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A man dressed in traditional clothes tries to pull his opponent over the table at the German Championships in Fingerhakeln or finger wrestling, in Bernbeuren, Germany, Sunday, May 12, 2024. Competitors battled for the title in this traditional rural sport where the winner has to pull his opponent over a marked line on the table. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

German men with the strongest fingers compete in Bavaria’s ‘Fingerhakeln’ wrestling championship

BERNBEUREN, Germany (AP) — Despite the threat of dislocated fingers and strained muscles, over 150 Bavarian men came together Sunday to compete in Germany’s unique national championship of “Fingerhakeln,” or finger wrestling.

Workers push a motorcycle along a wooden plank at the port of the coastal town of Santa Ana, Cagayan province, northern Philippines on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Sleepy far-flung towns in the Philippines will host US forces returning to counter China threats

Migrants travel inside train cars of a northbound freight train, in Irapuato, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. The image was part of a series by Associated Press photographers Ivan Valencia, Eduardo Verdugo, Felix Marquez, Marco Ugarte Fernando Llano, Eric Gay, Gregory Bull and Christian Chavez that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

These 15 AP photos capturing migrants’ struggle were honored with a Pulitzer Prize

The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, late Friday, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Seeking the Northern Lights was a family affair for this AP photographer

Robert Bukaty has covered nearly every type of story and event for The Associated Press in his long career. But with a little nudge from his daughter and a solar storm, he has now even shot the Northern Lights. Here’s what he said about capturing this extraordinary image.

Fireworks go off as the Belem, the three-masted sailing ship bringing the Olympic flame from Greece, enters the Old Port in Marseille, southern France, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

AP weekly sports photo gallery

Associated Press photographers show off the art of shooting sports events, in a gallery of images from around the world.

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Vijay Lakshmi, 85, greets polling officers as they arrive at her residence, in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 17, 2024. To encourage and assist elderly persons to cast their votes, the chief electoral office of Delhi on Thursday initiated the home voting facility for the ongoing general parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

For the first time India’s elderly and disabled are able to vote from home

Buddhists wait for a lantern parade as part of festivities celebrating the birthday of Buddha, at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Lotus Lantern Festival draws thousands in Seoul to celebrate upcoming Buddha’s birthday

Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan across the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

AP Sports Week in Pictures: Acrobatic Machado, Madrid Open, Mystic Dan wins by a nose at Derby

A boy holds a placard at a rally for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party leader and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state, M. K. Stalin, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Why voters in southern India are more resistant to Modi’s Hindu-centric politics

A race fan walks though the stands at Churchill Downs before the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

The Kentucky Derby is one of the most fashionable sporting events. See the splendor

Fireworks explode over the Venetian port after the procession of "Epitaphios", the bier that carries the body of Jesus Christ to his grave, in Nafpaktos town, western Greece, on Good Friday, May 3, 2024. The solemn processions in Greece, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek Orthodox mark Good Friday with solemn bier processions

Israel-Hamas war

Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

AP Photos chronicle 6 months of devastation in Gaza war with no sign of an end

Palestinians crowd a market in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. An estimated 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the war took refuge in Rafahor, which is likely Israel's next focus in its war against Hamas. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Palestinians cling to life in Rafah, a town likely to be Israel’s next focus in the war on Hamas

Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the southern Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Masoud)

These photos capture 100 days of agony in an unprecedented war between Israel and Hamas

A woman plays with her dog at a beach on the Gulf of Finland as the sun sets, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

AP Week in Pictures: Global

May 10-16, 2024

People took part in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attended his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Haitian school children played a game where they pretend to sleep, in their classroom, in Port-au-P

Plebe Ben Leisegang, of California, places an upperclassman's hat atop the Herndon Monument at the U.S. Naval Academy, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. Freshmen, known as Plebes, participate in the climb to celebrate finishing their first year at the academy. The climb was completed in two hours, nineteen minutes and eleven seconds. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

AP Week in Pictures: North America

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend an informal meeting in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

AP Week in Pictures: Asia

A girl plays a jump rope game at a school housing residents displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Pope Francis tries to catch his cap as wind blew it away while leaving after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa