The World of Photos section showcases the best images from international wire agencies as selected by our picture editors. These images for May 7, 2024, include a variety of scenes from around the world.
Gwendoline Christie is seen attending The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, celebrating the opening of the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition. Meanwhile, police are shown arresting a pro-Palestinian protester near the Met Gala venue.
In Spendora, Texas, Alvaro Trevino is seen pulling a canoe with Jennifer Tellez and their 8-year-old daughter, Ailyn, as they check on their home after flooding. The aftermath of heavy rains in Porto Alegre, Brazil is captured in an aerial view of the bus station, where rescue efforts are ongoing.
Other images include an Israeli soldier praying at a makeshift memorial in Re’im, Israel, a worker standing on the roof of an office block in Madrid, Spain, and Vatican Swiss Guard recruits marching during their swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican. A Ukrainian army serviceman is shown looking at a stray dog outside his unit dugout in Avdiivka, Ukraine, while a demonstrator works on her laptop after breaching barricades at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
Finally, U.S. troops are depicted taking part in a counter landing live fire exercise as part of U.S.-Philippines joint military exercises in Laoag, Ilocos Norte province