Week in pictures: 29 May - 4 June 2021 - BBC News

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Seagulls hunt pearl mullet
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Seagulls hunt pearl mullet in the salty, alkaline waters of Turkey's Lake Van.

Community paramedic Karen McIntyre vaccinates Caroline Bagnato
CARLOS OSORIO / REUTERS

Community paramedic Karen McIntyre vaccinates Caroline Bagnato at her home, with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

People in masks applaud
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People in masks applaud at the end of a performance of The Show Must Go On, at the Palace Theatre, London.

Naomi Osaka
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Naomi Osaka of Japan serves in her first-round match against Patricia Maria Tig of Romania at the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris. The following day Osaka withdrew from the tournament, saying she had "suffered long bouts of depression" since winning her first Grand Slam title in 2018.

Arlington National Cemetery
MICHAEL A. MCCOY / REUTERS

image captionOn Monday Americans marked Memorial Day, which commemorates US soldiers fallen in the Civil War and beyond. Here, a girl sits in front of a headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

Klimt exhibition
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Visitors to Klimt: The Immersive Experience, participate in an immersive room that features a presentation on the work of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, at IDEAL Centre d'Arts Digitals de Barcelona, Spain.

X-Press Pearl ship
SRI LANKA AIRFORCE / REUTERS

Experts fear hundreds of tonnes of oil from the X-Press Pearl could devastate marine life and the nearby beaches of Sri Lanka. The X-Press Pearl had been carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics, when it caught fire on 20 May. Many of the ship's 1,486 containers tumbled into the sea before the blaze was put out this week.

Sinkhole in a field in Mexico
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A sinkhole has appeared in a field of crops in Santa Maria Zacatepec, central Mexico.

Close up of a cicadas
CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES

Billions of cicadas have emerged in the eastern US to molt, mate, lay eggs and die, after living underground for 17 years.

A model on the runway
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A model on the runway during the Bassike Winter Collection 2021 show, during Afterpay Australian Fashion Week in Sydney.