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Children in front of the rubble of the al-Sharuk building in Gaza City: The skyscraper was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Among other things, it housed offices of the Al-Aksa television station.
Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
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2/22
Rescue and clean-up work at the scene of the serious train accident in Pakistan's Sindh Province: a passenger train had previously derailed here and was then hit by an oncoming train.
Over 60 people died and more than 150 were injured, some seriously.
Photo: ASIF HASSAN / AFP
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3/22
Brightly lit but empty - Victoria Park in Hong Kong on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre: Otherwise, every year on June 4, thousands of people commemorate the bloody end of the democracy movement in China in 1989, when assembly was prohibited.
The authorities officially cited the corona pandemic as the reason, but a possible violation of the meeting against the new State Security Act is much more likely.
Photo: LAM YIK / REUTERS
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4/22
As a result, this year Hong Kongers had to find more subtle and creative ways to articulate their grief.
Many use the flashlights of their cell phones as a substitute for candles, others wore black - the color of the fighting clothes of the dejected democracy movement.
Photo: Kin Cheung / AP
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5/22
A British bagpiper on the morning of June 6th in Vers-sur-Mer, France: The solemn commemoration of the Allied landing in Normandy was smaller this year than usual. Due to the pandemic-related travel restrictions, many veterans celebrated the 77th anniversary of the D- Day near home.
Photo: Kiran Ridley / Getty Images for Normandy Memorial Trust
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6/22
Fire walkers in devil costumes: The Catalan group "Diables Vell de la Gracia" is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a performance in Barcelona.
Photo: Matthias Oesterle / imago images / ZUMA Wire
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7/22
A cross with a child's dress, erected as a memorial on the edge of a highway near the "Kamloops Indian Residential School": A mass grave with the bones of 215 children was found on the site of the former boarding school for indigenous people.
Between 1831 and 1996, over 150,000 people of indigenous descent attended the so-called "residential schools" in Canada, and entire generations were traumatized by the Christian violence in the re-education camps.
Photo: COLE BURSTON / AFP
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8/22
A life raft is on the beach of an island in the east of the Indonesian province of Aceh: 81 Rohingya refugees are stranded off the coast of Aceh after months at sea.
The members of the Muslim minority from Myanmar had set sail from Bangladesh in February and were rescued by the Indian coast guard on the Andaman Islands after a machine failure, but not left on land.
Equipped with supplies, the group finally had to go back to sea.
Of the original 90 people, 9 did not survive the odyssey.
Photo: HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK / EPA
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9/22
A spectator follows the "Future of Fashion" show at the Australian Fashion Week in Sydney.
It is the first major fashion show in months that could take place physically and with visitors.
Photo: Brook Mitchell / Getty Images
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10/22
Two Great Adjutants stand on the Boragaon garbage dump in Guwahati, India.
The scavengers belong to the stork family and are threatened with extinction.
The landfill is adjacent to a wetland area where the largest contiguous population of birds lives.
Photo: David Talukdar / imago images / ZUMA Wire
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11/22
A flock of sheep moves across the dried up wasteland of the Turkish Konya province.
The extreme drought of the past two years has severely affected farmers and animals in the region.
In many cases, groundwater reserves have to be tapped in order to water the cattle or water plants, illegal well construction is widespread.
Photo: Chris McGrath / Getty Images
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12/22
The area's groundwater level has therefore fallen by more than two meters in the last five years, which favors the formation of so-called sinkholes.
There are now over 600 of these craters in Konya Province.
Photo: Chris McGrath / Getty Images
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13/22
Clean-up work in the Mohakhali slum in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka: A fire in the densely built-up neighborhood destroyed over 100 huts and nobody was killed.
Photo: STR / imago images / NurPhoto
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14/22
El Salvador is the first country where Bitcoin was legal tender.
With the votes of the ruling party “Nuevas Ideas” (New Ideas) of the eccentric President Nayib Bukele, a corresponding law was passed this week.
Critics doubt that the extremely volatile cryptocurrency is suitable as a means of payment and that it will advance the country economically.
Photo: JOSE CABEZAS / REUTERS
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15/22
Four-year-old Joseline hugs her chicken in her home in the Peruvian province of Chota.
The presidential race in the Andean country has still not been decided.
After the runoff election, the left-wing applicant Pedro Castillo, who also comes from Chota, was in the lead recently and has already declared himself the winner.
His right-wing populist rival Keiko Fujimori, however, requested the cancellation of around 200,000 votes, which could once again affect the outcome of the election.
The decision on the application can still be a few days in coming.
Photo: ALESSANDRO CINQUE / REUTERS
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16/22
Daniel Saar from the St. Wendel / Saarwellingen team (red) is defeated by the reigning world champion Jonathan Horne, whose team Lotto Rhineland-Palatinate later won the team championship in 2021, in his individual team at the »Finals« in Dortmund.
Photo: Matthias Hangst / Getty Images
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17/22
Erik Balnuweit from TV Wattenscheid 01 wins the race over 110 meter hurdles in 13.61 seconds at the German athletics championships in Braunschweig.
Photo: Maja Hitij / Getty Images
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18/22
Shadow player: In the third round match of the Paris French Open, the 13-time winner Rafael Nadal clearly prevailed against the Briton Cameron Norrie and won with 6: 3, 6: 3, 6: 3.
Photo:
CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
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19/22
Sunbathing in the red of the sea: In the Sea of Marmara off the Turkish coast, a slimy layer spreads over the surface of the sea.
Diatoms and dinoflagellates are responsible for the phenomenon.
Photo: YASIN AKGUL / AFP
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20/22
Solar panels in the Atacama Desert: In the Chilean province of Maria Elena, Latin America's first solar thermal power plant was inaugurated this week after six years of construction.
The plant will produce 210 megawatts of energy and supply more than 380,000 households with electricity.
Photo: IVAN ALVARADO / REUTERS
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21/22
Lightning in the Hessian Kronberg: In the west of Germany violent thunderstorms were observed last weekend.
Photo: Jan Eifert / imago images / Jan Eifert
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22/22
Partial solar eclipse over Toronto: On Thursday morning, the moon covered the sun over the northern hemisphere by up to 20 percent.
In this country, the rare natural spectacle started shortly after 11.30 a.m. and reached its maximum at 12.34 p.m.
The next total solar eclipse in Germany will not be observed until 2081.
Photo: Frank Gunn / AP
