Corpus Christi devotees and orphaned bears: Thursday's top photos
The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
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Washington DC, US
President Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian West discuss prison reform at the White HousePhotograph: The White House
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Managua, Nicaragua
A man fires a homemade mortar during clashes at a march against President Daniel OrtegaPhotograph: Esteban Felix/AP
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Ferney-Voltaire, France
The French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, flanked by the culture minister, Françoise Nyssen (left), and the Ferney-Voltaire mayor, Daniel Raphoz, look at a model after a ceremony for the reopening of the newly restored chateau de Ferney-Voltaire. The author and philosopher Voltaire, who died 240 years ago, spent the last 20 years of his life at the propertyPhotograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
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Curitiba, Brazil
The American actor Danny Glover joins ‘Free Lula’ campaigners at a camp near the federal police headquarters, where former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is imprisonedPhotograph: Rodolfo Buhrer/Reuters
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Arles, France
A model walks the runway at the Gucci Cruise show at the Alyscamps Roman necropolisPhotograph: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
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Williams, US
Two orphaned bear cubs explore their enclosure after being placed in the care of a wildlife rescue park when their mother was euthanised. The four-month-old black bears were rescued from a treetop in Arizona’s White Mountains. The state’s game and fish department killed the cubs’ mother after twice removing her from a residential area in the town of Pinetop-LakesidePhotograph: AP
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New York City, US
People take pictures of a phenomenon known as ‘Manhattanhenge’ at 42nd Street in Times Square. A solstice occurs there twice a year when the sun is aligned with the east-west streets of the main street grid of ManhattanPhotograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
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Busan, South Korea
A protester is removed from a statue near the Japanese consulate. The sculpture, which represents Korean labourers who were forcibly mobilised by Japan during its 1910-45 colonial rule, has been moved to another location in the cityPhotograph: EPA
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Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
Rafi, aged nine, sells brooms at a roadside stallPhotograph: Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images
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Gujarat, India
Workers dismantle a decommissioned cargo ship at the Alang shipyardPhotograph: Amit Dave/Reuters
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Crostwitz, Germany
Catholic Sorbs in traditional dress attend a mass during a Corpus Christi procession. The western Slavic Sorbs are recognised as a national minorityPhotograph: Filip Singer/EPA