Underground dancing in Beijing, a memorial of flags in Boston, a view of the Milky Way in Chile, beach horse racing in Spain, the Notting Hill Carnival in London, a wildfire in California, destructive flooding in Pakistan, and much more
Photos of the Week: Pumpkin Boat, Road Locomotive, Museum Battleship
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Read moreHomes are surrounded by floodwater in Sohbat Pur, a district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, on August 29, 2022. Disaster officials say nearly half a million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding caused by unprecedented monsoon rains in recent weeks. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of a crowd of supporters of the Brazilian presidential candidate for the leftist Workers Party, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at an election rally in Manaus, Brazil, on August 31, 2022. #
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Read moreIn this aerial view, the tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar- and photovoltaic-power plant stands high in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places with the highest solar radiation on Earth, in Maria Elena, Chile, photographed on August 28, 2022. The project is part of Chile's national renewable-energy program, whose goal is to secure 20 percent of the nation's energy needs from renewable sources by 2025. #
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Read moreA new view of the Phantom Galaxy, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, seen in this image released on August 29, 2022. Webb’s instruments reveal delicate filaments of gas and dust in the spiral arms that wind outward from the center of this image. #
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Read moreA young pangolin rests after receiving medical treatment on its tail, believed to have been injured during an attack by dogs, at the Leofoo Village Zoo in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on August 31, 2022. #
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Read morePerformers parade during the Notting Hill Carnival in London, England, on August 28, 2022. The Caribbean carnival returned to the streets of Notting Hill after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. #
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Read moreA reveler lies in tomato pulp during the Tomatina festival—billed as the world's largest food fight—in Buñol, Spain, on August 31, 2022. #
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Read moreStephanie Williams cools off with water from a hydrant in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California, on August 31, 2022. Excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and northward into the Central Valley on Wednesday, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week. #
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Read moreIn an aerial view, hundreds of dead fish are seen floating in the waters of Lake Merritt, a tidal lagoon of San Francisco Bay, on August 30, 2022, in Oakland, California. Tens of thousands of dead fish, including sharks, sturgeon and large striped bass, are showing up on the shores of the bay and its waterways as a widespread algal bloom continues more than a month after first being detected. The algae is not believed to be immediately harmful to humans but, in high concentrations, could be fatal to fish and other marine life. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of the remains of the submerged Gary Qasruka village, which was abandoned in 1985 and has partly resurfaced recently following a large drop in the water level behind the Dohuk Dam due to drought, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on August 28, 2022 #
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Read moreA view of Sycamore Gap on Hadrian’s Wall, in Hexham, England, photographed on August 27, 2022. This year is the 1,900th anniversary of the building of the first phase of Hadrian's Wall, which is being celebrated with a year-long festival of events and activities. The wall is named after Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ordered its construction in A.D. 122. At 80 miles long, it was the northwest frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years. #
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Read moreExhibitors drive their steam road-locomotive engines at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in Blandford Forum, England, on August 28, 2022. First held in 1969 and reputedly the largest collection of steam and vintage equipment anywhere, it regularly attracts 200,000 visitors to the site to see steam road locomotives, as well as other vintage vehicles. #
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Read moreNASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen during sunrise atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on August 31, 2022, in Florida. After a delay, the next launch attempt is scheduled for 2:17 p.m. Eastern time, on Saturday, September 3. #
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Read moreDuane Hansen floats down the Missouri River in a giant hollowed-out pumpkin, in Bellevue, Nebraska, on August 27, 2022. Hansen said he was trying to set the record for "longest journey by pumpkin boat," while celebrating his 60th birthday. #
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Read moreThe USS Texas is towed down the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown, Texas, on August 31, 2022. The vessel, which was commissioned in 1914 and served in both World War I and World War II, is being towed to a dry dock in Galveston where it will undergo an extensive $35 million repair. #
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Read moreA man (right) removes a cloth to unveil a 30-foot-tall statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, made from metal pots, coconuts, ears of corn, and sugarcane, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Chennai, India, on August 31, 2022. #
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Read morePassersby look at a field of 20,000 purple flags in Boston, Massachusetts—one flag for each of the overdose deaths in the state from 2011 to 2021—on Boston Common, on August 29, 2022. #
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Read morePeople carry a 430-meter-long Ukrainian national flag in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 28, 2022. The action was meant to symbolize Ukraine's unity during its war with Russia, whose forces occupy large swaths of Ukraine's east and south. #
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Read moreSerena Williams celebrates after defeating Montenegro's Danka Kovinic during their 2022 U.S. Open Tennis tournament women's-singles first-round match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on August 29, 2022. Williams was set to take center stage as the U.S. Open got under way, as the 23-time Grand Slam winner prepares to bid an emotional farewell to tennis. #
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