World in Pictures

Earthquake survivor Zhang Xiaoyan looks at her newborn girl at a hospital in Urumqi, in China’s western Xinjiang region. Zhang was rescued May 14 after being trapped for more than two days in an earthquake-damaged building in Dujiangyan, in Sichuan province. The baby was named Ai, or love, in honor of the rescue workers and strangers who have aided Zhang since she was pulled out of the debris.  (Greg Baker / Associated Press)

Immigrants, most of them from Zimbabwe, crowd the entrance of a government refugee center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Waves of immigrants crossing illegally from Zimbabwe continue despite the xenophobic violence against them in South Africa.  (John Moore / Getty Images)

A building in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, shows the scars of years of battles between Palestinians and Israelis. A truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas began this week in an effort to end the violence.  (Eyad Baba / Associated Press)

A mourner in Najaf, a city 100 miles south of Baghdad where Shiites are buried, kisses the shroud of a relative killed the day before in the truck bombing in the capital. The death toll from the attack was put at 63.  (Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press)

A street child plays in muddy water during monsoon rains in New Delhi. India’s monsoon season has begun about two weeks early, causing floods that have killed at least 23 people.  (Gurinder Osan / Associated Press)