A Hindu statue and a tiger’s treat: Wednesday’s best photos

Kolkata, India

People wander past a partially finished statue of the Hindu god Lord Hanuman outside a workshop, ahead of the Hanuman Jayanti festival

Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images

Karachi, Pakistan

Zoo staff help a team from welfare organisation Four Paws International as they perform a medical assessment on 17-year-old African elephant Noor Jehan

Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Warsaw, Poland

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is awarded the Order of the White Eagle by the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, during a visit to Warsaw

Photograph: Radek Pietruszka/EPA

Hong Kong

People walk through the Diamond Hill cemetery on the annual Tomb Sweeping Day, where they pay tribute to their ancestors by visiting and cleaning their graves

Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

Dunajská Lužná, Slovakia

Morning light illuminates an alley of artificially frozen trees in an orchard. The cherry, apple and pear growers protect crops by spraying them with water that forms a layer of ice, which provides insulation from even lower temperatures overnight

Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

Memphis, US

Justin Pearson, a Tennessee state representative, tears up during a commemoration at the National Civil Rights Museum to mark the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Photograph: Patrick Lantrip/AP

Beijing, China

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is shown around the Red Brick Museum during an official visit to the country

Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Firefighters continue to extinguish a fire, a day after it broke out at the clothing market at Bongo Bazar shopping complex

Photograph: Monirul Alam/EPA

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

An Egyptian goose and its young enjoy the warm weather at a lake

Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Weymouth, UK

Artwork on display at a preview of Greed, a new exhibition of subversive and urban art featuring more than 70 renowned artists

Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

Jakarta, Indonesia

A member of the Muslim Student Alliance group joins a demonstration to highlight the Chinese government’s discrimination and violence against the Uyghur Muslim minority

Photograph: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Jerusalem, Israel

Leavened bread is burned on a fire in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover

Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

London, UK

A Sumatran tiger enjoying an Easter treat at London zoo in Regent’s Park

Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Mumbai, India

A woman walks past a mural depicting fishers

Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

Schoten, Belgium

Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes, left, of Team SD Worx, celebrates on the podium after winning the women’s one-day Scheldeprijs cycling race from Terneuzen in the Netherlands to Schoten

Photograph: Jasper Jacobs/BELGA/AFP/Getty Images

Bogor, Indonesia

A student sleeps at an Islamic boarding school during the holy month of Ramadan in the West Java province

Photograph: Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Winnipeg, Canada

Red dresses, hung in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women, line fences near the area where the body of 33-year-old Linda Mary Beardy was discovered

Photograph: Shannon Vanraes/Reuters