Week in Photos: May 4, 2013
From the Bangladesh factory collapse aftermath to May Day protests, see the week’s most striking images.
Wong Maye-E/AP
May 2, 2013
A worker is seen through a broken cement wall as he toils in the collapsed garment factory building in search of bodies.
Wong Maye-E/AP
May 1, 2013
Officials load a plane part that was discovered wedged between an apartment building and a mosque into a truck. Authorities believe the plane part is from one of the two hijacked airliners that brought down the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Seth Wenig/AP
April 26, 2013
South Korean Marine LVT-7 landing craft sail to shore in a smoke screen during Ssangyong 2013, U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises that are part of their two-month-long Foal Eagle military exercises.
Kin Cheung/AP
May 1, 2013
Masked policemen take cover behind shields during clashes at a May Day demonstration. Several people were injured on Wednesday as Turkish riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who defied a May Day ban on demonstrations in a central part of the city.
Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty
May 2, 2013
Farmers keep working as a wildfire on a hill burns in the background.
Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP
May 1, 2013
A man pours earth onto a grave of an unidentified victim of last week’s garment factory collapse.
Wong Maye-E/AP
May 2, 2013
A woman holds up a portrait of her missing relative following the collapse of a garment factory building near Dhaka that left 430 confirmed dead and another 149 people still missing.
Ismail Ferdous/AP
May 2, 2013
Anna, 16, who worked as a helper at Rana Plaza, was trapped for three days following the deadly collapse and now is in recovery at the Enam Medical College. Her right hand needed to be amputated in her rescue from the rubble.
Wong Maye-E/AP
May 1, 2013
A woman walks past a banner during Afghanistan and Central Asia’s only arts festival.
Ahmad Jamshid/AP
April 28, 2013
Palestinian refugee children play in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town.
Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty
April 30, 2013
An Indian Hindu Sadhu, or holy man, poses his adopted child in a yoga headstand on the banks of the Sangam.
Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty
April 30, 2013
Dancers audition at Radio City Music Hall to become Rockettes for the upcoming 2013 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty
May 01, 2013
Erin Ivie, 23, left, and her partner Kristyn Lindstrom, 25, exit the Webb building to pose for wedding photos in the snow, following their civil union ceremony. A new law allowing the unions went into effect this week.
RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty
May 2, 2013
A Chinese child admires a modern art painting on display at the Art Beijing Exhibition.
Andy Wong/AP
May 2, 2013
A man walks by a poster reading “Severe punishment to the U.S. and their followers” in the central district of Pyongyang. American Kenneth Bae was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor this week for “crimes against the state.”
Jon Chol Jin/AP
April 29, 2013
Babies held by student sumo wrestlers cry beside a referee (C) clad in a traditional costume during the “Baby-cry Sumo” competition at Sensoji temple. Japanese parents believe that sumo wrestlers can help make babies cry out a wish to grow up with good health.
Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty
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