AP Top Photos of the Month May 2025

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in May 2025.

A bird flies above Alcatraz Island, May 4, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay, California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Palestinian Maha Elayan weeps as she embraces the body of her 7-year-old son, Qasim, who was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a UN school used as a shelter, ahead of his burial at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Faithful react after the announcement of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

President Donald Trump on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ukrainian soldiers walk after a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in the Chernyhiv region of Ukraine, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives for a press conference at the Prague Castle, Czech Republic, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

A home lays in ruins after a severe storm passed London, Kentucky, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A woman processes gold at a mining site in the Kedougou region of Senegal, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Quinceañeras ride in a limousine as part of their celebration in Bogota, Colombia, May 2, 2025. The Sueños Hechos Foundation, led by a former police officer, is hosting a quinceañera celebration for 24 disadvantaged teen girls. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Sri Wahyuni, also known as Ayu, performs in the "wall of death", locally known as "tong setan" or satan's barrel, at a fairground in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Relatives mourn near the body of Amarjeet Singh, 51, killed in Pakistani artillery shelling in Poonch along the Line of Control, Indian-controlled Kashmir, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Nimarak holds her child as she inspects her house damaged by artillery shelling from Pakistan, in the border village of Gingal, north of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Didi-Stone poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The History of Sound' at the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 21, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Cadets and young volunteers unfurl a replica of the Soviet Flag of Victory as they mark Victory Day celebrating 80 years after the victory in World War II, The Great Patriotic War for the Soviet Union, next to Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

PSG's Desire Doue celebrates after scoring his side's second goal against Inter Milan during the Champions League final soccer match at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Supporters of presidential candidate Nicusor Dan touch foreheads after polls closed for the second round of the country's presidential election redo in Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 Rwanda genocide are repatriated by bus from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Congregants attend an Indigenous blessing ceremony for communion wafers that will be taken to a priest to be consecrated in the Simojovel municipality, Mexico, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Workers clean a roof at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama City, May 22, 2025, as Panama and Venezuela prepare to resume commercial flights nearly a year after suspending them when Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino refused to recognize the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Hailey Burton stands in a hallway at Churchill Downs before the 151st running of the Kentucky Oaks horse race, May 2, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kunga Sherpa)

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Allegheny County Airport, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The masted Mexican Navy training ship, the Cuauhtémoc, is stranded after colliding with the Brooklyn Bridge, May 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

People in swimsuits vote at a polling booth near Sydney's Bondi Beach, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Traffic crosses a bridge over the Woodhead Reservoir in Derbyshire as England experiences a significant drought, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Bayern's Jamal Musiala is doused with beer after the German Bundesliga's soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Moenchengladbach in Munich, Germany, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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Lead photo: Magalí Maisonnave poses for a photo with her six-year-old dachshund Sandro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

This gallery was curated by Ricardo Mazalan, deputy news director for photography and storytelling in Latin America and Caribbean, and global photo editor Leslie Mazoch.