News in pictures: Saturday, May 4, 2024

Spring blooms and spring sunshine at the Harrison Tulip Festival, in Agassiz, British Columbia, Canada

DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP

Dancers in Mexican-themed costumes in Times Square, New York, which hosted the Tlayacapan Brigido Santamaria band, one of the oldest bands in Mexico

SARAH YENESEL/EPA

A young leopard skulks in the long grass of the Okavango Delta in Botswana on one of its first forays to hunt impala

WILLIAM STEEL/SOLENT NEWS & PHOTO AGENCY

Mine Verges, who is in charge of creating the dancers’ costumes at the Moulin Rouge musical cabaret in Paris, with the Australian dancer Madison

MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

An Icelandic foal, minutes old, next to its mother at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany. The farm’s first foal of the season was born just after a night of thunderstorms and heavy rain

MICHAEL PROBST/AP

The Arken museum of contemporary art in Ishoj, Denmark, is hosting an exhibition of the British-Indian conceptual artist Sir Anish Kapoor’s works — the largest ever to be held in Scandinavia

DAVID STJERNHOLM

Lisa Parigi, Charlotte Tilbury and Kate Moss with Lionel Richie, Robert Kraft and Dana Kraft at the The King’s Trust gala at Cipriani South Street in New York

LEXIE MORELAND/WWD/GETTY IMAGES

Crias – young alpacas – with their mothers at Petlake Alpacas, Bartley, Hampshire, at the beginning of the alpaca birthing season. The farm’s owners, Sue and Brian Sears, say that alpacas will wait for good weather before they give birth

SIMON CZAPP/SOLENT NEWS & PHOTO AGENCY

Italy’s Alice D’Amato takes a leap on the uneven bars during the European artistic gymnastics championships in Rimini, Italy

GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

A ghostly-looking white peacock in full display at Blackpool Zoo, Lancashire. White peafowl are a colour mutation of the Indian blue peafowl, but are not albinos and have blue eyes — their unusual lack of colour is the result of a missing pigment

MEDIADRUMIMAGES

Each of the 9,000 individual sculptures of doves in Wells Cathedral, Somerset, has been adorned with a message of peace by members of the public. The installation is at Wells until June 8, after which it will move on to Durham and Lincoln cathedrals

PETER WALKER

Beth Strange, 7, from Mossneuk Primary School, with two crocheted sheep for the National Museum of Rural Life’s Woolly Weekend in East Kilbride. The event will take place on May 18-19 and feature sheep-shearing, spinning, weaving and dyeing demonstrations

PAUL DODDS

Tourists seize the moment to pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji in the background, in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, before a huge black barrier is installed to block the mountain from view. The town is exasperated by crowds of badly behaved visitors

PHILIP FONG/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Gentoo penguins in a picture by the amateur photographer David White, who has just spent a week in the Falkland Islands. “The Gentoos are always busy having fun and will come up very close to you — great characters,” he says

DAVID WHITE/PICTURE EXCLUSIVE

The landscape artist Joe Grieve, right, displays his paintings at Colstoun House near Haddington, East Lothian

IAIN MASTERTON/ALAMY

The sun sets behind Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh

PHIL WILKINSON