Week in Pictures

08 May 2021

Week in pictures

ZAMAMI
The Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch on traditional boats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on May 2, 2021 (Kyodo / Reuters).

CALI
A protester is hit by a Molotov cocktail that was thrown during clashes with police in Cali, Colombia, on Monday, May 3 (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

PANAMA CITY
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on May 2, 2021 (Bill Ingalls / NASA via Reuters)

WASHINGTON DC
US President Joe Biden stands in front of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln as he talks about Covid-19 at the White House on Tuesday, May 4. Biden announced a couple of new goals: to have 160 million US adults fully vaccinated — and to administer at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose to 70% of the US adult population — by July 4 (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux)

DELHI
Volunteers attend the burning of funeral pyres of people who died from COVID-19, at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on May 6, 2021 (Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty)

Here is the top news photography from the past week:

ZAMAMI: The Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch on traditional boats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on May 2, 2021 (Kyodo / Reuters)

CALI: A protester is hit by a Molotov cocktail that was thrown during clashes with police in Cali, Colombia, on Monday, May 3 (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

PANAMA CITY: Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on May 2, 2021 (Bill Ingalls / NASA via Reuters)

WASHINGTON DC: US President Joe Biden stands in front of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln as he talks about Covid-19 at the White House on Tuesday, May 4. Biden announced a couple of new goals: to have 160 million US adults fully vaccinated — and to administer at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose to 70% of the US adult population — by July 4 (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux)

DELHI: Volunteers attend the burning of funeral pyres of people who died from COVID-19, at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on May 6, 2021 (Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty)

Week in Pictures

Week in pictures 08 May 2021

ZAMAMI The Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch on traditional boats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on May 2, 2021 (Kyodo / Reuters).

CALI A protester is hit by a Molotov cocktail that was thrown during clashes with police in Cali, Colombia, on Monday, May 3 (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

PANAMA CITY Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on May 2, 2021 (Bill Ingalls / NASA via Reuters)

DELHI Volunteers attend the burning of funeral pyres of people who died from COVID-19, at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on May 6, 2021 (Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty)

ZAMAMI
The Olympic flame is passed from torch to torch on traditional boats during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics torch relay off Zamami in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on May 2, 2021 (Kyodo / Reuters).

CALI
A protester is hit by a Molotov cocktail that was thrown during clashes with police in Cali, Colombia, on Monday, May 3 (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)

PANAMA CITY
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on May 2, 2021 (Bill Ingalls / NASA via Reuters)

DELHI
Volunteers attend the burning of funeral pyres of people who died from COVID-19, at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on May 6, 2021 (Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty)