• Illustrations depicting boxing legend Muhammad Ali are seen at the door of Ali’s childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky. Brendan Smialowski / AFP
    Illustrations depicting boxing legend Muhammad Ali are seen at the door of Ali’s childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky. Brendan Smialowski / AFP
  • Boxing fans tour the Ali Center as they pay their respect to Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, after he died at the age of 74 on Friday at City Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. John Sommers II / Reuters
    Boxing fans tour the Ali Center as they pay their respect to Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, after he died at the age of 74 on Friday at City Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. John Sommers II / Reuters
  • Czech Republic’s Vladimir Darida trains. David W Cerny / Reuters
    Czech Republic’s Vladimir Darida trains. David W Cerny / Reuters
  • The first national balloon festival in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Julio Cesar Aguilar Fuentes / AFP
    The first national balloon festival in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Julio Cesar Aguilar Fuentes / AFP
  • A helicopter flies above glowing embers as it makes a water drop run at the “Old Fire”, which burned in Calabasas, California. Gene Blevins / Reuters
    A helicopter flies above glowing embers as it makes a water drop run at the “Old Fire”, which burned in Calabasas, California. Gene Blevins / Reuters
  • A boy cools himself off during a heat wave in Vilnius, Lithuania. Hot weather has set in with temperatures rising up to 26°C in Vilnius. Mindaugas Kulbis / AP
    A boy cools himself off during a heat wave in Vilnius, Lithuania. Hot weather has set in with temperatures rising up to 26°C in Vilnius. Mindaugas Kulbis / AP
  • An Indian street vendor sells toys next to the Empty Canopy structure near India Gate as it is lit green to support planting trees and going green on the eve of World Environment Day in New Delhi. Chandan Khanna / AFP
    An Indian street vendor sells toys next to the Empty Canopy structure near India Gate as it is lit green to support planting trees and going green on the eve of World Environment Day in New Delhi. Chandan Khanna / AFP
  • A Mongolian archer shoots a bow and arrow as US Secretary of State John Kerry attends a Naadam ceremony, a competition which traditionally includes horse racing, Mongolian wrestling and archery, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Saul Loeb / Reuters
    A Mongolian archer shoots a bow and arrow as US Secretary of State John Kerry attends a Naadam ceremony, a competition which traditionally includes horse racing, Mongolian wrestling and archery, in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Saul Loeb / Reuters
  • A helicopter flies over charred remains of trees outside of downtown Fort McMurray, Alberta, a month after raging forest fires sparked a mass evacuation of the city and surrounding areas. Cole Burston / AFP
    A helicopter flies over charred remains of trees outside of downtown Fort McMurray, Alberta, a month after raging forest fires sparked a mass evacuation of the city and surrounding areas. Cole Burston / AFP
  • Indian fishermen catch fresh water prawns with their valve traps in the Brahmaputra River on the occasion of World Environment Day in Morigaon district of Assam state, India. Hundreds of fresh water prawns are caught every day from the Brahmaputra River, even in their breeding season. EPA / STR
    Indian fishermen catch fresh water prawns with their valve traps in the Brahmaputra River on the occasion of World Environment Day in Morigaon district of Assam state, India. Hundreds of fresh water prawns are caught every day from the Brahmaputra River, even in their breeding season. EPA / STR
  • 90-year-old Johanna Quaas, who according to the Guinness World Records Book, is the oldest active athlete in the world, prepares for a tandem parachute jump in Zwenkau, Germany. Johanna received the tandem-jump as a present for her 90th birthday and dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth II, who also is 90 years old. Jan Woitas / EPA
    90-year-old Johanna Quaas, who according to the Guinness World Records Book, is the oldest active athlete in the world, prepares for a tandem parachute jump in Zwenkau, Germany. Johanna received the tandem-jump as a present for her 90th birthday and dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth II, who also is 90 years old. Jan Woitas / EPA
  • A person makes a bungee jump on Beirut’s Corniche, Lebanon. Mohamed Azakir / Reuters
    A person makes a bungee jump on Beirut’s Corniche, Lebanon. Mohamed Azakir / Reuters

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World in focus — best photos for June 5, 2016

Fatima Al Marzouqi

June 05, 2016

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