Real Madrid’s 10th Champions title, white Bengal tiger cubs, presidential elections | May 26
The day in pictures around the world.
- United States Army Desert Storm veteran Frank D’Amato plays taps during Memorial Day ceremonies at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts May 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
- A Ukrainian helicopter Mi-24 gunship fires its cannons against rebels at the main terminal building of Donetsk international airport May 26, 2014. Three Ukrainian helicopter gunships mounted a heavy attack on the rebel-held international airport terminal at Donetsk on Monday, firing rockets and cannon and throwing out decoy flares as militants shot at them from the ground. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)
- Reporters take pictures of a protester against military rule holding a sign at the Victory Monument in Bangkok May 26, 2014. Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had been formally endorsed by the king as head of a military council that will run the country, and warned he would use force if political protests flared up again. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)
- Syrians living in Jordan and Jordanian activists hold up the Syrian opposition flag as they shout slogans, during a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman May 26, 2014. Dozens of Syrian and Jordanian celebrated after Syria declared Jordan’s charge d’affaires in Damascus persona non grata in response to what it said was an unjustified decision by the kingdom to expel its ambassador, Syrian state television said on Monday. (REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed)
- Pope Francis (C) gestures as the Dome of the Rock is seen in the background during his visit on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, May 26, 2014. Francis, at the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited on Monday Israel’s “Memorial to the Victims of Terror”, a day after praying at an Israeli security wall abhorred by Palestinians. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)
- Pope Francis touches the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City May 26, 2014. Francis completes a tour of the Holy Land on Monday, paying homage to Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust and looking to affirm Christian rights at a disputed place of worship in Jerusalem. (REUTERS/Andrew Medichini/Pool)
- A torn picture of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak (top) is seen as a man casts his ballot during a presidential election inside a polling station in Cairo May 26, 2014. Egyptians voted on Monday in a presidential election expected to sweep former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi into office, with supporters brushing aside concerns about human rights and hailing him as the strong leader the country needs. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
- Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi waits to cast his vote during the presidential election in Cairo, May 26, 2014. Egyptians began voting on Monday in a presidential election expected to sweep former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi into office, reviving rule by strongman three years after Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. Voters cast ballots at heavily guarded polling stations from 9.00 a.m. (0600 GMT). Sisi, who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi last July, faces only one challenger in the two-day vote: the leftist politician Sabahi. (REUTERS/Steve Crisp)
- A tricycle travels past a crossroad on a hazy day in Hefei, Anhui province March 30, 2014. China plans to take more than 5 million ageing vehicles off its roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, the government said in a policy document published on Monday. (REUTERS/Stringer)
- A litter of white Bengal tiger cubs is pictured at the White Zoo in Kernhof May 26, 2014. The five cubs were born on Sunday at the private zoo in Lower Austria, two years after their mother gave birth to four cubs in 2012. (REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader)
- Rescue workers and mangled train compartments are pictured after the Gorakhdham Express rammed into a goods train at Chureb station in Khalilabad, some 700 kilometres (430 miles) east of New Delhi, on May 26, 2014. A passenger express train slammed into a stationary freight train in northern India killing at least nine people May 26, as rescuers worked frantically to free those trapped inside mangled carriages, officials said. (AFP/Getty Images)
- Two men paddle in a canoe on a flooded road in Trysil, southeastern Norway. Rain and melted snow have increased the water level of the river Trysilelva. (AFP/Getty Images)
- Police officers stand guard behind a printed picture of late Ethem Sarisuluk, outside the Ankara courthouse on May 26, 2014 during the trial of a riot police officer accused of killing Ethem Sarisuluk, a 26-year-old Turkish man who died during an anti-government protest last June. (Adem ALten/AFP/Getty Images)
- Serbia’s Novak Djokovic hits a return to Portugal’s Joao Sousa during their French tennis Open first round match at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on May 26, 2014. (Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images)
- A poster of Egyptian ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stand near a building in central Cairo on May 26, 2014. Egyptians begin voting in a new presidential election which ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted the elected Islamist leader, is expected to easily win amid calls for stability and economic recovery. (Mahmoud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images)
- A man from the Toposa tribe in Naurus, Greater Kapoeta on May 24, 2014. The Toposa of South Sudan are closely related to the Turkana of Kenya, Karamoja of Uganda, and Merille of Ethiopia. Together, they form the largest ethnic group in eastern Africa covering the Elemi triangle. (Ali Ngethi/AFP/Getty Images)
- Kashmiri government employees demonstrate as riot police spray purple-dyed water cannon during a protest march in Srinagar on May 26,2014. Indian police detained dozens of government employees as they tried to stage a protest march demanding the regularisation of contractual jobs and an increase in salary. (Rouf Bhat/AFP/Getty Images)
- Pro-Russian militants take position on the roof of the international airport of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 26, 2014. The main airport in Ukraine’s eastern city of Donetsk was rocked by an explosion and heavy shooting after armed rebels seized the facility, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. Thick black smoke was seen rising from the airport complex and the sound of fighter jets could be heard overhead. All flights have been cancelled in and out of the regional transport hub. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images)
- General view of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium during the celebration of Real Madrid’s 10th Champions League title in Madrid on May 25, 2014, a day after Real Madrid CF beat Atletico Madrid 4-1 at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. (Jose Jordan/AFP/Getty Images)