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- Actors-dancers perform on stage the play ‘Camino a Broadway’ (Way to Broadway) during the gala held at the Cervantes theatre
- Prime minister Narendra Modi’s hair catches the wind as he speaks to the media on the opening day of parliament
- Hundreds of yogis take part in a mass practice to mark the International Day of Yoga, which is celebrated on 21 June
- A child cools off cattle in the Diyala waterway
- Seals relax on the beach
- ‘Fighting for our freedom’: protesters flood on to Hong Kong’s streets
- A guest in suitable headgear at the High Line hat party in New York, an event inspired by the clubs and parties of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District
- Fishing boats stay moored in a harbour after a cyclone warning
- Fans watch game five of the NBA finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors at a viewing party
- Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee
- Mount Sinabung spews smoke near Tiga Pancur Village, Karo, blowing volcanic ash more than 7,000 meters into the air.
- People line the streets in protest against proposed amendments to extradition law, which would make it easier to send criminal suspects to mainland China
- People rest by a fountain at Muzeon Park as the air temperature approaches 30C (86F)
- Guests await the start of the Saint Laurent men’s spring/summer 2020 runway show
- People mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy during the second world war
- People walk past a huge rubbish dump
- People enjoy a fun fair during the Eid al-Fitr festival in Istanbul
- People hold candles as they take part in a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park. As many as 180,000 people are expected to attend a candlelight vigil marking the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when Chinese troops opened fire and killed protesters in Beijing after hundreds of thousands of students and workers gathered in Tiananmen Square for weeks to call for greater political freedom.
- A projection of the Trump baby blimp lights up the white cliffs of Dover ahead of the US president’s state visit this week
- People queue for charitable donations before Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan
- A photograph released by the Tiananmen Mothers shows portraits of people who were killed during the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989
- : A prehistoric forest buried for more than 4,500 years has been uncovered by recent storms and spring tides
- Jack Field performs the highest recorded backflip on a motorcycle on top of the 297-metre (974ft) Eureka Tower
- Demonstrators hold a Czech and an EU flag during a protest against the government led by Andrej Babis in Wenceslas Square
- After more than an hours work, the 2022 plebe class from the U.S. Naval Academy celebrates after successfully placing an upperclassmans hat atop the Herndon Monument in the annual tradition
- Hillary Clinton and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos chat at an event marking the opening of the Statue of Liberty Museum
- Workers at the Maras salt-evaporation ponds, which have been in use since pre-Inca times
- The Sea of Flowers attraction in full bloom
- Chen San-yuan, a 70-year-old Feng Shui master, uses 29 cellphones mounted on his bike and two handheld cellphones to catch Pokemon
- Students and teachers compete in a Baduanjin qigong contest, one of the most common forms of qigong used as exercise, at a primary school
- Piles of imported iron ore at a port
- A young woman takes a picture of the city from the glass-floor observation platform in the Oriental Pearl Tower
- The Immortal Regiment march on Victory Day.Participants carry portraits of their relatives that fought in World War II
- A herd passing through the historical Palu Bridge which has announced as one of Turkey’s 13 ‘grandest bridges’ by The Culture and Tourism Ministry of Turkey
- Women perform inside a running metro train to celebrate the 158th birthday of the Nobel prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore
- The Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn’s Building Bridges, a sculptural installation showing six pairs of arching hands creating a bridge over a Venetian waterway in a former shipyard, before the 58th International Venice Biennale art exhibition
- Servicewomen march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second world war in Red Square
- One of 13 enormous animatronic predators which have been created for Chester zoo’s exhibition about lost species
- Muslim women pray on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque
- On This Day: Gandhi arrested, put in British jail in India
- A four-week old southern three-banded armadillo roll into a ball next to its mother in the tropical house of Budapest Zoo
- Passengers escape after plane skids off runway into river in Jacksonville, Florida
- Students stand for a vigil at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte after a student with a pistol killed two people and wounded four others on Tuesday
- The remains of houses destroyed in a landslide
- Historic May Day observed
- Turtles warm themselves by sitting on a tree branch in a park
- Sri Lankans pray in the street near St Anthony’s Shrine one week on from the attacks that killed over 250 people on Easter Sunday
- Plastic waste floats in a sewage canal
- Sri Lanka told of extremist network months before blasts – sources
- Smoke rises from the debris of the Bingxiong refrigeration company building, which was demolished on Thursday
- A worker tends to fermentation barrels, part of the traditional manufacture of soy sauce
- The scene after a domestic Summit Air aircraft and a helicopter crashed at Lukla airport
- A girl walks an Akita dog dressed in a military uniform
- A giant Buddha reopens to the public after renovation in Leshan, Sichuan province. Standing 71 metres, it is believed to be the world’s tallest stone Buddha statue
- Fog smothers skyscrapers over the city in the eastern province of Zhejiang
- Kumbh Mela: cleaning up after the world’s largest human gathering
- High-rise fire in Dhaka prompts people to jump from building
- An aerial view of flooding in northern Iran. State TV said villages near rivers and dams in several provinces had been evacuated for fear of rising water after days of torrential rain
- Cars piled up after a flash flood in the southern city. The provinces of Fars, Kurdistan, Qom and Isfahan are also on alert for imminent flooding
- Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, six, under plastic sheets at a shelter, after Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique
- Artists Lukas Janusauskos (left) and Patrick McCrossen with their cardboard sculpture of Atlas
- A crab stuck in a plastic bag floats in Verde Island Passage near Batangas Bay
- A journalist livestreams using multiple devices outside the Great Hall of the People
- Move to ensure healthcare
- Atrial fibrillation may raise dementia risk by 50%
- China’s State Media In Vicious Attack On Top U.S. Senator Over Huawei Patent Law
- Protests at Payra power plant leads to Chinese worker’s death
