Photos of the fortnight (April 25- May 8)

A resident carries a mattress through an area damaged by lahar (hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments flowing down the slopes of a volcano) from the Calbuco volcano at Correntoso near Chamiza in Chile. Ash from the volcano, which first erupted on April 22 without warning, reached as far as southern Brazil and prompted some airlines to cancel flights to the capital cities of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay