Wind-driven California wildfires, Saint Simon celebrations in Guatemala, a World Series victory in Houston, an ancient mosque in Niger, continuing protests in Chile, a bus in a sinkhole in Pittsburgh, an oil-tank art gallery in Australia, the vanishing Mekong river, Halloween in Belgium, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Bike Jousting, Mariachi Surfers, Frozen Whiskers
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Read moreA participant in costume walks between the gravestones beside St Mary's Church during the biannual "Whitby Goth Weekend" festival in Whitby, England, on October 27, 2019. #
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Read morePresident Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, places a candy bar on the head of a child dressed as a Minion during a Halloween trick-or-treat event at the White House in Washington, D.C., on October 28, 2019. #
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Read moreA mock East German border-control agent is pictured at the Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld, the site of the former inner-German border crossing Duderstadt-Worbis, near Teistungen, Germany, on August 6, 2019. Photo released by Reuters on October 31, 2019. #
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Read moreLaura Horvitz (right) and Robyn Phipps help rescue goats from a ranch near the Reagan Presidential Library during the Easy Fire in Simi Valley, California, on October 30, 2019. #
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Read moreThis picture taken on October 25, 2019, shows lava from the Piton de la Fournaise ("Peak of the Furnace") volcano flowing toward the Indian Ocean on the island of Réunion. #
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Read moreThis aerial photo taken on October 31, 2019, shows the Mekong River in the Pak Chom district in the northeastern Thai province of Loei. The once-mighty Mekong River has been reduced to a thin, grubby neck of water across northern Thailand—record lows blamed on drought and a recently opened dam hundreds of kilometers upstream in Laos. #
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Read moreThe surfers Leina Decker (left), Rory Chalupnik (center), and Reid Decker await waves while dressed as mariachi musicians during the 16th Annual Blackies Halloween Surf event in Newport Beach, California, on October 26, 2019. #
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Read moreA World War II oil tank at Art Gallery NSW, photographed in Sydney, Australia, on October 27, 2019. The former oil tank was built in the early 1940s, surrounded by secrecy, to store oil for the naval fleet at Garden Island. It was decommissioned in the 1980s and has remained hidden until now. The tank will be transformed into a contemporary art space, opening to the public in 2022 as part of the gallery’s expansion. #
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Read moreGirls hang out on top of apartment-style graves as Filipinos begin to visit their departed loved ones ahead of All Saints Day in a public cemetery in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines, on October 31, 2019. #
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Read moreThe front of a city bus is up in the air after a sinkhole opened under it during rush hour in downtown Pittsburgh on October 28, 2019. The Port Authority of Allegheny County says only the driver and one passenger were aboard the bus when it plunged into the hole. The passenger was taken to a hospital for a minor injury, and the driver was uninjured. #
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Read moreAn air tanker drops fire retardant over power lines while helping to fight the Hillside Fire in the North Park neighborhood of San Bernardino, California, on October 31, 2019. #
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Read moreDemonstrators clash with riot police during protests against the government's economic policies, in the surroundings of La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, on October 29, 2019. #
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Read moreTourists climb Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia's Northern Territory on October 25, 2019. Friday was the last day people were allowed to climb Uluru. #
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Read moreA person rides towards his opponent (not in frame) during a round of bike jousting at the annual Bike Kill event on October 26, 2019, in New York City. Bike Kill is a gathering of bike enthusiasts organized by the Black Label Bike Club who custom fabricate "mutant" bicycles for the event. The culmination of the event involves tall bike jousting. #
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Read moreSupporters of the Pakistani firebrand cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, leave for Islamabad to participate in an anti-government march, in Peshawar, Pakistan, on October 31, 2019. Thousands of supporters of the ultra-religious political party led by Rehman took part in the anti-government procession headed to Pakistan's capital. #
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Read moreManager Dave Martinez of the Washington Nationals hoists the Commissioner's Trophy after the Nationals defeated the Houston Astros 6–2 in Game Seven to win the 2019 World Series at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on October 30, 2019. #
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Read moreA person holds a doll depicting folk saint Maximon (or Simon), during the Saint Simon celebrations in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, on October 28, 2019. Thousands believe that the saint helps people find work, solves family problems, and cures illnesses. #
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Read morePeople visit a memorial where the victims of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's regime were buried in the woods on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, on October 30, 2019. Russians observed the Day of Victims of Political Repressions as people honored the memory of the thousands of victims who perished under the Soviet Communist regime. #
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Read moreDeer are seen between tombstones in the old Jewish part of the Zentralfriedhof cemetery on an autumn day ahead of All Saints' Day in Vienna, Austria, on October 30, 2019. #
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Read moreLocals walk by a huge cardboard skeleton made by artisans in a street in the Tlahuac neighborhood, in Mexico City, on October 28, 2019, ahead of the Day of the Dead celebrations. #
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Read moreCoots swim as a firefighting helicopter picks up water to drop on the 46 Fire near San Bernardino, California, on October 31, 2019. The National Weather Service issued a rare extreme red-flag warning for Southern California, for gusts that could be the strongest in more than a decade, exceeding 80 mph and lowering humidity to 1 or 2 percent, a perfect recipe for dangerous, fast-moving wildfires. #
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