Week in Pictures | May 2 - 8, 2016

Lonnie David Franklin Jr, a.k.a. the ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer was found guilty of murdering nine women and a teenage girl in a series of slayings that took decades to connect.

Danny Lee, with his son Zachary Nicholas Lee, stay away from the crowd, outside the LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, before a ceremony honoring fallen officers. Lee’s brother, LAPD officer Nicholas C. Lee, whom his son is named after, was killed March 2014, by a dump truck with faulty brakes, in Beverly Hills.

Dustin Lynch and his band take a bow on the Mane Stage on the final day of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio.

A horse gets a bath after a morning workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby is scheduled for Saturday, May 7.

Lil Buck, a performer known for a style of street dance called “Jookin” practices a few of his moves on Fremont Street in Las Vegas.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the press and a few supporters after winning the Indiana primary.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets and poses for photos with supporters and fans at East Los Angeles College.

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is cheered by supporters supporters during a campaign rally at the Lexington Convention Center in Lexington Ky.

A woman is carried away in a stretcher by medics as she is rescued after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building, in the Huruma area of Nairobi, Kenya.

Residents move sofas and beds from a block of flats which is going which is going to be demolished following a building collapse which claimed at least 40 lives.

Orthodox pilgrims carry an icon of the Virgin Mary during an annual religious procession, marking the second day of the Orthodox Easter in southern Bulgaria.

A boy rides a robot style vehicle outside a shopping mall in Daqing, China.

Police officers stand guard as people demonstrate during a march to mark International Workers’ Day in Cali, Colombia.

Portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung, left, and Kim Jong-Il are displayed on the side of a building in Pyongyang. North Korea readied to kick off its most important ruling party gathering for nearly 40 years, amid persistent concerns of a nuclear test, despite no clear signs of an imminent detonation.

A Flamingo rests in the sun in their enclosure at the zoo in western Germany.

A boy looks at the installation “Affluent No 2” (2016) by Cuban artist Humberto Diaz presented at the show “Kuba Libre” at the Kunsthalle Rostock art gallery in northeastern Germany.

Protesters threw paint balloons at the building that houses the State Electoral Commission in Skopje. The country has been politically gridlocked for two years but the crisis rose a notch on April 12 when President Gjorge Ivanov halted a probe into more than 50 public figures suspected of involvement in corruption and a wire-tapping scandal.

Spain’s rider Jorge Lorenzo competes on his Movistar Yamaha MOTOGP N°99 during a motoGP free practice session, ahead of the French motorcycling Grand Prix in northwestern France.

Two members of the smaller opposion party sit at the South African Parliament among empty seats, as most of the opposition parties were boycotted or suspended from the sitting in Cape Town. The day before, all the members of the opposition party of Economic Freedom Fights (EFF), were manhandled out of the chamber for disrupting a debate on the budget.

Young South Korean novice monks play soccer under lotus lanterns during their training program entitled ‘Children Becoming Buddhist Monks’ at the Jogye Temple in Seoul. A special temple-stay program for children to learn about Buddhism, including shaving their heads and wearing monk’s robes, continues for two weeks ahead of celebrations for Buddha’s birthday on May 14.

A Syrian man walks past destroyed buildings in Aleppo’s Bab al-Hadid neighborhood which was targeted recently by regime air strikes. Aleppo residents ventured out onto the streets, taking advantage of a lull in violence in the northern Syrian city as the United States pushed to salvage a ceasefire.

Russian conductor Valery Gergiev leads a concert in the amphitheatre of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria.

Dilek Dundar, left, the wife of editor-in-chief of Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet daily Can Dundar, trying to stop a gunman who is also being held back by a man in Istanbul. Turkish opposition journalist Can Dundar escaped the shooting outside a courthouse in Istanbul where he is on trial, adding police detained the assailant.

Yaney Cajigal waves a U.S. flag as she watches the arrival of Carnival’s Adonia cruise ship from Miami in Havana, Cuba.

This photo taken on the Kahiltna Glacier in Alaska, shows Capt. Corey Wheeler, commander of B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, walking away from a Chinook helicopter that landed on the glacier near Denali. The U.S. Army helped set up base camp on North America’s tallest mountain.

Builders install a deck at the popular Cave of the Winds attraction at Niagara Falls State Park in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Participants of the yearly March of the Living walk along the rails during a rainfall in the former German Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Brzezinka, Poland.

Colors of sunrise shine on the River Oder meadows, near of Reitwein im Oderbruch in Brandenburg, Germany.

Members of the Israeli urban artist group ‘Ensemble Prizma’ perform during a walking tour as part of the ‘Jane’s Walk’ festival in central Jerusalem.

A woman picks up recyclable items at the Akouedo dump in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Poverty is a major problem in Ivory Coast where around a quarter of the country’s people live on less than 1.25 dollars a day.

Tourists take a panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur from a skybox during a media preview at Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia. Skybox, 421 metres above ground level will be the latest tourists attraction at Kuala Lumpur Tower, the 7th tallest freestanding tower in the world.

Ukrainian cadets react as they hold a National flag during their meeting at the Ukrainian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev, Ukraine.