Photos Of The Week #22

A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas point-blank against one woman as people protest in Istanbul's Taksim Square against a city development project. (Reuters/Osman Orsal)

A girl stands among worshipers during Friday Prayers at Tehran University in Iran. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

A young boy assesses the damage caused by flooding in a suburb of Prague on June 2. Floods caused by heavy rains have inundated homes and roads and forced thousands to evacuate across Central Europe. (RFE/RL/Eugen Tomiuc)

A man washes a tank in Azaz near Aleppo, Syria. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)

Fog shrouds the skyline of New York as a woman walks through a park along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. (Reuters/Gary Hershorn)

Russia unveiled its medals for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi at a presentation in St. Petersburg. (Reuters/Alexander Demianchuk)

A hailstorm pours down on downtown Belgrade. (AFP/Alexa Stankovic)

People kneel on the street as they take part in a Corpus Christi procession in Gora Kalwaria near Warsaw, Poland. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)

A South Korean soldier checks his weapon before a ceremony in Yangju to commemorate the Korean War's battle of the Nevada Cities. (Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji)

A visitor tries out a mirror experiment during the "Wanderings About The Senses" exhibition in Dresden, Germany. The interactive show presents 45 exhibits on the illusion of perception. (AFP/Matthias Hiekel)

An aide to U.S. President Barack Obama carries the president's suit bag upon arrival in Chicago. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Vincent Autin (right) and Bruno Boileau kiss on a balcony in front of a crowd after their marriage, France's first official gay marriage, at the city hall in Montpellier on May 29. France is the 14th country to legalize same-sex marriage, an issue that has divided opinion in the country. (AFP/Gerard Julien)

Schoolchildren watch as Inuka, a male polar bear, swims in its pool enclosure at the Singapore Zoo. The 22-year-old polar bear, the first one born in the tropics, moved into his new frozen-tundra home on May 29 in a 2,700-square-meter exhibit featuring climate-controlled resting areas and an expanded pool. (AFP/Roslan Rahman)

Belarusian border guards celebrate their agency's day in Minsk on May 28. (AFP/Viktor Drachev)

A nun walks over the Charles Bridge early in the morning in Prague. (AFP/Michal Cizek)

Participants in the Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon get the race under way at Everest Base Camp on May 29. The event was held on the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's conquest of the mountain in 1953. (AFP/HIMEX-Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon)

An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the Red Cross compound in Jalalabad Province, which was attacked by two suicide bombers on May 29. Besides both assailants, one guard was also killed in the incident. (Reuters/Parwiz)

A patrol boat cruises along the Yenisei River in Russia's Sayano-Shushensky nature reserve. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

A Chinese paramilitary police sniper raises his head from a basin of water during a practice session of holding his breath underwater as part of psychological training. (Reuters)

An ethnic Miao minority man shaves another villager's head with a sickle in China's Guizhou Province. (Reuters/Jason Lee)

Russia's Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early on May 29. The capsule -- carrying a Russian, American, and an Italian -- docked a short time later with the International Space Station. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

A child plays with soap bubbles at an event to support autistic children and their families in a park in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

A competitor tumbles down Coopers Hill in pursuit of a fascimile round of Double Gloucester cheese during the annual cheese-rolling near the village of Brockworth in western England. With a disputed history dating back to at least the 1800s, the event involves hordes of fearless competitors chasing a large cheese down a very steep hill. (AFP/Carl Court)

This screen shot shows Chinese rescue workers breaking away bits of a pipe to remove a newborn baby boy stuck for two to three hours inside a sewage pipe in an apartment building in the city of Jinhua in the eastern province of Zhejiang. The baby is healthy. The mother, who says she gave birth unexpectedly, is in serious condition due to complications. (AFP)

A view of one of six dioramas by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei during the 55th Biennale of Venice that documents his 81-day detention by Chinese authorities in 2011. (Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)

A worker arranges Romania's national flag during a Guinness World Record attempt for the world's biggest national flag in Clinceni, near Bucharest. The flag, measuring 349 meters by 227 meters, established a new world record. It used 70 kilometers of thread and took weeks to sew. (Reuters/Bogdan Cristel)

An aerial view of Romania's national flag during a successful Guinness World Record attempt for the world's biggest national flag in Clinceni, near Bucharest. The flag measures 349 meters by 227 meters. (Reuters/Bogdan Cristel)

Ethnic Miao men dance with their guns during a performance for tourists in the village of Basha in Guizhou Province, China. The village, an old ethnic Miao settlement with a population of 2,200, is believed to be the last community authorized by the government to keep guns. (Reuters/Jason Lee)

Shinnyo-en Buddhist monks and devotees place lanterns on the water during a ceremony marking remembrance and reflection on Memorial Day in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Reuters/Hugh Gentry)

Smoke from deadly explosions billow in the background as supporters watch Iraq playing a friendly match against Liberia at Al-Shaab Stadium in Baghdad. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

People walk on a bridge over the Vardar River at sunset in Skopje, Macedonia. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of "The Rite of Spring" ballet at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. One-hundred years ago this week, the premiere of Russian emigre composer Igor Stravinsky's pounding, pagan, pulsating "The Rite of Spring" caused a near riot in Paris and changed the face of modern music. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Turkish demonstrators kiss to protest against moral warnings issued at subway stations in Ankara. Subway officials have asked passengers "to act in accordance with moral rules" after spotting a couple kissing. (AFP)

Comic fan Wayne Adams wears his homemade mask as he poses for a photograph at the MCM London ComicCon 2013 at the ExCel center in east London. The four-day conference showcases films, video games, science fiction, and anime from far and wide. (AFP/Leon Neal)

Pakistani youth enjoy swimming in a river canal on a hot day in Lahore. (AFP/Arif Ali)

French actress Lea Seydoux (left), Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, and French actress Adele Exarchopoulos after they were awarded the Palme d'Or for the film "Blue Is The Warmest Color," a lesbian love story, during the closing ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or is the festival's top prize. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

Daredevil motorcycle riders thrill the public during the Red Bull X Fighters Jams show in Baku, Azerbaijan. (RFE/RL)

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, take a drink by the beach during their holiday on the Spanish island of Ibiza. (AFP/Stefan Rousseau)

An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft with U.S. astronaut Karen Nyber, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is due to travel to the International Space Station on May 29. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)

Youths wave French flags in clashes with riot police during a protest march in Paris called "La Manif pour Tous" (Demonstration for All) against France's legalization of same-sex marriage. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol)

Lights shine on the tops of crosses at a memorial outside the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died in the powerful May 20 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Afghanistan has begun registering new voters for the 2014 presidential and provincial council elections due on April 5, 2014. (RFE/RL)

Wu Yuanhong, a 42-year-old mentally disabled man, sits in his cage as his mother, Wang Muxiang, serves him lunch at their home in China's Jiangxi Province. According to Chinese media reports, Yuanhong has been locked in the cage by his parents for the past 11 years after he allegedly beat a 13-year-old child to death. Wang gives her son three meals a day, placing a cloth over the cage and providing a pan when he needs the toilet. (AFP)