Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Gerda Steyn of South Africa winner of the women’s elite race during the 2025 Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon finishing at UCT Rugby Fields on April 05, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Peter Heeger/Gallo Images)
People participate in a Jubilee for the sick in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, 05 April 2025. Patients and healthcare professionals were invited to this jubilee event, together with their families. Picture: EPA-EFE/GIUSEPPE LAMIA double rainbow appears in the sky over Teruel after heavy rainfall, Spain, 04 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/ANTONIO GARCIAThe Soyuz-2.1a booster rocket with Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 05 April 2025. Crew members, Roscosmos cosmonauts Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner, and NASA astronaut Flight Engineer Jonny Kim, are scheduled to launch on the Soyuz MS-27 to the International Space Station (ISS) on 08 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOVRunners on Chapmans Peak during the 2025 Two Oceans Marathon on April 05, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. The marathon is a 56 km/35-mile ultramarathon and 21 km half-marathon which is run against a backdrop of spectacular scenery through the Cape Peninsula. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach)A protester reacts as others hold banners and chant slogans during a march against the abuse of women and children in Matatiele on April 5, 2025. A spark of protests and a wave of national outrage reignited this week, with demonstrators demanding justice for a 7-year-old girl allegedly assaulted in October 2024 at Bergview College in Matatiele, South Africa. The case has highlighted ongoing concerns about gender-based violence in the region. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)People gathering for the 2025 Qintong Boat Festival held at Qinhu National Wetland Park in Jiangyan District of Taizhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, 06 April 2025. Over five hundred boats with more than 10,000 boat team members aboard gather for the Qintong Boat Festival, a centuries-old tradition. The Qintong Boat Festival was listed as the state-level intangible cultural heritage in 2008. Picture: EPA-EFE/XINHUA / Ji ChunpengJapanese dancers perform the Awa-odori in the pitlane during the driver parade before the 2025 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit, in Suzuka, Japan, 06 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/FRANCK ROBICHONVisitors experience the experimental artwork ‘Fog Forest’, created by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya and displayed in a woodland at Khao Yai Art Forest, near Khao Yai national park in Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, 06 April 2025. The newly opened art sanctuary, Khao Yai Art Forest, is part of a reforestation project transforming a forest near Thailand’s oldest Khao Yai national park to an innovative open air art museum where creativity and nature are blended. Khao Yai Art Forest allows visitors to wander through woodlands beneath towering trees to experience art installations blending with nature under the ‘healing through art’ concept aimed to raise awareness to protect nature which in turn nurtures the human body and mind, as well as to promote the place as a new destination for art enthusiasts worldwide. Picture: EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRITChiara Pellacani and Elisa Pizzini of Italy participate in the women’s 3-meter springboard synchronized diving final during the Diving World Cup 2025 at the Metropolitan Aquatic Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, 05 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/Francisco GuascoRiders compete in the William Hill Top Price Guarantee Handicap Hurdle Race during the Randox Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, Britain, 05 April 2025. The Grand National Festival is held over three days, culminating in the world famous 6.9 kilometre handicapped steeplechase, running for the 177th time in 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/ADAM VAUGHANPolitical parties and members of the community in Soweto march from different areas in Soweto, 6 April 2025, to Thokoza Park and to hand over memorandum at Moroka Police Station protesting against the rape of 7-year-old Cwecwe at her school in the Eastern Cape. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizenepaselect epa12012601 A dog walks along the beach in costume during Corgi Beach Day in Huntington Beach, California, USA, 05 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/ALLISON DINNERPeople dressed in the traditional hanfu pose for photos in Beijing, China, 05 April 2025. Picture: EPA-EFE/JESSICA LEEA woman hangs laundry on a clothesline in the yard of a residential building in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, 05 April 2025. The town of Baikonur, formerly known as Leninsk, was established in 1955 to support the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome. The current agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan, signed in 2005, grants Russia access to the Cosmodrome until 2050. Picture: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOVSurfers ride a wave during sunrise at Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 05 April 2025. Daylight saving ends in Australia at 3am local time on 06 April when clocks go back one hour in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the ACT. Picture: EPA-EFE/STEVEN SAPHORE
