The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.
A police officer sprays a fire extinguisher over cooking oil covering the road outside Taipei Railway Station after anti-nuclear demonstrators were removed from the area in Taipei on April 28, 2014. Taiwan police used water cannon to dislodge hundreds of overnight sit-in demonstrators, demanding the scrapping of a nearly completed nuclear power plant, one of the most controversial issues to have gripped the island for 30 years. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)
A Russian-built Proton rocket with Russian relay satellite Luch-5V and the Kazakh communication satellite KazSat-3 aboard blasts of from a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome on April 28, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)
Indian children cool off as water flows from a water supply pipeline to beat the heat on a hot afternoon on the outskirts of eastern Bhubaneswar on April 28, 2014. Many Indian cities face severe water scarcity especially in the summer season as summer temperatures soar above the 40 degrees celsius. (ASIT KUMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian children play under a tarp at the harbour in Gaza City on April 28, 2014. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
People look at their reflection with the city skyline during a press preview for The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham with Günther Vogt at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 28, 2014. The installation by Dan Graham (born 1942) is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museums Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. for visitors. (AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY)
An Egyptian woman overcome by emotion weeps after a judge sentenced to death more than 680 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt, Monday, April 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)
A row of lightly damaged houses, top, face destroyed homes in a Vilonia, Ark., neighborhood Monday, April 28, 2014 after a tornado struck the town late Sunday, killing at least 16 people. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
A bald eagle inside a boat at a rest stop in Menomonie, Wis. The bird crashed through the boat’s shrink wrap as it was traveling along Interstate 94. The boat was being taken from Florida to Minnesota by Scott and Marilyn Kregness. Patti Stangel of Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release, Inc. in Colfax said that after the bird is examined it will be released. (AP Photo/Courtesy Scott Kregness)
Members of the guild ‘Weggen’ ride around the ‘Boeoegg’ on the Sechselaeuten place in Zurich, Switzerland, 28 April 2014. The Sechselaeuten (ringing of the six o’clock bells) is a traditional end of winter festival with a parade of guilds in historical uniforms on horseback and the burning of the Boeoegg, a symbolic snowman. The faster the Boeoegg explodes, the hotter the summer will be according to traditional weather rules. (EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER)
Taiwan police fire water cannon at protesters squatting on the ground outside Taipei Railway Station during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Taipei on April 28, 2014. .(Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)
Police remove a protester (C) from outside Taipei Railway Station during an anti-nuclear demonstration in Taipei on April 28, 2014. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)
A bust of former South African President Nelson Mandela after it’s unveiling by dignitaries at the South African Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, April 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
A pro-Russian armed man in military fatigues poses for a photograph with a child as he stands guard outside a regional administration building seized in the night by pro-Russian separatists, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, on April 28, 2014. . (VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
A pro Russian masked armed man uses binoculars as he guards outside city hall in Kostyantynivka, 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 28, 2014, after masked militants with automatic weapons seized the hall building. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Filipino protesters burn an effigy of US President Barack Obama (Top) and Philippines President Benigno Aquino III (Bottom) during a protest rally against the visit of US President Barack Obama near Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, 28 April 2014. (EPA/RITCHIE B. TONGO)
Exercise rider Abel Flores takes Kentucky Derby hopeful Tapiture for a morning workout in the rain at Churchill Downs Monday, April 28, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)
A relative of a passenger aboard the sunken Sewol ferry weeps as she awaits news on her missing loved one at a port in Jindo, South Korea, Sunday, April 27, 2014..(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Xu Xin of China competes during his men’s team competition first round match against Gustavo Tsuboi of Brazil for the Table Tennis Team World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, 28 April 2014. (EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON)
The antique statue of a praying woman with the portrait head of Empress Sabina from the 2nd century AD is examined by a restaurator in the historic picture gallery of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany, 28 April 2014. (EPA/RALF HIRSCHBERGER)
