May 26, 2021

In this photo provided by the Sri Lanka Air Force, smoke rises from the container vessel MV X-Press Pearl that is engulfed in flames, off Colombo port.

Smoke can be seen along the horizon from a fire onboard the MV X-Press Pearl container ship in the seas off the Colombo Harbor, while villagers push the cargo spilled from it onto a beach in Ja-Ela, Sri Lanka.

People ride on a bus as they head to a polling station to cast their vote, during the presidential elections, in Damascus, Syria.

A lunar eclipse is observed at dawn in Brasilia, Brazil.

People look at a crack in the road caused by Earth tremors amid aftershocks following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Buddhist monk lights candles to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day, a celebration of the birth, enlightenment and death of the Lord Buddha, at Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand.

Adult Brood X cicadas are seen on a small plant in a residential area in Laurel, Maryland. Billions of cicadas have emerged from the ground in at least 15 U.S. states from the Midwest to the East Coast. (Photo: Moe Moe Htun)

Milieudefensie director Donald Pols, holding a copy of the verdict, celebrates the outcome in the court case of Milieudefensie, the Dutch arm of the Friends of the Earth environmental organization, against Shell in The Hague, Netherlands.

Lemurs are seen as Seenlada Supat, 11, plays an organ for animals at a zoo in Chonburi, Thailand.

Palestinian members of Gaza's Bar Woolf sports team perform with fire on the ruins of a building destroyed in recent Israeli airstrikes, in Beit Lahia.