This Week in Photos, Week of April 29-May 5, 2011
From revelers gathering at the White House, to bullfights in Seville, check out the best photos from around the globe during the past week.
Revelers gather at the fence on the north side of the White House, posing for photographs, chanting "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" and singing the Star Spangled Banner while U.S. President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama Bin Laden.
An art installation consisting of eight Hills Hoists clothes lines complemented by eight 'mums hanging out washing' is seen at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The installation is the latest in a series of surrealist works by artist Andrew Baines, this time to highlight the loss of the typical backyard due to the increase of high density living.
A general view shows a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville.
Women from the southwest Chinese province of Guizhou, dressed in traditional costumes, play a game as they visit the Bund along the Huangpu River in Shanghai.
Heavy snow falls as soldiers take part in a celebration on Constitution Day in Wroclaw. The ceremony is held to commemorate the 220th anniversary of Poland's constitution which was Europe's first and the world's second written constitution.
A car drives past Mexico's naval training ship ARM Cuauhtemoc, moored at Havana Port. The ship, named after the last Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc, is visiting Cuba as part of a 230-day trip across 3 continents. The Cuauhtemoc has six female sailors onboard for the first time, according to news reports.
People ride on a chair-o-plane at a park on May Day holiday in Hefei, Anhui province.
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithfuls as he arrives in St. Peter's Square during John Paul II Beatification Ceremony held by Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City, Vatican. The ceremony marking the beatification and the last stages of the process to elevate Pope John Paul II to sainthood was led by his successor Pope Benedict XI and attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims alongside heads of state and dignitaries.
A traditional Hungarian shepherd walks front of his Racka sheep in the Great Hungarian Plain (Puszta) in Hortobagy, 200 km (124 miles) east of Budapest. Every spring around St. George's Day, Hortobagy celebrates the beginning of the new grazing season.
A fireman helps a little boy aim a fire hose at a target of tin cans at the annual MyFest in Kreuzberg district in Berlin, Germany. MyFest draws thousands of participants for a grand street party, though in years past it has ended in with violent clashes between left-wing demonstrators and police later in the evening.