The sun rises behind the Empire State Building in New York City and the Lackwanna clock tower in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 15, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. #

A close view of a firefighter's helmet as firefighters take part in a demonstration against delays of a legal regulation pending in Parliament, in Madrid, Spain, on May 16, 2023. #

A Naval Academy plebe crawls through a mud-filled trench while taking part in the "Wet and Sandy" portion of the annual Sea Trials at the U.S. Naval Academy on May 16, 2023, in Annapolis, Maryland. #

Freshmen, known as plebes, participate in the annual Herndon Monument Climb at the U.S. Naval Academy on May 17, 2023, in Annapolis, Maryland. In just over two and a half hours, members of the 2026 midshipmen's class worked to scale the 21-foot greased monument and replace a “Dixie cup” hat with an upperclassmen's hat, signifying the end of their first year at the academy. #

Women look at the Obelisk of Buenos Aires, covered with plastic bags as part of an artistic intervention on the eve of World Recycling Day, in Argentina, on May 16, 2023. #

People search for valuable items in a heap of garbage dumped in the meadow of flowers in Gulmarg, west of Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir, India, on May 15, 2023. Ski enthusiasts flock to this mountainous region during the winter months to take advantage of the powdery snow. In the summer, however, because of India's soaring temperatures and polluted skies, the resort is flooded with tourists in search of clean, refreshing air. Many of these visitors leave behind a significant amount of waste, causing severe ecological threats and endangering villagers who rely on the glacial waters. #

Pilgrims join together during the celebration of the figure of Our Lady of Fatima, in the Sanctuary of Fatima, during a candle procession in Cova da Iria on May 12, 2023, in Fatima, Portugal. #

Demonstrators in Belgrade, Serbia, march during a rally to call for the resignation of top officials and the curtailing of violence in the media, just days after back-to-back shootings stunned the Balkan country, on May 12, 2023. #

Cattle graze on the meadow in front of the German Parliament building, the Reichstag, during a protest by the environmental organization Greenpeace for species-appropriate animal husbandry, in Berlin, Germany, on May 16, 2023. #

Peregrine-falcon chicks are ringed and measured at Salisbury Cathedral on May 17, 2023, in Salisbury, England. The cathedral peregrine chicks, which are three weeks old, were weighed, measured, and fitted with rings for tracking and record-keeping. #

A three-month-old opossum that was separated from its mother is readied for release into a larger outdoor enclosure for monitoring at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on May 16, 2023. #

Two men, dressed as Spiderman to encourage people to vote, perform in front of a line of people waiting to cast their ballot at a polling station during Thailand's general election in Bangkok on May 14, 2023. #

Members of Bembé do Mercado, an Afro-Brazilian religious group that practices Candomblé, take part in a ceremony to honor Yemanjá, the goddess of the sea, in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil, on May 14, 2023. #

A shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is scanned at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on May 10, 2023. Photo released on May 15, 2023. #

A worker looks at a part of a wall with the work of graffiti artist Banksy, which was preserved and removed from a residential building that was heavily damaged during a Russian attack, in the town of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 13, 2023. #

Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on May 15, 2023. #

A house is struck by an Israeli air strike in the city of Gaza on May 13, 2023. Israeli air strikes battered Gaza and militants fired rockets again on Saturday, as deadly fighting resumed after a night of relative calm despite efforts to secure a truce. #

Japanese driver Takamoto Katsuta and Irish co-driver Aaron Johnston compete in their Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid car during the WRC Rally of Portugal SS19 in Fafe, on May 14, 2023. #