People gather near an overturned car in the Motor Pool district on Tuband in Noumea on May 16, 2024, amid protests linked to a debate on a constitutional bill aimed at enlarging the electorate for upcoming elections of the overseas French territory of New Caledonia. France deployed troops to New Caledonia's ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency on May 16 after three nights of clashes that have left four dead and hundreds wounded. (Photo by Delphine Mayeur/AFP Photo)





Guest pose on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of film “Marcello Mio” in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Yara Nardi/Reuters)





Fans dressed as brides walk as people crowd at Copacabana beach to attend Madonna's free concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Lucas Landau/Reuters)





Brooklyn College Veterans Students’ Organization members carry an oversized American during the National Memorial Day Parade on Monday May 27, 2024 in Washington, DC. Many events took place in the area honoring the holiday. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)





Participants attend the annual May Day bank holiday Jack In The Green parade and festival in Hastings, Britain, on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





This photograph shows a partially submerged bunker (Blockhaus) from the Atlantic Wall at the entrance of Arcachon Bay near Cap Ferret, south-western France on May 19, 2024. The Atlantic Wall, made up of bunkers or blockhaus was ordered by Nazi Germany's leader Adolph Hitler to be built and between 1942 and 1944, stretched some 5000km from northern Norway to the Franco-Spanish border to defend occupied territories from sea borne attack. 15,000 of them were planned to be built, but due to insufficient manpower and material, only about half of them were completed. (Photo by Olivier Morin/AFP Photo)





Midshipmen toss their caps into the air as they celebrate during the commissioning and graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S., May 24, 2024. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Reuters)





Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The measures imposed on Wednesday for at least 12 days boost security forces' powers to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead, erupting after protests over voting reforms. (Photo by Nicolas Job/AP Photo)





Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj poses at the Met Gala, an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute with this year's theme “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” in New York City, New York, U.S., May 6, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)





Opera fans attempt to light candles as they enjoy a picnic, during a 90-minute interval for Bizet's “Carmen” on the opening night of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, in Glynde, Britain, on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)





Silia Kapsis representing Cyprus performs on stage during the first semi-final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)





An FARDC (Armed Forces of the DRC) soldier poses for a photograph in a military base in Lusogha, close to the frontline and a dozen of km South of Kanyabayonga, North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 14, 2024. Since mid-May, fighting are raging in this area. The Congolese army, supported by hundreds of fighters from local armed groups, is attempting to reconquer areas under the control of the M23 rebels and Rwandan army (RDF) troops, where they have set up a parallel administration. Since late 2021, they have seized large swathes of North Kivu province and routed the Congolese army. The United States and France are urging Rwanda President Paul Kagame to withdraw his troops from Congolese soil, including the surface-to-air missile systems. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





Fans dressed as Star Wars characters gather at Nowa's Cantina, a Star Wars-themed bar, in Santiago, Chile on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





Puppeteers attend the Covent Garden's May Fayre & Puppet Festival, at Covent Garden, central London, on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP Photo)





Taiwan's new President Lai Ching-te and new Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim take part in the inauguration ceremony outside the Presidential office building in Taipei, Taiwan on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)





Priyanshi Fakirbhai Patel, 20, who according to medical staff suffers from heat exhaustion, is helped by medical staff at the hospital during a heatwave in Ahmedabad, India, on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





Residents fill their containers with drinking water from a municipal tanker on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, on May 21, 2024. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





A model presents creations by Gucci at a fashion show in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, in London, Britain on May 13, 2024. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)





Local resident reacts at a site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters)