Photos from Around the World Capture Daily Life and Events

A group of women in traditional Vietnamese clothing waited in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on May 20, 2026, ahead of a weekly audience with Pope Leo XIV. Bogie, a Chihuahua wearing a coat and feathered cap, appeared at the 2026 Pet Gala in New York on May 18. The event, organized by pet couturier Anthony Rubio, featured dogs in outfits inspired by the Met Gala.

A bison with shedding fur stood near a tree in Yellowstone National Park on May 19. National Park Week is scheduled for August 2026 to mark America’s 250th anniversary with events at 433 national parks. A Chelsea Pensioner sat in the Campaign to Protect Rural England garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 18.

Workers cleaned the statue of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg on May 19. Employees of the Museum of Urban Sculpture used cherry-pickers for the task. A man cooled himself under a roadside water tap on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on May 19 during hot weather.

A Long March-8 rocket launched from Wenchang, China, on May 17 carrying the ninth batch of the Spacesail Constellation satellites. The constellation is planned to include 15,000 satellites for communications. Visitors walked through the illuminated Barbarossa Cave in Thuringia, Germany, on May 16. Fog moved past the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on May 20.