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Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A worker sets up a giant canvas of the official poster of the 66th Cannes Film Festival featuring Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of "A New Kind of Love", on the facade of the Festival Palace in Cannes May 13, 2013. The 66th Cannes film festival will run from May 15 to May 26. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Humboldt penguin swims at Taman Safari in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, May 13, 2013. AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
U.S. astronaut Tom Marshburn (R), Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko (C) and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield pose for a picture after leaving the Russian Soyuz space capsule following its landing, some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan May 14, 2013. The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station (ISS) landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission aboard the ISS. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS Indian labourers stand on top of a grain transport truck that caught fire after an oil leak leakage in Allahabad on May 13, 2013. Bad roads, speeding vehicles and poor driving are among the contributing factors to road accidents. A total of 131,834 people died in road accidents in India in 2011, according to the government's National Crime Records Bureau, which works out at 15 an hour. AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Palestinian patient seeks alternative medication at Alaa Abu Ghali's center, which uses fish for treating skin diseases, such as psoriasis and fungus, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A man reads as he sits in a wheelchair by a wall with graffiti on a sunny day in a streets of Barcelona on May 13, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER KLEIN
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Riot police officers stand next to the stage during celebrations of the the French league title of Paris Saint-Germain soccer club at Trocadero Plaza in Paris, Monday, May 13, 2013. Paris Saint-Germain clinched its first French league title since 1994 by defeating Lyon 1-0 on Sunday. AP Photo/Michel Euler
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
The Russian Soyuz space capsule with US astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko aboard lands some 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan on May 14, 2013. Marshburn, Hadfield and Romanenko returned today to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz-TMA capsule after a half-year mission to the International Space Station, Moscow mission control said. AFP PHOTO / POOL / SERGEI REMEZOV
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Navy X-47B drone does a fly by the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush after it was launched from the carrier off the coast of Virginia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. AP Photo/Steve Helber
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
The claw of a crane, center, tears through the structure of the Jet Star Roller Coaster, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Workers began to demolish the roller coaster, which fell in the ocean when part of the Casino Pier was washed away by Superstorm Sandy in October. AP Photo/Julio Cortez
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Palestinian sets fire to a tyre during clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th Nakba day or "Day of Catastrophe" on May 15, 2013 in Betunia near the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP PHOTO/ ABBAS MOMANI
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Palestinian protester stands during clashes with the Israeli army in Qalandia in the occupied West Bank on May 15, 2013 as Palestinians held rallies marking Nakba Day. Nakba Day, catastrophe in Arabic, commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Turkish policeman fires tear gas at demonstrating students in Ankara on May 15, 2013 who had gathered to protest against government policies they say resulted in last weekend's deadly twin bombings. Some 300 students hurled stones at the police as they vowed that those behind the car bombs in Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, "will pay a price" and demanded the resignation of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The attacks on Saturday, the deadliest in Turkey in years, killed at least 51 people and increased fears that the two-year conflict in Syria was dragging in neighbouring states. AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man bleeds after he was hit by a stone during clashes as Palestinians mark Nakba Day in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Palestinians annually mark the "nakba," or "catastrophe" ? the term they use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war that followed Israel's founding in 1948. AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Jury president Steven Spielberg poses for photographers during a photo call for the jury at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. AP Photo/Francois Mori
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS Australian actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Nicole Kidman smiles on May 15, 2013 as she arrives for the screening of the film "The Great Gatsby" ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opens on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A U.S. soldier arrives to the scene where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. A Muslim militant group, Hizb-e-Islami, claimed responsibility for the early morning attack, killing many in the explosion and wounding tens, police and hospital officials said. The powerful explosion rattled buildings on the other side of Kabul and sent a pillar of white smoke into the sky in the city's east. AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A topless Femen activist shouts slogans as she stands on a fountain featuring a giant shoe with words painted on her breast reading "Life in plastic is not fantastic" and a burning crucifix in the hand during a protest action in front of the so called Barbie Dreamhouse - the first life-sized giant mansion dedicated to the doll in Europe, ahead of its opening near the Alexanderplatz in Berlin on May 16, 2013. Berlin feminists are mobilizing against the 2,500-square-metre Barbie mansion they call a sexist icon. AFP PHOTO / BARBARA SAX
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan checks for rain during their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2013. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS US director Sofia Coppola (L) talks on May 16, 2013 during a press conference with (from 2ndL) British actress Emma Watson and US actors Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Taissa Farmiga and Claire Julien for her film "The Bling Ring" presented in the Un Certain Regard section at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opened on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A participant Chow Chow dog waits for the judge during the Word Dog Show and Exhibition in Hungexpo area of Budapest on May 16, 2013. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Puffs of clouds drift over a group of Allium blooms in Salina, Kan., Thursday afternoon, May 16, 2013. The blooms, which appear to be towering above the earth, actually are only a couple of feet tall. AP Photo/The Salina Journal, Tom Dorsey
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Pakistani youth runs after his horse along a field as the sun sets on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
An Indian Muslim devotee prays at the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti during the Urs festival, in Ajmer, India, Friday, May 17, 2013. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine for the annual festival, marking the death anniversary of the saint. AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A Palestinian hurls stones at Israeli forces, not seen, as tear gas fumes swirl in background, during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement Ofra outside the village of Deir Jarir near Ramallah, Friday, May 17, 2013. AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Afghan children peer through a fence that surrounds a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. The swimming pool build by the Soviets more then 30 years ago has rarely been used caught instead in the middle of decades of war. AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A visitor of a Wave-Gothic meeting poses for a photo on May 17, 2013 in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Organisers expect some 20,000 visitors from all over the world for the "dark" music and arts festival running until May 20, 2013. AFP PHOTO / HENDRIK SCHMIDT
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Emergency workers arrive at the scene of a train collision, Friday, May 17, 2013 in Fairfield, Conn. Two Metro North commuter trains serving New York City collided during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS An Indian youth cools off in a watering hole on a hot day in Allahabad on May 18, 2013. Temperatures soared in Allahabad to a maximum temperature of 47.28 Celsius. AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Participants of the the gothic music festival Wave Gothic Festival kiss each others in Leipzig, central Germany, Saturday, May 18, 2018. About 20,000 members of the scene from all over the world are expected to attend the gothic and 'dark' culture festival until May 20, 2013. AP Photo/Jens Meyer
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS People take part in the 18th edition of the 'Belgian Pride', a manifestation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender oriented people, on May 18, 2013 in Brussels, as part of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. This year's edition focuses on violence against gays. AFP PHOTO / BELGA / LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
TOPSHOTS (L-R) Bayern Munich's French midfielder Franck Ribery, Bayern Munich's defender Philipp Lahm and Bayern Munich's Brazilian defender Dante celebrate after scoring during the German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Moenchengladbach vs Bayern Munich in Moenchengladbach, western Germany, on May 18, 2013. AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with faithful on the occasion of a Pentecostal vigil St. Peter Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 18, 2013. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Finland's Krista Siegfrids (L) performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 18, 2013. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/JOHN MACDOUGALL
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Members of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)march during a ceremonial parade of some 697 Sub Inspectors and Executives at the National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) in Hyderabad on May 17, 2013. The Home Ministry's CISF is responsible for security services at ports and other tranportation facilities, as well as vital industrial units including atomic power plants, aerospace installations, and defence production units across India. AFP PHOTO/Noah SEELAMl TOPSHOTS
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Sri Lankan Navy soldiers march during a Victory Day parade rehearsal in Colombo on May 17, 2013. Sri Lanka celebrates War Heroes month with a military parade scheduled for May 18. The parade celebrates the fourth anniversary of the military defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009, ending a 37-year long separatist conflict. AFP PHOTO/ Ishara S. KODIKARA
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Participants, with their heads sticking out from holes of a large white fabric, perform during a performance, "Divisor" during an exhibition, "A Journal of the Plague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story," in Central business district of Hong Kong Friday, May 17, 2013. The art work was originally performed on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in 1968, created by the Late Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. AP Photo/Kin Cheung
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Winner of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest Emmelie de Forest of Denmark who sang "Only Teardrops," celebrates with the trophy after the final at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, May 18, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012. AP Photo/Alastair Grant
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Toulon players celebrate after winning the European Cup rugby final rugby union match between Clermont Auvergne and Toulon at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on May 18, 2013. Toulon won 16-15. AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
US actress Jennifer Lawrence poses on May 18, 2013 as she arrives for the screening of the film "Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" presented in Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opened on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Paris Saint-Germain's English midfielder David Beckham gives a thumbs up during a French L1 football match between Paris St Germain and Brest on May 18, 2013 at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
Polish player Jerzy Janowicz rips off his shirt as he celebrates after winning against French player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the end of their ATP Rome Open tennis tournament tennis match on May 15, 2013, in Rome. Janowicz won 6-4, 7-6 (7/5). AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI
Week in pictures: May 13 - May 19
A shaven-headed young boy yawns while attending a volunteer activity in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 16, 2013. He is among ten children who entered a temple to have an experience of monks' life for three weeks, called Little Buddha Camp, to celebrate upcoming Buddha's birthday on May 17. AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
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