A look at the best news photos from around the world.
April 18, 2016
![The Villarrica Volcano is seen at night in Chile. Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes.](https://gdb.voanews.com/97d5b888-7ec8-4bcc-acf4-33f036de83ed_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Villarrica Volcano is seen at night in Chile. Villarrica is one of Chile's most active volcanoes.
![A depiction of a gas mask placed by environmental protest group Greenpeace is seen on a statue of Britain's Queen Victoria near Buckingham Palace in London, England.](https://gdb.voanews.com/598f522c-e1eb-4c8b-9752-3decac68ea64_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A depiction of a gas mask placed by environmental protest group Greenpeace is seen on a statue of Britain's Queen Victoria near Buckingham Palace in London, England.
![Migrants ask for help from a rubber dinghy as they are approached by the SOS Meditrranee's ship Aquarius, background, off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, April 17, 2016. The European Union's border agency says the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy more than doubled last month.](https://gdb.voanews.com/1b0b42ed-ba27-4c2f-9270-732b1a8847a9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Migrants ask for help from a rubber dinghy as they are approached by the SOS Meditrranee's ship Aquarius, background, off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, April 17, 2016. The European Union's border agency says the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Italy more than doubled last month.
![Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, breaks the tape ahead of Kurt Fearnley, of Australia, center, and Ernst Van Dyk, of South Africa, in the wheelchair division of the 120th Boston Marathon.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0144b2cd-aa05-415b-8d63-d50c8d8cf769_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, breaks the tape ahead of Kurt Fearnley, of Australia, center, and Ernst Van Dyk, of South Africa, in the wheelchair division of the 120th Boston Marathon.