May 30, 2012. A Syrian woman cries as she carries her injured son, who was shot in his hand by the Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, Lebanon.Hussein Malla—AP
From Memorial Day observances in the U.S. and an exchange of bodies in the West Bank to the massacre in Syria and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in England, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
May 30, 2012. A Syrian woman cries as she carries her injured son, who was shot in his hand by the Syrian border guard when they were crossing a river from Syria to Lebanon, at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, in Akkar, Lebanon.Hussein Malla—APMay 26, 2012. The body of a woman lies on the ground near Ali Bin Al Hussein mosque, in Houla, Syria. A Syrian artillery barrage killed more than 90 people in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to staunch the bloodshed in the area.Reuters/Houla News NetworkMay 28, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama's shadow is reflected on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall as he delivers remarks during an observance of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.Jonathan Ernst—ReutersMay 27, 2012. A member of a dance group wearing a colored contact lens takes part in the "Karneval der Kulturen" (carnival of cultures) street parade through Berlin.May 25, 2012. FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, front, celebrates with his teammates after the final Copa del Rey soccer match against Athletic Bilbao at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid.Andres Kudacki—APMay 28, 2012. A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sana'a, Yemen.Mohamed al-Sayaghi—ReutersMay 28, 2012. Four United States Army Chinook helicopters are parked on the tarmac at Kandahar Air Field.Tim Wimborne—ReutersMay 28, 2012. Young students from the Middle School affiliated to the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, sharing a light moment backstage before their Peking Opera performance titled 'Nine-tailed Fox' in Beijing.Hwee Young—EPAMay 30, 2012. A man sleeps in a park in Crevalcore, Italy, after the region's second killer earthquake in days. Olivier Morino—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 25, 2012. An immigrant pushes a shopping trolley past a wall covered with graffiti in Athens.John Kolesidis—ReutersMay 25, 2012. A worker abseils during an unveiling, after helping to hang a giant image, of Queen Elizabeth II waving during her 1977 Silver Jubilee, from a building on the south bank of the Thames in London.Matt Dunham—APMay 25, 2012. A Palestinian demonstrator prepares to hurl a stone toward Israeli troops, not pictured, during a protest against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah.Majdi Mohammed—APMay 25, 2012. A Palestinian protester wears a gas mask as he looks through the slot of a hand-made shield during clashes with Israeli soldiers at a demonstration in the village of Kfar Qaddum against the nearby Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near the West Bank City of Nablus.Mohamad Torokman—ReutersMay 25, 2012. Black paint covers a mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez saluting and wearing military fatigues on a wall in Caracas.Ariana Cubillos—APMay 25, 2012. A Muslim African migrant prays as comrades sleep at a children's playground in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv.Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 25, 2012. The face of Canadian actress Sarah Gadon is reflected in the window of her waiting car as she leaves the festival palace following the screening of the film Cosmopolis, presented in competition at the Cannes film festival.Valery Hache—AFP/Getty Images26 May 2012. More than 300 artists perform during the Fire Fest in Kiev, Ukraine, as they attempt to set a new record for The Guinness Book of World Records for the most people to perform with fire at the same time.Sergey Dolzhenko—EPAMay 26, 2012. 27-year-old HIV-positive Zinmar Nwe, whose husband died of AIDS, looks from inside her hut at the HIV/AIDS hospice founded by a member of the National League for Democracy party in the suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar.Damir Sagolj—ReutersMay 26, 2012. Palestinians carry a wounded Palestinian man during clashes in the village of Orif near the West Bank City of Nablus.Abed Omar Qusini—ReutersMay 26, 2012. A man walks to the polling stating at the Mpho primary school in Maseru, in the tiny southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho.Jerome Delay—APMay 26, 2012. A vendor organizes mosquito nets to attract customers outside his shop, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Medical experts have advised Pakistani citizens to take special preventive measures to protect them from carrying dengue virus.Umar Qayyum—XinhuaMay 27, 2012. Boys working at a shop selling coal take a break in Yangon, Myanmar.Damir Sagolj—ReutersMay 27, 2012. Spectators protect themselves from the dust at the Agioi Theodoroi special stage of the WRC Acropolis rally in Loutraki, Greece.Aris Messinis—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2012. Volunteers of the right wing Hindu Durga Vahini group take a self defence workshop at a youth camp at the Sahajanand Guruku Asarwa in Ahmedabad, India. The aim of the organization is to establish Hindu solidarity. Sam Panthaky—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 27, 2012. An elderly Bahraini man rests in front of a wall painted with graffiti that reads, "blood is the price of freedom," in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain.Hasan Jamali–APMay 27, 2012. A nun irons a secondary altar prior to the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to celebrate the holy mass of Pentecost Sunday at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.Filippo Monteforte—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 28, 2012. The Wellington High School flag team performs during the fifth annual Memorial Day ceremony at the South Florida National Cemetery in Lake Worth, Fla.Taylor Jones—Palm Beach Post/MCTMay 28, 2012. A child looks at the prosthetic legs of Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball team members during a Memorial Day Parade in Binghamton, N.Y.Gary Cameron—ReutersMay 28, 2012. The grave of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Harris is seen through an American flag as the the sun rises over Georgia National Cemetery, in Canton, Ga.David Goldman—APMay 28, 2012. Kalashnikov assault rifles hang on the wall as Free Syrian Army (FSA) member Abu Fida watches the TV news at the FSA facilities in Mera, Syria.Vedat Xhymshiti—EPAMay 28, 2012. People gather in front of a decorated monument in Islamabad, which represents Chagai Mountain, where Pakistan conducted its first nuclear test, during a ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of that detonation.Farooq Naeem—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 28, 2012. Shahnaz Pyray, 1, crawls towards her mother Taj, 28, as she works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad.Muhammed Muheisen—APMay 28, 2012. Men stretch a huge flex on a billboard frame, for an advertisement of a Real Estate Dealer in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, near New Delhi. Due to the congestion of Delhi, people are migrating to Noida to purchase homes.Mukunda De—ZumapressMay 28, 2012. An Egyptian farmer works in a field in the fertile Egyptian Delta region of Menufiya, in the city of Banha.Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 28, 2012. A man shows flyers of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq at the scene of the burnt campaign headquarters of Shafiq in Cairo. A group of Egyptian protesters set fire to the headquarters on Monday after the ex-prime minister made it into the second round of the vote.Ashraf Amra—APA Images/ZumapressMay 28, 2012. A fireman carries an injured child across a roof as emergency sevices seek to rescue people from a fire at the Villaggio mall in Doha, Qatar.Brian Candy—Flickr Editorial/Getty ImagesMay 29, 2012. A Qatari carries the body of a victim who, among 19 others, perished in a massive fire that tore through the Vellagio shopping mall in Doha, Qatar.EPAMay 29, 2012. A transfer vehicle containing the remains of USMC Sgt. Julian Chase, from Edgewater, Md., and USMC Lance Cpl. Steven G. Sutton, from Leesburg, Ga, waits on the tarmac during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. Sutton and Chase both died in combat in Afghanistan.Win McNamee—Getty ImagesMay 29, 2012. Elderly people lay on their beds after they were evacuated from the nearby hospital, in Mirandola, northern Italy. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the same area of northern Italy stricken by another fatal tremor on May 20.Marco Vasini—APMay 29, 2012. Damaged buildings following a second earthquake in Emilia, Italy.Federico Borella—Milestone/PA PhotosMay 29, 2012. A Bolivian police officer from an illegal coca plant eradication task force is seen in Pampa Colorada at the Carrasco National Park, in Bolivia.David Mercado—ReutersMay 29, 2012. The dead carcass of a donkey is buried in the sand in the village of Taboit, Mauritania. A full third of the country's population are at risk of severe malnutrition if rain doesn't fall by July.Susana Vera—ReutersMay 29, 2012. Xiang Xiang's masks are seen at home on in Fenyang, Shanxi Province of China. Xiang Xiang, 6, was disfigured by a fire in October, 2010.China Foto Press—Zuma PressMay 30, 2012. The shadow of a window cleaner is seen on a bulding in Buenos Aires.Juan Mabromata—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 30, 2012. Afghan security officials inspect the site of a roadside bomb blast targeting the vehicle of a district officer in Qambarkhel, Afghanistan.Abdul Mueed—EPAMay 30, 2012. An Afghan boy pushes a wheel on the Naderkhan hill in Kabul.Ahmad Jamshid—AP PhotoMay 30, 2012. Lori Anne C. Madison, 6, adjusts the microphone before spelling a word correctly during the second round of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition in National Harbor, Md.Mark Wilson—Getty ImagesMay 30, 2012. A Russian girl stops to stare at old iconic paintings of the Virgin Mary with the Baby Jesus that hang on the walls of the 'grotto,' or cave, in the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The grotto is believed to be the traditional site of the birth of Jesus Christ.Jim Hollander—EPAMay 31, 2012. A demonstrator fixes a banner on the glass of a bank during a protest demanding the stop of planned foreclosures in Barcelona. The banner reads in Spanish "This bank cheats and swindles the people."Emilio Morenatti—APMay 31, 2012. A Palestinian flag is draped over a coffin as Israel returns the corpses of 91 militants Ramallah, West Bank.Ilia Yefimovich—Getty ImagesMay 30, 2012. Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne load the remains of U.S. Army SPC Samuel Watts into a hearse in Wheaton, Illinois. Watts died on May 19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from wounds he received from an improvised explosive device (IED) while serving with the 82nd Airborne in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 25. Scott Olson—Getty ImagesMay 31, 2012. A U.S. Army soldier of 508 BSTB, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, attaches C4 explosive to a tree during a mission to set up check point in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan.Shamil Zhumatov—Reuters May 31, 2012. A Hindu devotee takes a dip in the Yamuna river in New Delhi, after presenting offerings to the Sun and River to mark the begining of his day-long fast during the Nirjala Ekadashi celebration.Roberto Schmidt—AFP PhotoMay 30, 2012. Tower Bridge in London is lit up by new dynamic lighting in a color-shifting lightshow ahead of the Queen's diamond jubilee and the Olympics. The new bulbs will allegedly cut energy consumption by 40%.Niklas Halle'n—UPPA/Zumapress
