Last week in photos: June 8-14, 2024

A selection of outstanding news photos taken around the world this week.ELENA COVALENCO/AFPA child looks inside a booth at a polling station in Moldova's capital Chisinau. Europeans in 27 countries voted in elections that will have widespread impact across the EU and beyond. President of El Salvador via Getty ImagesPrisoners are transferred Cecot super prison (Terrorism Detention Center) in Tecoluca, El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele said another 2,000 gang members had been transferred to maximum security prisons. El Salvador currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Xinhua/REX/ShutterstockA drone photo shows a night race held to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Sanxi village, Fuzhou, Fujian province, China. This event has deep cultural significance and is used as a means of praying for good harvests and good life.Rogan Ward/REUTERSAnother view from a drone shows fishermen unloading nets during a sardine fishery in Scottburgh, South Africa.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesA mother fans her child in a tent at a camp for displaced persons during a heatwave in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. John Phillips/Getty ImagesTechnicians adjust a dress during a press conference introducing items on display for Vivienne Westwood: The Private Collection at Christie's auction house in London. Proceeds from the sale of the late designer's collection will go to the Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace.David Burr/AlamyPeople paragliding at sunset at Devil's Dyke in the South Downs, Sussex, England.Lisi Niesner/REUTERSAlexander Zverev defeated Casper Ruud at Roland Garros in Paris to reach the French Open final with Carlos Alcaraz. FADEL SENNA/AFPMuslim worshipers touch the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.Zoltan Balogh/EPAChildren participate in a flash mob to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube at Szent Istvan Square in Budapest. Hungarian professor, architect and inventor Erno Rubik developed the so-called Magic Cube in the spring of 1974, initially for educational purposes. It later became popular as Rubik's Cube worldwide.