While the week started with the death of the coma-stricken rape victim Aruna Shanbaug after spending 42 years in a vegetative state, it also saw ISIS suicide bomber targeting a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia. Amid the raging controversy of Osama bin Laden’s killing raised by reputed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, US officially came up with a treasure of documents collected by its forces during the raid in 2011 that ended with the killing of al Qaeda leader. ScoopWhoop presents major headlines across the world from the last week, in pictures.
A Rohingya boy, who recently arrived in Indonesia by boat, holds his ball as he walks at a shelter in Kuala Langsa, in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, May 19, 2015. REUTERS/Beawiharta
A family member of a slain victim mourns after arriving at the Imam Ali mosque, the site of a suicide bomb attack, in the village of al-Qadeeh in the eastern province of Gatif, Saudi Arabia, May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
Men walk past a Yes vote campaign graffiti in central Dublin as Ireland helds a referendum on gay marriage, allowing same-sex marriages on May 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
Pope Francis (R) embraces Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the end of the ceremony for the canonisation of four nuns at Saint Peter’s square in the Vatican City, May 17, 2015. REUTERS/Tony Gentile