A beach graduation ceremony in Spain, Spider-Man dancers in Russia, skiing in the French Alps, a cyclone in India, anti-government protests in Iraq, a pigeon fancier in Cuba, an antique-arms-and-armor sale in London, and much more
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Read morePhil Mickelson celebrates with the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the final round of the 2021 PGA Championship, held at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort on May 23, 2021, on Kiawah Island, South Carolina. #
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Read moreMembers and cast of the charitable fundraising show "Broadway Bares" perform during a video shoot titled "Twerk from Home" in Times Square, in New York City, on May 24, 2021. #
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Read moreA gallery assistant holds a Savoyard-type helmet, possibly from the 17th century, during a press preview for the Bonhams Antique Arms and Armor Sale at Bonhams auction house in central London on May 24, 2021. #
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Read moreEmilyn Cregg watches the Florida Panthers warm up before Game 5 of an NHL Stanley Cup first-round playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning, on May 24, 2021, in Sunrise, Florida. #
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Read moreFrancisco Martin works on his iPad while lying in a hypoxic tent, a low-oxygen tent that mimics the thin air at high altitude, in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on April 15, 2021, as he prepares for an upcoming expedition to climb Lhotse in the Himalayas. Photo released on May 20, 2021. #
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Read moreA streaker is pulled from the infield tarp roller by law enforcement and security during a rain delay in a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on May 26, 2021, in Washington, D.C. #
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Read moreA demonstrator wrapped in a Colombian flag walks along the Pan-American Highway, which has been blocked between Buga and Cali to protest against the government of President Iván Duque, in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on May 26, 2021. #
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Read moreRiot police officers walk through a damaged, partially burning building after crowds of people gathered for an anti-government demonstration over the killing of civil activists and lack of basic services, in Tahrir Square in the center of Iraq's capital of Baghdad on May 25, 2021. #
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Read moreRiot police officers covered in paint thrown by protesters stand guard as activists gather to stop the eviction of Axel Altadill from his apartment in Barcelona, Spain, on May 25, 2021. Altadill has been accused of squatting in the apartment since January 2019. #
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Read moreSri Lankan navy soldiers work to remove debris that washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which has been burning for eight consecutive days in the sea off Sri Lanka's Colombo Harbor, on a beach in Colombo, on May 27, 2021. #
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Read moreA horse crosses a waterlogged road after rains produced by Cyclone Yaas at Digha in Purba Medinipur district in the eastern state of West Bengal, India, on May 26, 2021. #
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Read moreUnited States Air Force Academy graduates cheer as the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021 at Falcon Stadium on May 26, 2021, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. #
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Read moreMembers of the 2024 midshipmen's class (freshmen) from the U.S. Naval Academy work together to scale the Herndon Monument on May 22, 2021, in Annapolis, Maryland. The "plebes" worked for three hours and 41 minutes to scale the 21-foot obelisk and replace a cup with an upperclassman's hat, signifying the end of their plebe year. #
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Read moreThis aerial view shows Buddhist monks lighting candles to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day, or Vesak Day, a celebration of the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Lord Buddha, held on the full moon of the third lunar month in the Buddhist calendar, at Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok, on May 26, 2021. #
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Read moreA skull painted gold stands out from among the 20,000 skeletons stored in the church ossuary of the Katharinenkirche, in Oppenheim, some 50 kilometers south of Frankfurt, Germany, on May 23, 2021. #
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Read moreA sculpture by artist Patricia Piccinini is seen in one of the rooms at Flinder Street Station in Melbourne, Australia, on May 26, 2021. Piccinini took over the entirety of the Flinders Street Station Ballroom as well as 15 other rooms to create a fully immersive, multisensory experience as part of Melbourne's new cultural art event "Rising." #
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Read moreStudents from Colegio Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente attend their graduation ceremony on Los Nietos beach in the Mar Menor, where they have been taking their classes during the pandemic, on May 26, 2021, in Cartagena, Spain. #
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Read moreMembers of the Massachusetts Air National Guard were among those planting American flags on Boston Common on May 26, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. Each year, before Memorial Day weekend, the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund places flags to represent every fallen member of the U.S. military from Massachusetts since the Revolutionary War. #
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