Sled-dog training in Scotland, a famous rat hole in Chicago, scenes from the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in South Korea, Roman ruins in a field in Serbia, a new photothermal-power plant in China, forest fires in Colombia, a World Snow Day celebration in Egypt, and much more
Photos of the Week: Coffin Escape, Cattle Drive, Pigeon Portraits
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Read moreA helicopter from the armed forces loads water to fight forest fires in Bogota, Colombia, on January 23, 2024. At least four active forest fires hit several regions of Colombia and the capital, Bogota, on Tuesday, amid a wave of conflagrations due to recent high temperatures. #
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Read moreItaly's Alexandra Oberstolz and Katharina Sofie Kofler compete in the women's-doubles luge event at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Alpensia Sliding Centre in Gangwon, South Korea, on January 21, 2024. #
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Read moreEgyptian girls enjoy the Ice Warrior Challenge during a celebration of World Snow Day, promoting snow sports and encouraging individuals to enjoy winter, at Ski Egypt, in Giza, Egypt, on January 20, 2024. #
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Read morePeople gather to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on January 21, 2024, in Munich, Germany. Protests against the AfD and in defense of democracy have been taking place across Germany over the past week, following the recent revelation that high-ranking AfD members met with far-right extremists at a villa in Potsdam last November. Participants at the meeting reportedly discussed how to possibly introduce legislative measures to enable the mass expulsion of immigrants from Germany, as well as German citizens with immigrant roots and German citizens who have helped refugees. #
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Read moreA woman holds a child as people gather for the funeral of Sadegh Omidzadeh and Mohammad-Amin Samadi, members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Tehran, Iran, on January 22, 2024. #
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Read moreA member of the Ramnami religious movement, with tattoos of the Hindu god Ram's name on his body, looks on during an annual festival near the Mahanadi River in Jaijaipur, India's Chhattisgarh state, on January 20, 2024. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of some of the 11,960 heliostats installed at the construction site of a photothermal-power plant in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, on January 23, 2024 #
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Read moreChina's Xiao Siyu competes during the final run of the women's freeski slopestyle qualification at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games at Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in Hoengseong, South Korea, on January 24, 2024. #
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Read morePalestinians, transporting their belongings in a horse carriage as they flee from intense Israeli attacks, migrate toward Rafah and Deir Al Balah from Khan Younis on January 22, 2024, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. #
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Read moreA temporary hut burns in a square in the small village of Forcall, Spain, on January 19, 2024. Forcall, with 450 inhabitants, holds an annual festival to celebrate the patron saint of animals, Sant Antoni; after a procession through the streets with people dressed as demons, and another procession with animals, villagers cross through a huge bonfire in the middle of the village square. #
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Read moreThe excavated site of an ancient Roman triumphal arch that was discovered by archaeologists at Viminacium, a former Roman settlement, near the town of Kostolac, Serbia, photographed on January 22, 2024 #
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Read moreCoins are left behind by visitors at an impression in a sidewalk known as the Chicago Rat Hole, in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 2024. The decades-old impression in the the shape of a rat (or squirrel) began attracting a regular stream of visitors after a post on X garnered more than 5 million views. #
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Read morePhotographer Peter Bennett takes pictures of the prize-winning pigeons at the British Homing World Show of the Year in the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England, on January 20, 2024. #
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Read moreCowboys and cowgirls from the Jesson Ranch drive cattle along downtown Park Street in Livingston, Montana, on their way back to their ranch from winter pasture on January 20, 2024. #
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Read moreSnow covers the roofs of the "Alter Flecken" ("old spot"), the historic core of Freudenberg, with its half-timbered houses from the 17th century in the heart of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, near the city of Siegen, Germany, on January 19, 2024. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of Sumela Monastery, a historical Greek-Orthodox monastery carved into the Pontic Mountains in the Roman Imperial Period, during winter in Trabzon, Turkey, on January 24, 2024 #
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Read moreAn aerial shot of a breeder going to dig out hay that had been stacked in the summer, from beneath a layer of snow, in the Gürpınar district of Van, Turkey, on January 25, 2024 #
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Read moreA Cucumber and a Chuta Cholero hug during the traditional Desentierro del Pepino ("unearthing the cucumber") festival to mark the beginning of Carnival on January 21, 2024, in La Paz, Bolivia. #
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Read moreStudents belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) carry a long banner in the colors of the Indian national flag through the city on the eve of Republic Day in Jammu, India, on January 25, 2024. #
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Read moreGamer Miriam Castella is locked in a coffin while participating in an extreme escape room named Catalepsia, in which she tries to escape from her simulated funeral by solving puzzles, in Barcelona, Spain, on January 18, 2024. #
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Read moreRussia's Daniil Medvedev plays his fourth-round match against Portugal's Nuno Borges at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, on January 22, 2024. #
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