The weekend in pictures

Boys sit under a net in a field near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, as they try to catch quail to use for fighting. Photograph: Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images

A member of Venezuela's national guard chases a masked woman during a protest against the government in Caracas. Photograph: Miguel Gutierrez/EPA

Jindo-gun, South Korea: The recovery operation to find passengers still missing from a sunken ferry continues throughout the night. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

Muslim families prepare to be evacuated from the PK12 neighbourhood in Bangui, Central African Republic, to the north of the country, towards the border with Chad. Photograph: Siegfried Modola/Reuters

Babies held by amateur sumo wrestlers compete in a crying baby contest at the Sensoji temple in Tokyo. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/EPA

A participant swims backwards under a mesh wire fence during the Tough Mudder endurance race in Henley-on-Thames. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

A woman holds up a bunch of flowers picked in a colza (rapeseed) field in Diessenhofen, Switzerland. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA

Priests sing and dance in St Peter's Square at the Vatican, before a ceremony to canonise John XXIII and John Paul II. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

The mother of a slain alleged militant, Shabir Ahmmad, touches his feet during a funeral procession in Keller, Srinagar, India. Photograph: Rouf Bhat/AFP/Getty Images

Shepherds walk with their Racka sheep as the new season begins in the Great Hungarian Plain in Hortobagy. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

Palestinians from the besieged al-Yarmouk camp help an elderly civilian during the distribution of food aid from UNRWA in Damascus, Syria. Photograph: Rame Alsayed/Reuters

Quezon city, Philippines: A boy yawns at a parade in celebration of the canonisation of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII. Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP

Police officers stand guard in heavy rain at the Olympic stadium in Athens before the Greek football cup final. Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters

A bull jumps over a prisoner as he and others try to snatch a poker chip tied to its head in at the Angola Prison Rodeo in Louisiana. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP