Music fans walk to the exit at the end of the Coachella festival in Indio, California.

A woman gestures as she enjoys a free hot meal at a social centre in the Romanian capital Bucharest.

A woman feeds a pig called Felix in a retirement home in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Felix has been specially trained to provide emotional therapy for older people.

An Indonesian jockey competes in a traditional bull race in the farming town of Lumajang, East Java province.

A man cleans the hoofs of his donkey at a market in Karachi, Pakistan.

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy burns leavened items in preparation for the start of the Passover festival in Bnei Brak, Israel.

A girl contemplates a picture of broken dolls at an exhibition in the Swiss city of Geneva marking the 25th anniversary of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Iranian soldiers in camouflage suits parade for National Army Day before the mausoleum of the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, near the capital Tehran.

A policeman arrests a demonstrator in a suburb of the Ugandan capital Kampala, which has seen protests against rising living costs.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent in Nigeria, there were running battles between protesters and soldiers in the northern city of Kano as President Goodluck Jonathan cruised to election victory.

Protests continued in Yemen demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. Demonstrators in the southern city of Taiz flashed victory signs through the national flag.

The King's Troop ride through London for their annual inspection in Regent's Park, where they performed a six-gun musical drive.