Today's best photos: from Christ the Redeemer to a Kansas City sunset

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

The sun rises in front of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 29, 2023. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)

An Angolan lion at the Planete Sauvage zoo in Port-Saomt-Pere, outside Nantes, western France. AFP

A helicopter collects water as part of efforts to extinguish a wildfire near Fuente la Reina, in Castellon, Spain. EPA

Floodwater fills the Tulare Lake bed after days of heavy rain in Corcoran, California. Reuters

A visitor admires the grandeur of Mahar Myat Muni pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar. AFP

The International Space Station passes in front of the Moon, as seen from Buzitka, Slovakia. EPA

Colourful scenes from the Seto Machindranath chariot festival in Kathmandu. AFP

Soldiers conduct a joint drill, part of an Africa-India field training exercise, in Pune, India. AFP

Protesters roll tyres towards a barricade in the Kibera neighbourhood of Nairobi, where supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga have again clashed with police. AFP

A nun in St Peter’s Square, the Vatican, after Pope Francis was taken to hospital for treatment for a respiratory infection. Reuters

Birds fly past the twin steeples of the Hosanna Karen Baptist church as the sun sets in Kansas City. AP

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