Week in pictures: 18-24 May 2019 - BBC News

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Brad Pitt and Leonard DiCaprio pose for the media at the Cannes Film Festival, where their latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has been well received.




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Ida Daniela Pouadjeu, one of the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy, in Yaounde, Cameroon, uses her anger about people's attitude towards female soccer players every day on the pitch. "I train hard to succeed and to prove them all wrong," she says.




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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge show the Queen around the RHS Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.




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A runner competes in the Great Wall Marathon outside Beijing.




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World champion trials rider Jack Field performs the highest recorded back flip on a motorbike, on Melbourne's Eureka Tower.




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Across the UK, voters headed to the polls for the European Parliament elections. Each region has a different number of representatives based on its population - ranging from three MEPs in north-east England, and Northern Ireland, to 10 in the South East.




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Residents fill containers with water from a municipal corporation tanker on a hot day in Ahmedabad, India.




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In Moscow, fans of the television show Game of Thrones gathered to watch the final episode.




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Thousands of people took part in co-ordinated rallies across the United States to protest against several states passing laws to restrict abortions. Here, people protest outside the Georgia State Capitol building, in Atlanta.




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The oldest car to wear the Porsche badge goes on view at Sotheby's in London prior to being auctioned in California. The only surviving 1939 Porsche Type 64 Berlin-Rome, it was the personal car of Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche.