Day in Photos: 99-Year-Old Royal Air Force Veteran, Forest Fires in Israel, and Revamped Venus GrottoDay in Photos: 99-Year-Old Royal Air Force Veteran, Forest Fires in Israel, and Revamped Venus Grotto
99-year-old Royal Air Force veteran Dennis Bishop poses for a photograph in the door of an Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, during a VE Day 80 media event at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, UK, on April 30, 2025. Bishop served during World War II as a ground radio operator and landed at Normandy after the main landings. He also served in Africa and Europe during the war. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: 99-Year-Old Royal Air Force Veteran, Forest Fires in Israel, and Revamped Venus Grotto

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Protesters march through the streets to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, in Washington on April 30, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
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Members of emergency services work at the scene where a car collided with a crowd of people at Sortedam Dossering in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 30, 2025. The driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, police said. Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
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Israeli soldiers walk on a blocked highway during a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh, on April 30, 2025. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images
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A person swims in the Sky Pool, a transparent acrylic swimming pool bridge between apartment blocks, on a sunny day in London, on April 30, 2025. Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on April 30, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden attends the King's Birthday celebrations at the inner courtyard of the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 30, 2025. Michael Campanella/Getty Images
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A student measures the thickness of a wafer at the Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center at Seoul National University in Seoul on April 30, 2025. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
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A Civil Defense Department worker gives first aid training to school children at a government school during an emergency drill in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on April 30, 2025, following ongoing border tensions over a recent Kashmir tourist attack. Pakistan said on April 30 it had “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiraling conflict grew over the deadly attack. Sajjad Qayyum/AFP via Getty Images
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A Ukrainian tank crew fires a round from a Leopard 2A4 tank during a field training exercise at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, on April 30, 2025. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images
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Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and son of U.S. President Donald Trump, looks over a proposed plan for the organization's first development deal in Qatar, ahead of a signing ceremony in Doha, on April 30, 2025. The deal includes a golf course and residential villas near the Qatari capital, real estate firm Qatari Diar said. Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
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Tom Ryan, riding Jekyll ‘N’ Hyde, jumps a hurdle before winning Race 4 of the Victory Dunroe Bm120 Steeplechase at Warrnambool Racecourse in Warrnambool, Australia, on April 30, 2025. Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba poses for pictures in front of the BRP Teresa Magbanua, together with Philippine Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan and other Japanese and Philippine officials, as he visits Philippine Coast Guard headquarters in Manila, Philippines, on April 30, 2025. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
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Laborers carry sacks of onions at a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 30, 2025. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images
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A relative gives a thumbs up to a Pakistani family as they leave in a bus at the Attari-Wagah border crossing near Amritsar, India, following New Delhi’s decision to order almost all Pakistani citizens to leave the country after last week’s deadly attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on April 30, 2025. Prabhjot Gill/AP
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Supporters of Burkina Faso's interim leader Captain Ibrahim Traore wave Burkina Faso flags during a rally in support of Traore at the Place de la Nation in Ouagadougou on April 30, 2025. Several thousand people rallied on April 30 in support of Burkina Faso's ruling junta, days after military authorities claimed to have foiled a “major plot” to stage a coup. AFP via Getty Images
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Impalas walk near the elevated standard gauge railway that allows movement of animals below the tracks at Nairobi National Park, in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 30, 2025. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
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Pioneers of the French Foreign Legion parade during a ceremony commemorating the 1863 Battle of Camerone at the Foreign Legion's headquarters in Aubagne, France, on April 30, 2025. Manon Cruz/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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Bavarian Premier Markus Söder inspects the Venus Grotto of Schloss Linderhof palace following the completion of a ten-year restoration near Ettal, Germany, on April 30, 2025. Bavarian King Ludwig II had the artificial grotto built in 1877 as a venue where he could enjoy operatic performances. It depicts a scene from the first act of Wagner's “Tannhaeuser.” The grotto, which had been plagued by damp that made keeping musical instruments in tune a challenge, underwent a complete restoration beginning in 2015. Johannes Simon/Getty Images
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A woman takes pictures of cherry blossoms around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park, New York, on April 30, 2025. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
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United Nations Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher (C) visits a mobile health care center in Nawabad village in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, on April 30, 2025. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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Firefighters inspect a hotel building that caught fire in Kolkata, India, on April 30, 2025. The fire on April 29 resulted in several deaths. Bikas Das/AP
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) speaks alongside Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) (C) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) at a press conference introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 in Washington on April 30, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
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Members of Syria's security forces deploy in an area near the Syrian capital Damascus, on April 30, 2025, amid deadly sectarian clashes. Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images
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A camel herder hugs one of his animals as they graze near Tunisia's southern village of Douz, known as the “Gateway to the Sahara,” on April 30, 2025. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images