Captain Tom Moore made honorary Colonel

Benjie Ingram-Moore presented his grandfather with a photo of the thousands of birthday cards he has received.

Captain Tom Moore, who raised more than £29m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden, has been made an honorary colonel on his 100th birthday.

Mares first turn-out to grass in Germany

Haflinger mares with their foals run during this years's first turn-out to grass at Europe's largest Haflinger stud-farm in Meura, central Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Around than 300 Haflinger horses are living there. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Fox in Downing Street, London

A fox is seen in Downing Street, London. REUTERS/Toby Melville

A Hare's Dream

Overall winner: Peter Lindel – A Hare’s Dream. Photograph: Peter Lindel/2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year

Andrew Forrest's Chinese Ambush

Covid crasher: Twiggy’s Chinese ambush of Hunt

Andrew Forrest’s decision to invite China’s consul-general for Victoria, Long Zhou, to a ministerial press conference drew accusations of disloyalty from MPs.

We are all in this together but .........

We are all in this together but –

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed calls for a politician 20 per cent pay cut. Picture: AAP

Win the Wilderness, Netflix

After wowing British audiences earlier this year when it aired on BBC One, Win the Wilderness: Alaska has been released worldwide on Netflix.

The unique competition series follows British couples as they participate in a variety of challenges which proves they can fare well in the wild. And what are they competing for, we hear you ask? Well, unlike most reality competitions, which have huge cash prizes as the end goal, Win the Wilderness has a pretty incredible prize.

Just finished watching this wonderful series, would highly recommend it.  

Hasidic Jewish funeral in Brooklyn

Hundreds of people gathered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a massive funeral Tuesday evening.

 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio oversaw the dispersal of a large, tightly packed Hasidic Jewish funeral and lashed out at the mourners who had gathered in defiance of social distancing rules intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Hair salon in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

A customer at a hair salon wears a protective face mask. The salon now accepts only one customer at a time, by appointment

Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Spanish children released from lockdown

Spanish children released from lockdown.  Joan, 45, chases his daughters Ines, 11, and Mar, nine, through the streets of Barcelona. Photograph: Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

Waffle House reopens for in-house dining

Men are pictured at a Waffle House, one of few corporate restaurant chains reopened for in-house dining in Madison, Georgia, April 27, 2020.  REUTERS/Maranie Staab

Captain Tom Moore's birthday cards

Mandy Alison poses with a selection of over 125,000 birthday cards sent to Captain Tom Moore, for his 100th birthday on April 30th, but displayed in the Great Hall of Bedford School, closed-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Bedford, north of London, on April 28, 2020. 

JUSTIN TALLIS, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Bondi open to swimmers and surfers only

Surfers wait for officials to open Bondi Beach in Sydney, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, as coronavirus pandemic restrictions are eased. The beach is open to swimmers and surfers to exercise only.  Image Credit: AP

Governor Andrew Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday took the blame off of himself and instead partially blamed the media and experts for failing to alert the public sooner about the threat of the coronavirus when it was uncovered in China.

Waiting for dinner in Johannesburg

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WAITING FOR DINNER: A woman holds the plastic lid of a food container as she awaits its return, filled with food, dished up by volunteers with charity Hope for Vrededorp during daily meal distributions amid the coronavirus pandemic, in the impoverished district of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Australia asks Chinese Ambassador to explain his threats of economic coercion

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia has asked the Chinese ambassador to explain his “threats of economic coercion” in response to Canberra’s push for an international inquiry into the source and spread of the coronavirus.

Australia’s call for a probe into the pandemic, which originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December, has angered China, its largest trading partner, following a couple of years of diplomatic tension.

Cheng Jingye, Beijing’s ambassador to Australia, told a newspaper on Monday that Chinese consumers could boycott Australian beef, wine, tourism and universities in response.…….

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-australia-china/australia-asks-china-to-explain-economic-coercion-threat-in-coronavirus-row-idUKKCN22A12I?utm_source=reddit.com

Captain Cook claims Australia for the British Crown

Today, 29 April 1770, explorer James Cook arrived in Botany Bay and claimed the land for the British crown.

https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/cultural-heritage/250th-anniversary-captain-cooks-voyage-australia

Taiwan seeks Australia's help to join WHO

Health Minister Dr Chen Shih-chung is campaigning for Taiwan's membership of the WHO.

CREDIT: LIGHTROCKET

Taiwan has called on Australia to back its campaign to join the World Health Organisation, despite China's objections, arguing it has much to teach the world about tackling coronavirus.

Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said Taiwan's exclusion from the WHO on the direction of the Chinese Communist Party was no longer tenable after demonstrating the country had suppressed the virus……

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/taiwan-pushes-australia-to-back-world-health-organisation-tilt-20200428-p54nxe.html

Chinese First Grade in traditional headwear

Chinese first graders practice social distancing with traditional headwear

Chinese first graders practice social distancing with traditional headwear

Chinese first graders practice social distancing with traditional headwear

Firth of Forth, Scotland

The sun rises behind a redundant oil platform moored near Kirkcaldy. Global oil prices have crashed after the coronavirus pandemic reduced demand, with analysts warning that the oil majors may be looking at one of their biggest quarter-on-quarter profitability hits in history

Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Hanoi, Vietnam

People wait to receive rice donations in front of Saint Joseph’s Cathedral

Photograph: KHAM/Reuters

Stockholm, Sweden

People enjoy the sunshine amid the coronavirus pandemic in Kungstradgarden

Photograph: IBL/Rex/Shutterstock

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Reuters / Sunday, April 26, 2020

Nogales Hospital doctor Javier Martinez eats outside his home while his family observes him, before returning to work, as he practices social distancing in order to prevent his family from getting infected with the coronavirus, after the Mexican government declared a health emergency and issued stricter regulations to contain the spread of the disease, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez    

Galverston, Texas

Reuters / Sunday, April 26, 2020

Surrounded by police, a man exits a closed beach with his arms raised during the coronavirus pandemic in Galveston, Texas. Police gave chase after the man repeatedly walked onto nearby Seawall Boulevard, disrupting vehicle traffic, bystanders said. REUTERS/Adrees Latif  

Triathlete training in UK

Triathlete Lloyd Bebbington trains in a pool in his garden at home, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Britain. REUTERS/Carl Recine    

Let us Fish, Seattle, Washington

Reuters / Sunday, April 26, 2020

A woman looks up at the Montlake Bridge with binoculars while protesting the recreational fishing ban in Washington State, in place until at least May 4 due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Seattle, Washington.  REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson  

Pizza prepared for home delivery in Naples

Pizzas are being prepared for home delivery at the Caputo pizzeria in Naples, Monday, April 27, 2020. Region Campania allowed cafes and pizzerias to reopen for delivery Monday, after a long precautionary closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Factories reopen in Italy

A worker wears a mask as she works at the Sevel plant of Atessa, Central Italy, Monday, April 27, 2020. Italian factories, construction sites and wholesale supply businesses can resume activity as soon as they put safety measures into place aimed at containing contagion with COVID-19. This concession comes with partial easing of national lockdown restrictions announced Sunday night by Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Limerick City, Ireland

KEEP ON MOVING: Bus Éireann driver Jim Quinn with Marelea Volpa, from Limerick City, Ireland on her commute to work at Tungco Worldwide in Raheen Industrial Estate, Limerick, amid the coronavirus lockdown. Photograph: Diarmuid Greene

Boiris Johnson back in No 10

MAKE OR BREAK: British prime minister Boris Johnson walks through the front door of No 10 Downing Street to return to work after recovering from Covid-19, in London. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Reuters

Russian doctors and nurses sent to Italy

The Russians are instantly recognisable because they have their own distinctive PPE: white hazmat suits with blue stripes. Photograph: Anna Bonalume

The sprawling trade fair and exhibition centre on the outskirts of Bergamo, the Italian city hardest hit by coronavirus, is now a field hospital. Instead of pavilions and stands there are 142 beds, only 38 of them occupied.

Inside the hospital’s red zone, where the sickest patients are treated, there are almost as many Russian medical staff as patients: 32 military doctors and nurses and eight interpreters, all sent by Moscow in a controversial aid gesture….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/bergamo-field-hospital-russia-putin-italy-politics-aid

Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for children

Saudi Arabia

King Salman has ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed by minors, according to a statement Sunday by a top official.

The decision comes on the heels of another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging, replacing it with jail time, fines or community service and bringing one of the kingdom’s most controversial forms of public punishment to a close…..

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3081639/saudi-arabia-ends-death-penalty-children-and-public

Leysin, Switzerland

Picture made available Sunday, April 26, 2020 shows a giant landart painting entitled "Beyond Crisis" by Swiss French artist Saype in the alpine resort of Leysin, Switzerland, Friday, April 24, 2020. The artwork covering 3000 square meters was produced with biodegradable paints made from natural pigments such as coal and chalk. The artist aims to send a message of hope and positivity to the world in the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

VALENTIN FLAURAUD, KEYSTONE VIA AP

Ramadan Iftar at Iraq's Tahrir square

26 April 2020, Iraq, Baghdad: Iraqi demonstrators gather at Tahrir square for a free public Iftar (breaking fast) meal during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Photo: Ameer Al Mohammedaw/dpa (Photo by Ameer Al Mohammedaw/picture alliance via Getty Images)

San Salvador, El Salvador

In this photo released by the presidency press office, gang-member inmates of Izalco prison are subjected to maximum security measures after El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele ordered an emergency after increased homicides during the pandemic

Photograph: AP

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

A worshipper recites the Koran at the Star Mosque during Ramadan

Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba

A brigade of health professionals, who volunteered to travel to South Africa to assist local authorities with an upsurge of coronavirus cases, attend the farewell ceremony in their home city

Photograph: Ramón Espinosa/AP

Stonehenge, UK

Wiltshire, UK

Cyclists and walkers use a footpath as security guards patrol the prehistoric monument at Stonehenge which is closed during the national lockdown

Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza City

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — For the first time in years, sewing factories in the Gaza Strip are back to working at full capacity — producing masks, gloves and protective gowns, some of which are bound for Israel.

It’s a rare economic lifeline in the coastal territory, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since the Hamas militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in the strip in 2007. The blockade, and three wars between Hamas and Israel, have devastated the local economy, with unemployment hovering around 50%.

AP