May 23, 2014. Two bolts of lightning hit the antenna on top of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as an electrical storm moves over New York.Gary Hershorn—Corbis
From the Santa Barbara drive-by shootings and Ukrainian presidential elections, to martial law in Thailand and Kim and Kanye’s wedding extravaganza, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
May 23, 2014. Two bolts of lightning hit the antenna on top of One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as an electrical storm moves over New York.Gary Hershorn—CorbisMay 27, 2014. Family members hold hands as they mourn during the funeral of Belgium shooting victims, Israeli couple Emmanuel and Miriam Riva, at Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.Finbarr O'Reilley—ReutersMay 29, 2014. Military coup in Thailand.
Pro-government (Red Shirt) supporters stage rallies in Bangkok to protest the coup as a violation of the democratic election that brought Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of former, deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the Pheu Thai party to office. James Nachtwey for TIMEMay 26, 2014. Pope Francis, prays in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City.Oded Balilty—APMay 24, 2014. Members of various Pro-Russian militia groups battle Ukrainian forces after members of the Donbass People's Republic declared martial law and tried to take over the Donetsk airport.Ross McDonnellMay 25, 2014. Flowers hang in the bullet holes in the window of the I.V. Deli Mart in Isla Vista. The market was the scene of part of a shooting rampage Friday night that left seven dead including the shooter.Francine Orr—Los Angeles Times / PolarisMay 24, 2014. Mourners comfort each other during a vigil at the University of California Santa Barbara, where a gunman killed six and injured 13, in Isla Vista, Calif.Diego James Robles—The New York TimesMay 29, 2014. The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-13M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Dmitry Lovetsky—APMay 28, 2014. Sub-Saharan migrants scale a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.Santi Palacios—APMay 27, 2014. Gao Bingguo is covered with bees during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for being covered by the largest number of bees, in Taian, Shandong province.ReutersMay 23, 2014. The Christ the Reedemer statue atop the Corcovado mountain is seen at night in Rio de Janeiro on Brazil Christophe Simon—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 23, 2014. Kim Kardashian (C) pushes a stroller next to her partner Kanye West (R) and her mother Kris Jenner (2L) as they leave their hotel in Paris.Kenzo Tribouillard—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 23, 2014. Children play in a pond on in Sydney, Australia. Sydney is experiencing it's hottest May on record, already recording it's hottest week for this time of year in over 150 years. Ryan Pierse—Getty ImagesMay 23, 2014. The overturned hull of the Cheeki Rafiki, as discovered by a U.S. Navy warship east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. U.S. Navy/ Reuters May 24, 2014. Atletico Madrid's fans react during Champions League final soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid at a public screening in Lisbon.Rafael Marchante—ReutersMay 24, 2014. Students take part in a procession in silence as they march towards the scene of the violence, after a gathering on the UC Santa Barbara campus for those affected by the tragedy in Isla Vista.Spencer Weiner—Getty ImagesMay 24, 2014. A Seleka fighter injured by a mortar shell fired by French soldiers lies in Bambari.Goran Tomasevic—Reuters25 May 2014, A Philippine soldier plays his bugle along the halls displaying the engraved names of soldiers who fell during World War II at a service to mark the US Memorial Day at the Manila American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio in Taguig, east of Manila, Philippines.Ezra Acayan—NurPhoto/CorbisMay 25, 2014. A child looks out as voters fill out ballot papers in booths during voting in a presidential election at a polling station in the village of Kodra in North Ukraine. Konstantin Chernichkin—ReutersMay 25, 2014. A bodybuilder applies self-tanning lotion on his body prior to the final event of the World Amateur Bodybuilding Association (WABA) Swiss fitness and bodybuilding championships in Epalinges near Lausanne, Switzerland.Valentin Flauraud—EPAMay 25, 2014. Pope Francis prays at Israel's separation barrier on his way to a mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.Ariel Schalit—APMay 25, 2014. A Mexican wave at Roland Garros, 2014, Paris, France.Ella Ling—BPI/Rex/REX USAMay 25, 2014. Billionaire Petro Poroshenko, accompanied by his son Olexiy, right, casts his ballot in Kiev, Ukraine.Sergey Ponomarev—The New York TimesMay 26, 2014. Members of the military unfurl an American flag during a wreath laying ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.Eric Thayer—Getty ImagesMay 26, 2014. US - Marine One, with United States President Barack Obama onboard, prepares to land on the South Lawn at the White House.Drew Angerer—Zuma PressMay 26, 2014. Christian Jacobs, 3, of Hertford, North Carolina, blows bubbles at the gravesite of his father, Marine Sgt. Christopher Jacobs, on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.Pete Marovich—EPAMay 26, 2014. Pope Francis lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.L'Osservatore Romano/APMay 27, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama looks at the project of Peyton Roberston (L) from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, winner of the Discovery 3M Young Scientist, for his "Sandless sand bags" project during the 2014 White House Science Fair in Washington, DC.Aude Guerruccip—Getty ImagesMay 26, 2014. Competitors tumble down Coopers Hill in pursuit of a round Double Gloucester cheese during the annual cheese rolling and wake near the village of Brockworth near Gloucester in western England.Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2014. A South Sudanese girl suffering from cholera lies in a bed in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba.Andreea Campeanu—ReutersMay 26, 2014. A woman walks near barricades of Maidan protesters on Independence Square in Kiev.Sergei Gapon—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 26, 2014. A pro-Russian armed militant wearing a shirt bearing an emblem of a former Ukrainian special force police unit sits behind a camouflage net as he guards a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, and Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine.Alexander Zemlianichenko—APMay 26, 2014. A pro-Russian fighter (L) takes position behind a tree during clashes against Ukrainian forces near the airport in Donetsk.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2014. An injured person is lifted by a rescue helicopter after a small private plane which took off from San Fernando, Argentina, en route to Carmelo, Uruguay, with nine people on board, crashed into the Rio de La Plata.Ministerio de Seguridad/ReutersMay 27, 2014. A tea delivery boy with empty tea pots attached to a rope hang on to his forehead, collects empty tea cups and tea-pots from an outdoor telephone stand in Yangon, Myanmar.Gemunu Amarasinghe—APMay 27, 2014. An Egyptian woman registers prior to vote at a polling station on the second day of Egypt's presidential election in the capital Cairo.Khaled Desouki—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2014. An Egyptian soldier helps a woman to find her way at a polling station on the second day of Egypt's presidential election on in the capital Cairo. Khaled Desouki—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2014. An ant crawls near the blood stained bullet hole in a window of a truck of supporters of the self-proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic' on road leading to the Donetsk International Airport, in Donetsk, Ukraine.Maxim Shipenkov—EPAMay 27, 2014. Ukrainian medical staff prepare to clean the body of a killed pro-Russian fighter at the Kalinina morgue in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.Fabio Bucciarelli—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 28, 2014. A Ukrainian girl playing near the wrecked truck of supporters of the self-proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic' in Donetsk, Ukraine.Jakub Kaminsky—EPAMay 27, 2014. A man walks past a shadow of statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.Dmitry Lovetsky—APMay 27, 2014. Students mourn at a public memorial service on the Day of Mourning and Reflection for the victims of a killing spree at University of California, Santa Barbara in Isla Vista, California. David McNew—Getty ImagesMay 28, 2014. Men look in a hole in front of a building in Tokyo, Japan.Shizuo Kambayashi—APMay 28, 2014. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, crew member of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, gestures with his daughter, from a bus as they leave from a hotel prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.Dmitry Lovetsky—APMay 28, 2014. Air Force Academy graduates throw their caps into the air as F-16 jets from the Thunderbirds make a flyover, at the completion of the graduation ceremony for the class of 2014, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado.Brennan Linsley—APMay 28, 2014. An Afghan refugee boy, center, jumps into the water, while he and others swim in a polluted stream to cool off as the temperature rises, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APMay 28, 2014. Commuters take their seats in one of the few buses operating during a 24-hour bus strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Silvia Izquierdo—APMay 28, 2014. A Syrian woman who lives in Iran fills in the ballot for her country's presidential election at the Syrian Embassy in Tehran, Iran.Ebrahim Noroozi—APMay 28, 2014. A sub-Saharan migrant sits on top of a pole set in a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.Santi Palacios—APMay 28, 2014. A South Sudanese child displaced by the fighting in Malakal, and suffering from malnutrition, cries as he is washed by a nurse at a feeding centre run by Medicins sans Frontiers (MSF) in Kodok, Fashoda county, South Sudan.Andreea Campeanu—ReutersMay 28, 2014. The Peloton in action during the seventeenth stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia, a 208km stage between Sarnonico and Vittorio Veneto in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. Bryn Lennon - Velo—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2014. The Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of Alexander Gerst of Germany, Maxim Surayev of Russia and Reid Wiseman of the U.S. blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.Shamil Zhumatov —ReutersMay 29, 2014. A female Israeli soldier of the Caracal battalion smokes after finishing a 20-kilometre march in Israel's Negev desert, near Kibbutz Sde Boker, marking the end of their training.Amir Cohen—ReutersMay 29, 2014. Black smoke rises from a shot down Ukrainian Army helicopter outside Slovyansk, Ukraine.Alexander Zemlianichenko—APMay 29, 2014. Sgt. Shaun Waller, of Winder, Ga., center, with the Georgia National Guard 876th Vertical EN Company waits with his fellow soldiers to enter a departure ceremony before the unit deploys to Afghanistan, in Toccoa, Ga.David Goldman—APMay 29, 2014. Chinese commuters line-up at a security check to enter a subway station in Beijing, China.Kevin Frayer—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2014. Chinese commuters line-up for a security check at a subway station in Beijing, China.Kevin Frayer—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2014. Pilgrims in traditional Bavarian folk costumes stand beneath three crosses on the Kalvarienberg-mountain and follow an outdoor mass to celebrate Ascension (in German called Christi Himmelfahrt) at the open-air altar at Birkenstein on near Fischbachau, Germany. Joerg Koch—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2014. Pilgrims in traditional Bavarian folk costumes stand beneath three crosses on the Kalvarienberg-mountain and follow an outdoor mass to celebrate Ascension (in German called Christi Himmelfahrt) at the open-air altar at Birkenstein on near Fischbachau, Germany. Joerg Koch—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2014. An elderly Ukrainian man exercises at the Kachalka outdoor gym on the banks of the river Dniper in Kiev, Ukraine, Filip Singer—EPA May 29, 2014. Terraced fields in Xiaozhoushan Township of Qingtian County, east China's Zhejiang Province. Xu Yu—Xinhua /LandovMay 29, 2014. A Syrian refugee woman carries plates after she washed them in a shared kitchen in a collective center where many Syrian refugees live, in Kirbet Daoud village in Akkar, north Lebanon. Hussein Malla—APMay 29, 2014. Coffins of members of the Vostok Battallion, who were killed in clashes at the airport, in Donetsk, Ukraine.Sandro Maddalena—NurPhotoMay 29, 2014. Pakistanis run as they get caught in a sand storm on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—APMay 30, 2014. Kashmiri Muslim women devotees pray as a head priest displays a holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammed, on Mehraj-u-Alam, at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.Dar Yasin—APMay 30, 2014. Seagulls fly past a woman sitting on a rock ledge above Clovelly Beach on an autumn day in Sydney, Australia.David Gray—ReutersMay 30, 2014. A soldier takes up position in front of a large screen at the Victory Monument in Bangkok Thailand, where anti-coup protesters had gathered on previous days to rally against the military coup.Damir Sagolj—Reuters
