A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 23, 2017
![A man walks past The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, California, May 22, 2017.](https://gdb.voanews.com/98373343-b192-4c01-b1e3-592041bfa463_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man walks past The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles, California, May 22, 2017.
![One of two men is publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country, where there are concerns over mounting hostility toward the small gay community, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found guilty of having broken sharia rules in conservative Aceh province -- the only part of Indonesia that implements Islamic law -- and they each were sentenced to 85 strokes of the cane.](https://gdb.voanews.com/63c845c4-4a3b-4671-9b61-1a3edd0c7b9b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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One of two men is publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country, where there are concerns over mounting hostility toward the small gay community, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found guilty of having broken sharia rules in conservative Aceh province -- the only part of Indonesia that implements Islamic law -- and they each were sentenced to 85 strokes of the cane.
![A motorscyclist goes airborne during a competition at Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7abcc5e6-d314-41cf-8681-f63c5b8bb4b4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A motorscyclist goes airborne during a competition at Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
![A man brushes his teeth in the polluted water of River Ganga in Kolkata, India.](https://gdb.voanews.com/eeb4d0ea-ef6e-4cbd-8d12-d9ce263e5b56_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man brushes his teeth in the polluted water of River Ganga in Kolkata, India.