US News

The day in photos

1 of 19
This undated photo provided by the Toledo Zoo shows a baby orangutan named Kecil who was rejected after his birth on Jan. 11, 2014, and attempts to reintroduce him to his mother have failed. The Toledo zoo is seeking a surrogate mother and a new home for the baby. (AP Photo/Toledo Zoo/Judith Wolfe)

The Toledo Zoo says a baby orangutan named Kecil was rejected after his birth on Jan. 11 and attempts to reintroduce him to his mother have failed. The zoo is seeking a surrogate mother and a new home for the baby.

2 of 19
Protesters stand next to a poster reading: "Rescue our Chibok girls" at a protest calling for the release of abducted schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in Abuja, May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Joe Penney (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)

Protesters stand next to a poster reading "Rescue our Chibok girls" at a demonstration calling for the release of abducted schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok in Abuja, Nigeria.

3 of 19
A wedding couple of tourists pose for their own photographer at the Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (FRANCE - Tags: CITYSPACE SOCIETY TRAVEL)

A wedding couple pose for photographs at the Trocadero Square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

4 of 19
A doctor draws blood from a man to check for HIV/AIDS at a mobile testing unit in Ndeeba, a suburb in Uganda's capital Kampala May 16, 2014. Uganda has made it a crime to "wilfully and intentionally" transmit the HIV virus and made it legal for medical staff to disclose a patient's HIV status to others without his or her consent. The law was passed on Tuesday, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, in response to a resurgence in HIV infections in a country that was once hailed as a success in the global fight against AIDS. Those convicted face up 10 years in prison. REUTERS/Edward Echwalu (UGANDA - Tags: CRIME LAW HEALTH)

A doctor draws blood from a man to check for HIV/AIDS at a mobile testing unit in Ndeeba, a suburb of Uganda's capital, Kampala. Uganda has made it a crime to "willfully and intentionally" transmit the HIV virus and made it legal for medical staff to disclose a patient's HIV status to others without his or her consent. Those convicted face up 10 years in prison.

5 of 19
A pro-Russian rebel aims his anti-tank rifle between blocks of concrete at a frontline rebel position near the eastern Ukrainian village of Semenivka May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A pro-Russian rebel aims his anti-tank rifle between blocks of concrete at a frontline rebel position near the eastern Ukrainian village of Semenivka.

6 of 19
Visitors view a makeshift hut during the opening of the "Congo Village" in Oslo May 15, 2014. The Congo Village - which 100 years ago displayed African tribes, attracting 1.4 million visitors over four months - will this time exhibit volunteers taking turns living on show in makeshift huts, resembling a traditional sub-Saharan village. Picture taken May 15, 2014. REUTERS/Lise Aserud/NTB Scanpix (NORWAY - Tags: SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.NORWAY OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NORWAY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Visitors view a makeshift hut during the opening of the "Congo Village" in Oslo, Norway. The Congo Village -- which 100 years ago displayed African tribes, attracting 1.4 million visitors over four months -- will this time exhibit volunteers taking turns living in makeshift huts, resembling a traditional sub-Saharan village.

7 of 19
An activist (R) completes his spray painting of the phase, "If there were a genocide" on the floor at the entrance of the Congress building as other demonstrators hold images of people who went missing during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala City, May 16, 2014. Legislators in Guatemala on May 13, 2014 passed a resolution denying the existence of a genocide during the civil war between 1960-1996. This was a year after former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty on May 10, 2013, of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's 36-year civil war and was sentenced to 80 years in prison, but on May 21, 2013 the conviction for genocide against Rios Montt was annulled. The public trial against Rios Montt would resume on January 5, 2015. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (GUATEMALA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

An activist completes his spray-painting of the phrase "If there were a genocide" on the floor at the entrance to the Congress building as other demonstrators hold images of people who went missing during the internal armed conflict in Guatemala City.

8 of 19
A man cleans bloodstains off a wall of a shop at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama May 15, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmad Rif (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A man cleans bloodstains off a wall of a shop at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama.

9 of 19
A Palestinian burns an Israeli national flag during clashes following a rally to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Hebron May 16, 2014. Some 120 Palestinians jailed without trial in Israel have been on an open-ended hunger strike, eating only salt and drinking water, for the past 23 days to demand an end to so-called "administrative detention". REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Palestinian burns an Israeli flag during clashes following a rally to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Hebron. Some 120 Palestinians jailed without trial in Israel have been on an open-ended hunger strike, eating only salt and drinking water, for the past 23 days to demand an end to so-called "administrative detention."

10 of 19
Rescue workers stand on the partially salvaged M.V. Miraj-4 ferry after it capsized on the Meghna river at Rasulpur in Munshiganj district May 16, 2014. A Bangladeshi official said on Friday there was no chance of finding further survivors of a ferry that sank in a storm with about 200 people on board, the latest in a series of fatal ferry accidents to hit the poverty-stricken country. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: DISASTER TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Rescue workers stand on the partially salvaged M.V. Miraj-4 ferry after it capsized on the Meghna River at Rasulpur in the Munshiganj district of Bangladesh. A Bangladeshi official said Friday there was no chance of finding further survivors after the ferry sank in a storm with about 200 people on board, the latest in a series of fatal ferry accidents in the poverty-stricken country.

11 of 19
Children play near a fountain in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Children play near a fountain in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine.

12 of 19
German artist Gerhard Richter stands in front of his digital print on paper 'Strip' from 2013 during a media preview of the exhibition 'Gerhard Richter' at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel May 16, 2014. The exhibition will be open to the public from May 18 to September 7. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

German artist Gerhard Richter stands in front of his digital print on paper, "Strip," from 2013 during a media preview of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter" at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland.

13 of 19
An exhibitor is reflected in a mirror as she arranges flowers at the Chelsea Flower Show in west London May 16, 2014. The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show which begins on Monday in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, is the most famous flower show in Britain and will be attended by Queen Elizabeth. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An exhibitor is reflected in a mirror as she arranges flowers at the Chelsea Flower Show in west London. The Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, which begins Monday on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, is the most famous flower show in Britain and will be attended by Queen Elizabeth.

14 of 19
REFILE - CORRECTING DATE Artist Kara Walker's installation 'A Subtlety' is sugar-coated with an estimated 40 tons of sugar at the Domino Sugar factory in the Williamsburg section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York May 16, 2014. The sugar-coated sphinx-like figure measures 75.5 feet long, 35.5 feet high and 26 feet wide . REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Artist Kara Walker's installation "A Subtlety" is sugar-coated with an estimated 40 tons of sugar at the Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The sphinx-like figure measures 75.5 feet long, 35.5 feet high and 26 feet wide.

15 of 19
Abu Darwish, former comander of the al-Murabitun militia, gestures inside the war-ravaged and deserted former Holiday Inn hotel building in Beirut, May 14, 2014. The building, a Lebanese civil war landmark and a reminder of the1975-1990 conflict, is set to be auctioned off in the coming months, local media reported. The Holiday Inn, that survived the so-called Battle of the Hotels, was in operation for about two years before the conflict and later became the battleground for Christian militias against Palestinian fighters who were allied with leftists and Lebanese Muslims. "I still have a key to this place, when we liberated it from the Christian al-Kateb party; we threw their snipers off the roof, and every fighter got a key", Darwish said. "Later the whole hotel was looted. We want to be done with the war, but this is a memory," he added. Picture taken May 14, 2014. REUTERS/Alia Haju (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Abu Darwish, former commander of the al-Murabitun militia, gestures inside the war-ravaged and deserted former Holiday Inn hotel building in Beirut. The building, a reminder of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, is set to be auctioned off in the coming months, local media reported.

16 of 19
A man wades across a flooded main street in Maglaj, May 16, 2014. The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia, killing five people, forcing hundreds out of their homes and cutting off entire towns. Army helicopters evacuated dozens of people stranded on the top floors of their flooded homes in the central town of Maglaj, where the Bosna river swelled to record levels and swept away the main bridge. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A man wades across a flooded main street in Maglaj, Bosnia. The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia, killing five people, forcing hundreds out of their homes and cutting off entire towns. Army helicopters evacuated dozens of people stranded on the top floors of their flooded homes in the central town of Maglaj, where the Bosna River swelled to record levels and swept away the main bridge.

17 of 19
Palestinian mourners pray for the bodies of two Palestinians, Mohammad Abu Daher, draped in green, and Nadim Nuwara, who were shot dead by Israeli forces on Thursday, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, May 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed

Mourners pray near the bodies of two Palestinians, Mohammad Abu Daher (draped in green) and Nadim Nuwara, who were shot dead by Israeli forces on Thursday, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

18 of 19
Fire engulfs a structure during a wildfire Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Escondido, Calif. One of the nine fires burning in San Diego County suddenly flared Thursday afternoon and burned close to homes, trigging thousands of new evacuation orders. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Fire engulfs a structure during a wildfire in Escondido, Calif. One of the nine fires burning in San Diego County suddenly flared Thursday afternoon and burned close to homes, triggering thousands of new evacuation orders.

19 of 19
Spectators watch the 528-foot, $165 million Nova Star ferry leave Portland, Maine on its maiden voyage to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Thursday night, May 15, 2014. (Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Spectators watch the 528-foot, $165 million Nova Star ferry leave Portland, Maine, on its maiden voyage to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, late Thursday.