Photos of the Week: Baobab Alley, Armed Mob, River Rescue

Updated: September 7, 2019 at 4:54 p.m.

A beard-and-mustache battle in Los Angeles, a sunset over Frankfurt, protests in Nigeria and Hong Kong, stormy days in Florida, a sleepy young rhino in France, lightning bolts over Rome, a shepherd among Turkish foothills, the West Indies Day parade in Brooklyn, the Corso Zundert flower parade in the Netherlands, the “Futurium” in Berlin, hurricane damage in the Bahamas, and much more

This photo essay has been updated to remove an image that was inadvertently included in an earlier version.

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