Best pictures from May 13
Buddhists holding candles encircle a large Buddha statue during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok May 13, 2014.ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/Reuters
An anti-government protester with her nails painted in Thai national colours, a symbol of the protesters, prays with Buddhist monks during a mass alms offering ceremony at a protesters main encampment near Government House in Bangkok on Vesak Day May 13, 2014. Thailand's interim prime minister expressed hope on Monday that February's annulled general election could be re-run soon, and said anti-government protesters would not succeed in getting the Senate to impose an alternative premier.DAMIR SAGOLJ/Reuters
A rescued miner surrounded by relatives, medics and other miners cries after being rescued from a coal mine he was in trapped in Soma, a district in Turkey's western province of Manisa May 13, 2014. An explosion and fire in the coal mine in western Turkey killed at least four miners on Tuesday and may have trapped as many as 300 more, officials said.IHLAS/Reuters
A ruby throated hummingbird feeds from a snow-covered and partially frozen feeder in Golden, Colorado May 13, 2014. The Denver metro area received several inches of fresh snow in a late spring storm.RICK WILKING/Reuters
A supporter of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds up a mask of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for BJP and Gujarat's chief minister, during a rally ahead of the state elections in New Delhi in this November 30, 2013 file photo. Narendra Modi's critics depict him as an autocratic Hindu supremacist who would tyrannize the country's minority Muslims if his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. Modi himself insists he is a moderate who will create a prosperous India for people of all creeds. Picture taken November 30, 2013.ANINDITO MUKHERJEE/Reuters
A man looks out of his window surrounded by a recently created graffiti depicting the Kremlin, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and the Russian flag, on the wall of a residential building in the Crimean port of Sevastopol May 13, 2014.STRINGER/Reuters
Free Syrian Army fighters take position during clashes with forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Sheikh Najjar in Aleppo May 13, 2014.HOSAM KATAN/Reuters
Men warm themselves by a fire next to a barricade intended to block the road leading to the phosphate mines in Gafsa, Tunisia, March 19, 2014. With more than 30 percent of the country's youth unable to find employment, protests have stalled work at the phosphate mines — a cornerstone of the economy for the Gafsa region — for much of the last three years.SAMUEL ARANDA/The New York Times