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Added on the 31/03/2018 08:39:53 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Tens of thousands line the streets of East Timor's capital Dili, waving Vatican-coloured flags and umbrellas while screaming as the 87-year-old Pope Francis is driven through the streets flanked by security. IMAGES
Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returns to Earth on without the astronauts who traveled in it to the International Space Station, after NASA deemed the risk too great. The gumdrop-shaped capsule landed gently at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at approximately 0401 GMT Saturday, its descent slowed by parachutes and cushioned by airbags, having departed the ISS around six hours earlier. IMAGES
Scene outside a nursing home where a gunman opened fire killing at least five and wounding three more in the north Croatian town of Daruvar. State broadcaster HRT said the alleged suspect then fled but was later arrested by police. IMAGES
Julian Assange exits an airport in a motorcade after landing in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific where the WikiLeaks founder will appear at a court hearing as part of a plea deal that will see him freed. IMAGES
Mexico's national guard secures a Forensic Medical Service building in Acapulco, where the body of recently elected mayor Salvador Villalba Flores is being kept after he was assassinated. Villalba -- who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Acapulco -- was shot dead while traveling on a highway, according to prosecutors in Guerrero state. IMAGES