Today's best photos: from a SpaceX launch to a giant 'foam-berg'

'The National' picks the most striking images from around the world

In a slow camera exposure, SpaceX Falcon rocket launches Wednesday, April 27, from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center to the ISS. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins were joined by European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Time exposure of launch from Kelly Park on Merritt Island. (Malcolm Denemark / Florida Today via AP)

A Ukrainian girl - part of a group of refugees - plays with balloons with the colours of her country's flag aboard a Corsica Linea ferry moored in Marseille, France. AFP

Dogs pose for a photo at Happy Bark Day, a dog cafe in Dubai. Reuters

A firefighter uses his mobile phone as he sits on top of a fire truck as smoke billows from burning rubbish at a landfill site in New Delhi, India. Reuters

Audio cables are seen in Washington as the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in President Joe Biden's bid to rescind a Trump-era immigration policy that forced migrants to stay in Mexico to await hearings on their asylum claims. Reuters

A Palestinian man prepares salted fish to be sold in a market ahead of Eid Al Fitr, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters

A child jumps at a memorial as she attends a tribute ceremony marking the Day of Missing Persons at the cemetery of the village of Meje, where in 1999 Serbian forces killed about 400 civilians during the Kosovo war. AFP

Children depict a Soviet monument to friendship between Ukrainian and Russian nations after its demolition, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in central Kyiv. Reuters

Vietnamese forces taking part in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan wave flags in front of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft during a departure ceremony, in Hanoi. EPA

Aerial view shows pungent foam which formed in the polluted Mosquera River and invaded the Los Puentes neighbourhood west of Bogota. AFP

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