A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 17, 2015
![Candles are placed in the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, western Germany, for a ceremony for the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash last month in the French Alps.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0df334f0-2941-46d7-90b5-fee6bad9be9a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Candles are placed in the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, western Germany, for a ceremony for the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash last month in the French Alps.
![A Yemeni girl holds a baby in a temporary shelter after fleeing violence in Yemen, at the port town Bosasso in Somalia's Puntland. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led airstrikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.](https://gdb.voanews.com/74a23033-a4ed-44b6-890b-9fe30e1b988e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Yemeni girl holds a baby in a temporary shelter after fleeing violence in Yemen, at the port town Bosasso in Somalia's Puntland. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led airstrikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.
![A woman cries in front of the skulls and bones of more than 8,000 victims of the Khmer Rouge regime during a Buddhist ceremony at Choeung Ek, a "Killing Fields" site located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Hundreds of Cambodians and monks gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge reign.](https://gdb.voanews.com/08cf9cc2-f08b-4bc4-9462-3f0776f48139_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A woman cries in front of the skulls and bones of more than 8,000 victims of the Khmer Rouge regime during a Buddhist ceremony at Choeung Ek, a "Killing Fields" site located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Hundreds of Cambodians and monks gathered at the site to mark the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge reign.
![A poster of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is surrounded by yellow butterfly cutouts with messages, placed there by fans, at a bookstore in Mexico City. Marquez fans are commemorating the first anniversary of his death. In 'Gabo's famous novel "100 Years of Solitude," clouds of yellow butterflies precede a forbidden lover’s arrival.](https://gdb.voanews.com/41a013c5-3244-4225-8c56-c2c955e1aa20_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A poster of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is surrounded by yellow butterfly cutouts with messages, placed there by fans, at a bookstore in Mexico City. Marquez fans are commemorating the first anniversary of his death. In 'Gabo's famous novel "100 Years of Solitude," clouds of yellow butterflies precede a forbidden lover’s arrival.