Best pictures from May 16
A race fan watches horses work out and exercise early in the morning at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.Patrick Smith/REUTERS
Riders in the peloton stop for a break during Stage 3 of the Tour of California in Tracy, California.Robert Galbraith/REUTERS
A demonstrator sits in the euro sculpture as he waits for police to clear the camp of occupy protestors in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.Kai Pfaffenbach/REUTERS
A man drags a cart along a corridor of the La Terminal food market in Guatemala City. La Terminal is one of the largest trading centres in the city, with more than 4,500 vendors offering a wide variety of food products, according to Guatemalan authorities.Jorge Dan Lopez/REUTERS
People search for usable items at a junkyard near the Danyingone station in Yangon's suburbs, Myanmar.Damir Sagolj/REUTERS
A man carries a bucket of crude oil at an illegal refinery in the village of Isuini-biri in Nigeria's Bayelsa state. Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter but its production capacity has been slashed by thieves drilling into pipelines passing through winding creeks and waterways in the vast delta. The underground industry is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.Akintunde Akinleye/REUTERS
A boy is silhouetted against the sun while jumping on a trampoline on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.Faisal Mahmood/REUTERS
Women try to salvage their belongings after a fire in a slum at Shyamoli in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 10 people were injured, including a fire fighter who sustained burn injuries, and more than 150 shanties were burned down as a blaze swept through a slum in the city's Shyamoli area, the local fire department said.Andrew Biraj/REUTERS
An Indian boy cools off in a fountain at the India Gate Monument on a warm day in New Delhi, India. Temperatures in India's capital soared to 43 degree Celsius Wednesday after unseasonably cool temperatures over the last month.Kevin Frayer/AP Photo