Pictures of the day: May 23, 2017

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world

Internally displaced people who fled Raqqa city ride a vehicle in a camp near Ain Issa, Raqqa Governorate, Syria. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man herds his cattle in the river Ganga on a hot summer day in Allahabad, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

Military officials pull a dead whale out of the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka. PHOTO: REUTERS

People celebrate carrying a Russian and Syrian national flags inside Waer district, after rebel fighters and their families evacuated the besieged Waer district in the central Syrian city of Homs, after an agreement was reached between rebels and Syria's army, Syria. PHOTO: REUTERS

US President Donald Trump touches the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City. PHOTO: REUTERS

Acrobats perform during the last show of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. PHOTO: REUTERS

A wounded Palestinian protester is evacuated during clashes at a protest in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, near Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah. PHOTO: REUTERS

Marcel "Le Corgi" perches his paws on a display at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower show in London, Britain. PHOTO: REUTERS

Bus attendants look for passengers during rush hour in Karachi, Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS

Real Madrid football team fans surround the bus as Real Madrid celebrate the team's win on Plaza Cibeles in Madrid after the Spanish league football match Malaga CF vs Real Madrid CF held at La Rosaleda stadium in Malaga. PHOTO: AFP

Pope Francis leads a mass during a visit to the Roman Parish of San Pier Damiani in Rome. PHOTO: AFP

An aerial view of an art installation featuring Korean war-era tanks painted in different colours around a globe with a slogan reading: 'Peace All Around the World', at the Peace dam, north of Hwacheon near the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea. PHOTO: AFP

Bare sand and a narrow body of water facing the sky at Theewaterskloof Dam, which has less than 20% of it's water capacity, near Villiersdorp, about 108Km from Cape Town. PHOTO: AFP

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean ground-to-ground medium-to-long range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 being launched in a test-fire. PHOTO: AFP