News in Pics, May 9: Best photos from around world

This picture taken on May 8, 2022 shows an aerial view of buffaloes walking on the shores of the Shatt al-Arab waterway north of Iraq's southern city of Basra. Credit: AFP Photo

Enraged crowd loot a truck transporting cooking gas cylinders in Colombo. Credit: AFP Photo

A vendor (L) sells ice to a customer on a hot summer day in an alley in the old quarters of New Delhi. Credit: AFP Photo

n aerial view of runners taking part in the Nairobi marathon as they run along the new expressway that was flagged off by Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, as an inaugural annual event in Nairobi. Credit: AFP Photo

Devotees with their tongues pierced with tridents take part in a procession to honour the Hindu goddess Mariamman in Amritsar. Credit: AFP Photo

A worker sits in the cleared out remains of a stairwell at a site near the remains of al-Shuruq tower in Gaza City's al-Rimal neighbourhood, which was levelled by Israeli strikes during the 2021 conflict between Hamas and Israel. Credit: AFP Photo