Best pictures from May 23
A man wearing a spiderman outfit performs for money as tourists look at the main square in Madrid, Spain.Andres Kudacki/The Associated Press
A pedestrian carrying an umbrella walks through a Memorial Day display of United States flags on the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, the flags are planted on the Common for fallen Massachusetts service members at the Memorial Day holiday.BRIAN SNYDER/Reuters
A Kashmir man looks through the window of his house in downtown Srinagar .DANISH ISMAIL/Reuters
Geese sleep in a water body under the shade of a tree as temperatures soar on a summer afternoon at a zoo in New Delhi, India.Saurabh Das/The Associated Press
An Indian boy drinks water dripping from a government tanker supplying water to residents of a colony in New Delhi, India.Manish Swarup/The Associated Press
Sudarshan Gautam, 32, drinks water using his feet as he speaks with a media personnel in Kathmandu. Gautam became the first double amputee to climb the world's highest peak Mount Everest on May 20, 2013NAVESH CHITRAKAR/Reuters
A woman holding an umbrella walks on the flooded streets during a heavy rainfall in Kathmandu.NAVESH CHITRAKAR/Reuters
Monty Montgomery surveys the scene as he prepares to clean up a friend's tornado-ravaged home in Moore, Okla. Cleanup continues three days after a huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb, flattening a wide swath of homes and businesses.Charlie Riedel/The Associated Press
Lightning flashes in the sky in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Heavy rainfall since Saturday has killed two people in south China's Guangdong Province, bringing the death toll resulting from rainstorms to 36 this year, as of Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.CHINA STRINGER NETWORK/Reuters
Visitors take photographs during the evening at Gyeongbok palace in central Seoul. Gyeongbok Palace offered late-night admissions to the public from Wednesday until Sunday, The Cultural Heritage Administration said.KIM HONG-JI/Reuters
Teenagers gather to watch at fuel storage tanks burning on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.Victor R. Caivano/The Associated Press
Elderly men play Chinese chess games near their bird cages hanging on the trees at a park in Beijing.Andy Wong/The Associated Press