Marcin Golba / NurPhoto / GettyA Finnish lapphund pauses after fetching a ball in Łuczyce, Poland, on May 1, 2026.Martin Bernetti / AFP / GettyA dog cools off under a stream of water during high temperatures at Omar Torrijos Herrera Recreational and Cultural Park in Panama City on May 3, 2026.Lintao Zhang / GettyTeam Japan competes in the Team Acrobatic final during Day 3 of the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup at Xi’an Olympic Sports Center Natatorium in Xi’an, China, on May 3, 2026.Ahn Young-joon / APA Star Wars–themed drone show celebrated Star Wars Day at a park along the Han River in Seoul, South Korea.Marco Bertorello / AFP / GettyA dancer performs in “Seaworld Venice” by the Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger in the Austrian Pavilion during the preopening press view of the 61st Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 5, 2026.Federico Gambarini / DPA / GettyThe so-called Kaiserwagen of the Wuppertal suspension railway pulls into Werther Brücke station in Wuppertal, Germany, on May 7, 2026. The historic train, recently renovated, is used for special occasions such as weddings.Carlos Jasso / AFP / GettyA person swims in the Sky Pool, a transparent, acrylic swimming-pool bridge between apartment blocs, on a sunny day in South London, May 2, 2026.Giuseppe Cottini / GettyPeople fly colorful kites during the Artevento Cervia 46th International Kite Festival on May 2, 2026, in Cervia, Italy.Phil Noble / ReutersA drone view shows an artist from the Sand In Your Eye art team putting the finishing touches on a giant sand portrait of David Attenborough to mark the conservationist’s 100th birthday, on the beach in Morecambe, England, May 6, 2026.Bruna Prado / APFans pack the shores of Copacabana Beach to watch a free concert by Shakira in Rio de Janeiro on May 2, 2026.Fang Yongtao / VCG / GettyTourists ride a sightseeing train past horse-themed paddy-field paintings in a scenic area in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on May 4, 2026.Mert Alper Dervis / Anadolu / GettyDogs wearing goggles pose for a photo at a tulip farm in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on May 4, 2026.Agatha Cantrill / AFP / GettyPeople cycle past a humanoid-robot police officer in Hangzhou, in China’s Zhejiang province, on May 3, 2026. The city’s traffic police deployed 15 humanoid robots in total to bolster their ranks during a national holiday.Evan Agostini / Invision / APHeidi Klum arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of the “Costume Art” exhibition on May 4, 2026, in New York City.Angela Weiss / AFP / GettyThe performer Teyana Taylor arrives at the 2026 Met Gala in New York City on May 4, 2026.Jenny Kane / APJoevanni Leyva looks up at Horsetail Falls on May 2, 2026, in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.Hu Zhichao / VCG / GettyA view of the Qicai Danxia Scenic Area, also known as Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot, at Zhangye National Geopark on May 1, 2026, in China’s Gansu provinceOzkan Bilgin / Anadolu / GettyMelting snow and heavy rainfall filled a stream with muddy water, which flowed into Lake Van, on May 5, 2026, in Van, Turkey.Marco Bertorello / AFP / GettyA gallery attendant sits next to “Los Restos” by Spanish artist Oriol Villanova in the Spanish Pavilion during the pre-opening press view of the 61st Venice Biennale in Venice on May 5, 2026.Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto / GettyPalestinian sisters Lina Zeid (right) and Aya Zeid prepare food plates on the rooftop of their house to distribute among displaced children as a charity in the Al-Tuam area, west of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2026.Costfoto / NurPhoto / GettyA view of Jiabang terraced fields in Congjiang County, Guizhou province, China, on May 5, 2026CFoto / Future Publishing / GettyA farmer removes weeds from a wheat field in Qingzhou City, Shandong province, China, on May 6, 2026.Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed / Anadolu / GettyStorks begin to appear with the arrival of spring in Duhok, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on May 5, 2026.Jane Barlow / PA Images / GettyConvenor of the Gaudie, Thomas Payne, and the piper Joshua Neville lead fellow students from the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, wearing their traditional red gowns, in the Gaudie, a procession through the town and down to the pier. The annual Gaudie commemorates the former student John Honey, who in 1800 rescued members of the crew of the Janet of Macduff, which had run aground off the East Sands.Yavuz Görür / Anadolu / GettyA flock of flamingos flies over Akgöl reeds in the Ereğli district of Konya, Turkey, on May 1, 2026, a key stopover on migratory routes and a popular destination for nature enthusiasts.Hussein Faleh / AFP / GettyAn Arabian horse peeks over a wall inside a stable at Al-Afandi Academy in the Iraqi city of Basra on May 5, 2026.Eric Cox / ReutersA woman holds a beagle that was rescued from Ridglan Farms, a commercial breeding facility that supplies dogs to animal-testing laboratories, as the animals—the first of more than 1,500 to be released—were prepared for adoption in Marshall, Wisconsin, on May 4, 2026.Kim Soo-hyeon / ReutersParticipants sleep during the 2026 Power Nap contest at Han River park in Seoul, South Korea, on May 2, 2026.
