Week in pictures: 9–15 April

SUNDAY, FRANCE: Team Sky cyclists ride at the front of the peloton during the Paris-Roubaix race

SUNDAY, MOROCCO: Competitors take part in the 31st edition of the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert

SUNDAY, GREECE: Refugees clash with Macedonian soldiers during a protest to re-open the border near their makeshift camp in Idomeni

SUNDAY, INDIA: The Duchess Of Cambridge knocks them for six at Mumbai's Oval Maidan during the royal tour of India and Bhutan

SUNDAY, SYRIA: Fighters from Jaish al-Islam, who fiercely oppose both the Syrian regime and Islamic State, hold a position in the town of Douma

MONDAY, BRAZIL: Dancers in Rio de Janeiro prepare for a rally in support of President Dilma Rousseff

WEDNESDAY, TURKEY: Colorful tulip fields in Karatay, Konya, open to the public for two days

WEDNESDAY, WALES: British landscape artist Anthony Garratt works on a giant painting below the peak of Snowdon

THURSDAY, ENGLAND: Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund pay tribute to the Hillsborough victims ahead of their Europa League quarter-final clash at Anfield

THURSDAY, JAPAN:
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