Pictures of the month: May
Ukrainian children Andrii, 12 and Valentyn, 6, stand in a foxhole as they play Ukrainian military near their houses in the village of Stoianka, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 22. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
People react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24. REUTERS/Marco Bello
A man lights a candle at a memorial for victims at the scene of the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 16. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A worker takes a rapid antigen test for coronavirus on a street during the ongoing COVID lockdown in Shanghai, China, May 23. REUTERS/Aly Song
Abortion rights protester Christa Vonderburg from Atlanta participates in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Washington, May 14. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Family and friends carry the coffin of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, as clashes erupted with Israeli security forces, during her funeral in Jerusalem, May 13. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
British soldiers participate in an exercise as NATO allied troops carry out Swift Response 22 exercises during a media open day at Krivolak army base, North Macedonia, May 12. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
Britain's Prince Charles sits next to the Queen's crown during the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster in London, May 10. Alastair Grant/Pool
Police officers block activists during a protest denouncing the proclamation of the new Philippine president and vice president, in front of the Commission on Human Rights, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, May 25. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson arrive at the In America: An Anthology of Fashion themed Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces, who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, sit in a bus upon their arrival under escort of the pro-Russian military in the settlement of Olenivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine May 20. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Children look at buffaloes during a sandstorm in eastern Baghdad's al-Futheliyah district, Iraq, May 23. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
Actor Amber Heard testifies about the first time she says her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp hit her, at Fairfax County Circuit Court during a defamation case against her by Depp in Fairfax, Virginia, May 4. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/Pool
While holding her 5-month-old daughter, Sienna, Kim Anatra pours the leftover contents of a jar of formula into the last jar in her supply as the family struggles to find formula amid continuing nationwide shortages in infant and toddler formula, in Houston, Texas, May 19. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
Spanish divers try to cut an illegal drift net off a 12-metre-long humpback whale, who got entangled in it near Cala Millor beach in the Balearic island of Mallorca, Spain, May 20. REUTERS/Pedrosub
Local resident Jim Finn, holding 8-month old daughter Allegra Finn, casts his ballot on the morning of the national election at a Bondi Beach polling station in Sydney, Australia, May 21. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
People sleep on the Yamuna river bed under a bridge on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, May 2. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
A worker removes the last public payphone in New York City, near Times Square in Manhattan, May 23. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Workers push their motorbikes through the water at the flooded Tanjung Emas container port terminal area, following high tides and broken seawalls, in Semarang, Central Java province, Indonesia, May 23. Antara Foto/Aji Styawan
Mount Etna erupts as seen from Fornazzo, Italy, May 20. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke disrupts a press conference held by Governor Greg Abbott the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 25. REUTERS/Veronica G. Cardenas
A young girl looks at a memorial in the wake of the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 18. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A boy looks at a destroyed Russian infantry fighting vehicle during an exhibition displaying destroyed Russian military vehicles, in central Kyiv, Ukraine, May 21. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Members of the U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy salute as they stand on the flight deck of the USS Bataan, a U.S. Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, as it passes by the Statue of Liberty among a parade of ships during Fleet Week 2022 in New York, May 25. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
A child sits on the ground during the weekly general audience held by Pope Francis at the Vatican, May 25. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Bella Hadid poses at the screening of the film "L'innocent" at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 24. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
Women wait inside a transport vehicle after being apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at Mt. Cristo Rey at dawn, as U.S. authorities, blocked by a federal judge from lifting COVID-19 restrictions that empower agents at the U.S.-Mexico border to turn back migrants, continue to enforce the Title 42 rules which result in the fast expulsion of migrants to Mexico or other countries, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, May 23. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
The moon is seen through clouds behind the radio telescope RT-70 in the village of Molochnoye, Crimea, May 16. REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak
Congolese civilians carry their belongings as they flee near the Congolese border with Rwanda after fightings broke out in Kibumba, outside Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 24. REUTERS/Djaffar Sabiti
Kateryna Shelikhova, widow of 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov who was shot dead by a Russian soldier, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's invasion, shows a picture from their wedding, inside her house in Chupakhivka, Ukraine, May 24. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
People gather at Robb Elementary School, the scene of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 25. REUTERS/Nuri Vallbona
Plebes form a human pyramid to place an upperclassman hat atop the 21-foot vegetable shortening-covered Herndon Monument, a tradition marking the end of their plebe year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, May 23. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
People stand amid newly-made graves at a cemetery in the settlement of Staryi Krym, outside Mariupol, Ukraine, May 22. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
A bus carrying wounded service members of Ukrainian forces from the besieged Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol drives under escort of the pro-Russian military upon arrival in Novoazovsk, Ukraine, May 16. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
People cross a bridge during a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, May 16. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
Buddhist monks turn on the LED lights to form an image of the Lord Buddha, as people observe Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at Dhammakaya Temple, Pathum Thani, near Bangkok, Thailand, May 15. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
George Floyd's daughter Gianna Floyd sits at the presidential desk holding up one of the president's pens as U.S. President Joe Biden talks to the crowd after Biden signed an executive order to reform federal and local policing on the second anniversary of the death of her father George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 25. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Singer Taylor Swift attends the New York University (NYU) graduation ceremony at Yankee Stadium in New York City, May 18. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
A controlled detonation of explosive devices found by members of the Special Demining Unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv region is conducted near Borodianka, Ukraine, May 17. REUTERS/Abdelhadi Ramahi
A teddy bear hangs on a swing next to a damaged building in Saltivka district, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 17. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Child migrant Eliana, 4, from Guatemala, is carried towards a member of the Texas Army National Guard, after she and other asylum-seeking migrants waded across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Roma, Texas, May 13. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, May 15. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Singer Tallia Storm poses at the opening ceremony and screening of the film "Coupez" (Final Cut) at thw Cannes Film Festival in France, May 17. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Vietnam's Mach Pham Van poses during the Men's Bodybuilding 55kg competition during the Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 13. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
Local resident and sailor Mikhail Vais, 58, sits in an armchair next to a dog outside a house heavily damaged in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 12. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Ukrainian servicemen carry bodies of Russian soldiers killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, before putting them in a refrigerated rail car, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 13. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Iracema Guimaraes da Costa, a local farmer, reacts as she wades through flood waters in front of her relatives' house, after several riverside villages were affected by flooding triggered by the rise of the river levels in Careiro da Varzea, in the Amazonas state of Brazil, May 20. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Destroyed Russian tanks and military vehicles are seen dumped in Bucha amid Russia's invasion in Ukraine, May 16. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Mourners react while attending a vigil for victims of the shooting at a TOPS supermarket in Buffalo, New York, May 15. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Workers in protective suits take an elevator as they disinfect a residential area during the COVID lockdown in Shanghai, China, May 18. REUTERS/Aly Song
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presides over a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, amid the coronavirus surge, in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 18. KCNA via REUTERS
Ukrainian servicemen of the Territorial Defence Forces fire an anti-tank grenade launcher as they take part in a training exercise, in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, May 14. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Roosevelt Lipscomb, a 92-year-old election official who has been working at polling stations for more than 50 years, pauses at the entrance to a voting site as he continues to volunteer, during primary elections in Durham, North Carolina, May 17. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
Police use water cannon to disperse the protestors during a protest organized by students near the President's House, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
A man uses an umbrella for shade as he carries a dismantled car on a cycle rickshaw to a scrapyard on a hot weather day on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, May 19. REUTERS/Amit Dave
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a wildfire that broke out on the hillside next to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, May 17. REUTERS/ David Swanson
Ukrainian soldiers Yashka and Olga embrace while the convoy makes a stop on its way to the eastern front, near Oleksandriya, Ukraine, May 15. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine pose after winning the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy, May 15. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
A demonstrator holds up a clothes hanger during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, May 3. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
A man cools off under a pipe of flowing water on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, May 11. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is embraced by current White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki as Psaki introduces Jean-Pierre as President Joe Biden's next White House press secretary at the White House in Washington, May 5. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
A view shows an explosion at a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 11. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Fireworks explode during celebrations of the Victory Day, marking the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Moscow, Russia, May 9. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev is covered in red substance thrown by protesters as he came to celebrate Victory day at the Soviet Military Cemetery to mark the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, in Warsaw, Poland, May 9. Slawomir Kaminski/Agencja Wyborcza
A damaged bus of Sri Lanka's ruling party supporters is blocking a main road after it was set on fire during a clash of pro and anti-government demonstrators near the Prime Minister's official residence, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 10. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
A resident and a child look out through gaps in the barriers at a closed residential area during a COVID lockdown in Shanghai, China, May 10. REUTERS/Aly Song
A Ukrainian police officer guards as refugees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol arrive at a registration and humanitarian aid center for internally displaced people, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, May 8. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Members of a Russian military band perform during a parade on Victory Day, which marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 9. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Brandon, an asylum seeking migrant from Nicaragua, helps carry Liam, a three year old twin from Nicaragua, and Olivia, a 14-year-old unaccompanied minor from Guatemala, as they wade through the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Roma, Texas, May 7. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Mourners, including journalists, react next to the body of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed by Israeli army gunfire, the Qatar-based news channel said, during an Israeli raid, in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 11. Israeli military said Abu Akleh may have been shot by Palestinians as they clashed with its troops. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Local residents climb on top of a destroyed Russian tank, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near Irpin, Ukraine, May 6. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Relatives cry during the funeral of Egyptian officer Soleman Ali Soleman, who was killed in an armed attack claimed by Islamic State in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, at his home village Jazirat al-Ahrar, in Al Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, May 9. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
The first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. EHT Collaboration/National Science Foundation
A destroyed residential area is seen in Irpin, Ukraine, May 7. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A Palestinian enjoys the beach in Gaza City, May 6. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
An injured Ukrainian service member sits at a field hospital inside a bunker of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol, Ukraine, in a photo released May 10. Dmytro Orest Kozatskyi/Press service of Azov Regiment
A couple poses for wedding photographs inside Grand Central Station in New York City, May 5. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
A delivery worker, who says he is living at a bus stop because he has been unable to return home for weeks due to the COVID lockdown, brushes his teeth on a street in Shanghai, China, May 12. REUTERS/Aly Song
Artist Dea Dzankovic screams along with other women during "Burn/out" art performance in Belgrade, Serbia, May 7. Dzankovic wants to draw attention to the problem of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion of women caused by stress, and calls for women to scream in front of all state institutions in Serbia, as she believes, they are most responsible for this condition felt by young women across the country. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
A child stands on a destroyed Russian tank near Makariv, Kyiv region, Ukraine May 7. REUTERS/Mikhail Palinchak
Smoke from a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire rises above a residential area in Laguna Niguel, California, May 12. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, May 10. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
Service members of pro-Russian troops fire from a tank during fighting near the Azovstal steel plant in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 5. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Police officers use pepper spray against demonstrators during a May Day protest in Berlin, Germany, May 1. REUTERS/Christian Mang
Valentina, a refugee Ukrainian woman from Mariupol, gestures after arriving at a registration center for internally displaced people, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, May 2. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
Usha Vance, wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance kisses him at an election party after he won the primary in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 3. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse
Gigi Hadid arrives at the In America: An Anthology of Fashion themed Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Nina Stefuryak, 2, plays at the playground in front of a building, destroyed by shelling, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Borodianka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 2. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
People enjoy the sunset in Vlora, Albania, May 4. REUTERS/Florion Goga
A destroyed Russian tank's turret is seen stuck in the ground in Zalissia, Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 3. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Cast member Tom Cruise arrives at the global premiere for the film Top Gun: Maverick on the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, May 4. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
A participant attends the annual May Day bank holiday "Jack In The Green" parade and festival in Hastings, Britain, May 2. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Pro-abortion and anti-abortion demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, May 3. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
The Fearless Girl Statue by artist Kristen Visbal stands draped in the flag of Ukraine after a demonstration outside the New York Stock Exchange, May 4 REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Janelle Monae arrives at the In America: An Anthology of Fashion themed Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 2. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
A shark swims past a diver during an outing with scuba company Emerald Charters off Jupiter Inlet, Florida, May 18. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe
Savelii, 10, mourns his father Ihor Krotkikh, 47, who according to his mother Alla Krotkikh, 42, was killed by shelling, as he stands by his grave during the death memorial weekend which marks a week after the Orthodox Easter, at the cemetery in Irpin, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, May 1. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
People walk their bikes across the street as smoke rises above a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 2. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Supporters of Philippine Vice-President and presidential candidate Leni Robredo gather during a campaign rally in Baguio City, Benguet province, Philippines, May 2. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David
A worker in a protective suit locks a barrier of a residential area during a COVID lockdown in Shanghai, China, May 4. REUTERS/Aly Song
