A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 21, 2019

5
Old structures are seen in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur province, Philippines. The area remains abandoned, two years after pro-Islamic State militants began their attacks on May 23, 2017. Marawi was once one of the most beautiful cities in the Philippines.

6
Local people fill their empty containers with water on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, India, May 20, 2019.

7
British model and designer Leomie Anderson arrives for the screening of the film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" during the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.

8
Students build a human pyramid to climb the six-meter-tall Herndon Monument, which had been covered with vegetable shortening, at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, May 20, 2019.