Today's best photos: From a crocodile zoo reopening to Banksy's new work - in pictures

The National picks the most striking images from around the world

A performer puts his head inside a crocodile's mouth during a performance ahead of the April reopening of Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Thailand. The zoo closed during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. EPA

Women hit revellers with sticks during Lathmar Holi, part of the Hindu spring festival of colours, Holi, at the Radha Rani temple in Barsana, Uttar Pradesh, India. Getty Images

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys and men block traffic in and out of Jerusalem in protest against the expiration of a law exempting them from being drafted into the Israeli army. Getty Images

Goldfish on display at a flower market, ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran. Reuters

A Palestinian man stands in the rubble of a building hit by overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah, southern Gaza. AFP

A woman throws a bag of rubbish at police blocking an anti-government demonstration against food scarcity and economic reforms proposed by Argentinian President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires. AP

Drivers pass under Ramadan decorations on Hadarat Bridge during a dust storm in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq. AFP

Revellers take part in the flour war, marking the end of the carnival season and the start of Lent, in the southern Greek port town of Galaxidi. AP

Artist Alain Roche plays piano while hanging from a crane in Munich. Audiences wearing headphones listened to the piano mixed with sounds of awakening nature captured by 40 microphones in Bavaria and Switzerland as the sun rose, in a project entitled When The Sun Stands Still. EPA

Elite women cyclists compete during stage two of the 97km Absa Cape Epic race in Saronsberg, South Africa. EPA

North Korea's Western Region Artillery Unit carries out a rocket salvo firing drill at an unconfirmed location in the country. AFP

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 18: Members of the public photograph a recent mural which has appeared on the side of a building in Islington on March 18, 2024 in London, England. The 'Banksy' artwork appeared on a North London street on Sunday. A mass of green has been painted behind a bare tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it. The green paint used matches the colour the council uses on Islington road signs. (Photo by Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)

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