News in pictures: Monday April 14, 2025 (2025)

Peter Baker, a wildlife photographer, missed the chance to snap a deer that leapt over a fence a few feet from him in Driffield, North Yorkshire

ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY

Xander Galloway-Gee, a member of the choir at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, leads Lily the Donkey to church for Eucharist as part of a Palm Sunday procession

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP

Dr Beatrice Bertram, a senior curator for York Art Gallery, is part of a team checking and cleaning works of art before its summer displays

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP

Mark Walker was thrown from his 1905 200bhp Darracq at the 82nd annual Goodwood members’ meeting in Sussex

TONY KERSHAW/SWNS

A fun fair was part of the activities at Goodwood, along with live entertainment, food and drink and vintage rides

MATT ALEXANDER/PA

Firefighters found the five offspring of Killi the cat in their vehicle in the city of Kocaeli, Turkey

ESMER GECAL/ANADOLU/GETTY IMAGES

Bedatu Hirpa, 25, from Ethiopia, wins the Paris Marathon women’s race on Sunday

STEPHANIE LECOCQ/REUTERS

Billy Anderson uses Clydesdale horses to help farm his 15-acre market garden in the Scottish Borders. Here Dickie helps him turn over the soil as they prepare to plant potatoes. At one point there were more than 140,000 working Clydesdales in Scotland

PHIL WILKINSON

A male firecrest — one of Britain’s smallest birds — sings from its perch in Sandwich Bay, Kent. They tend to move through trees and bushes in search of small insects

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL

Laila, a snow leopard at the Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, Kent, is expecting her fourth litter. Valerie Freeman, second right, a vet, was able to give Laila an ultrasound scan because of her bond with her carer Simon Jackaman, left

GARETH FULLER/PA

Hot-tub boats can be hired from the Quays at Canary Wharf, London. The tubs are electric and wood-fired to a temperature of 38C degrees

JOSHUA BRATT FOR THE TIMES

The Paris Book Festival is taking place at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées for the first time in years

XAVIER GALIANA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Bowie Snow delights in a sea of tulips at Strawberry Fields, Lifton, Devon. Tulip Fest has more than 250,000 blooms on three rainbow-coloured acres

WILLIAM DAX/SWNS

A five-day-old North Country Mule lamb in her pen at Clapham Farm, Litlington, East Sussex

JON SANTA CRUZ

A Russian rocket strike on Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday killed at least 34 people

EPA/UKRAINE STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE

A group of Hoopoes were spotted in “unusually high” numbers in Pembrokeshire over the weekend. The birds, which migrate from Africa, are rarely seen in Britain. Their distinctive feather crown can be raised or lowered at will

WALES NEWS SERVICE

An Agatha Christie sculpture was unveiled at the Harbourside in Torquay by her grandson Matthew Pritchard. Amanda Timbrell, dressed in character, read aloud a passage from one of Christie’s books. Christie was born in Torquay in 1890

MARK PASSMORE PHOTOGRAPHY

The Pope made an unexpected appearance during the Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican, where more than 30,000 people gathered. He has been in hospital in recent weeks receiving treatment for double pneumonia

VATICAN MEDIA/REUTERS

Revellers mark the first day of Thai new year — Songkran — in Narathiwat, southern Thailand. For three days every year between April 13 and 15, the ancient festival is marked by the world’s largest water fight, representing purification and a sense of renewal

MADAREE THOLALA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

April’s pink moon – the first full moon of spring — rises above Giewont in the Tatra Mountains, south Poland

GRZEGORZ MOMOT /EPA