The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
1/11
Lightning strikes fall on fishing boats docked in New Bedford, Massachusetts as a storm rolls over the region.Credit:Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via AP
2/11
Volunteers help put up a field of flags near the War Memorial in Milwaukee. The Memorial Day tribute will feature 27,316 American flags representing Wisconsin residents who paid the ultimate price for freedom in service to our nation.Credit:AP Photo/Morry Gash
3/11
The full moon rises over a gilded bronze sculpture of a two-headed eagle, Russia’s state emblem, installed atop the Telegraph Tower of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.Credit:AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
4/11
Buddhist monks walk around the Borobudur temple during Pradaksina procession as a part of celebrations for Vesak Day in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Vesak is observed during the full moon in May or June with the ceremony centering around three Buddhist temples, pilgrims walk from Mendut to Pawon, ending at Borobudur. The holy day celebrates the birth, the enlightenment to nirvana, and the passing of Gautama Buddha’s, the founder of Buddhism.Credit:Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
5/11
A view of Hoo Fort, a nineteenth-century military installation in the Thames Estuary after Deputy Leader Angela Rayner and Labour Leader Keir Starmer launched their election campaign at Gillingham football club in Gillingham, England. Yesterday British Prime Minister Sunak unexpectedly announced a UK general election for 4 July. Credit:Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
6/11
A researcher climbs General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, in Sequoia National Park, California. The research team inspected the 275-foot tree for evidence of bark beetles, an emerging threat to giant sequoias.Credit:AP Photo/Terry Chea
7/11
The Howard University Gospel Choir performs at the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and Kenya’s President William Ruto at the White House in Washington.Credit:AP Photo/Evan Vucci
8/11
Poppy flowers blossom near the European Central Bank, right, on a field in Frankfurt, Germany.Credit:AP Photo/Michael Probst
9/11
People walk along Sixth Avenue in New York.Credit:AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson
10/11
A boat sailing along a waterway in the village of Bangau-Bangau on in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia. Thousands of stateless people have come to call the so-called “floating village” of Bangau-Bangau home.Credit:Mailee Osten-Tan/Getty Images
11/11
A Michael Jackson impersonator poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘All We Imagine as Light’ at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France.Credit:Andreea Alexandru/Invision/AP
