The best photos of this week
A Ukrainian serviceman and a worker carry the body of a Russian soldier into a refrigerated train in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 5. The bodies of more than 40 Russian soldiers, found after battles around Kharkiv, were being stored in the refrigerated car.
Felipe Dana/AP
Updated 7:56 PM ET, Thu May 12, 2022
A Ukrainian serviceman and a worker carry the body of a Russian soldier into a refrigerated train in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 5. The bodies of more than 40 Russian soldiers, found after battles around Kharkiv, were being stored in the refrigerated car.
Felipe Dana/AP
The war in Ukraine is nearly three months old, and Russia’s forces are well short of the minimum objectives set out by President Vladimir Putin. But after weeks of intense bombardment, the Ukrainians’ defensive lines in the east are also degraded.
According to CNN’s Tim Lister, two battlegrounds are emerging in the country. The Russians are adding combat power to their drive to take the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The Ukrainians are trying to both hold them back and cut them off.
Few expect a knockout blow by either side in the coming months. A war of attrition looks likely as the weapons supplied by the United States and its allies tilt the balance on the battlefield.
“A war of attrition, combined with the reality that Putin faces a mismatch between his ambitions and Russia’s current conventional military capabilities, likely means the next few months could see us moving along a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory,” said Avril Haines, the US director of national intelligence.
Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.
Britain’s Prince Charles sits by the the Imperial State Crown at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, May 10. His mother, Queen Elizabeth II, missed the occasion for the first time since 1963. The 96-year-old monarch had to withdraw due to a recurrence of mobility issues.
Ben Stansall/Pool/AP
Rich Strike, with jockey Sonny Leon, wins the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 7. The horse entered the race at 80-1 odds and was the biggest long shot in the 20-horse field.
Charlie Riedel/AP
A girl runs away from a gorilla replica at a park in Hong Kong on Monday, May 9.
Kin Cheung/AP
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, right, is hugged by Karine Jean-Pierre, her soon-to-be successor, on Thursday, May 5. Jean-Pierre will be the first Black person and the first out LGBTQ person to hold the position.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Firefighters battle a brush fire in Laguna Niguel, California, on Wednesday, May 11. The fire tore through the city and destroyed at least 20 multimillion-dollar homes and mansions.
Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
A cat is examined by a judge during a feline beauty contest in Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday, May 7.
Andreea Alexandru/AP
Firefighters spray a tanker truck with water to cool it down as it is removed from the site of an explosion that destroyed the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, Cuba, on Friday, May 6. A gas leak is thought to be the cause of the blast, which killed at least 30 people.
Ramon Espinosa/AP
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a mortar in the country’s Kharkiv region on Monday, May 9.
Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
During a news conference in Evansville, Indiana, on Tuesday, May 10, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding shows a photo of weapons that he said were were found in possession of fugitives Casey White and Vicky White. Vicky White, a corrections official, fled a detention center in Alabama with prisoner Casey White on April 29. They were on the run for 11 days before the manhunt ended with her dead and him back behind bars.
Timothy D. Easley/AP
Police in Colombo, Sri Lanka, use water cannons and tear gas to disperse university students protesting against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday, May 6. Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency after prolonged protests and a general strike shuttered schools, businesses and transport services. The country has been rocked by civil unrest since March, with protests at times turning violent as anger builds over the government’s apparent mishandling of the country’s economic crisis.
Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. This is the first direct observation confirming the presence of the black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, as the beating heart of the Milky Way. The image, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope project, shows the shadow of the black hole surrounded by a bright ring, which is light bent by the gravity of the black hole. Astronomers said the black hole is 4 million times more massive than our sun.
European Southern Observatory/EHT Collaboration
A tourist plays with a dolphin at the Cayo Largo dolphinarium in Varadero, Cuba, on Thursday, May 5.
Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images
People in St. Petersburg, Russia, carry portraits of relatives who fought in World War II during the Immortal Regiment march on Monday, May 9. They were marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
Jill Biden, the first lady of the United States, meets with women and their children as she visits a refugee center in Košice, Slovakia, on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8. Biden also made an unannounced stop in Ukraine and met with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska. “We wished each other Happy Mother’s Day,” Biden wrote in an op-ed for CNN. “I told her I was in Ukraine to show Ukrainian mothers that we were standing with them, and I was carrying the hearts of the American people with me.”
Susan Walsh/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Buffaloes walk on the shores of the Shatt al-Arab waterway north of Basra, Iraq, on Sunday, May 8.
Hussein Faleh/AFP/Getty Images
“Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe portraits, is auctioned in New York on Monday, May 9. It sold for a record $195 million.
Jeenah Moon/The New York Times/Redux
Canelo Alvarez picks up Dmitry Bivol during their light-heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 7. Bivol retained his title by unanimous decision. It was just the second loss of Alvarez’s career.
Al Bello/Getty Images
A formerly sunken boat sits on cracked earth, hundreds of feet from what is now the shoreline of Lake Mead near Boulder City, Nevada, on Monday, May 9. Lake Mead is experiencing a plunge in water levels due to an ongoing megadrought, and a second set of human remains were found there on Saturday.
John Locher/AP
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the presumptive President of the Philippines, greets supporters at his campaign headquarters in Mandaluyong, Philippines, on Wednesday, May 11. He won Monday’s elections in a landslide, according to unofficial results.
Xinhua/Getty Images
A race fan walks to the grandstand before the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 7.
Brynn Anderson/AP
A man mimics a caged animal as he climbs an art installation traveling through São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, May 6. According to artist Eduardo Srur, the exhibition “Vida Libre” (“Free Life”) is intended to make society rethink how trapped animals are used for human entertainment.
Andre Penner/AP
A girl cries as migrants are rescued off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, on Monday, May 9. The migrants’ boat broke down in French waters as they were trying to cross the Channel to Great Britain.
Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images
Carol Szczepaniak votes in Nebraska’s primary election from a polling location at Werner Park in Papillion on Tuesday, May 10. The baseball park is home to the Omaha Storm Chasers.
Chris Machian/AP
Sergey Andreev, the Russian ambassador to Poland, was doused in red paint by protesters while trying to lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, May 9.
Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images
Two beachside homes in North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed from high water levels and beach erosion on Tuesday, May 10. The collapses in Rodanthe are part of what officials worry could be a growing issue amid severe weather and longer-term concerns such as rising sea levels and beach erosion on the border island of Cape Hatteras.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Reid Detmers is mobbed by his teammates after throwing a no-hitter against Tampa Bay on Tuesday, May 10.
Ashley Landis/AP
People jump into the Yamuna River to cool off on a hot summer day in Prayagraj, India, on Wednesday, May 11. Temperatures in parts of India and Pakistan reached record levels this week.
Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
Memphis forward Jaren Jackson Jr. blocks Golden State guard Jordan Poole during an NBA playoff game on Monday, May 9.
Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports/Reuters
U2 lead singer Bono, left, and guitarist The Edge give a surprise performance at a subway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 8. The band said in a tweet that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do.”
Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
Taiwanese activist Li Ming-che and his wife, Li Ching-yu, react Tuesday, May 10, after speaking to the media for the first time since he was released from jail in China. He was serving five years on a sedition charge.
Ann Wang/Reuters
Palestinian beekeepers collect honey at an apiary in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Monday, May 9.
Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images
Philadelphia star James Harden reacts during an NBA playoff game against Miami on Sunday, May 8. Philadelphia won the game to tie the best-of-seven series at two games apiece.
Mitchell Leff/Getty Images
World War II veterans sit for a group photo in Ashkelon, Israel, as they take part in a ceremony marking Victory Day on Monday, May 9.
Amir Cohen/Reuters
The mother and relatives of Egyptian First Lieutenant Soleman Ali Soleman, one of 11 soldiers killed in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula, mourn during his funeral in the Egyptian village of Jazirat al-Ahrar on Monday, May 9.
Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images
A cannon is fired in Mexico City during a recreation of the Battle of Puebla on Thursday, May 5. It was part of Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
Eduardo Verdugo/AP
A couple poses for wedding photographs inside New York’s Grand Central Station on Thursday, May 5. See last week in 36 photos.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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