Category: Face Of The Day

The nine-day-old giraffe Bine licks another giraffe named Andrea in Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin on May 9, 2014. By Stephanie Pilick/AFP/Getty Images.

Ieromonah Opanasiy, an Orthodox priest, sits in a tent providing humanitarian services to pro-Russian activists outside the occupied regional administration building, which serves as their local headquarters, in Donetsk, Ukraine on May 8, 2014. Tensions in Eastern Ukraine are high after pro-Russian activists seized control of at least ten cities ahead of the Victory Day holiday and a planned referendum on greater autonomy for the region. By Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images.

Voters wait in long lines at the Pine Road Voting Station in Greenpoint district of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 2014. Polls have opened in South Africa’s fifth general election since the end of apartheid over 20 years ago. President Jacob Zuma is expected to return to power with the ANC party, but he is expected to lose some ground to other parties after his election campaign has been marred by allegations of corruption. By Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images.

An Israeli boy plays with an M-16 rifle during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel’s Independence at the West Bank settlement of Efrat near the biblical city of Bethlehem on May 6, 2014. By Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images. Update from a reader:

People have probably already told you this, but that’s not an M-16 the boy is holding.  It appears to be an M-4 (note the retractable stock) with an M-203 grenade launcher attached.

An Afghan boy looks on he stands at the site of a landslide at the Argo district in Badakhshan on May 3, 2014. A landslide buried a village in northern Afghanistan on Friday, swallowing 300 homes and killing as many as 2,700 people. By Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images.

Natan Dvir photographs Arab-Israeli teenagers, who are exempt from the compulsory military service their Jewish peers enter at age 18. Among his subjects is Dina, above:

“I was born to a Jewish Ukranian mother and a Muslim Israeli father in Ukraine. … I am now living in Jaffa in a collective of Arab and Jewish human rights activists and volunteer in various organizations. I don’t really care if I live with Arabs or Jews. I guess I kind of did that all my life anyhow. I appreciate people for who they are and have little regard for that kind of categorization. I am both Jewish and Muslim, both Ukrainian and Israeli. I can be defined any way that makes you feel comfortable, but if you ask me, I would prefer not to be called any of the above—I am a human rights activist.”

See more of Dvir’s work here.

A defendant who is in custody flashes the four finger symbol known as Rabaa, meaning four in Arabic, during the trial of 20 individuals, including five Al-Jazeera journalists, for allegedly defaming the country and ties to the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood in the police institute near Cairo’s Turah prison on May 3, 2014. Peter Greste, an Australian journalist with the satellite news channel Al-Jazeera on trial, described his ordeal as a “massive injustice”, after spending more than four months in jail. By Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images.

A Florida fisherman caught this 18-foot super-rare goblin shark, by @WhySharksMatter http://t.co/IwkIb2OfLM pic.twitter.com/IZVvg9rCc4

— Gwynn Guilford (@sinoceros) May 2, 2014

Pro-Russian separatists seize the Prosecution Office in Donetsk, Ukraine, on May 1, 2014. By Burak Akbulut/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

Cheerful commuters in London are allowed back onto the Victoria line at Victoria after a temporary closure on the second day of a planned 48-hour underground train strike disrupting thousands of commuters daily routines, on April 30, 2014. By Ollie Millington/Getty Images.