From deadly landslides in Afghanistan and elections in South Africa, to setting the stage for the World Cup and Eurovision’s beautiful, bearded songstress, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
May 5, 2014. 2 days after 2 landslides buried an estimated 2,000 residents of Abi Barak in the Argo district of the mountainous northeastern state of Badakhshan under hundreds of feet of mud. Andrew Quilty—Oculi for TIMEMay 6, 2014. Filipino firemen use a water cannon to extinguish a fire in a residential slum area in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines.Ritchie B. Tongo—EPAMay 2, 2014. A mourner cries next to yellow ribbons dedicated to missing and dead passengers of sunken passenger ship Sewol, after paying tribute at the official memorial altar in Ansan. Kim Hong-Ji —ReutersMay 3, 2014. Steam rises from a thoroughbred racehorse after morning workouts on the day of the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.Luke Sharrett—Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMay 4, 2014. Competitors are locked into a strangulation during a traditional wrestling tournament, part of a holiday marking the circumcisions of young boys in the village of Draginovo.Nikolay Doychinov—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 5, 2014. Bullet casings, scissors and the wrapper to a tourniquet lie in a puddle of blood on the outskirts of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine.Sergey Ponomarev—The New York Times/ReduxMay 5, 2014. A solar halo appears in the sky over Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.Chogo—Xinhua Press/CorbisMay 3, 2014. US President Barack Obama attends the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, DC.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 5, 2014. Supporters wave their flags during the Italian series A football match Juventus vs Atalanta, in the "Juventus Stadium" in Turin.Giuseppe Cacace—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 4, 2014. A reveller holds up rainbow colored umbrellas during the 18th Gay Pride Parade in Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo.Nacho Doce—ReutersMay 2, 2014. Tourists take photographs of the illuminated Nabegataki Fall in Oguni, Kumamoto, Japan. The annual illumination takes place May 3-6. Asahi Shimbun—Getty ImagesMay 3, 2014. A woman looks out over a balcony before the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Charlie Riedel—APMay 3, 2014. An Afghan child amputee practices walking with his prosthetic leg at one of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital for war victims and the disabled in Jalalabad.Noorullah Shirzada—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 3, 2014. A masked person smokes marijuana during the World Day for the Legalization of Marijuana in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia. Raul Arboleda—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 3, 2014. A view of fireworks during the Holy Cross day in the village of Los Realejos, on the Spanish canary island of Tenerife.Desiree Martin—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 3, 2014. Men carry balloons near the sea at Kadikoy in Istanbul.Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 3, 2014. A woman argues with members from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry security forces during a rally outside a trade union building in Odessa.Gleb Garanich—ReutersMay 4, 2014. A supporter of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) reacts during the final EFF electoral campaign rally in Atteridgeville (Pretoria). Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 4, 2014. Palestinian boys playing football in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.Mahmud Hams—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 4, 2014. Members of the Star Wars fan club dressed as stormtroopers celebrate Star Wars Day in front of the Colosseum in central Rome.Vincenzo Livieri—Demotix/CorbMay 4, 2014. An Israeli soldier stands to attention at the start of Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers during a state ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.Gali Tibbon—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 4, 2014. A woman tries to look through a hole in a door during a visit to the trade union building that was set on fire, contributing to 46 deaths during clashes in Odessa, Ukraine. Mauricio Lima—The New York TimesMay 5, 2014. The mother of 21-year-old nurse Yulia Izotova mourns at her funeral in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.Marko Djurica—ReutersMay 4, 2014. The abandoned building of Security Service of Ukraine in Kramatorsk. Militia left the building when the Ukrainian army came, and the Ukrainian army left soon after.Maxim Dondyuk for TIMEMay 4, 2014. Christians wait for a religious ceremony at the Church of God in the floating Slum neighborhood of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria.Mohammed Elshamy—Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesMay 5, 2014. An aerial view shows the site of Friday's landslide that buried Abi Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan.Rahmat Gul—APMay 5, 2014. 2 days after 2 landslides buried an estimated 2,000 residents of Abi Barak in the Argo district of the mountainous northeastern state of Badakhshan under hundreds of feet of mud. Andrew Quilty—Oculi for TIMEMay 5, 2014. Tears of coal dust run down a donkey's face as it looks out of its shelter at a coal mine in Choa Saidan Shah in Punjab province, Pakistan.Sara Farid—ReutersMay 5, 2014. A labourer works at the assembly line of Panini's factory, where the FIFA's Brazil World Cup stickers and albums are been produced, in Tambore, an industrial suburb north of Sao Paulo, Brazil.Paulo Whitaker—ReutersMay 5, 2014. A nurse holds a gun as she helps a wounded Pro-Russian gunmen to get out of the car in front of local hospital in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine. Darko Vojinovic—APMay 5, 2014. Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al-Sahaba checkpoint, which is considered a gateway to Al-Dayf valley, and remove forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib province.Rasem Ghareeb—ReutersMay 7, 2014. A mourner blows a kiss to a departed loved one after the repatriations of Capt Thomas Clarke, Warrant Officer Spencer Faulkner, Cpl James Walters, RAF Intelligence Officer Flt Lt Rakesh Chauhan and L/Cpl Oliver Thomas, who were killed in a helicopter crash on Apr. 26 in Afghanistan.Neil Munns—EPAMay 6, 2014. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2-L) receives Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades (L) with military honours at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.Julia Mueller—EPAMay 6, 2014. A crow eats it's prey sitting on the roof of the Chancellery in Berlin.Odd Andersen—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 6, 2014. An Israeli child holds a rocket launcher as another holds her doll during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel's Independence at the West Bank settlement of Efrat.Gali Tibbon—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 6, 2014. Soldiers walk behind a Star of David during the visit of German President Joachim Gauck (unseen) to the former Nazi concentration camp Terezin (Theresiendstadt), Czech Republic.Filip Singer—EPAMay 6, 2014. Local citizens collect parts of a downed Ukrainian military helicopter near the small town Raigorodok, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine.Darko Vojinovic—APMay 6, 2014. Soldier-builders of KPA Units 966, 462, 101, 489, who took part in building the workers' hostel of Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill, applaud during a photo session with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. KCNA—ReutersMay 6, 2014. Monks hold candles as they pray during a ceremony to celebrate Buddha's birthday at the Yufo Temple in Shanghai. Aly Song—ReutersMay 6, 2014. Kosovo Albanians offer their prayers inside the Pulaj Masjid teke (holy shrine) during celebrations of the traditional feast of Saint George's Day.Visar Kryeziu—APMay 6, 2014. Rosheda, 20, holds her malnourished child, 2 months old, in front of her hut in Sittwe, Burma. She is too poor to afford enough food and the child will likely die without aid.Andre Malerba—Getty ImagesMay 7, 2014.
An Indian voter leaves after casting her ballot at a polling station in Veldurthi Mandal in the district of Kurnool some 250 kms from Hyderabad.Npah Seelam—AFP/Getty ImagesMay 7, 2014. Mango, a 19-year-old male Syrian brown bear, rests on a bed as zoo veterinarians and staff prepare him for surgery in the Ramat Gan Zoological Center's animal hospital near Tel Aviv, Israel.Ariel Schalit—APMay 7, 2014. A woman walks through Brookfield Place off Bay Street, on the day of annual general meeting for Brookfield Asset Management shareholders in Toronto, Canada. Mark Blinch—ReutersMay 7, 2014. Singer Conchita Wurst, also known by his birth-name Thomas Neuwirth, performs the song ' Rise Like a Phoenix' during a rehearsal for the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in the B&W Halls in Copenhagen, Denmark.Frank Augstein—APMay 7, 2014. A tornado touches down in a field in Akron, Colo. during a severe weather outbreak.Matt Detrich—The Indianapolis Star/APMay 7, 2014. A member of Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST) rests on her piece of land while building a shack at the "People's World Cup" camp, which houses an estimate of 2,800 families of the movement, in the district of Itaquera near Sao Paulo's World Cup stadium, in Sao Paulo Brazil.Nacho Doce—ReutersMay 7, 2014. The girlfriend of Andrei Brazhevskiy, a pro-Russian activist, kisses him before the coffin is closed during the funeral in Odessa, Ukraine, Brazhevskiy, 27, died after jumping out of the burning trade union building in an attempt to escape Friday's fire that killed most of the 40 people that died after riots erupted.Vadim Ghirda—APMay 7, 2014. Models walk on the runway set on the wall of the Sony Building during the 'Sky Fashion Show' while people watch from the building at Tokyo's shopping district of Ginza on in Tokyo, Japan. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty ImagesMay 7, 2014, An Amur tiger walks across a passageway after a news conference at the Philadelphia Zoo, in Philadelphia. Matt Slocum—APMay 8, 2014. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk on the rope bridge over the flooded Besor stream in the southern Negev desert, Israel, Tsafrir Abayov—APMay 8, 2014. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men carry the body of Rabbi Zundel Kroizer during his funeral in Jerusalem.Sebastian Scheiner—APMay 8, 2014. Immigrant women sit in a moving bus with rain streaking across the window during heavy rain fall in the Cypriot capital Nicosia.Petros Karadjias—APMay 9 , 2014. A Russian girl plays with other children on an ordnance during the celebrations of Victory Day at the Soviet war monument and cemetery at the district Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany.Markus Schreiber—APMay 9 , 2014. Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives for a Service of the Order of the Bath at Westminster Abbey in London, England.Luke MacGregor—ReutersMay 8, 2014, State treasurer Rob McCord, from left, former state environmental protection secretary Katie McGinty, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz and businessman Tom Wolf wait for the start of the Pennsylvania Democratic Gubernatorial Primary Debate, in Philadelphia. Matt Slocum—APMay 8, 2014. A child walks along a street during rainy weather in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.Bassam Khabieh—ReutersPakistani activist Malala Yousafzai supporting a social media campaign over the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month, flooding social media with posts using the hashtag: #BringBackOurGirls on May 8, 2014.Malala Press Office—EPA
