Photos of the Day: Jewish Priests and Red Blankets

Nenthead, Cumbria

Watch out for the April snow showers. Five weather warnings are in place as heavy rain and snow blight swaths of the country on Easter Monday
Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

San José, Costa Rica

Supporters of the governing Citizen Action party’s presidential candidate, Carlos Alvarado, celebrate in the capital. Alvarado is president-elect after winning more than 60% of the vote in an election runoff on Sunday against an evangelical preacher.
Photograph: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP/Getty Images

Jerusalem

Jewish priests and devotees wearing talit (prayer shawls) take part in the Cohanim prayer (priest’s blessing) at the Western Wall in the Old City. The Passover festival commemorates the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in Egypt over 3,500 years ago
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images