May 17, 2015

Brazil's Filipe Toledo surfs to win the final of the World Surf League (WSL) Rio Pro championship in Rio de Janeiro. Toledo defeated Australia's Bede Durbidge and won the championship.

A woman raises a sign reading "resignation" during an anti-government demonstration in Skopje, Macedonia. Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in Macedonia, demanding Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resign over wire-tap revelations that have plunged the Balkan country into its worst political crisis since flirting with civil war in 2001.

U.S. forces and Afghan security inspect damages at the site of a suicide bombing attack near Kabul's international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the airport, wounding at least 16 civilians.

Protesters raise placards during a rally at a baseball stadium in the prefectural capital Naha on Japan's southern island of Okinawa to oppose the transfer of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo.

Smoke rises after what activists said was due to airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Erbeen in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta.

Spanish Moto 3 rider Joreg Navarro falls down during the France Motorcycle Grand Prix race at the Bugatti race track in Le Mans, western France.

Ed Carpenter hits the wall in the second turn during practice before qualifications for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Teenagers dressed in bridal white surrounded by flowers, take part in the pilgrimage "The Hundred Maidens", in Sorzano, northern Spain.

Lava flows out of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano as it erupts on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean.