A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 25, 2021
![Women comfort family members of a person who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e0872158-9547-4fc8-853a-bf6558da0f3b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Women comfort family members of a person who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir.
![Palestinians sit in a tent that has been set up on top of the ruins of a building destroyed in recent Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, May 24, 2021.](https://gdb.voanews.com/69a40dde-8d48-4a00-ab19-bb29c3436066_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Palestinians sit in a tent that has been set up on top of the ruins of a building destroyed in recent Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, May 24, 2021.
![Policemen ask people to move to cyclone shelters as they patrol a beach in Balasore district in Odisha, India. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in low-lying areas of two Indian states to escape from a powerful storm barreling toward the eastern coast. ](https://gdb.voanews.com/d0b62721-09f8-44e4-bdca-55a8c92b834a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Policemen ask people to move to cyclone shelters as they patrol a beach in Balasore district in Odisha, India. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in low-lying areas of two Indian states to escape from a powerful storm barreling toward the eastern coast.
![Cars are seen stuck sideways in a huge hole that has opened up next to an apartment building in Rome, Italy.](https://gdb.voanews.com/498205a8-5c1d-47c5-a873-94540908b2e3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Cars are seen stuck sideways in a huge hole that has opened up next to an apartment building in Rome, Italy.