Liuzhou, China: A man carries his makeshift dwelling as he walks along a road. Five years ago, Liu Lingchao, 38, decided to walk back to his hometown in Guangxi from Shenzhen. His portable room weighs 60kg, which he carries on average 12 miles a dayPhotograph: ReutersOklahoma, US: Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm as people try to salvage possessions from the wreckage of their homes destroyed by a tornedoPhotograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesDelhi, India: Men bathe in the Yamuna river which is polluted by industrial wastePhotograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
Kandal province, Cambodia: Buddhist monks attend the Vesak Day ceremony at the Udong mountain to honour the birth, enlightenment and death of BuddhaPhotograph: Samrang Pring/ReutersAeschiried, Switzerland: Aeschiried, which is about 1,000 meters above sea level, is covered lightly with fresh fallen snowPhotograph: Peter Schneider/EPAMoscow, Russia: Russian Orthodox Christians attend a service marking saints' day of Cyrilius and Methodius at Dormition CathedralPhotograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty ImagesMount Vernon, US: A police officer looks at submerged Interstate-5 bridge, which collapsed into the Skagit river in VirginiaPhotograph: Elaine Thompson/APSan Salvador, El Salvador: Two-month old Bengal tiger cub Tily roars in an enclosure at the animal refuge Fundación Refugio Salvaje (Furesa) on the outskirts of the Salvadorian capitalPhotograph: Ulises Rodriguez/ReutersHong Kong: A man weighs a chicken in a poultry marketPhotograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty ImagesNew Delhi, India: Residents stand on a government tanker delivering drinking water because of shortage of tap water supplies at a slum Photograph: Kevin Frayer/APGhazni, Afghanistan: A US soldier from the 10th Mountain Division welds a vehicle in the maintenance workshop at the Forward Operating Base GhazniPhotograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images
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