The week around the world in 20 pictures

The funeral of Pope Francis, the blackout in Spain and Portugal, May Day rallies and Salah’s selfie: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Main image: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump meet before the funeral of Pope Francis at St Peter’s Basilica. Photograph: Ukrainian presidential press service/Reuters

  • Kostiantynivka, Ukraine

    The damaged interior of a church destroyed by Russian attacks last month. There is cautious optimism in Kyiv over the terms of the long-discussed US-Ukraine minerals deal, signed this week, which appeared to be more advantageous for Ukraine than most had expected
    The damaged interior of a church

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

    Friends of Danylo Hudya, 17, who was killed last week in a Russian strike, gather at the remains of a house in a residential neighbourhood of Kyiv. Vladimir Putin declared a three-day full ceasefire in the war with Ukraine in May to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the second world war. ‘All hostilities will be suspended during this period,’ the Kremlin said in a statement. ‘Russia believes that the Ukrainian side should follow this example’
    A group of teenagers cry and hug while sitting among rubble, with flowers and teddies in the foreground

  • Jerusalem

    The girlfriend of Liel Haio, an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza, visits his grave on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
    A woman rests her arms and head on a gravestone

  • Gaza

    A Palestinian boy reads in the rubble of a house, after overnight Israeli strikes at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Israel appeared set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law in a way that would have consequences far beyond Palestine, the international court of justice heard this week at the start of five days of proceedings in The Hague
    A Palestinian boy reads a book in a spot of sunlight coming through the destroyed wall of a house

  • Gezer, Israel

    Israeli soldiers mourn reservist master sergeant Asaf Cafri, killed in Israel’s war in Gaza, during his funeral
    Israeli soldiers hug and cry

  • Jabaliya, Gaza

    An internally displaced Palestinian girl waits to receive a portion of food from a charity kitchen. A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza was bombed on Friday by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta, its organisers have said
    A young girl with an upside-down saucepan on her head like a hat

  • Gorki Leninskie, Russia

    Members of the all-Russia national military patriotic social movement compete during the seventh military-patriotic games, ‘Yunarmiya, forward!’, dedicated to Russia’s Victory Day
    Young people put on gas masks and nuclear protection suits

  • Nantes, France

    A protestor is sprayed with water from a cannon as he throws fireworks at riot police during a May Day rally
    A protestor is sprayed with water from a cannon as he throws fireworks at riot police

  • Manila, Philippines

    Police officers stand in formation during a Labour Day demonstration
    A crowd of dozens of police, facing a crowd of protesters holding KMU banners

  • Dili, East Timor

    Catholics attend Pope Francis’s requiem mass at the Esplanade of Tasitolu during his funeral at the Vatican. Pope Francis was eulogised as ‘a pope among the people, with an open heart towards everyone’ during a funeral mass that brought 400,000 mourners to Rome, from pilgrims and refugees to powerful world leaders and royalty
    A crowd of thousands of people, most wearing white T-shirts

  • Vatican City

    Members of the clergy at the pope’s funeral mass in St Peter’s Square. Applause rang out when the Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who presided over the mass, spoke of Francis’s care for immigrants, his constant pleas for peace and the importance of the climate
    Members of the clergy, all dressed in red robes, standing in rows facing away from the camera

  • Vatican City

    Nuns walk through St Peter’s Square after rain on the fourth of nine days of mourning for the late pope. Thousands of people queued to visit Pope Francis’s tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica the day after heads of state, royalty and hundreds of thousands of mourners attended his funeral in Rome
    Nuns walk through St Peter’s Square with a rainbow in the sky

  • Vatican City

    Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the US president, Donald Trump, meet before the pope’s funeral at St Peter’s Basilica. It was a ‘very symbolic meeting’, Zelenskyy said later, and it had the ‘potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results’. Zelenskyy was applauded by the crowd as he walked out afterwards on to St Peter’s Square
    Zelenskyy and Trump sitting close together on chairs, talking intently to each other, in a large ornate room

  • Anson, Texas, US

    Detainees form the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet detention facility, where Venezuelans at the centre of a US supreme court ruling are held. The Trump administration asked the court this week to assist in its attempt to strip temporary protected status from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, which would clear the way for their deportation
    Detainees stand and hold out their arms to form the letters SOS with their bodies in a courtyard

  • Port-au-Prince, Haiti

    A woman rests at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in the Petion-Ville neighbourhood
    A woman sitting on a blanket on the floor, resting her arms and head on a blue bucket

  • Lisbon, Portugal

    Lights turning back on at the 25 April bridge, over the Tagus river, after a massive power cut affecting the entire Iberian peninsula and the south of France. Tens of millions of people were plunged into a huge power blackout, leaving them without trains, metros, traffic lights, ATMs, phone connections and internet access
    Lights turning back on at the 25 April bridge, viewed through foliage

  • Madrid, Spain

    A woman uses her mobile phone torch inside a store during the power outage. People were trapped in lifts, stuck on trains, stalled in traffic and abandoned in airports. Hundreds stumbled along pitch-black metro tunnels using their phone torches; others scrambled for basics in supermarkets that could take only cash, or began long trudges home from work
    A woman uses her mobile phone torch inside a store during a power outage in Madrid

  • London, UK

    A man stops to take a photograph as firefighters tackle a blaze at the St Marylebone electrical substation in London
    A man on a bicycle stops to take a photograph on a road taped off, with a fire engine visible and smoke rising in the distance

  • London, UK

    Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa crosses the line to win the women’s elite race at the 2025 London Marathon. ‘When I crossed the line, I just felt extreme happiness,’ Assefa said. ‘I was very, very happy to win the race. I really wanted to win today, and after Paris, where I finished second again, I really have trained hard’
    Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa crosses the line on the Mall, with Buckingham Palace in the background

  • Liverpool, UK

    Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah takes a selfie with fans as Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur to clinch the Premier League title at Anfield. Liverpool won a record-equalling 20th league title in a stunning debut season for Arne Slot after beating Tottenham 5-1 at Anfield. Slot, who took on the seemingly unenviable task of succeeding Jürgen Klopp last summer, becomes the first man in Liverpool’s illustrious history to win the championship in his debut season with the club
    Mohamed Salah takes a selfie with fans in the crowd
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