A beach motocross event in England, Kibera Fashion Week in Kenya, Israeli air strikes in Gaza, a new science-fiction museum in China, a water-ski championship in Florida, a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts, a salmon run in Canada, and much more
Photos of the Week: Dangling Hay, Annular Eclipse, Scythe Competition
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Read moreRider Aleix Espargaró crashes during the free-practice session of the Indonesian MotoGP at the Mandalika International Circuit in Kuta Mandalika, Central Lombok, on October 13, 2023. #
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Read moreDancers perform during a rehearsal on October 19, 2023, for the "2023 Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" at St. Paul the Apostle Church, in New York City. #
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Read moreAlice Bagnoli of Italy slaloms during the preliminary round of the 2023 IWWF World Waterski Championships at Sunset Lakes in Lake County, Florida, on October, 13, 2023. #
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Read moreA SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 13, 2023. The spacecraft is bound for Psyche, an object 2.2 billion miles (3.5 billion kilometers) away that could offer clues about the interior of planets like Earth. #
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Read moreA shell from Israeli artillery explodes over a house in al-Bustan, a Lebanese border village with Israel, in south Lebanon, on October 15, 2023. Hamas Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon fired 20 rockets into the northern Israeli towns of Schlomi and Nahariyya, the group said in a statement. #
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Read moreOn October 14, 2023, the moon passed in front of the sun, producing an annular solar eclipse. NASA’s EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) imager aboard the orbiting DSCVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) caught this view of the event, as the Moon’s shadow crossed North America. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, on October 15, 2023, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. The new museum was hosting its first major event, WorldCon—the 81st World Science Fiction Convention. #
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Read moreDeer spar with each other in Tiaozini Wetland in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China, on October 17, 2023. At least one of the deer appears to have rope tangled around its antlers. #
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Read moreBasque reaper Alaitz Imaz cuts grass with a scythe during a "Sega proba" (grass-cutting competition with scythes) in the northern Spanish Basque city of Hernani on October 14, 2023. #
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Read moreModels get ready to take the catwalk while wearing dystopian-inspired designs at the main fashion show during Kibera Fashion Week in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi, on October 15, 2023. Kibera Fashion Week is a platform created by the community to redefine fashion and creativity while showcasing beauty and talent as a way to change the narrative about Nairobi's largest informal settlement. #
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Read moreBipedal robots in testing phase carry containers during a mobile-manipulation demonstration at Amazon's "Delivering the Future" event at the company's BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Research and Development Hub, in Sumner, Washington, on October 18, 2023. #
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Read moreSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg reacts as she is taken toward a police van after being arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the "Oily Money Out" demonstration organized by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace, on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London, on October 17, 2023. #
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Read moreColumbus Blue Jackets defenseman Erik Gudbranson makes faces with his daughter during warm-ups before a game against the Philadelphia Flyers at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, on October 12, 2023. #
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Read moreOwing to an old by-law, a hay bale hangs under Millennium Bridge as work continues on October 18, 2023, in London, England. The by-law in question is from the Port of London's Thames rulebook, and reads: "When the headroom of an arch or span of a bridge is reduced from its usual limits but that arch or span is not closed to navigation, the person in control of the bridge must suspend from the center of that arch or span by day a bundle of straw large enough to be conspicuous and by night a white light." #
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Read moreA young woman in traditional dress eats her lunch in a Five Guys restaurant in between shooting videos for her Chinese social-media account on October 18, 2023, in London, England. #
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