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ICYMI: Top moments from the week gone by

April 28, 2015 08:46 IST

Catch up on all the events that shaped the world last week.

 

A passenger bathes a child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in Allahabad. Temperatures in Allahabad on Thursday reached to 42 degree Celsius, according to India's metrological department website. Photograph: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

 

Smoke and ash rise from the Calbuco volcano as seen from the city of Puerto Montt. The Calbuco volcano in southern Chile erupted for the first time in more than five decades on Wednesday, sending a thick plume of ash and smoke several kilometres into the sky. Photograph: Sergio Candia/Reuters

 

Fans of the Royal family wait outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s hospital in London. Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is due to give birth to her second child at the hospital some time in the next two weeks. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

 

An Indian Muslim devotee, who is on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for Urs, performs a stunt during a procession at Ajmer in the Rajasthan. Urs is an annual festival which is held for over six days at Ajmer, commemorating the death anniversary of Sufi saint Chishti. Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/Reuters

 

Smoke rises during an air strike on an army weapons depot on a mountain overlooking Yemen's capital Sanaa. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

 

A woman walks past a piece of street art depicting a pregnant Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in north London. The Duchess is due to give birth to her second child in the next few days. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

 

US presidential candidate holds a baby inside Kristin’s Bistro & Bakery as she campaigns for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination in Keene, New Hampshire. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

 

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha take part Baisakhi Nagar Kirtan procession at Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara in Gravesend. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Reuters 

 

Spanish matador David Galvan is tackled by a bull during a bullfight at The Maestranza bullring in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters

 

 

US President Barack Obama pokes fun at the media with comedian Keegan-Michael Key playing ‘Luther, Obama’s anger translator’ at the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

 

People gather near a collapsed house after a major earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. An earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude struck west of the ancient Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Saturday, killing more than 3,700 people, injuring thousands and leaving a pall over the valley, doctors and witnesses said. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

 

Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, visits Jump Gymnastics community club in Cumbernauld during a campaign event, Scotland. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters