Today in Pictures, May 14, 2024
The ruins of ancient Persepolis in southern Iran, a base jumper leaping off a tower in Sri Lanka, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A woman posing for a picture before an ancient gate, while touring the ruins of ancient Persepolis, which served as the capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from 550BC to 330 BC, in southern Iran, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A miniature poodle in the judging area during the 148th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A base jumper leaping off the Lotus Tower, a 351.5m-tall tower, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Mount Ibu spewing thick smoke in Gam Ici, North Maluku. A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on May 13, 2024, spewing a huge ash tower more than 5km into the sky.
AFP
A fan with a flare outside the stadium before the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Liverpool held at Villa Park, Birmingham, Britain, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Crews conducting a controlled demolition of a section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, US, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Ms Pailona Ramirez from Guarani indigenous tribe, looking on as it rains in the Pindo Poty village after it was flooded, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A member of an emergency service holding up the portrait of a victim, at the memorial site for victims of the Nova music festival killed during the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, on Israel's Memorial Day, in Re'im, near the border with the Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A fisherman returning to shore amid trash on the beach in Bangkalan, Madura Island, East Java province on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Somali women walking past a fish put on display by fishermen at the Liido beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, on May 13, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS