25/04/2026

SATURDAY | APR 25, 2026

PICTURE GALLERY 17

LOVELY LANTERNS ... A shopkeeper outside his store in Hanoi, Vietnam that displays a colourful array of wares. – AFPPIC

MAN VS MACHINE ... A robot participating in the second Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Half Marathon in China. – AFPPIC

PEACEFUL POSTURE ... Pope Leo XIV releases a dove next to Archbishop of Bamenda Andrew Fuanya Nkea and other officials after a meeting for peace with the community of Bamenda in Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, Cameroon. – REUTERSPIC

ld a structure out of bamboo. – BERNAMAPIC

PUG HUG ... A displaced girl, who fled her home in Beirut’s southern suburbs after an Israeli evacuation order, holding a dog at a makeshift encampment amid a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel. – REUTERSPIC

COLOURFUL CHAMELEON ... A panther chameleon in its enclosure at the Parc zoologique de Paris, also known as the Zoo de Vincennes, in Paris. – AFPPIC