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Much to the dismay of social media followers around the world, the Indian Army wrote on Twitter Tuesday that it found the Yeti.

“For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' measuring 32x15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on 09 April 2019,” the Indian Army wrote on Twitter.

Police in Bangladesh say security forces killed at least two people suspected of belonging to an Islamist militant group behind the 2016 attack on a Dhaka cafe.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres signs the book of condolence at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in New York following terrorist attacks in April 2019 on churches in the south Asian country.

The UN is “continuing to address the humanitarian, economic and political crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” but efforts are continually undermined by the lack of any political progress towards a two-State solution, said the head of UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) on Monday.

On 25 April 2019 in Colombia, a baby rests on his mother's shoulder at the Friendly Space (CATM) in Cucuta, where UNICEF provides learning activities for migrant children and parents from Venezuela. The programme is supported by UNICEF, in coordination with OIM and the Colombian Chancellery.

Women in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia work in a greenhouse they built to increase the production capacity of vegetables they sell on the local market.

Sri Lankan security forces have exchanged gunfire with an armed group in Kalmunai in the eastern region of the country.

The U.S. Defense Department said Friday that it expected to send about 300 additional troops to the U.S. border with Mexico in roles that could allow them to come into contact with migrants, breaking past policy against interaction with them.

With thousands of guards deployed across the country to provide security for places of worship, Muslims in Sri Lanka answered the call to prayer Friday, less than a week after the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings in churches and hotels in the island nation's capital blamed on Muslim extremists.

Girls participating in the International Girls in ICT Day organised by ITU, at the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (25 April 2019).