Here's a collection of photos depicting some of the more notable events which occurred over the course of the last week.
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© AP Photo / Ettore Ferrari
Maria Sharapova, of Russia, is sprayed with champagne as she holds the trophy after defeating Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain, at the end of the final match of the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome. May 17, 2015.
A helicopter flies overhead as lava flows out of the erupting Piton de la Fournaise volcano on the French island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. May 17, 2015.
Boys walk behind patrolling soldiers in Bujumbura, Burundi. May 15, 2015.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) after the end of the Night Hockey League gala match in Sochi. May 16, 2015.
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© AP Photo / Ehtiram Jabi
A rescue worker gets on a roof of an apartment building after a fire in Baku, Azerbaijan. May 19, 2015.
US entrepreneur and socialite Paris Hilton (L) and a guest take a selfie as they arrive for the screening of the film "Inside Out" at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France. May 18, 2015.
A girl cools off in water leaking from a broken pipe on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India. May 18, 2015.
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© AP Photo / Wong Maye-E
A koala feeds on eucalyptus leaves in its new home at the Singapore Zoo. May 20, 2015.
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© Sputnik / Alexei Danichev
Russian Interior Troops servicemen during a Premier League football match in St. Petersburg.
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© AP Photo / Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Spanish bullfighter Manuel Escribano aims his sword before using it to kill a Jandilla's ranch fighting bull in a bullfight at the San Isidro fair in Madrid, Spain. May 20, 2015.
Italian Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighters (front) and Norwegian Air Force's F-16 fighters patrol over the Baltics during a NATO air policing mission from Zokniai air base near Siauliai, Lithuania. May 20, 2015.
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© Sputnik / Alexey Filippov
PBC CSKA Moscow player Andrei Kirilenko and Fenerbahce Ulker player Jan Vesely during a basketball match of the Final Four of the Euroleague Basketball 2015.
Volunteers carry buckets of oil from a spill on Refugio State Beach in Goleta, California. May 20, 2015.
Cast member Emma Stone poses during a photocall for the film "Irrational Man" out of competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. May 15, 2015.
A Pakistani bodybuilder competes at a local Mr Islamabad and junior Mr Islamabad competition in Islamabad. May 15, 2015.
A three-story house, the last building in the area, with a Chinese national flag on its rooftop is seen in the middle of a newly-built road in Luoyang, Henan province of China. May 16, 2015.
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© AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda
An elderly woman walks by posters in front of downtown shops in Bucharest, Romania. May 20, 2015.
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© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov
Russian singer Polina Gagarina (second from the right) after performing during the first semifinals at the the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna.
A rebel of the Al-Furqan brigade covers his ears as a fellow fighter fires a vehicle's weapon during what the rebels said is an offensive to take control of the al-Mastouma army base which is controlled by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad near Idlib city. May 17, 2015.
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© Sputnik / Gennady Dubovoy
Soldier of the 'Viking' battalion, 1st Slavyansk brigade of the Donetsk People's Republic armed forces, at the contact line with the Ukrainian forces in Donetsk region.
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© AP Photo / Saul Loeb
US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, holds 8-month-old Andrew Belz as he poses for photos with the children of US troops and US Embassy personnel at Collier Field House at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. May 18, 2015.
Models show off the latest creations at a 'Triumph' fashion show in Mumbai. May 18, 2015.
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© AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.
Young Pioneers march across Red Square during an induction ceremony. May 17, 2015.
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© AP Photo / Delfim Machado
A riot policeman holds a crying boy as his father is attacked by other policemen with batons (R) outside of a stadium in Guimaraes, Portugal. May 17, 2015.
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit in a pick-up truck before being transferred to a detention center in Tripoli, Libya, after they were arrested before boarding boats in order to reach Europe. May 17, 2015.
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Residents of a house damaged by Ukrainian artillery during the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian forces.
Singer Nina Sublatti, representing Georgia, performs the song "Warrior" during the dress rehearsal for the first semifinal of the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. May 18, 2015.
