The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

Pope Francis’s body is laid out in state inside his private chapel at the Vatican, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

A nun holds a rosary and a picture of Pope Francis during a rosary prayer for the late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Tuesday April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A woman is dressed in traditional costume as she and visitors tour Jiayu Pass, a strategic point of the Great Wall of China along the ancient “Silk Road,” near the city of Jiayuguan in China’s northwestern Gansu province, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, ahead of the annual Holocaust remembrance day which begins at sundown Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Women’s race competitors including eventual winner Ferne Gardener, no. 11, right, run with a 20kg sack of coal over a 1.1 km course during the World Coal Carrying Championships in Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

A woman prays during the morning mass at the Sanctuaire d’adoration cathedral, following the announcement of Pope Francis’s death in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Faithful react as they attend a Mass for the late Pope Francis, at the St. John Lateran Basilica, in Rome, Monday April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Cardinal Silvano Tomasi arrives in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)