Restoration of Iconic Painting, May Day Celebrations, and Global Events: A Week in Pictures

Museum workers in Paris returned Eugène Delacroix‘s 1830 painting ‘Liberty Leading the People‘ to the walls of the Louvre in Paris after restorers spent six months cleaning it of decades of varnish and grime.

John Bishop and Nick Child with antlers they found in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Animals such as elk, deer, and moose naturally shed antlers every winter, leaving bony treasures scattered along the slopes and valleys where they roam.

A Ukrainian army soldier was treated at a military hospital in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Russian forces have seized several villages in eastern Ukraine over the past week, making swift but relatively small gains against threadbare Ukrainian forces.

New York police in riot gear entered Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday night as they began breaking up pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Students had earlier taken over and barricaded the hall.

A fisherman collected dead fish from a reservoir in southern Vietnam‘s Dong Nai province on Tuesday amidst continuing hot weather in the region.

Katya Beizer with drawings of her son Nik Beizer, a soldier and hostage who died in Gaza. After two soldiers who were taken hostage on October 7 were found dead, their mothers spent months in an agonizing search for answers.

A girl stood next to a damaged car in an area heavily affected by torrential rains and flash floods in the village of Kamuchiri on Monday. At least 45 people died when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya‘s Rift Valley.

A man wore a horse-head costume at the Deptford Jack in the Green event in Britain on Wednesday. The Jack in the Green is an English folk custom associated with the celebration of May Day.

Abducted and handed a rifle, 18-year-old Innocent Bizimana lost his left leg to a mortar shell. A Congolese teenager is caught in the middle of a 30-year war.

Police confronted pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early Thursday to clear the protesters’ encampment. Cleanup crews later removed tents, wood, and other debris.

David Oliver, left, and David Meredith wiped away tears after United Methodist Church delegates voted to repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate on Wednesday, in Charlotte, N.C.

Kraft Heinz‘s CEO is a health nut. Can he remake a processed-food giant? Carlos Abrams-Rivera explains his lifestyle and his company’s approach to ketchup and Lunchables.

‘Star Wars‘ fans dressed as stormtroopers at a cinema in The Hague on Friday. A 24-hour marathon will be held in various cinemas with all nine official parts of the ‘Star Wars‘ series.