Week in pictures: 9–15 April
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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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