The front porch of Amanda Berry’s home is decorated with balloons and signs in Cleveland. Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, had apparently been held captive in a house since their teens or early 20s, police said. Photograph: Tony Dejak/AP
President Barack Obama whistles as he walks between the Oval Office and the South Lawn of the White House; before boarding the Marine One to begin his trip to Mexico and Costa Rica.
From picture desk live: the best news images of the day
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
Harvey Gantt being interviewed upon entering Clemson College as the first African American student in 1963. From the Clemson University photographs collection at Clemson University Libraries special collections.
From our gallery: American history reaches the digital era
Photograph: Digital Public Library of America
Boston residents have been told to stay inside as police hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the marathon bombing, lending an eerie calm to streets around the city. With mass transit shut down and no cars on the road, many in the locked-down neighbourhoods have taken to Twitter and Instagram to share images of the usually bustling streets now almost entirely deserted
This is what rush hour looks like in #Boston. Empty-so eerie and quiet. #fox6wbrctwitpic.com/ckfh7r
— Beth Shelburne (@bshelburne) April 19, 2013
Streets are nearly empty in #downtown #Boston. twitter.com/mollyoehmichen…
— Molly Oehmichen (@mollyoehmichen) April 19, 2013
Boston is still totally empty. Another pic from Cambridge side of Longfellow @usatoday twitter.com/antonioregalad…
— Antonio Regalado (@antonioregalado) April 19, 2013
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been ordered to stand trial again for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, after Italy’s highest appeals court overturned their acquittals and paved the way for a potential extradition tussle between Italy and the US.
Photograph: Reuters (via Amanda Knox faces retrial over Meredith Kercher murder | World news | guardian.co.uk)
‘Some people called me a traitor, but others thought I was a hero.’ Photograph: Lance W Clayton/Wonderful Machine
It’s the stuff of nightmares: last week, the ground opened up and swallowed a Florida man as he lay sleeping in his home. But why do these sinkholes occur and how widespread are they?
Photos: 1. Three buildings collapsed after a huge hole appeared in, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China on 28 Jan 2013. There are no casualties from the incident, which was near a metro tunnel construction site. Imaginechina/Rex Features. 2. Guatemala city, 2007 Photograph: Ulises Rodriguez/EPA/Corbis
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful - if crude - improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
Photograph: AP
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