Top Photos: May 26, 2016
Nihar Saireddy Janga of Austin, Texas, leaps for joy upon spelling the last word to become a co-champion in the final round of Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor in Maryland. Janga shared the win with Jairam Jagadeesh Hathwar of Painted Post, New York. (KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters Photo)
Craig Walker, 76, of Redlands, Calif., competes in the 200-meter butterfly during the Indiana State Games at the Physical Activities Center at the University of Southern Indiana. Walker picked up swimming when he was 70. “I try to swim in every state,” Walker said. (Denny Simmons / AP)
The Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered plane takes off into the night from Dayton, Ohio en route to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, with Bertrand Piccard at the control. The plane with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 is covered in solar cells that power its propellers and charge its batteries. (STRINGER / AFP/Getty Images)
Hindu holy men walk by the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dozens of such holy men, or Sadhus, live around the temple devoting their life to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. (PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP/Getty Images)
Alfred Smith calls family while walking in front of his neighbor’s home after a tornado touched down in the Wheeler Ridge neighborhood in Bryan, Texas. (Timothy Hurst / AP)
A meet official surveys the damage to the field after severe weather and high winds interrupted the NCAA West Region track and field meet at Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas. (Nick Krug / AP)
Palestinian boys jump along the top of sand dunes as the sun sets in Gaza City. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP/Getty Images)
Kandawa Vasco Sande, left, trains a tethered Susan Adam, 14, in Machinga, Malawi. Sande started training Adam when she was 8-years-old and hopes she will one day represent their country at the Olympic Games. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / AP)
Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill. dashes up the steps of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington as lawmakers arrived for final votes before Congress leaves for a week-long Memorial Day recess. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
A woman sits at the edge of the field of United States flags on the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, ahead of the Memorial Day holiday. The 37,000 U.S. flags are planted in memory of every fallen Massachusetts service member from the Revolutionary War to the present. (BRIAN SNYDER / Reuters Photo)
A demonstrator holds a rose and shouts at a riot policeman during a march called by secondary students to protest government education reforms in Valparaiso, Chile. (RODRIGO GARRIDO / Reuters Photo)
Armed men in uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces members as U.S. special forces ride in the back of a pickup truck in the northern Syrian province of Raqa. U.S.-backed Syrian fighters and Iraqi forces are pressing twin assaults against the Islamic State group in Syria. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP/Getty Images)
A man sits on a bike beside a garbage filled river in Manila. Incoming Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte pledged to spread economic activity beyond the overpopulated capital of Manila, calling it a “dead” city overrun by shantytowns. (NOEL CELIS / AFP/Getty Images)
A man walks his donkey and its load through flooded streets in Beledweyne, north of Mogadishu, Somalia. Hundreds have been forced out of their homes following flash floods after torrential rains pounded the area in the last few days. (MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB / AFP/Getty Images)
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy watches the giant bonfire in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem during the celebration of Lag BaOmer. The bonfire is lit to commemorate the death of renowned Jewish scholar Bar Yochai some 1800 years ago. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP/Getty Images)
Three men from Africa sit at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing as they wait to present themselves to U.S. immigration where they will seek asylum in Tijuana, Mexico. The men, who did not give their names are from Congo and Guinea. (David Maung / San Diego Union-Tribune)
A man dressed as a dancing devil sits on the sidewalk before the start of Corpus Christi celebrations in San Francisco de Yare, Venezuela. Devil Dancing was used by progressive Roman Catholic priests starting in 1740 to encourage African slaves to celebrate the Eucharist. (Ariana Cubillos / AP)
Honorary degree recipients civil rights lawyer Mary Bonauto (L) and filmmaker Steven Spielberg react as Spielberg is recognized during the 365th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (BRIAN SNYDER / Reuters Photo)
A worker checks a mask of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Jinhua Partytime Latex Art and Crafts Factory in Jinhua, China. Managers of this Chinese factory are expecting Donald Trump to beat his likely rival Hilary Clinton in mask sales. (ALY SONG / Reuters Photo)
Madlen Matar, a contestant in the first Miss Trans Israel beauty pageant, uses her smartphone during rehearsal in Tel Aviv, Israel. The pageant will be held at HaBima, Israel’s national theater, on Friday. (Oded Balilty / AP)