The best photos from around the world this week

Russian wrestlers in Times Square in New York, the Air Force Museum in Israel, cadets of the Russian Police Academy and much more. We have prepared for you a selection of the best photos from around the world over the past week.

(Total 25 photos)

1. Russian soldiers march during a rehearsal for the Victory Parade in Moscow, May 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images)

2. An employee vacuums the podium before the start of events in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

3. General view of the Israeli Air Force Museum in Beer Sheva during an air show in celebration of Israel's Independence Day, May 6, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

4. Vietnamese female soldiers during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, May 7, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

5. A fiery tornado swept through the South American state of Missouri on May 3. This rare phenomenon was captured in a photo by American Jane Kopelin. The photo was released on May 8, 2014. (Photo: Nicejalapeno via Instagram)

6. French President Francois Hollande's motorcade rides up the Champs-Elysées in Paris on May 8, 2014, before the start of the ceremony to mark the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Photo: AP Photo)

7. World War II veterans participate in a ceremony in Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, May 8, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

8. President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting of leaders of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Moscow, May 8, 2014. (Photo: AP Photo / Sergey Karpukhin)

9. A Palestinian child dressed in traditional dress attends a rally to mark the 66th anniversary of the Nakba Day in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 7, 2014. (Photo: AP)

10. A police officer throws tear gas at students who have gathered in front of the National University in Bogota in solidarity with the general strike in Colombia, May 7, 2014. (Photo: AP)

11. A powerful explosion in Syria, May 6, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

12. Nissa Caterahong, winner of a transgender beauty pageant, poses for a photo in Pattaya, Thailand. The show was broadcast live on the National Channel of Thailand. Photo released May 5, 2014. (Photo: Getty Images)

Models pose during the OMC Hairworld 2014 Hairdressing World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany on May 5, 2014. (Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

14. Chinese Ding Ning plays against Japan's Yuki Ishigaki during the 2014 Women's World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo, May 6, 2014. (Photo: Reuters)

15. American Luis Collazo (right) takes a hit from Briton Amir Khan during a fight at the MGM Arena in Las Vegas (USA) on the night of May 5, 2014. Amir Khan won by unanimous decision. (Photo: Reuters)

16. American Brent Metcalfe wrestles Dagestani Magomed Kurbanaliev in Times Square in New York on the night of May 8, 2014. The world freestyle wrestling team with four Russians lost to the US team in a match meeting.

17. 20-year-old Rasheda holds her malnourished child in front of a hut in Situe (Burma), May 6, 2014. She is too poor to afford normal food. (Photo: Getty Images)

18. People carry portraits of their relatives, participants in World War II, during the celebration of Victory Day in St. Petersburg, May 9, 2014. (Photo: AP Photo)

19. A child walks down the street in rainy weather in Damascus, Syria, May 8, 2014.

20. Tornado in a field in Akron, USA, May 7, 2014. (Photo: AP)

21. The guard of honor is preparing to participate in the celebration of Victory Day in St. Petersburg, May 5, 2014. (Photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA)

22. Cadets of the Russian Police Academy during a rehearsal for participation in the Victory Parade on St. Petersburg Square, May 7, 2014. (Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / AP Photo)

23. Chilean police officers flee from protesters who throw Molotov cocktails at them during violent clashes during a student march in Santiago, Chile, May 8, 2014. (Photo: AP Photo)

24. The Tolmacheva sisters perform the song Shine during the dress rehearsal on May 9 for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, which took place in Copenhagen on May 10. (Photo: Reuters)

25. Survivors try to get help near the site of a landslide in the province of Badakhshan, in northeastern Afghanistan, May 5, 2014. Several hundred residents of the village of Abi Barik were buried alive in their homes as a result of a large-scale landslide. (Photo: Masuda Hossaini/AP Photo)