US Secretary of State Marco Rubio enters at the St. Damasus courtyard to meet with Pope Leo XIV and Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin the Vatican, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.
Britain’s Reform Party leader Nigel Farage poses for photographers with an ice-cream on the beach after casting his vote at a polling station in Walton on the Naze, England, Thursday, May 7, 2026.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and wife Victoria arrive at a polling station in central London, Thursday, May 7, 2026 to cast their votes in the local elections.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AKS Zly Praga players exercise during warmup before Women’s II Liga Kobiet North soccer match between AKS Zly Praga and KKP Slupczanka Slupca, at the Don Pedro Arena stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)Relatives shows a photo a palm-sized brass Holocaust plaque reading “Johanna Berger, born in 1893, lived here; deported on Nov. 17, 1941, murdered on Nov. 25, 1941 in Kowno/Kaunas Fort IX” by artist Gunter Demnig prior to the placing of the so called “Stolperstein” or “Stumbling Blocks” in front of her former home in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)Bilsan Ayoub and Dana Al-Habeel train at a women’s boxing club set up inside a tent in Gaza City Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)The daughters of Mohammed Kashko, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, mourn during his funeral at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Finnish cadets shoot blanks during the crucible portion of the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)People watch a water fountain show with light and music called Tokyo Aqua Symphony at Odaiba Beach in Tokyo, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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