May 4, 2012. Two men on a scooter ride near soldiers on military vehicles at Abbasiya square near Egypt's Defence Ministry in Cairo.Amr Abdallah Dalsh—Reuters
From violence in Cairo and France’s presidential elections to flash floods in Nepal and the 138th Kentucky Derby, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
May 4, 2012. Two men on a scooter ride near soldiers on military vehicles at Abbasiya square near Egypt's Defence Ministry in Cairo.Amr Abdallah Dalsh—ReutersMay 5, 2012. First Lady Michelle Obama exits the stage as President Barack Obama begins to speak at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio.Stephen Crowley—The New York Times / ReduxMay 5, 2012. The full moon rises behind a mosque as birds fly in Amman, Jordan. Ali Jarekji—ReutersMay 5, 2012. The racehorse I'll Have Another, with Mario Gutierrez, left, makes his move past Take Charge Indy with Calvin Bordel down the stretch at the 138th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.Alex Evers—Eclipse Sportswire / ZUMA PressMay 6, 2012. Lanterns released by Buddhist worshipers fly as the full moon is seen in the background during a procession commemorating Waisak day, which marks the birth, death and enlightenment of the Buddha at the 9th century Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.Slamet Riyadi—APMay 8, 2012. A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap after a confrontation with squatters and police personnel, who arrived to demolish houses that were built illegally, in Kathmandu.Bikash Dware—ReutersMay 5, 2012. The Costa Fascinosa, the new flagship of the Italian passenger fleet and Costa Cruises built at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard, is pictured during its unveiling to the public in Venice.Andrea Pattaro—AFP / Getty ImagesMay 9, 2012. Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives at the Norman Porch of the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament in London.Suzanne Plunkett—ReutersMay 5, 2012. Soldiers wearing period costumes take part in a re-enactment of the battle of Puebla, in Puebla, Mexico.Imelda Medina—ReutersMay 7, 2012. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney walks past an arrow mark at a town hall-style meeting in Euclid, Ohio.Jae C. Hong—APMay 4, 2012. A Palestinian boy plays with sheep and a horse at the beach in Gaza City.Bernat Armangue—APMay 4, 2012. A wounded Egyptian anti-SCAF (Supreme Council of Armed Forces) protester waits to be treated at a field hospital during clashes with Egyptian army troops in Cairo's Abbassiya district.Gianluigi Guercia—AFP / Getty ImagesMay 4, 2012. Pakistani Abla Zahir, 6, sits on the ground holding her brother Yaseen, 1, while waiting to receive a ration of rice during a donated food distribution at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APMay 5, 2012. Sea foam floats on the cold Atlantic ocean with the cliffs of the Sentinel mountain behind in Hout Bay, Cape Town.Nic Bothma—EPAMay 5, 2012. A Congolese woman refugee sits with others at the Nkamira transit center for refugees in western Rwanda.Siegfried Modola—APMay 7, 2012. President-elect François Hollande waves from the balcony of the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris.Michel Spingler—APMay 6, 2012. Socialist Party supporters celebrate after French TV announced the victory of their candidate, François Hollande, for the 2012 French presidential election at Bastille Square, in Paris.Yoan Valat—EPAMay 6, 2012. A woman is suspended in the air from hooks attached to body piercings put on her back during the annual "Virada Cultural" event in São Paulo.Nelso Almeida—AFP / Getty ImagesMay 6, 2012. Choir boys wait at a cross during the 'Los Picaos' Cruz de Mayo brotherhood procession in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Spain.Jasper Juinen—Getty ImagesMay 6, 2012. A relative of a missing person mourns while looking at the location of a flash flood at Kharapani village of Kaski district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu.Niranjan Shrestha—APMay 6, 2012. Demonstrators and riot police clash during the March of Millions in Moscow.Alexey Nikolaev—Demotix / CorbisMay 6, 2012. Russian tanks attend a final rehersal of the Victory Day Parade on Red Square in Moscow.Natalia Kolesnikova—AFP / Getty ImagesMay 7, 2012. Vladimir Putin attends a service, conducted by Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, to mark the start of his term as Russia's new President at the Kremlin in Moscow.Aleksey Nikolskyi—RIA Novosti / ReutersMay 7, 2012. President-elect Vladimir Putin heading for St. Andrew's Hall at the Kremlin for his inauguration as the President of Russia. Itar Tass—LandovMay 7, 2012. Israeli soldiers take part in a military drill at the army's Urban Warfare Training Center in Tzeelim, southern Israel.David Buimovitch—AFP / Getty ImagesMay 7, 2012. A Pakistani worker decorates a canal with artificial flowers, in Lahore, Pakistan.K.M. Chaudary—APMay 8, 2012. An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee who is on a pilgrimage to Ajmer Sharif, a revered Muslim shrine in India's western state of Rajasthan, bathes in New Delhi.Kevin Frayer—APMay 8, 2012. Seasonal fog is illuminated by the lights of Cape Town harbor as the city prepares for the start of the southern hemisphere winter.Mike Hutchings—ReutersMay 9, 2012. Palestinian children take part in a rally in Gaza City ahead of Nakba.Suhaib Salem—ReutersMay 9, 2012, A priestess holding a lit cauldron performs in the final dress rehearsal for the lighting of the flame held in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Petros Giannakouris—APMay 9, 2012. Elephant Tonya looks out of the container during her removal from the Zoo Blijdorp in Rotterdam at the Prague Zoo.David W. Cerny—ReutersMay 9, 2012. Indian police used paint, water cannons and batons to disperse government employee protesters asking for an increase in the retirement age and the release of due arrears in Srinagar, India.Faisal Khan—Demotix / CorbisMay 9, 2012. A man washes a supply truck along a canal running through Peshawar, Pakistan.Fayaz Aziz—ReutersMay 9, 2012. A laborer lifts a sack of rotting wheat grain trying to salvage any that was still edible, at an open storage area in Khamanon village, some 215 km (133 miles) from Amritsar, India. Altaf Qadri—APMay 10, 2012. Jim Wilson, 69, of Buckingham, Va., places American flags at a campaign stop for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Omaha.Jae C. Hong—APMay 9, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys sit in front of girls and women as they look at a bonfire lit on the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba-Omer in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood.Ammar Awad—ReutersMay 9, 2012. Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand next to bonfires during Lag Ba'Omer celebrations to commemorate the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews in Roman times, in Bnei Brak, Israel.Oded Balilty—APMay 10, 2012. Cars are pictured burning at the site of twin blasts in Damascus.HO / SANA / AFP / Getty ImagesMay 10, 2012. Two powerful blasts struck Damascus during morning rush hour, killing scores, wounding dozens and prompting the UN observer chief to appeal for help to end the bloodshed ravaging Syria.HO / SANA / AFP / Getty ImagesMay 10, 2012. Members of the Mars Science Laboratory/ Curiosity team, including rover drivers and scientists, test out an engineering model of the next generation Mars rover dubbed "Curiosity" in the Dumont Dunes near Baker, Calif.Gene Blevins—CorbisMay 10, 2012. A student makes a picture with a smart phone of the realistic sculpture of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by artists Alberto Lorente, Manolo Castro and Julio Lorente titled "He" that is on display at the Superior Institute of Arts during the 11th Havana Biennial contemporary art exhibition in Havana.Javier Galeano—AP
