Week in pictures: 6-12 May 2017 - BBC News

源济

LUCY NICHOLSON / REUTERS
Inmate Kristina Hazelett is part of a small team of women prisoners in Phoenix, Arizona who work with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Animal Safety Unit (Mash). The programme is designed to help comfort and train mistreated and neglected animals rescued from deplorable conditions.




ERIC FEFERBERG /AFP
Emmanuel Macron vowed to fight "the forces of division that undermine France" after easily winning the run-off election for the French presidency. Acknowledging his victory, Mr Macron told supporters he wanted to ensure Marine Le Pen voters "no longer have a reason to vote for an extremist position".




AFP
Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in north-eastern Nigeria three years ago, the president's office says.




STEFAN WERMUTH / REUTERS
Traffic cones are seen on the bank of the River Thames during low tide in London, England.




MARCO LONGARI / AFP
A protester uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at anti-riot police during a demonstration over better housing in the community of Finetown in Ennerdale, South Africa.




FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA /EPA
The inflatable puppet of The Teacher from Roger Waters' The Wall live tour is on display at The Victoria and Albert Museum. It is part of an exhibition that looks at the work of British band Pink Floyd.




MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN / REUTERS
A boy works at an aluminium utensils factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.




STEPHANIE LECOCQ / EPA
The Duchess of Cambridge visited Luxembourg on her second solo trip, to mark 150 years of the Treaty of London. She met the country's Princess Stephanie and Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the capital city's museum of modern art, Mudamon.




ABIR SULTAN / EPA
Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray as others harvest wheat in a field near the central Israeli town of Modi'in. The harvested wheat will be stored for almost a year and then use it to grind flour to make unleavened bread for the week-long Passover festival.




ZSOLT CZEGLED / EPA
An installation by Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi at the Italian pavilion during a media preview of the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy.




CHRIS MCGRATH / GETTY IMAGES
Lightning strikes Istanbul during a thunderstorm.