The “World of Photos” feature for May 8, 2024 is currently unavailable, but efforts are underway to restore it. In the meantime, here are the top ten images selected by our picture editors from international wire agencies:
Gwendoline Christie attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, celebrating the opening of the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition. Meanwhile, police arrest a pro-Palestinian protester near the Met Gala venue.
Other images include a family checking their home after flooding in Spendora, Texas, an aerial view of a bus station in Porto Alegre, Brazil during rescue efforts due to heavy rains, an Israeli soldier praying at a makeshift memorial and a worker standing on a domed roof in Madrid, Spain.
Vatican Swiss Guard recruits march during their swearing-in ceremony while Ukrainian army servicemen look at a stray dog outside their unit dugout in Ukraine. A demonstrator works on her laptop at a pro-Palestinian encampment in Cambridge, Mass., and U.S. troops participate in a live fire exercise during joint military exercises in the Philippines.
