The National View’s photo editors pick the best of the day from around the world
Updated: May 05, 2014, 12:00 AM
Best photography from around the world May 6
Survivors set up their temporary tents near the site of Friday's landslide that buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AP Photo
A swimmer splashes his face in between laps at a pool as the waves of the Pacific Ocean roll in during twilight at Sydney's South Cronulla Beach. Despite the sun setting earlier with a southern hemisphere winter approaching, Sydneysiders continue to take advantage of mild sea temperatures into May. Jason Reed / Reuters
A visitor speaks on the phone in the south corridor of the closed Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Opened in 1829, with the original corrective system of ‘confinement in solitude with labour,’ the penitentiary housed about 75,000 inmates in its 142 years of operation. Mark Makela / Reuters
A building burns as fire rescue workers try to extinguish a fire in the hills around the town of Boutchay in Baabda, east Beirut, Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh / EPS
A Syrian refugee woman waits with her children for a check-up at a clinic managed by the French non-governmental organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Lebanese town of Arsal in the Bekaa Valley, the main crossing point for people fleeing Syria. MSF is assisting refugees through general medical consultations including treatment of acute and chronic diseases, immunisation, reproductive health care and mental health care, as well as distributing relief items. Joseph Eid / AFP Photo
Japanese Shinto shrine priests hang the Shimenawa, Sacred ropes between God Married Stones during the Oshimenawahari ceremony of Meoto-iwa or the Couple Rock at Futami Okitama Shrine in Ise, Japan. The Oshimenawahari ceremony is held three times a year to exchange the heavy rope of rice straw that connects the Couple Rock. The Couple Rock serves as a gate to the Okitama Shrine, dedicated to the god Sarutahiko and goddess Ukanomitama from Japanese myth. Buddhika Weerasinghe / Getty Images
Cyclists ride during L'Eroica Sud, a retro cycling event in Buonconvento, near Siena. Competitors wearing vintage cycling jerseys and riding vintage bicycles took part in L'Eroica Sud, riding through the 'Strade Bianche', the gravel roads of the Chianti area of Tuscany. Giuseppe Cacace / AFP Photo
A funeral steward carries flowers laid by the coffin of regional parliament member Vyacheslav Markin, in Odessa, Ukraine. Markin, who was known for speaking out against the government in Kiev, was buried on Monday while about 300 pro-Russian supporters shouted ‘Hero, hero!’ Markin died Sunday from burn wounds sustained in Friday’s fire. Vadim Ghirda / AP Photo
Well-wishers sit by portraits of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit as they line up along the road leading to the Royal Palace where the King later marked the 64th anniversary of his coronation, in the seaside city of Hua Hin some 200 kilometres south of Bangkok. Christophe Archambault / AFP Photo