Images Dated 4th April 2015

Follow the light

Phare du Petit Minou is a lighthouse in the roadstead of Brest, standing in front of the Fort du Petit Minou, in the commune of PlouzanA©. By aligning it with the phare du Portzic, it shows the safe route to follow for ships to enter the roadstead. It also has a red signal that indicates a dangerous sector around the plateau of les Fillettes (literally the girls), one of the submerged rocks in the goulet of Brest sailors remember this by using the mnemonic "the Minou blushes when he covers les Fillettes"

Woman on walkway at Neak Pean, Angkor, Cambodia

Young woman on walkway at Neak Pean ('entwined serpents in Khmer). Neak Pean Temple is built on an artificial island. The temple and pond represent Anavatapta, a mythical lake in the Himalayas with waters that are believed to cure illeness

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Chinese families are seen at their family graves during the Qingming or grave sweeping

Chinese families are seen at their family graves during the Qingming or grave sweeping festival at a cemetery in Kuala Lumpur, April 4, 2015. Chinese honour their dead during Qingming by offering prayers, food, tea, wine as well as paper replicas of bungalows, flashy cars, technological gadgets and Louis Vuitton bags, for their dead to enjoy in the afterlife. REUTERS/Olivia Harris TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY