April 17, 2024

Vehicles sit abandoned in floodwater covering a major road in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emiratesy, dumping over a year and a half's worth of rain on the desert city-state of Dubai over a period of hours.

A cloud of smoke erupts down the road from an explosion as a man drives an animal-drawn cart loaded with jerrycans in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Bleached coral is seen in a reef at the Costa dos Corais in Japaratinga in the state of Alagoas, Brazil, April 16, 2024. Brazil is bracing for what may be its worst-ever coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve, threatening the area's tourism and fishing industry earnings. 

Rescuers work at the site of a destroyed building during a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

Stanley Mawa, 57, a porter, carries election material as he crosses a root bridge to reach a distant polling station, ahead of the first part of the election, in Shillong in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India.

This image from above shows green algae in the Wilgerivier in Oranjeville, South Africa.