• Filipino voters check for their names on lists before casting their votes in the country’s presidential election at a polling centre in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP
    Filipino voters check for their names on lists before casting their votes in the country’s presidential election at a polling centre in Manila. Voting was under way in the Philippines to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Mohd Rasfan / AFP
  • Airbus A400M and Mirages fly over the Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Orleans during the official tribute to Joan of Arc at the Johannique celebrations in Orleans, Central France. Guillaume Souvant / AFP
    Airbus A400M and Mirages fly over the Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Orleans during the official tribute to Joan of Arc at the Johannique celebrations in Orleans, Central France. Guillaume Souvant / AFP
  • Arsenal’s French striker Olivier Giroud jumps for a header with Manchester City’s Argentinian defender Nicolas Otamendi, left, during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England. Oli Scarff / AFP
    Arsenal’s French striker Olivier Giroud jumps for a header with Manchester City’s Argentinian defender Nicolas Otamendi, left, during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England. Oli Scarff / AFP
  • Rescue workers and people help a man gets out of collided goods train in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Two train collided near Latifabad 7 in Hyderabad. Nadeem Khawer / EPA
    Rescue workers and people help a man gets out of collided goods train in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Two train collided near Latifabad 7 in Hyderabad. Nadeem Khawer / EPA
  • Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade, marking the 71st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Grigory Dukor / Reuters
    Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day parade, marking the 71st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Grigory Dukor / Reuters
  • Somali security forces personnel move in to secure the area at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia. Militants killed three police officers in a bomb and gun attack on a police station in the Somali capital, city authorities said. Mohamed Abdiwahab / AFP
    Somali security forces personnel move in to secure the area at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia. Militants killed three police officers in a bomb and gun attack on a police station in the Somali capital, city authorities said. Mohamed Abdiwahab / AFP
  • A worker sorts through silk at a silk factory in Pyongyang. Ed Jones / AFP
    A worker sorts through silk at a silk factory in Pyongyang. Ed Jones / AFP
  • Egyptian firefighters try to extinguish a fire that engulfed several buildings in Cairo, Egypt. According to reports, 50 people were injured, including firefighters, when an overnight fire at a small hotel in Ataba neighborhood spread to other buildings and markets in the old area of Cairo. Ayman Aref / EPA
    Egyptian firefighters try to extinguish a fire that engulfed several buildings in Cairo, Egypt. According to reports, 50 people were injured, including firefighters, when an overnight fire at a small hotel in Ataba neighborhood spread to other buildings and markets in the old area of Cairo. Ayman Aref / EPA

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World in focus — best photos for May 9, 2016

Rob Gurdebeke

May 09, 2016

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A look at the best photos from around the world for today.

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