty

32/50 6 April 2019

A portion of the field of 1,500 participants begins the trek to the highest point over the Florida Keys Overseas Highway's longest span during the Seven Mile Bridge Run Saturday. The event features entrants running a course over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico and helps to raise funds for local youth athletic programs

AFP/Getty

33/50 5 April 2019

A refugee father and son lie on railway tracks to prevent a train from leaving a station during a protest in Athens, Greece. Dozens of migrants staged a protest in Athens central train station disrupting all railway services in the hope they will be transported to the Greek border and join other refugees attempting to follow a 2016 migration route towards northern Europe

Getty

34/50 4 April 2019

Security agents and police officers hold back migrants during the evacuation of a makeshift camp at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of Paris. More than 300 migrants and refugees were evacuated on early April 4 from a makeshift camp to accomodation structures

AFP/Getty

35/50 3 April 2019

An Alexandra township resident gestures and they part is clashes with the Johannesburg Metro Police, South Africa during a total shutdown of the township due to protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance

AFP/Getty

36/50 2 April 2019

Children eat next to the debris of damaged homes at Purainiya village in Nepal's southern Bara district near Birgunj, following a rare spring storm. The freak storm tore down houses and overturned cars and trucks as it swept across southern Nepal killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 600 injured

AFP/Getty

37/50 1 April 2019

A forensic expert works next to the remains of a small plane that crashed near Erzhausen, Germany. Natalia Fileva, chairwoman and co-owner of Russia's second largest airline S7, died when a private jet she was in crashed near Frankfurt on Sunday, the company said

Reuters

38/50 31 March 2019

Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivers a speech following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine

Reuters

39/50 30 March 2019

Catalan pro-independence protesters throw rocks during a counter-demonstration against a protest called by Spanish far-right party Vox against the Catalan independence push in Barcelona. Polls suggest Vox, which campaigns against illegal immigration and "radical" feminism, will become the first far-right party to win seats in the Spanish parliament since the late 70s and could emerge as a kingmaker in Spain's increasingly fragmented political landscape

AFP/Getty

40/50 29 March 2019

Protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika continue in Algeria despite the announcement on 11 March that he will not run for a fifth Presidential term and postponement of presidential elections previously scheduled for 18 April 2019 until further notice

EPA

41/50 28 March 2019

Firefighters on ladders work to extinguish a blaze in an office building in Dhaka after a huge fire tore through it, killing at least five people with many others feared trapped in the latest major fire to hit the Bangladesh capital

AFP/Getty

42/50 27 March 2019

A Palestinian protester moves a burning tire during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Reuters

43/50 26 March 2019

Palestinians sisters girls look at a destroyed Hamas site close their family's destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. According to reports, Israel continued to launch air strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight after a rocket allegedly fired hit a house near Tel Aviv in central Israel injuring at least seven people

EPA

44/50 25 March 2019

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold up a proclamation recognising Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights as Netanyahu exits the White House

Reuters

45/50 24 March 2019

Abounded vessel Hagland Captain in anchor in the same area as the cruise ship Viking Sky, which had problems on March 23 during the storm over the west coast of Norway at Hustadvika near Romsdal

AFP/Getty

46/50 23 March 2019

Chris Pratt gets slimed while accepting the Best Butt-Kicker award for "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom" at the Kids Choice Awards

Reuters

47/50 22 March 2019

An aerial view shows damaged buildings after an explosion at a chemical plant in Yancheng in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country

AFP/Getty

48/50 21 March 2019

A child is transported on a fridge during floods after Cyclone Idai, in Buzi, outside Beira, Mozambique

Reuters

49/50 20 March 2019

Indian Hindu devotees are sprayed with coloured water as they celebrate the Holi festival at the Kalupur Swaminarayan Temple, in Ahmedabad. Holi, the popular Hindu spring festival of colours is observed in India at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month

AFP/Getty

50/50 19 March 2019

Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier

Kalamazoo Gazette/AP