Participants wearing smurf (schtroumpf) costumes take part in an attempt to break the world record for the largest gathering of Smurfs in Landerneau, France, on May 17, 2025. Landerneau on May 17 attempts to break the world record for the largest Smurfs gathering, a record held by Lauchringen in Germany, after two failed attempts over five years. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images
Workers wearing protective suits work at a commercial poultry farm, site of the country's first bird flu outbreak, in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on May 17, 2025. Silvio Avila/AFP via Getty Images
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz give a press conference at Palazzo Chigi after their meeting in Rome, on May 17, 2025. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
A palm tree falls and injures a person on the Boulevard of La Croisette during the 78th international film festival, Cannes, France, on May 17, 2025. Lewis Joly/Invision/AP
People attend a rally celebrating Georgia's Family Purity Day, which is designed to promote traditional family values, in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 17, 2025. Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP via Getty Images
An American alligator named Marta peeks out of the water during a ceremony celebrating her 95th birthday in the terrarium at Plock Zoo in Plock, Poland, on May 17, 2025. Marta, recognized as the oldest animal in European zoos, hatched in 1930 in the U.S. state of Louisiana and was later brought to Poland by Polish-American engineer Tadeusz Wgrowski. Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images
Arab leaders attend the opening session of the 34th Arab League summit in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 17, 2025. Hadi Mizban/AFP via Getty Images
French driver Adrien Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria steer their Hyundai i20 N Rally 1 during the SS15 stage of the World Rally Championship Rally of Portugal in Vieira do Minho, on May 17, 2025. Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images
Israelis make a fire during an anti-government protest calling for the end of the war and for action to secure the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas terrorists, in front of the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, on May 17, 2025. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
Members of the public are seen in the water protesting in Brighton, England, on May 17, 2025. Surfers Against Sewage are staging ‘Paddle Out’ protests across the UK to demonstrate against the levels of sewage in British waterways. For England alone, the Environment Agency reported a total of 450,398 discharges, accounting for 3.6 million hours of raw sewage being spilled into rivers. The protests come amid a growing crisis in management and regulation of UK water companies, which are responsible for self-reporting sewage spills. Charlotte Coney/Getty Images
This aerial photo provided by London, Kentucky, Mayor Randall Weddle shows damage from severe weather in London, Ky., on May 17, 2025. City of London, Ky. via AP
The pack rides during the 8th stage of the Giro d'Italia from Giulianova to Castelraimondo, Italy, on May 17, 2025. Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP
This photograph shows a portrait of 40-year-old British volunteer and EOD technician Christopher Lee Garrett at Independence Square in Kyiv as relatives, friends, and colleagues take part in public memorial honoring him on May 17, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The Manx bomb disposal specialist who had been helping to train troops fighting in Ukraine has died after he was severely injured in an incident near Izyum in the east of Ukraine on May 13, 2025. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
(L-R) Prince Sverre Magnus, Crown Princess Mette Marit, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, and Crown Prince Hakon Magnus of Norway attend the Norwegian Constitution Day with the children's parade at their Skaugum Estate in Oslo, Norway, on May 17, 2025. Per Ole Hagen/Getty Images
A biker smiles as he rides a classic BMW motorcycle as hundreds of motorcyclists ride through central Paris in protest against against low-emission zones (Zone a Faible Emission, ZFE) in a demonstration organized by the French Federation of Angry Bikers (Federation Française des Motards en Colere), in Paris, on May 17, 2025. Kiran Ridley/AFP via Getty Images
Women security officers stand guard during a protest calling on Yemen's Aden-based government for basic services and rights, such as education, water, electricity, and protesting high prices and tough living conditions, in the southern city of Lahj, Yemen, on May 17, 2025, in a reported series of recent protests held by women in several main cities in southern Yemen. Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images
Competitors take part in the Bog Commander endurance event near Ashbourne, in the Peak District moorlands, in northern England, on May 17, 2025. Featuring over 30 man-made obstacles, the Bog Commander is a 6 km muddy obstacle race through the Peak District's Manifold Valley that started in 2014. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
A member of the Swiss Guard stands guard at an entrance to the Vatican ahead of Sunday's outdoor mass with new Pope Leo XIV during the Jubilee of Confraternities in Vatican City, Vatican, on May 17, 2025. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A pair of ducklings rest near a lake on a rainy day, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 17, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times
