Today in Pictures: May 16

President Barack Obama reaches up to present Los Angeles Police Department Officer Donald Thompson with the Medal of Valor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Opposition supporters, some carrying rocks, flee from clouds of tear gas fired by riot police, during a protest in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, May 16.

Kenyan police have tear-gassed and beaten opposition supporters during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption.

Pilgrims gather around an statue of the Virgin Mary as it is carried during a procession in El Rocio, southern Spain on May 16.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway musical "Hamilton," gestures after receiving an an honorary degree during the University of Pennsylvania commencement ceremony, on May 16 in Philadelphia.

A worker is silhouetted in a building that is under construction in Tokyo on May 16.

Brazil's Franciela Davide is carried on a wheelchair after being injured during the Ibero American Athletics Championships women's 200 meters race, a test event for Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

A five-month-old Syrian baby sleeps inside a tent at a makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece on May 16.

An Israeli Arab youth jumps into the water in unusually warm weather at the old port of Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab part of Tel Aviv, Israel on May 16.