Today in Pictures, May 03, 2023
Madame Tussauds wax figure of King Charles III at Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building, tanker fire off Malaysia’s southern coast and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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The brand new Madame Tussauds wax figure of King Charles III being unveiled at the Queen Victoria Building alongside wax figures of Prince William, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, and Prince Harry in Sydney on May 3.
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Crew of a Gabon-flagged tanker being rescued by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency after the vessel caught fire off Malaysia’s southern coast on May 2. Twenty-five crew members were rescued by several ships, and search operations are under way for three missing men. The tanker was heading for Singapore from China when it caught fire.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Makeshift structures for housing people displaced by drought at the Ladan internally displaced people camp in Dolow, Somalia on May 1.
PHOTO: AFP
A repatriation transferring ceremony at the United States Embassy in Singapore on May 2 formally marking the start of the journey home for the remains of 11 American servicemen lost in World War II when their B-24 bomber was shot down by the Japanese. The remains will now be transported to Hawaii to begin the arduous process of trying to identify them.
ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
A Thai football fan in a traditional head piece celebrating after Thailand beat Singapore by 3-1 in the SEA Games during the opening Group B match at the Prince Stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 1.
ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
People gathering around the longest flag in Poland during National Flag Day in Miedzyzdroje, Poland, on May 2. The 2.5km flag was brought to the beach in two parts.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Director Taika Waititi looking on as his wife, singer Rita Ora, wears actor Jared Leto’s cat head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 1.
PHOTO: NYT
A pitch invader trying to evade a police officer during the Copa Libertadores group stage football match between Peru’s Sporting Cristal and Bolivia’s The Strongest at the National Stadium in Lima on May 2.
PHOTO: AFP
Protesters dressed as clowns posing in front of the French police in riot gear during a demonstration on May Day in Lille, more than a month after the government pushed an unpopular pensions reform Act through Parliament.
PHOTO: AFP
A Ukrainian serviceman lying in a trench during a military exercise in the Kharkiv region on May 1, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PHOTO: AFP
