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June 7, 2013 |
Daily Life: May 2013
For this edition of our look at daily life we share images from France, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, Ecuador, Germany, Italy and a few others from around the world. -- Lloyd Young -- Editors note: The Big Picture will publish again next Wednesday June 12. ( 52 photos total)

A girl plays on May 28 with soap bubbles during the Share Drive of Life charity event organized by the Kiev Chapter Ukraine motorcycling club for children with autism in a park in Kiev. The number of children with various forms of autism in Ukraine increased over the past five years by 2.35 times, and 2,791 children were under the supervision of child psychiatrists in 2012. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

School of American Ballet faculty member Katrina Killian works with 6-year-old Noran Lin, as boys and girls ages 6-10 try out for The School of American Ballet during auditions at P.S. 124 Yung Wing on May 3 in the city's Chinatown neighborhood, one in the school's ongoing series of audition events around the city. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) #

A young Turkish gypsy stand jumps over a fire during the celebration of the annual Spring Festival "Hidirellez" on May in Edirne, south-western Turkey. Gypsies celebrate the beginning of the spring season according to their calendar. Hidirellez is celebrated as the day on which Prophets Hizir (Al-Khidr) and Ilyas (Elijah) met on earth. (Gurcan Ozturk/AFP/Getty Images) #

Comic fan Wayne Adams wears his home-made mask as he poses for a photograph at the MCM London ComicCon 2013 at the ExCel centre in east London on May 26. The four day conference showcases films, video games, sci-fi and anime, drawing enthusiasts and exhibitors from far and wide. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #

The horse cavalry regiment of the French Republican Guard performs on May 28 during the visit of the duchess of Cornwall in Paris. Camilla on May 27 visited French charity Emmaus, of which she is a leading patron in UK, as she kicked off a two-day trip to Paris, her first solo official visit abroad. The duchess is scheduled on May 28 to also visit a city market, a haute couture workshop before making a private one-hour visit to the Louvre. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images) #

Children sit atop the World War II-era Soviet T-34 tank during Victory Day celebration in the Armenian capital Yerevan, on May 9. Armenia as well as the other former Soviet republics celebrates the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, the date of the Nazis' capitulation to the Soviet Union, which took place in the evening on May 8, 1945 (May 9 by Moscow Time), following the original capitulation Germany agreed earlier to the joint Allied forces on the Western Front. (Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images) #

An Indian youth jumps into the Nizamuddin Baoli, a stepwell built circa 1321-1322 that holds water from an underwater spring, on a hot day in New Delhi on May 28. The stepwell, one of the few remaining baolis in the Indian capital that still holds water, is undergoing conservation work funded by the Aga Khan Foundation. Temperatures in the Indian capital peaked at 44 degrees celius on May 28, according to data from the Indian Meteorological Department. (Tengku Bahar/AFP/Getty Images) #

Cambodian vendors prepare to enter a ferry on May 30 at Neak Loeung, east of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Neak Loeung is one of the most busy towns in Cambodia, located in eastern part of the country where ferry now is main transportation as thousands of travelers each day crossing for either to neighboring Vietnam or to Phnom Penh. Due to the site is important for linking the Cambodia to Vietnam, in recent years Japanese government has lend some $131 million to Cambodia to build a bridge, which is now under construction. (Heng Sinith/Associated Press) #

Marc Pelletier, of Biddeford, Maine, uses a power sprayer while cleaning the Emilee Savannah, a lobster boat he works on as a sternman on May 17 at Camp Ellis in Saco, Maine. The 34-foot fishing boat was beached in order to scrape and paint the hull during low tide in preparation for the upcoming lobstering season. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) #

A woman gives money to a beggar in Madrid, Spain, on May 14. Spain has been in recession for most of the past four years and has a record 27.2 percent unemployment rate. The percentage is twice that high for Spaniards under 25. Many well-qualified citizens are emigrating in search of jobs. (Andres Kudacki/Associated Press) #

Antonio Garner Jr., 5, and Azariyah King, 1, ride in Antonio's Power Wheels Ford Mustang on May 9 as they make their way down Chapel Hill Street in Durham, N.C. "When he drives it every one honks and waves and girls ask him for a ride," said his mother, Shamika Lyons. (Christine T. Nguyen/The Herald-Sun via Associated Press) #

Moscow Elementary Center second graders release a brook trout fingerling into Roaring Brook as part of Pennsylvania Trout In the Classroom program on May 31 in Moscow, Pa. The MEC PTA partnered with the school in raising the trout from eggs .The statewide program run by the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and the support of Pennsylvania Department of Education helped fund the program for the students. (Jake Danna Stevens/The Scranton Times & Tribune via Associated Press) #

A young woman in wheelchair performs at the beauty contest on May 22 for disabled people which use wheelchairs Miss Independence 2013 in Moscow, Russia. Eleven participants took part at the final of the the beauty contest for disabled people which use wheelchairs. Russia has more than 13 million disabled people and 600 thousand use wheelchair in their daily life. (Sergei Ilnitsky/European Pressphoto Agency) #