Music fans wait for Cyndi Lauper’s performance to begin at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, June 29, 2024. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Some 200,000 music fans gathered at Worthy Farm in the southwest of England for the Glastonbury Festival. For the first time since the festival started in 1970, two female acts performed the headline spots on the main stage on two of the three nights.
French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
Hurricane Beryl left destruction in the eastern Caribbean and weakened as it moved toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
The LGBTQ+ Pride month of June reached its rainbow-filled grand finale, bringing revelers to the streets for marquee parades across the world.
This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images published in the past week by The Associated Press.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City and photojournalist Fatima Shbair.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against Army recruitment in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men, a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
A child cools off in a fountain in Moscow, Russia, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Crowds surround a double-decker bus as the India cricket team takes part in a parade celebrating their T20 Cricket World Cup win, in Mumbai, India, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
French far right leader Marine Le Pen smiles as she meets supporters and journalists in Henin-Beaumont, France, June 30, 2024, after learning her National Rally party leaped into a strong lead in France’s first round of legislative elections. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
A reveler, who goes by the name Cat, strikes a pose during a Gay Pride parade marking the culmination of LGBTQ+ Pride month, in Santiago, Chile, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Relatives of Muhammad Sarhan, 15, mourn over his remains draped in the Palestinian flag, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
A visitor touches a humanoid robot hand on display at an AI exhibition booth during the The World Artificial Intelligence Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, in Shanghai China, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Celeste McCall reacts outside the Supreme Court in Washington, July 1, 2024, after the Court ruled that ex-presidents have broad immunity. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
An air tanker drops retardant behind a home while battling the Toll Fire near Calistoga, Calif., July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Men mourn as they hold the body of a stampede victim outside the Sikandrarao hospital in Hathras district of India, July 2, 2024. Severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival that killed at least 121 people in northern India, authorities said. (AP Photo)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters are bathed in skunk-scented water launched by police during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service, in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
A surfer braves the waves in Carlisle Bay as Hurricane Beryl passes through Bridgetown, Barbados, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Midwife Diluwara Begum holds a newborn baby girl after helping in her delivery on a boat over the River Brahmaputra, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A Lebanese woman smokes a water pipe as another woman flashes a victory sign, while standing on the rubble of a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
A reveler marches along Fifth Avenue during the Pride March, in New York, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/ Andres Kudacki)
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, left, and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flash victory hand signs during a rally launching the official presidential campaign season, in Caracas, Venezuela, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Teniah Tercero pushes her daughters Amairany, left, and Valentina on a tire swing at a park in San Francisco, May 23, 2024. Tercero is part of a group who have met regularly with a local nonprofit’s pilot program to share their stories and learn to advocate for the needs of families like theirs experiencing homelessness. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
A Ukrainian military instructor of Arey Battalion demonstrates to convict prisoners who have joined the Ukrainian Army how to use a grenade luncher on a rifle during training at the polygon, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, June 22, 2024. Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A polar bear dozes off at the ZOOM Adventure World Zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Police officers from the White Angels unit carry a woman on a stretcher to a waiting van during evacuation to safe areas, in Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Venezuelan migrant Naiber Zerpa carries her son Mathias Marquez as they arrive at a temporary camp after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia, in Lajas Blancas, Panama, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Students work out math problems on a blackboard inside a classroom lit by sunlight that streams in through the windows and doors, at the Excellent Moral School that has no access to electricity in Ibadan, Nigeria, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from parts of Khan Younis following an evacuation order by the Israeli Army to leave the eastern part of Gaza Strip’s second largest city, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Flames consume a structure on Bessie Lane as the Thompson Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., July 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
