A boy looks out for a fallen kite as kids fly kites in the Mangueira community, or 'favela', which overlooks famed Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Mario Tama—Getty Images
From the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest, to World Environment Day and the NBA Finals, TIME presents the best photos of the week.
May 30, 2014. Sohan Lal (55) holds passport sized images in his hands of his daughter Murti (right) and niece Pushpa (left) in Katra Sadatganj village,Ushait near Baduan, Uttar Pradesh, India.Simon de Trey-White—eyevineJune 3, 2014. An aerial view of the American cemetary in Colleville-sur-Mer, near Omaha beach, on as preparations were being made for the upcoming D-Day commemoration events on June 6. Joel Saget—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 1, 2014.Yellow ribbons line Main Street as the hometown of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl awaits his homecoming in Hailey, Idaho.Scott Olson—Getty ImagesMay 31, 2014. Injured protesters lie on the ground as Turkish riot police officers fire tear gas to disperse demonstrators gathered on the central Istoklal avenue near Taksim square in Istanbul.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 3, 2014. Egyptians wave national flags as they celebrate in Cairo's Tahrir Square after ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won 96.9 percent of votes in Egypt's presidential election.Mohmed El-Shahed—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2014. Tens of thousands of people participate in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park to mark the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown of the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.Paul Yeung—ReutersMay 31, 2014. Seleka fighters carry a sick child to her mother, at a village between Bambari and Grimari.Goran Tomasevic—ReutersJune 3, 2014. A photo by French photographer JR is displayed on the ground of the Pantheon in Paris, a secular temple which contains the remains of distinguished French citizens, on during the exhibition 'Au Pantheon.'Martin Bureau—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 30, 2014. A black bear lies on a hammock at a residential back yard in Daytona Beach, Florida.Rafael C. Torres—ReutersMay 30, 2014. A Kashmiri woman prays while holding a child in her lap as an unseen custodian displays a holy relic believed to be a hair from the Prophet Muhammad's beard during the last Friday of celebrations for Miraj-Ul-Alam (Ascension to Heaven) at Kashmir's main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar.Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 31, 2014. People try to escape from a cafe, after tear gas fired by riot police outside to disperse protesters seeped in, at central Istanbul , Turkey.Yagiz Karahan—ReutersMay 31, 2014. A police officer holds a gun used for shooting tear gas at protesters in Istanbul.Jodi Hilton—NurPhoto/Sipa USAMay 31, 2014. Women wearing traditional costumes are photographed by a friend during the second edition of "Ronda Romantica" (Romantic Ronda) in Ronda, near Malaga, southern Spain. Jon Nazca—ReutersMay 31, 2014. Hosts Thomas Stipsits (R) and Manuel Rubey (L) as 'Adam and Eve' perform during the opening ceremony of the 'Life Ball 2014' at the City Hall Square in Vienna, Austria.Georg Hochmuth—EPAJune 1, 2014. Syrian rescue workers pull out a girl from the rubble following reported barrel bomb attacks by government forces in the northern city of Aleppo.Khaled Khatib—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 1, 2014. Competitors in the open race over the Olympic distance in the World Triathlon London, the fourth event in the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series, swim through the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London.Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 2, 2014. A resident rides his horse along a flooded road near Puerto Varas city, south of Santiago.ReutersJune 2, 2014. An Afghan woman attends an election campaign of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Chaghchran capital of Ghor province The second round presidential election will be held on June 14.Mohammad Ismail—ReutersJune 2, 2014. Instruments are left on the ground during a break as members of the Royal Marines Band rehearse for Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade in London. Neil Hall—ReutersJune 2, 2014. Singer Rihanna arrives for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards (CFDA) at Lincoln Center in New York.Carlo Allegri—ReutersJune 3, 2014. King Juan Carlos and Crown Prince Felipe, right, attend a military ceremony in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, outside Madrid, Spain. Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APJun. 3, 2014. The bodies of a Sri Lankan husband and wife Chula De Lenora and Dast De Lenora, lie in state for their final rites at Wellipanna, Sri Lanka.M.A.Pushpa Kumara—EPAJune 3, 2014. Cleaning ladies from the public sector react as they scuffle with police officers at the entrance of a building housing the Finance Ministry, during a protest against the layoffs and transitions due to a troika-led civil service revamp, in Athens.Alkis Konstantinidis—ReutersJune 3, 2014. Scotland Yard detectives work at an area in Praia da Luz, near Lagos, investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.Carlos Vidigal—ReutersJune 3, 2014. Internally Displaced Pakistanis from tribal areas and Afghan refugees play cricket, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Muhammed Muheisen—AP June 3, 2014. A view across the slag heaps of lignite surface mine Welzow of the Vattenfall AG in Welzow, Germany.Patrick Pleul—EPAJune 3, 2014. View of the homes at risk after part of one collapsed due to heavy rains in Villa Hermosa, San Miguel Petapa municipality, 20 km south og Guatemala City.Johan Ordonez—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2014. Dancers get their make up done backstage before their show at the Victory Monument during a military event in Bangkok.Athit Perawongmetha—ReutersJune 4, 2014. An Afghan man prays in Kabul.Mohammed Ismail—ReutersJune 4, 2014. A mother and child who have fled from fighting in Slaviansk, stand in their temporary accommodation in the town of Nizhnaya Krinka in eastern Ukraine.Maxim Zmeyev—ReutersJune 4, 2014. A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to children in Lahore, Pakistan.K.M. Chaudary—APJune 4, 2014. Students wear messages around their neck to commemorate China's 1989 Tiananmen Square events ahead of a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong. Philippe Lopez—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2014. Chinese paramilitary policemen chant slogans as they march at a barrack near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China.Ng Han Guan—AP June 4, 2014. An Iranian police helicopter passes above portraits of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and the former Ayatollah Khomeini outside Khomeini's shrine on the 25th anniversary of his death on on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran.John Moore—Getty Images June 4, 2014. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh proceed through the Royal Gallery during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London.Yui Mok—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2014. A British soldier pays his respects as he visits a military cemetery in Ranville, northwestern France. Jean-Sebastien Evrard—AFP/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2014. An egret preens itself as it stands on a branch along the River Brahmaputra on the eve of World Environment Day in Gauhati, India.Anupam Nath—APJune 4, 2014. A Pakistani daily laborer, applies soap on his body, while he and a youth bathe at a well, on the outskirts of Islamabad. Pakistanis are facing a shortage of clean drinking water due to the low level of water in the country's dams. Muhammed Muheisen—APJune 4, 2014. Women hold up their hands pledging to offer their lives, if needed, for the Islamic Revolution outside the shrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini on the 25th anniversary of his death on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran.John Moore—Getty ImagesJune 5, 2014. A boy hugs a tree as he prepares to take part in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most number of people hugging trees for two minutes in Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar—Reuters June 5, 2014. People watch as a parachute drop takes place on near Ranville, France. Friday 6th June is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.Peter Macdiarmid—Getty ImagesJune 5, 2014. The Red Arrows display team perform over Southsea Common at the end of a commemoration service of the D-Day landings in Portsmouth, England.Dan Kitwood—Getty ImagesJune 5, 2014. Former first lady of the United States Nancy Reagan visits the grave site of her husband, former United States President Ronald Wilson Reagan, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on the 10th anniversary of his passing, in Simi Valley, California.Gus Ruelas—ReutersJune 5, 2014. Hauwa Nkaki, mother of one of more than 200 girls abducted in the remote village of Chibok, cries as she reacts during a news conference on the girls in Lagos , Nigeria.Akintunde Akinleye—Reuters June 5, 2014. Spanish bullfighter Daniel Luque is carried on the shoulders of a supporter as he leaves the bullring through the 'puerta grande' after a bullfight of the San Isidro fair in Madrid, Spain.Daniel Ochoa de Olza—APA boy looks out for a fallen kite as kids fly kites in the Mangueira community, or 'favela', which overlooks famed Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mario Tama—Getty ImagesJune 5, 2014. A young San Antonio Spurs fan stands next to a giant LeBron James face before the Spurs play host to James and the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/MCT/LandovJune 6, 2014. A South Korean relative of the war dead mourns at the Seoul National Cemetery in Seoul, South Korea 06 June 2014. South Korea marks the 59th anniversary of the Memorial Day for those killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. Jeon Heon-Kyun—EPAMay 31, 2014. US President Barack Obama (C), with the parents of US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Jani Bergdahl (L) and Bob Bergdahl (R), walks back to the Oval Office after making a statement regarding the release from captivity of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl by the Taliban, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC.John Harrington—EPA
