World in focus - best photos for May 12, 2019

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

A Yemeni vendor displays dried dates in a market in the old city of the capital Sanaa, as the faithful prepare for the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. AFP

A graduate wears a Make America Great Again hat amidst a sea of mortar boards before the start of commencement exercises at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, US. Reuters

Members of a traditional music and dance group perform at the first cultural centre to open since the ISIS group's rule ended in the eastern Syrian city of Raqa. AFP

A child dressed in a traditional Chinese costume floats in the air, supported by a rig of hidden metal rods, during a parade on the outlying Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong to celebrate the Bun Festival. AP Photo

French members of the action group Extinction Rebellion hold banners in front of the Eiffel Tower after spilling fake blood on the Trocadero esplanade during a demonstration to alert on the state of decline of biodiversity in Paris. AFP

A woman cooks inside a house destroyed by a cyclone in the Pratap Purushottampur village area of Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. AFP

A Yemeni military officer shakes hands with members of the Houthi movement during the withdrawal from Saleef port in Hodeidah province. Reuters

Newly ordained priests lie on the ground during a priesthood ordination and mass in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. AFP

Spanish bullfighter David Fandila 'El Fandi' sticks banderillas into an animal during an event at the Real Maestranza bullring in Sevilla. AFP

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