Week in Photos: June 7, 2014
From a World War II veteran marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy to Rihanna’s nude dress and fighters in Aleppo, see the week’s most striking photos.
Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP/Getty
June 3, 2014
A man carries a young girl who was injured in a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces in the city’s Kallaseh district. Some 2,000 civilians, including more than 500 children, have been killed in regime air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo since January, many of them in barrel bomb attacks.
Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP/Getty
June 1, 2014
People travel in an overcrowded bus.
Ahmad Masood/Reuters
May 31, 2014
The veiled mother of one of the two teenage girls who were raped and hanged from a tree walks with policemen in the northern Indian state’s Budaun district. India’s new home minister, Rajnath Singh, weighed in Friday on the grisly case, as public anger and political controversy over the attack gain momentum.
Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
May 31, 2014
A Seleka fighter adjusts a broken guitar in a village between Bambari and Grimari.
Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
June 4, 2014
World War II veteran Printis Sibley, who landed at Omaha Beach, visits a memorial to those who died. June 6 was the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which saw 156,000 troops from the Allied countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, join forces to launch an attack on the beaches of Normandy. Many heads of state traveled to the famous beaches this week to pay their respects to those who lost their lives.
Win McNamee/Getty
June 3, 2014
Chinese paramilitary police officers salute each other as they stand guard below a portrait of the late leader Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square. Twenty-five years ago, on June 4, 1989, Chinese troops cracked down on pro-democracy protesters and in the clashes that followed scores were killed and injured.
Kevin Frayer/Getty
June 1, 2014
Free Syrian Army fighters rest in a safehouse beside the Castle and Palace of Justice.
Mahmoud Hebbo/Reuters
May 31, 2014
A child runs past a grand piano that has been left by the East River underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in the borough of Manhattan. The piano has been there for a few days, puzzling locals, local media reported.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
June 2, 2014
Singer Rihanna arrives for the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at Lincoln Center.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
May 31, 2014
Wang Yirong of Hebei province rides his motorcycle in the desert during the China Taklimakan Rally and CCR Xinjiang Station, in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region.
China Daily/Reuters
June 5, 2014
An Indian peafowl spreads its tail feathers at a zoo.
David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
June 1, 2014
Participants are covered in paint as they take part in the Color Run.
Neil Hall/Reuters
June 4, 2014
Filipe Toledo of Brazil winning his Round 3 heat at the Fiji Pro.
Kirstin Scholtz/ASP via Getty
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