Pollution in Kosovo and a dog cafe: Tuesday’s best photos Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Pejman Faratin Main image: Obilić, Kosovo A man rides his horse next to a coal-fired power station. Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images Tue 31 May 2022 06.44 EDT Last modified on Tue 31 May 2022 07.42 EDT Dubai, UAEHyunsuk Ku, 38, the owner of Happy Bark Day, the first cafe in Dubai to offer coffee and cake to dogs only, serves one of her customers Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Kyiv, Ukraine Two Ukrainian soldiers enjoy a tender off-duty moment near the village of Stoyanka Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Omaha, USFirefighters work to extinguish a fire as smoke billows at a chemical plant Photograph: Omaha Fire Department/Facebook/Reuters Facebook Twitter Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaA parrot breeder and his birds are seen at the Damai Perdana hill during World Parrot Day Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Managua, NicaraguaPregnant women take part in the contest La Madre Panza (the Mother Belly) Photograph: Jorge Torres/EPA Facebook Twitter Kabul, AfghanistanAfghan boys play cricket at a cemetery. Cemeteries provide open spaces where children play football or cricket or fly kites, and where adults hang out Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Facebook Twitter Banda Aceh, Indonesia A worker collects plastic bottles to sell at a dump site Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Tokyo, JapanJapan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries demonstrates a goat-like robot that can carry baggage and goods. The firm believes robots will help with labour shortages in the country’s ageing society Photograph: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd./Reuters Facebook Twitter Lysytsansk, UkraineAn elderly woman walks away from a burning property after shelling in the city of Lysytsansk at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Vatican CityPope Francis is shown a gift as he receives Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, the president of Islamic Seminaries of Iran, and entourage in a private audience Photograph: Vatican Media/Reuters Facebook Twitter Motala, SwedenRut Larsson, a 103-year-old Swedish woman from Mjolby, lands after jumping in tandem with Joackim Johansson from Linkoping’s parachute club Photograph: Jeppe Gustafsson/EPA Facebook Twitter London, UKA man carries his dog up an escalator at Liverpool Street underground station Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Facebook Twitter Kharkiv, UkraineAn evacuation convoy travels from Russian troop-occupied Kupiansk town along a damaged road amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine Photograph: Iván Alvarado/Reuters Facebook Twitter Obilić, KosovoA man rides his horse next to a power station. Two coal-fired plants are the main source of the alarming air pollution levels in Kosovo Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Topics Pollution Best photographs of the day Pope Francis