Week in Pictures

05 Jun 2021

Week in pictures

ZACATEPEC
This massive sinkhole, seen on Tuesday, June 1, threatens a house in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico. Officials are investigating how it formed (Jose Castanares/AFP/Getty Images)

COLOMBO
Smoke rises from a burning cargo ship near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday, June 2. Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological disasters in the country's history (Sri Lanka Airforce Media/Reuters)

TULSA
Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, attend a soil-collection ceremony Monday, May 31, to honor the unknown victims of the massacre (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times/Redux)

MANAUS
A man pushes a shopping cart loaded with bananas through a flooded street in Manaus, Brazil, on Tuesday, June 1. Rivers around the city have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus' port authorities (Edmar Barros/AP).

Here is the top news photography from the past week:

ZACATEPEC: This massive sinkhole, seen on Tuesday, June 1, threatens a house in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico. Officials are investigating how it formed (Jose Castanares/AFP/Getty Images)

COLOMBO: Smoke rises from a burning cargo ship near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday, June 2. Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological disasters in the country's history (Sri Lanka Airforce Media/Reuters)

TULSA: Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, attend a soil-collection ceremony Monday, May 31, to honor the unknown victims of the massacre (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times/Redux)

MANAUS: A man pushes a shopping cart loaded with bananas through a flooded street in Manaus, Brazil, on Tuesday, June 1. Rivers around the city have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus' port authorities (Edmar Barros/AP)

Week in Pictures

Week in pictures 05 Jun 2021

ZACATEPEC This massive sinkhole, seen on Tuesday, June 1, threatens a house in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico. Officials are investigating how it formed (Jose Castanares/AFP/Getty Images)

COLOMBO Smoke rises from a burning cargo ship near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday, June 2. Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological disasters in the country's history (Sri Lanka Airforce Media/Reuters)

TULSA Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, attend a soil-collection ceremony Monday, May 31, to honor the unknown victims of the massacre (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times/Redux)

MANAUS A man pushes a shopping cart loaded with bananas through a flooded street in Manaus, Brazil, on Tuesday, June 1. Rivers around the city have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus' port authorities (Edmar Barros/AP).

ZACATEPEC
This massive sinkhole, seen on Tuesday, June 1, threatens a house in Santa Maria Zacatepec, Mexico. Officials are investigating how it formed (Jose Castanares/AFP/Getty Images)

COLOMBO
Smoke rises from a burning cargo ship near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday, June 2. Sri Lankan environmentalists said it is one of the worst ecological disasters in the country's history (Sri Lanka Airforce Media/Reuters)

TULSA
Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis, two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, attend a soil-collection ceremony Monday, May 31, to honor the unknown victims of the massacre (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times/Redux)

MANAUS
A man pushes a shopping cart loaded with bananas through a flooded street in Manaus, Brazil, on Tuesday, June 1. Rivers around the city have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, according to data published Tuesday by Manaus' port authorities (Edmar Barros/AP).