• People cool off at a water supply line as temperatures rise in Karachi, Pakistan. EPA
  • This photograph shows a partially submerged bunker (Blockhaus) from the Atlantic Wall at the entrance of Arcachon Bay near Cap Ferret, south-western France on May 19, 2024. The Atlantic Wall, made up of bunkers or blockhaus was ordered by Nazi Germany's leader Adolph Hitler to be built and between 1942 and 1944, stretched some 5000km from northern Norway to the Franco-Spanish border to defend occupied territories from sea borne attack. 15,000 of them were planned to be built, but due to insufficient manpower and material, only about half of them were completed. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)
  • Devotees visit Shwedagon Pagoda as Buddhists mark Buddha's Birthday, which falls on the Full Moon Day of Kasone, in Yangon on May 22, 2024. Thousands of Buddhist devotees gathered at Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda on May 22 to mark the Buddha's birthday and to water a sacred Bodhi tree to mark a full moon festival. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP)
  • This picture taken from the window of a passenger jet shows an aerial view of the Nakano area of Tokyo on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP)
  • Mean Sonyta poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film "Parthenope" in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 21, 2024. REUTERS / Yara Nardi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
  • A woman stands inside the art piece 'The network', by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (Gallery Templon), exhibited in the Museum of Tapestries, in Aix-en-Provence, France, May 17, 2024. REUTERS / Manon Cruz
  • Mourners attend the funeral for victims of the helicopter crash that killed Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others, in Tehran, Iran, May 22, 2024. Majid Asgaripour / WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
  • Workers search through the remains of tornado-damaged homes, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)

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