Best pictures from May 17
Some 333 Bulgarian bagpipers play their instruments in an attempt to set a world record at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia. The performers aim for an entry in the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest-scale performance of bagpipers.Stoyan Nenov/REUTERS
A male bear lies dead, and is removed by the City of Burlington, after Halton Regional Police were forced to shoot the animal in Mountainside Park in the heart of a residential area in Burlington.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail
Students take cover from police water canons during a demonstration for education reform in downtown Santiago, Chile.Victor Ruiz Caballero/AP Photo
Men prepare a tent for a performance at a circus in Lahore, Pakistan.Mohsin Raza/REUTERS
A village boy leads his goat past a parched pond on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India. Huge swathes of rural farmland has turned dry as farmers await the annual monsoon rains which, according to the India Meteorological Department, are expected to reach on time this year.Biswaranjan Rout/AP Photo
White , a 3-year-old poodle, looks at visitors touring a pet fair in Bangkok.Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo
The sun rises behind some coastal grasses in Dauphin Island, Ala., The beach season gears up this weekend with the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores.Dave Martin/AP Photo
Mejra Dzogaz prays near the graves of her two sons before the television broadcast of the court proceedings of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic's in Potocari, near Srebrenica. Mejra's husband, three sons and a grandson were killed during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 by a Serbian army unit commanded by Mladic.Dado Ruvic/REUTERS