The best images from around the world for May 5
A group of migrants walk on the railroad tracks near Veles, Macedonia heading north in the hope of crossing the European Union border into Romania, Hungary and Croatia. In the past six months about a dozen migrants have been killed in similar incidents on the same stretch of line.Robert Atanasovski/AFP / Getty Images
A white peacock opens its plumage at the Nogeyama zoo in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo.Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP / Getty Images
Manmaya Nepali (L) and her cousin react emotionally during the cremation of her brother Hari, 25 in Kathmandu. Hari’s body was found in a collapsed guesthouse after a deadly earthquake struck Nepal on April 25.Roberto Schmidt/AFP / Getty Images
Milos Raonic from Canada serves during his Madrid Open tennis tournament match against Juan Monaco from Argentina in Madrid, Spain.Andres Kudacki
A policeman in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia holds a water bottle with a yellow-crested cockatoo put inside for illegal trade. Police arrested one man traveling by ship from Makassar, Sulawesi with 22 of the endangered cockatoos held inside water bottles.Antara Foto/Reuters
A child shakes hands with a veteran riding in a vintage jeep during a parade marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands in Wageningen.Chris Wattie/Reuters
Nicola Sturgeon (R), leader of the Scottish National Party, poses for pictures in play house during an election visit to the ABC Nursery in Livingston, Britain. UK voters will go to the polls in a national election on May 7.Russell Cheyne/Reuters
People carry the body of a dead migrant from a merchant ship as they arrive in the Sicilian harbour of Catania.Antonio Parrinello/Reuters
London mayor Boris Johnson arrives to speak at a Conservative Party election rally in Hendon in north London.Toby Melville/Reuters
A man works at a bamboo processing factory in Longyou, Zhejiang province, China. China's factories suffered their fastest drop in activity in a year in April as new orders shrank, a private business survey showed.William Hong/Reuters