The National View’s photo editors pick the best images of the day from around the world.
Updated: May 16, 2014, 12:00 AM
Best photography from around the world May 16
A woman walks near a damaged vehicle at the scene of a twin explosion at the Gikomba open-air market for second-hand clothes in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
A game of basketball is played on Brighton beach in southern England. Luke MacGregor / Reuters
Akin Celik, the operating manager of the Soma Coal Mining Company, stands as a map of the mine where an explosion killed at least 284 workers two days ago is projected on wall, during a press conference Soma, Turkey. Bulent Kilic / AFP Photo
Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters in large numbers attend a rally by Chief Minister of western Gujarat state and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad. Sam Panthaky / AFP Photo
A longtime exposure shows smolderings remains of overnight fires on the hillsides of San Marcos, San Diego county, California. Stuart Palley / EPA
A handout photograph made available by the British Ministry of Defence shows the air around the British military base, Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, eerily still as a tidal wave of sand and dust approaches from the west. EPA
South Korean policemen detain a protester during a rally against the Japanese government in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Jeon Heon-Kyun / EPA
Army soldiers listen to instructions during the operation named ‘Agata’ near the town of Oiapoque, on the border with French Guiana. Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
Girls play in a park in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP Photo