Checking a dead otter for bird flu infection last year on Chepeconde Beach in Peru.

An anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran on Friday.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, and Evan Ryan, his wife, at the Group of 7 meeting on Capri in Italy. The group has grown more active and ambitious in recent years

Soldiers of Ukraine’s 32nd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region this month.

Mourners in Tehran carried the coffin of Brig. Gen. Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria in 2023.

Outside a court in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Thursday. Federal prosecutors based in the city said one of the men had considered a U.S. military base as one of several potential targets.

The deluge dumped nearly five inches of rain in Dubai by Tuesday evening, or about as much as the United Arab Emirates typically receives in a year.

Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.

President Nicolás Maduro after signing up as a candidate for Venezuela’s presidential elections.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Tuesday.

Tesla reported a decline in sales this month that caught investors off guard.

The aftermath of an aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army in Khartoum North, Sudan, in May 2023.

An oil tanker off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, last year. Oil prices had increased substantially in the days before Iran’s attack on Israel.

Andrew Furey, the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, has called for a carbon tax pause.

Bogotá is a Mecca for cyclists, but concerns over robberies are increasing.

Members of Fossil Free Netherlands, which has brought a lawsuit against the Dutch airline KLM for misleading consumers with its sustainability claims, outside the Amsterdam court in December.

A nurse attending to a patient with dengue at Chulucanas Hospital in Peru in February.

Truong My Lan during her trial in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on Thursday.

The sumo wrestler Akebono at a ceremony in Japan in 1998.

The author Deborah Feldman has been outspoken about German politics since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and his wife, Jeannette Kagame, lighting a remembrance flame on Sunday in Kigali as part of commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

An Israeli Blackhawk, an American-made helicopter, during a drill in northern Israel in February.

An undated photo released by the British Parliament of William Wragg, a conservative lawmaker, who admitted that he had given the phone numbers of fellow members of Parliament to someone he met on Grindr.

Real Madrid players celebrating a win over Barcelona in October.

Recycled polypropylene pellets at a PureCycle Technologies plant in Ironton, Ohio.

Outside the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, on Monday.

Edinburgh, Scotland. A conviction under the country’s new hate crime law could lead to a fine and a prison sentence of up to seven years.

Lin Qi spent millions to buy the rights to a Chinese science-fiction novel called “The Three-Body Problem” but was murdered before it launched as a television series.

Lynn Kilgallon, a research fellow at the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast.

Humpback whales like these two in French Polynesia are of particular importance to Indigenous groups in the region.

Shin Joon Hwan, in a gray hat, examining cherry trees in southern Korea this month. He leads a group urging that a variety cultivated during the 20th-century Japanese occupation should be supplanted by one native to the peninsula.

Students outside the Lycée Maurice-Ravel in Paris in 2018.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.

Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.

People briought flowers to Crocus City Hall in memory of victims of a terrorist attack on Sunday.

Jean-Yves Duclos, the procurement minister, blamed paper contracts for a potential multimillion-dollar fraud.

Russia, China and Algeria voted against the U.S. resolution, and Guyana abstained, at the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Friday.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv for meetings with Israeli officials on Friday.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arriving in Cairo on Thursday to discuss the war in Gaza with Mideast leaders.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meeting with Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, in Jeddah on Wednesday.

Tourists in Puerto Vallarta, a popular beach town in Mexico, in February. Over the last five years, American timeshare owners were bilked out of $288 million, according to the F.B.I.