Participants take part in the annual cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, UK on Monday, May 27, 2024. The traditional event attracts people from around the globe who come to chase a 7lb Double Gloucester cheese down the steep Coopers Hill. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)





Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, center, speaks to Brig. Giles Harris, commander of British forces in Estonia, left, and Ross Allen, British ambassador to Estonia, at an undisclosed location in Estonia on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Kallas was visiting the country's largest defense exercises. (Photo by Hendrik Osula/AP Photo)





Ben Jones, 10, center, races with a woolsack on his shoulders during the annual Tetbury Woolsack Races in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, Monday, May 27, 2024. The Woolsack Races takes place annually in the Wiltshire wool-town of Tetbury. Every year teams of men, women and children carry sacks of British wool, 60-pound (27 kg) for men's races and 35 pounds (16 kg) for women's, up and down the Gumstool Hill with course of 240 yards (220 meters). An official Woolsack Races has been going since 1972, with world records entered in the “Guinness Book of Records”. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





People offer prayers to Kabosu, also known by the nickname Kabo-chan, lying on a cushion surrounded with flowers in Narita, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, Japan, 26 May 2024. Dozens of people gathered at the Kaori flower shop in Narita to bid a final farewell to Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog that inspired the “Doge” meme and “Dogecoin” cryptocurrency face. Local residents, people from other prefectures like Aichi, about 400 kilometers away, and even foreigners lined up to pay their respects. On 24 May 2024, Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, announced on social media the passing of the globally famous dog, whose images have been viral for more than a decade. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)





Faithful carry statues of the Virgin Mary during the 42nd edition of the Flowers and Palm Festival in Panchimalco, 20 km south of San Salvador, on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Camilo Freedman/AFP Photo)





“Las Doncellas” (maidens) dressed in white take part in the pilgrimage “The Maidens” in honor of the Virgin, in Sorzano, northern Spain, on Sunday, May 19, 2024. According to ancient traditions, the pilgrimage “The Maidens” is in honor of the spring season and the fertility of women, today is also in honor of the Virgin Mary. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos/AP Photo)





A drone view shows an area affected by heavy rain brought flash floods and landslides in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on May 12, 2024, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Adi Prima/Antara Foto via Reuters)





A referee monitors the leather ring held by two competitors with their middle fingers at the German Championships in Fingerhakeln or finger wrestling, in Bernbeuren, Germany, Sunday, May 12, 2024. Competitors battled for the title in this traditional rural sport where the winner has to pull his opponent over a marked line on the table. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)





Fans during the 107th Giro d'Italia 2024, Stage 19 a 157km stage from Mortegliano to Sappada 1236m / #UCIWT / on May 24, 2024 in Sappada, Italy. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)





A Christian pilgrim holds candles as people gather during the ceremony of the Holy Fire at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City, on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo)





A man bathes with water from a pipe on a hot summer day in Jaffarabad, in Pakistan's Balochistan province on May 30, 2024, amid the ongoing heatwave. Pakistan's meteorological office has forecast three heatwaves – one already underway and two more set to hit in early and late June. (Photo by Fida Hussain/AFP Photo)





Raramuri Indigenous youth dance during a sacred Yumari ceremony to ask for rain and good crops and to honor two local Jesuit priests, Javier Campos and Joaquin Mora, who were murdered in 2022 by a gang leader, in Cuiteco, Mexico, Saturday, May 11, 2024. Among the inhabitants of the Tarahumara mountains, especially among the Indigenous Raramuri people, priests are often regarded as profoundly beloved figures who fearlessly offer comfort and help. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)





An interior view of a destroyed building on a residential area following Russian missile attack on May 14, 2024. In Kharkiv this afternoon, three separate attacks occurred, damaging buildings in the city center and near the Peremoha metro station. Over 10 people were injured, with one in severe condition. Following the Russian attacks, emergency response teams swiftly mobilized to the affected areas to provide medical assistance to the injured and secure the sites. Authorities are investigating the incidents as tensions rise in the region. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Ameca, a humanoid robot developed by the British company Engineered Arts Digital, at the Re:publica trade fair in Berlin, Germany on May 28, 2024. (Photo by dts News Agency Germany/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Workers clean a Buddha statue at the Maha Vihara Mojopahit temple in Mojokerto, Indonesia on May 15, 2024 ahead of the Vesak festival which commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)





The tugboat ballet in the port of Hamburg on May 9, 2024 formed part of the celebrations of the 835th anniversary of the port’s establishment. The people of Hamburg regard May 7, 1189 as the birthday of their port – back then, citizens were granted duty-free travel for their ships on the Elbe from the city to the North Sea. (Photo by Georg Wendt/Avalon)





Activists of the French animal rights association L214, wearing chicken masks to symbolise their cause, take part in a protest against “Marie”, France's leading ready-made meal brand, and its owner group, LDC, in front of the city hall of Rungis, south of Paris, on May 13, 2024. The activists are highlighting the alleged poor conditions the poultry are kept in. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





A long exposure photo shows a swarm of fireflies at Longgang Trail in Keelung, Taiwan on May 7, 2024. The firefly season in Taiwan usually starts in late April and lasts through early May. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng/AFP Photo)





Gendarmes of the French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) use explosives to storm a building, as they take part in a drill, as part of their preparation for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games, near Paris, France, on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters)