Photos of the day

A selection of AP photos taken over the past 24 hours. 

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Obama Medal of Valor

President Barack Obama reaches up to present Los Angeles Police Department Officer Donald Thompson with the Medal of Valor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 16, 2016. The Medal of Valor is awarded to public safety officers who have exhibited exceptional courage, regardless of personal safety, in the attempt to save or protect others from harm. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mideast Israel Roman Treasure

Rare bronze artifacts, part of a large ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period 1,600 years ago seen during a presentation of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Caesarea, Israel. Monday, May 16, 2016. Israeli archeologists say two divers have made the country's biggest discovery of Roman-era artifacts in three decades. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Germany Traditional Mass Sorbs

Believers dressed in the traditional clothes of the Sorbs carry the statue of Virgin Mary during a procession near Rosenthal, eastern Germany, Monday, May 16, 2016. Traditionally on Whit Monday catholic faithful Sorbs, a Slavic minority near the German-Polish border, celebrate an open air mass in the small village east of Dresden. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

South Korea Disaster Prevention Drill

South Korean high school students take shelter from a mock gas attack during an anti-terrorism exercise at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 16, 2016. The exercise was a routine drill and combined this month with disaster prevention drill. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Sri Lanka Weather

Sri Lankans wade through a flooded road following heavy rains in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, May 16, 2016. Flash floods caused by heavy rains have displaced hundreds of families in several parts of Sri Lanka as the Indian Ocean Island is experiencing extreme weather conditions over the last two days. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

China Cultural Revolution

An elderly Chinese man walks past a security guard holding a prong for restraining attackers near a portrait of Mao Zedong and Cultural Revolution anti-soviet banners at a curio market in Beijing, China, Monday, May 16, 2016. Exactly 50 years ago, China embarked on what was formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a decade of tumult launched by Mao Zedong to revive communist goals and enforce a radical egalitarianism. The milestone was largely ignored Monday in the Chinese media, reflecting continuing sensitivities about a period that was later declared a "catastrophe." Agitation against the Soviet Union's retreat from Stalinism was a major driving force of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Nepal Protest

A Supporter of Nepal's minority ethnic group tries to break through a police cordon leading to the prime minister's office in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 16, 2016. Hundreds of minority ethnic group supporters scuffled with police in Nepal's capital on Monday, restarting protests against the government and the Himalayan nation's new constitution. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

South Korea Coming of Age Day

South Korean women wearing their traditional dresses look at their smartphone as they take photographs before attending the 44th Coming of Age Day ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 16, 2016. The ceremony was held for young men and women who will become 20 years old this year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Afghanistan

Protesters wait on a bridge for a massive anti-government protest to arrive, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 16, 2016. Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group marched through the streets to protest the proposed route of a power line. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

France Cannes Loving Departures

Actor Joel Edgerton poses for photographers after leaving the screening of the film Loving at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Afghanistan

A Afghan watches a massive anti-government protest from the space between two containers, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 16, 2016. Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group marched through the streets to protest the proposed route of a power line. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

India Daily Life

A homeless Indian child sits outside a mall anticipating alms as another lies near him at a market in Gauhati, India, Monday, May 16, 2016. Children living in grinding poverty can be seen almost everywhere in India ó sleeping on sidewalks, begging at traffic intersections or relying on state-run lunch programs to provide their only full meal for the day. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)

Kenya Violent Demonstrations

Opposition supporters, some carrying rocks, flee from exploding tear gas grenades fired by riot police, during a protest in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Monday, May 16, 2016. Kenyan police have tear-gassed and beaten opposition supporters during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Israel Daily Life

Two fishermen cast their fishing pole fas they stand on a rock in the Mediterranean Sea near Michmoret, Israel, Monday, May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Penis Transplant

Dr. Dicken Ko, director of Massachusetts General Hospital's urology program, shakes hands with surgical team members after a news conference at the hospital, Monday, May 16, 2016, in Boston to announce the first penis transplant in the United States. Cancer patient Thomas Manning, of Halifax, Mass., received a transplanted penis in a 15-hour procedure last week. The organ was transplanted from a deceased donor. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Reds Indians Baseball

Cincinnati Reds' Brandon Phillips, center, is caught trying to steal third base as Cleveland Indians' Juan Uribe, left, and Francisco Lindor defend in the first inning of an interleague baseball game, Monday, May 16, 2016, in Cleveland. Uribe tagged out Phillips on the play. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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