The Cannes Film Festival in France, remote COVID-19 vaccinations in Peru, a slip-and-slide world record in West Virginia, the Big Red Bash in Australia, Euro 2020 action in England, Kupala Night in Ukraine, wildfires in California, a mountain stroll in northern Italy, and much more
Photos of the Week: Giant Alice, Tiny Cow, Wooden Swimmer
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Read moreThe remaining structure of the Champlain Towers South condo building is demolished more than a week after it partially collapsed, in Surfside, Florida, on July 4, 2021. #
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Read moreA hot-air balloon lands near a cow pasture at the Teton Valley Balloon Rally on July 3, 2021, in Driggs, Idaho. The rally has been an annual event in the area for 40 years. #
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Read moreA cow stands next to a dwarf Bhutanese cow named Rani at a cattle farm in Charigram, Bangladesh, on July 6, 2021. Rani stands just 20 inches tall and weighs 62 pounds; its owners have applied to the Guinness Book of Records, claiming that it is the smallest cow in the world. #
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Read morePhotographed on July 7, 2021, a child feeds a hedgehog, one of seven young hedgehogs adopted by a family in the Çinar district of Diyarbakir, Turkey, after their mother died. #
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Read moreA woman wears a wreath of flowers during Kupala Night celebrations in Pyrohiv, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 6, 2021. During the ancient Slavic ritual, which is related to the summer solstice, people wear wreaths, jump over fires, and bathe naked in rivers and lakes. #
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Read moreA toppled statue of Queen Elizabeth lies facedown on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature on July 2, 2021, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The statue was pulled down by Indigenous protesters, following a march to honor survivors and victims of Canada's residential-school system. #
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Read moreA fisherman throws his net beside the half-submerged MV Palawan Pearl in Manila Bay, Philippines, on July 8, 2021. The cargo vessel and a Cyprus-flagged dredger had collided in an anchorage area early yesterday, resulting in no injuries but causing the cargo vessel to list and lie half-submerged in the busy waters. #
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Read morePassersby stand in front of Merman Art, a wooden statue of a swimmer, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 6, 2021. The installation was created by Merman team, a group of artists from Ukraine, for the Burning Man festival in the United States. #
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Read moreEngland's forward Harry Kane (right) shoots and scores with a penalty kick past Denmark's goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel during the Euro 2020 semifinal football match between England and Denmark at Wembley Stadium in London on July 7, 2021. #
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Read moreWounded captive Ethiopian soldiers arrive in a truck at the Mekele Rehabilitation Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2021. According to the Tigray Defense Forces, more than 7,000 captive Ethiopian soldiers had walked from Abdi Eshir, about 75 kilometers southwest of Mekele, over the previous four days. #
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Read moreEngland football fans celebrate in the streets surrounding Piccadilly and Leicester Square after England beat Denmark in their semifinal game on July 7, 2021 in London. #
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Read moreA person wearing an alien costume in a flying saucer roller-skates through traffic on Main Street, during the UFO Festival on July 2, 2021, in Roswell, New Mexico. The festival returned during the July Fourth holiday weekend following the COVID-19 pandemic. #
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Read moreRai Thistlewayte, of the band Thirsty Merc, rides down a sand dune at the Big Red Bash 2021 in Birdsville, Australia, on July 7, 2021. The Big Red Bash is an annual music festival held in the Simpson Desert in outback Queensland. #
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Read morePeople float in Lake Urmia, one of the biggest saltwater lakes in the world, located in the northwest of Iran. The lake once again faces the threat of drying up as the result of a drought that affects the whole country, in Urmia, Iran, on July 6, 2021. #
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Read moreA man connects overhead cables providing generator electricity to homes and businesses that can afford it in Sadr City, Iraq, on July 2, 2021, amid power outages and soaring temperatures. #
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Read moreHealth-care workers cross the Camaná River to inoculate elderly citizens with doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, in Arequipa, Peru, on July 2, 2021. #
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Read moreA Kashmiri shepherd watches villagers being vaccinated as she stands outside her hut during a COVID-19 vaccination drive in Tosamaidan, southwest of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on June 21, 2021. #
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Read moreThe performer Elena Lenina poses on the red carpet at the screening of the film Tout s'est bien passé ("Everything Went Fine"), in competition, during the 74th Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, on July 7, 2021. #
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