May 25, 2021

A Buddhist monk climbs atop a giant statue of Buddha to wash and decorate on the eve of Buddha Purnima, a holiday traditionally celebrated for Buddha's birthday also known as Vesak celebrations, in Bhopal, India.

Residents carry goods on their backs while they cross a lava covered field in Buhene, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Girls have fun while playing on top of a hill at sunset on Africa Day in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Visitors walk through a field of flowers at a park in Paju, South Korea.

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.

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.

A woman rides her bicycle through a heavy mist in a park as the sun rises in Sydney, Australia.