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REWIND: TOP photos of the week that was

May 09, 2016 08:18 IST

Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 12 images

IMAGE: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at The Palladium at the Center for Performing Arts in Carmel. Photograph: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters


IMAGE: US Carnival cruise ship Adonia arrives at the Havana bay, the first cruise liner to sail between the United States and Cuba since Cuba's 1959 revolution, Cuba. Photograph: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters


IMAGE: Girls play guitars at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in central Pyongyang, North Korea. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters


IMAGE: Police officers detain a protester during anti-capitalist protests following May Day marches in Seattle, Washington. Photograph: David Ryder/Reuters


IMAGE: One of Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus' performing elephants enters the arena for its final show in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters


IMAGE: Evacuees from the Fort McMurray wildfires use the sleeping room at the "Bold Center" in Lac la Biche, Alberta, Canada. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters


IMAGE: The 170-metre (558-feet) tall Juche Tower is reflected in Taedong River as morning fog blankets Pyongyang, North Korea. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters


IMAGE: Yazidi female fighter Asema Dahir, 21, adjusts her cap inside a bedroom at a site near the frontline of the fight against Islamic State militants in Nawaran near Mosul, Iraq. When Islamic State swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants attacking women and girls from their community. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters


IMAGE: A woman walks among debris after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe, Myanmar. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters


IMAGE: Milli Astill, age 7, attempts to persuade 3-year old Lissi-Lu to have her photograph taken with her in their Leicester City tu-tus in Leicester, Britain. Leicester City's Premier League title dream became reality as their only remaining challengers Tottenham Hotspur drew 2-2 at Chelsea to complete one of the greatest ever sporting achievements. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters


IMAGE: Participants take part in the annual Jack In The Green parade involving hundreds of costumed revellers joining a four hour procession culminating in the traditional 'slaying' of a Jack character to 'unleash the spirit of summer' on the May Day week end, in Hastings, southern Britain. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters


IMAGE: Wizz Air's Airbus A-321 flying along the Danube river during an air show in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters