The 20 photographs of the week

Nepal: An avalanche on Everest killed 16 Sherpas preparing the slopes for a new climbing season. Here, the daughter of Ang Kaji Sherpa, one of the victims, collapses during a cremation ceremony at Syambhu in Kathmandu, Nepal Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

Some of the past week's most compelling photojournalism came from Ukraine. Pulitzer prize-winning photographer – and regular to this gallery – Manu Brabo was covering the ongoing crisis. Here, a bouquet of flowers lies next to bloodstains and a police evidence marker at a pro-Russian checkpoint after a fight between an unidentified masked man and pro-Russian activists in a village near Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP

In another photograph by Manu Brabo, masked pro-Russia militia fire a salvo into the air to honor Pavel Pavelko, one of three militiamen killed in a shooting by unknown gunmen at a checkpoint near Slavyansk Photograph: Manu Brabo/AP

Photographer Marko Djurica has also produced strong work from Ukraine this week. Here, masked pro-Russia protesters pelt supporters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko with eggs outside a regional government building in Donetsk Photograph: Marko Djurica/Reuters

Australia: A girl places a poppy on the roll of honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. This year marks the 99th anniversary of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) forces landing at Gallipoli, in Turkey, during the first world war. Their sacrifice is marked on 25 April each year, Anzac Day. Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA

Turkey: At another ceremony marking the Gallipoli anniversary, a Turkish air force patroller flies over Canakkale, Turkey. In the eight months of fighting at the Gallipoli peninsula, about 11,500 Anzac troops were killed, fighting alongside British, Indian and French soldiers Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Bulent Kilic was also photographing Syrian refugees in Turkey. The number of refugees there has reached 'almost one million', according to prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who pledged to continue accepting those fleeing the war. Here, a Syrian woman sits with her children on a pavement in Istanbul Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Syria: Saleh Zawaraa is carried on horseback after he was severely injured by a tank shell as he tried to bring bread into the Syrian village of Beit Jinn near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The village of Beit Jinn has been under siege by Syrian troops for months, and no food and medicine has been allowed to reach thousands of trapped civilians inside Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

South Korea: Relatives of passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol sit near the sea at a port in Jindo. More than 300 people – mostly students and teachers on a high-school trip – are now feared dead after the 16 April tragedy Photograph: Lee Jin-Man/AP

Employees sweep the floor in front of a memorial altar for victims of the capsized South Korean passenger ship. The ferry, weighing almost 7,000 tons, sank on a routine trip from the port of Incheon to the holiday island of Jeju Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters

Spain: Real Madrid's Karim Benzema scores a goal past Bayern Munich's goalkeeper Manuel Neuer during their Champions League semi-final first leg at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Philippines: Photographer Chris McGrath has produced a compelling series from Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, where superstorm Yolanda struck in November 2013 leaving more than 6,000 people dead. In the aftermath of the superstorm, basketball hoops were some of the first things to be repaired and rebuilt amongst the rubble, showing the country's resilience and love for the sport Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty

Here, in another from this Filipino series, children play on another damaged basketball court Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty

Chris McGrath also photographed Filipino daily life after the superstorm in Tacloban. Here people attend an Easter Sunday mass at Santo Niño parish Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty

Cuba: People talk on the doorstep of their house in Havana, Cuba. Official government statistics show new construction has declined since Raul Castro assumed the presidency from his older brother Fidel in 2008 Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP

Brazil: In Rio de Janeiro, protests and shootings broke out following the discovery of dancer Douglas Rafael da Silva's body, whom protesters allege was beaten by police. Here, people walk through smoke from fires started by protesters following shootings near Copacabana Beach Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty

Iraq: A car bomb detonates at a Shi'ite political rally in Baghdad. Police reported that a series of explosions in Iraq on 25 April had killed 18 people Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

Yemen: Suspected al-Qaida militants Farhan al-Saadi, second left, and Sami Dayan, right, stand behind bars during a hearing at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen. They are accused of plotting the assassination of Major General Salem Ali al-Quton, who was killed by a suicide bomb attack in Aden Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP

India: Relatives grieve during the funeral procession of Zia-Ul-Haq in Hirpora, India. Zia was killed after voting in the ongoing general elections, when suspected rebels fatally shot him and wounded four others in an attack on a bus in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

In this final photograph of the week – taken on Earth Day, 22 April – a greater adjutant stork flies by a woman looking for recyclable items at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP