Top Photos: May 18, 2016
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign embrace in Abuja, Nigeria. A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their schoo to return from captivity. (AFOLABI SOTUNDE / Reuters Photo)
Sri Lankan women cry as they pay their respects at a memorial for fallen soldiers during a commemorative ceremony in the capital Colombo. The ceremony marked the seventh anniversary of the end of the Tamil islands separatist war. (ISHARA S.KODIKARA / AFP/Getty Images)
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky looks out from a defendants’ cage in a Moscow courtroom. Pavlensky faces up to three years in prison for dousing the door of the FSB building, the successor to the KGB, with gasoline and setting it on fire as part of a performance. (ALEXANDER UTKIN / AFP/Getty Images)
A man covered in face paint waits to see Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during a campaign event in Vallejo, California. (STEPHEN LAM / Reuters Photo)
Suzuki Motor Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Osamu Suzuki attends a news conference at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in Tokyo, Japan. (THOMAS PETER / Reuters Photo)
A Sri Lankan landslide survivor caries her dog as she walks on the mud after a landslide about 45 miles from the capital of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hundreds are reported missing after landslides hit three villages in central Sri Lanka. (Eranga Jayawardena / AP)
A guest arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film “Ma’Rosa” at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (ANTONIN THUILLIER / AFP/Getty Images)
The Snapchat logo recreated with Post-it notes is stuck to the windows of Havas Worldwide in lower Manhattan, where advertising agencies and other companies have started what is being called a “Post-it note war” with employees creating colorful images in their windows with sticky notes. (MIKE SEGAR / Reuters Photo)
A man inspects a sculpture made to look like a large injection-molded model kit of musical instruments at the Music City Center convention facility in Nashville, TN. (Mark Humphrey / AP)
Soldiers stand in heavy rain as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II travels in a coach from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament in London, marking the start of the parliamentary year. The Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s agenda for the coming session. (Frank Augstein / AP)
Hasidic school boys watch the funeral procession for Isaac Rosenberg from their classroom window in the Williamsburg neighborhood of New York. Rosenberg, a developer and leader of the Brooklyn-based Satmar Hasidic congregation, died Tuesday during a swimming accident in Miami. (Mark Lennihan / AP)
An anti-government protester is detained by Bolivarian National Police during a march in Caracas, Venezuela. Police clashed with protesters trying to reach the headquarters of the country’s electoral body to demand the recall of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Ariana Cubillos / AP)
A Kenyan riot policeman repeatedly kicks a protester during a protest in downtown Nairob. Kenyan police tear-gassed and beat opposition supporters during a protest demanding the disbanding of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (Ben Curtis / AP)
Girls run toward their friends after getting free food from a distribution center at a shrine in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Anjum Naveed / AP)
Visitors walk down a staircase at the Museum of Liverpool, northern England. (PHIL NOBLE / Reuters Photo)
A paddle boarder makes his way to the water as the space shuttle fuel tank ET-94 arrives by barge for its eventual placement at the California Science Center in Marina del Rey, California. (GENE BLEVINS / Reuters Photo)
Students practice taekwondo at the Shichahai sports school in Beijing. China’s sports system has been enormously successful since the country returned to the Olympic fold in 1980, but the system is beginning to break down due to the shifting demographics of a more prosperous nation. (DAMIR SAGOLJ / Reuters Photo)
Chicks dyed to draw attention are offered for sale at a small poultry market in Jakarta, Indonesia. (DARREN WHITESIDE / Reuters Photo)