Firefighters bring a wildfire under control in Bonhill, Scotland, on April 30, 2026. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Wildifre Forum have issued warnings for wildfires across Scotland from Thursday and into the weekend in some regions. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 30, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Towers of the facilities of the PCK Schwedt refinery in Schwedt, Germany, on April 30, 2026. On May 1, Russia will halt the pipeline flow of Kazakh oil to Germany, citing technical reasons. The stoppage will impact the PCK refinery run by the German subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned oil company, Rosneft, which supplies much of the Berlin region and the capital’s international airport with fuel. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images
Towing teams remove a bus from the Seine river after it fell with passengers on board into the river in Juvisy-sur-Orge on the outskirts of Paris on April 30, 2026. A bus with a driver at the end of her training collided with a parked, unoccupied vehicle before falling into the Seine. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images
Peru’s presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez, for the Juntos por el Peru party, gestures during a press conference in Lima, Peru, on April 30, 2026. Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images
Residents aboard a wooden boat sail past gray smoke billowing from a burning landfill in nearby Navotas City as seen from Obando town, Bulacan province, in the Philippines, on April 30, 2026. The fire at Metro Manila’s Navotas landfill is largely invisible to the naked eye, combusting as deep as 15 meters (50 feet) below the surface and releasing a toxic brew of methane as well as carbon dioxide. Ted Aljibe/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet British King Charles III and Queen Camilla during a farewell ceremony at the White House on the final day of their visit in Washington on April 30, 2026. King Charles III and Queen Camilla visited the nation's capital, New York City, and Virginia during the trip arranged to celebrate the United States of America’s 250th anniversary of its independence. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
A full moon rises above the clouds of Rome on April 30, 2026. Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images
Protesters kneel on the ground during a protest march against undocumented migrants in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 30, 2026. Wikus de Wet/AFP via Getty Images
Renegade trains on the track during morning workouts ahead of the running of the 152nd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on April 30, 2026. Michael Reaves/Getty Images
(L-R) Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch, Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman look on ahead of the closing bell ceremony of the Nasdaq market session in New York City on April 30, 2026. Adam Gray/AFP via Getty Images
Scottish First Minister John Swinney meets Highland calves Hansel and Lulu, at High Airyolland farm, as he campaigns in Galloway and West Dumfries ahead of the Holyrood Election in Newton Stewart, Scotland, on April 30, 2026. Swinney is campaigning in Galloway and West Dumfries with SNP candidate Emma Harper one week ahead of the Holyrood elections on May 7. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
A laborer works at an iron factory in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 30, 2026. Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media statement on the government’s response to a stabbing in which two Jewish men were wounded at 10 Downing Street in London on April 30, 2026. On April 29, two Jewish men aged 76 and 34 were stabbed in the Golders Green area of north London. The suspect, aged 45, was tasered and arrested. Police have declared the attack a terrorist incident. The two victims were taken to hospital and are said to be in stable condition. Jack Taylor-WPA Pool/Getty Images
France’s President Emmanuel Macron stands in a Serval armored vehicle during a visit at the Orion 2026 military exercise in Suippes, France, on April 30, 2026. Troops are being deployed as part of Orion 26, a large-scale exercise launched in February which, in its fourth and final phase, currently involves up to 12,500 military personnel. Aurelien Morissard/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
A courtroom sketch of Elon Musk as he is questioned by Russell Cohen, a lawyer for Microsoft, during Musk's lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on April 30, 2026. Vicki Behringer/Reuters
A man with prosthetic legs mourns over the coffin of Viktoria “Kvitka” Bobrova, callsign “Flower,” a Ukrainian producer and military member of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade “Edelweiss,” who was killed in eastern Ukraine, during her funeral ceremony on Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 30, 2026. Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images
Max Verstappen of the Netherlands and Oracle Red Bull Racing looks on during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Miami at Miami International Autodrome in Miami on April 30, 2026. Peter Fox/Getty Images
Popo (L) a male Bornean orangutan and Mukah (R), a female Bornean orangutan, cradle their 10-day-old newborn at the Bioparc Fuengirola in Fuengirola, Spain, on April 30, 2026. The baby Bornean orangutan was born at the zoo on April 20, 2026. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Bornean orangutan is a critically endangered species and its numbers have declined since the middle of the 20th century due to human activities, including hunting, unsustainable and often illegal logging, mining, and conversion of forests to agriculture. Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images
