Photos of the day

APTOPIX India Water Protest

An elderly Indian villager, centre, smokes as he participates in a protest demonstration to highlight the water shortage across the country in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Much of India is reeling under a heat wave and severe drought conditions that have decimated crops, killed livestock and left at least 330 million Indians without enough water for their daily needs. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

APTOPIX South Korea Children's Day

A soldier from the South Korean army special forces breaks stone plates with his hand during a martial arts demonstration for Children's Day at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 5, 2016. In South Korea May 5 is celebrated as Children's Day, a national holiday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Spain Daily Life

A woman gives food to her dog siting at a public bench in Barcelona downtown, Spain, Thursday, May 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

India Kashmir Religion

Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of the prophet to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of the prophet. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

North Korea Congress

A North Korean traffic police woman directs vehicles at a street junction while behind her the sidewalk is decorated with flags of the ruling party, the Workers' Party on Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Members of North Korea's ruling party have gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their biggest political conference in decades. Foreign experts say North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un will likely use the meeting to place his loyalists into key positions, strengthen his push to upgrade his country's nuclear arsenal and cement his grip on power. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Obama

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait backstage before taking the stage to help kick off the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces and the 75th anniversary of the USO, during ceremonies at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Thursday, May 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

APTOPIX Philippines Presidential Elections

Lovi Poe, center, the sister of presidential candidate Grace Poe, leads the symbolic throwing of colored powder as her sister is endorsed by "Kabataan" party-list group, a youth organization trying to campaign for a seat in the Lower House, Thursday, May 5, 2016, at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Poe is running second to front-running candidate Rodrigo Duterte in recent poll surveys leading to Monday's Presidential elections. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

APTOPIX Greece Migrants

Migrants and refugees are silhouetted as they stroll through a makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Thursday, May 5, 2016. The European Union pressed ahead Wednesday with efforts to persuade Turkey to stop asylum seekers from reaching Europe and take back thousands more by offering Turkish citizens the prospect of visa-free travel within the bloc. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Argentina Brazil Soccer Copa Libertadores

An Argentina's Rosario Central fan cheers his for team as he is seen through a team flag, during a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Brazil's Gremio in Rosario, Argentina, Thursday, May 5, 2016.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

APTOPIX Guatemala Mudslide

A woman cries besides the coffin containing the remains of Teresa Perez, who died in the October 2015, Cambray neighborhood mudslide, at the Santa Catarina Pinula cemetery on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Forensic authorities handed over the remains of at least 12 victims, sevens month after a massive mudslide killed more than 280 people. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

APTOPIX Spain Tennis Madrid Open

In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Andy Murray, from Britain, returns a ball against Gilles Simon, from France, during a Madrid Open tennis tournament match in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Murray won 6-4 and 6-2. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Kentucky Derby Horse Racing

Kentucky Derby entrant Oscar Nominated shakes his head as he gets a bath after a workout at Churchill Downs Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday, May 7. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

CORRECTION Peru Mother's Day in Prison

CORRECTS DATE OF MOTHERS DAY - Inmates Grecia Perez, left, and Julia Robles pose wearing traditional andean garb during a Mothers Day celebration inside a prison in Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Although Mothers Day falls on May 8 this year in Peru, the Santa Monica prison held its celebration for its female inmates today. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Pigeons Performance Art

Pigeons wearing LED lights fly above their coops on board the Baylander, a decommissioned naval ship docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Thursday, May 5, 2016, in New York. The 30-minute performance was part of artist Duke Riley's "Fly By Night" creation. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

APTOPIX Mexico Cinco de Mayo

Local residents dressed as Zacapoaxtla Indians, right, and French soldiers, left, clash during a reenactment of the battle of Puebla during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the Penon de los Banos neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, May 5, 2016. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

APTOPIX Paraguay Plus Size Beauty Pageant

Women competing in the fifth edition of the "Miss Gordita" beauty pageant wait to exit a bus escorting them to the show's location at a shopping center in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. This year 14 plus-size women competed for the title. The show aims to fight discrimination against overweight people in this South American country where 57% are either overweight or obese, according to 2015 government statistics. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Cinco De Mayo Oregon

Dancers are a blur of color as they perform during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Ballet Folklorico Mexico En La Piel performed at the annual Portland event accompanied by the band Mariachi Guadalajara from Jalisco, Mexico. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

ADDITION Kenya Collapsed Building

CAPTION ADDS THE NAME OF WOMAN RESCUED AND INFORMATION ABOUT HER CONDITION A follower of the Legio Maria church prays in the street next to a waiting ambulance, as rescuers nearby work to free a woman who had been trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building, in the Huruma area of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, May 5, 2016. After discovering Elizabeth Night Odhiambo alive and conscious, rescuers administered an IV and oxygen but then had to work for a number of hours to free her from the rubble she was trapped in, before taking her away to hospital. After she was brought to the hospital, Odhiambo underwent an emergency cesarean section, and doctors told Onyango the baby had died in the womb. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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