Gaza starvation, Vietnam War commemoration and papal selection

Rahaf Ayyad, a 12-year-old Palestinian who is suffering from malnutrition due to an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign, sits at a school-turned-shelter in al-Rimal in central Gaza City on May 4, 2025.

Activists are prevented from approaching the damaged Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel "Conscience", after Israel bombed it while carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, at sea outside Maltese territorial waters, on May 3, 2025.

Soldiers march during a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City on April 30, 2025.

Christian pilgrims inspired by the medieval Knights Templar order walk towards St. Peter's Basilica at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope on May 4, 2025.

People descend the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museum during a press tour ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.

Russian T-90M tanks drive across Dvortsovaya Square during a rehearsal for Victory Day, where Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, on May 3, 2025.

Chinese astronaut Cai Xuzhe sits on a chair as ground crew help remove two more Shenzhou-19 astronauts from their capsule after they landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on April 30, 2025.

A view shows a large plume of smoke rising from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, on May 6, 2025.

A person reacts during the Beltane Fire Festival, inspired by ancient Celtic and Pagan May Day rituals celebrating the coming of summer, at Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, on April 30, 2025.

A young Buddhist monk looks on as he walks after reciting morning prayers at the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, India, on May 5, 2025.