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Photos of the Week: Fallas Festival, Butterfly Gathering, Beach Violin

Traditional bull racing in Indonesia, puppies rescued from flooding in Hawaii, humanoid robots in China, and much more

By Alan Taylor

Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET on March 27, 2026

A handler stands beside an alpaca during a show, as they look at each other face-to-face.
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A handler waits with her Huacaya alpaca as it is judged in the show ring at the British Alpaca Society National Show held at the Staffordshire County Showground, in Stafford, England, on March 20, 2026. The three-day show brought together 510 alpacas from 69 exhibitors from across the U.K. vying to be awarded the title of Supreme Champion in either the Huacaya or Suri fleece categories.
A humanoid robot wearing a uniform and a panda mascot head dances alongside several other uniformed robots.
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A humanoid robot in a panda mascot head dances on the square of the Boao Forum for Asia International Conference Center on March 23, 2026, in Bo’ao, Qionghai City, Hainan province, China.
Several raccoons beg and reach for food on a waterfront, with a city skyline in the background.
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Several raccoons are fed by tourists along the Cinta Costera at dusk in Panama City on March 23, 2026.
People stand on a cantilevered bridge at sunset, with a view of Moscow in the background.
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People walk on the Paryashiy bridge, also known as the floating bridge, with a panorama of Moscow in the background, on March 24, 2026.
A fantastical sculpture of fairytale figures goes up in flames.
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The Fallas Festival ends with the burning the artistic monument Falla Almirante Cadarso-Conde Altea by the artist Francisco Giner Nuñez, in Valencia, Spain, on March 19, 2026. During the festival, locals celebrate the arrival of spring and pay tribute to San Jose, the patron saint of the carpenters’ guild, by building and then ceremonially burning huge monuments made of wood, cardboard, and paper.
Lightning strikes in the night sky above an oil tanker.
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Lightning strikes above META 4, an oil-products tanker, as it sails into Muscat Anchorage on March 21, 2026, at Port Sultan Qaboos in Muscat, Oman.
A woman with a violin stands along the surf on a beach, as others play in the waves nearby.
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A woman with a violin stands along the surf at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia, on March 26, 2026.
A worker sprays cleaner on the head of a statue, scrubbing with a brush.
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A restoration worker tends to a statue during the restoration project for the main facade of the Church of the Gran Madre di Dio in Turin, Italy, on March 20, 2026.
Many small and one large points of light streak across the night sky, missiles falling toward the ground.
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Missiles launched by Iran in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks over the skies of Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine, on March 24, 2026
A fireball erupts following an Israeli strike near a tent encampment.
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A fireball erupts following an Israeli strike near a tent encampment sheltering people displaced by war in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2026. Violence has persisted in Gaza despite a cease-fire that took effect on October 10, as both Israel and Hamas regularly accuse each other of violations.
A cat walks amid debris at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
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A cat walks amid debris at the site of an overnight Israeli air strike in the southern suburb Haret Hreik in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 24, 2026.
Long densely-packed rows of unused shared electric bicycles, seen from above
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A large number of shared electric bicycles sit densely piled up on idle land in Nanning, Guangxi, China, on March 24, 2026.
An aerial view of terraced fields covered in blooming flowers
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An aerial view of the Qiandangtian terraced fields covered by blooming flowers on March 24, 2026, in Chongqing, China
A man on a trctor drives through an orchard of small blooming peach trees.
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Anastasios Chalkidis, head of the Agricultural Association of Veria, tends to blooming peach trees near the city of Veria, Greece, on March 22, 2026.
Two people hold two puppies, rescuing them from a flooded area.
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Cary Josh, with the American Humane Society, carries two puppies of the owner Bomi Ramsuvan during a rescue at a flooded farm in Mokulēʻia, Hawaii, Monday, March 23, 2026.
A satellite image shows muddy storm sediment flowing into the ocean alongside a residential neighborhood.
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A satellite image shows muddy storm sediment flowing into the ocean near Waialua on Oahu after severe rains and flooding.
A drone photo shows roiling muddy water flowing from an opened sluice gate, alongside a platform where people perform a dragon dance.
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A drone photo shows water flowing from an opened sluice gate along the Yellow River, to be used for irrigation in Qingtongxia, in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on March 24, 2026.
Cows are guided through a flooded area, wading through water that comes up to their bellies.
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Cows are guided through a flooded area in West Nyakach, Kisumu County, Kenya, on March 22, 2026. Torrential storms that triggered flash floods in Kenya have killed at least 81 people this month, authorities said, as rain continued to pound much of the country.
Two people in an inflatable boat work to clear debris from a large patch of floating garbage in a lake.
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Members of the Kosovo Security Force remove plastic bottles and other debris washed ashore by rains along Badovac Lake near Pristina on March 22, 2026.
A soldier looks on as a crashed plane burns, sending up a thick column of black smoke.
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Flames and thick black smoke rise from an Air Force Hercules aircraft that crashed during takeoff, as a member of the Colombian police stands nearby, in Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia, on March 23, 2026. Colombia’s military said on March 23 that about 80 troops were believed to be dead after the transport plane crashed in the south of the country.
A drone operator, wearing a mask and visor, pilots a drone which hovers in the background.
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An employee of the Ukrainian SkyFall company conducts a test flight with a P1-Sun interceptor drone at an undisclosed location in Ukraine on March 19, 2026.
Two humanoid robots, wearing kerchiefs on their heads, operate among tea bushes beside workers.
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Humanoid robots operate alongside workers at a tea garden in Huanggang, Hubei province, China, on March 22, 2026.
Visitors gather by an illuminated cherry blossom tree at night.
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Visitors gather by a weeping cherry-blossom tree as part of a nighttime viewing at Rikugien Gardens in Tokyo on March 24, 2026.
Tall stone formations, topped with trees, shrouded by low clouds
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An aerial view of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, shrouded in clouds after a rainfall on March 26, 2026, in China’s Hunan province
Soccer fans cheer, surrounded by smoke from flares.
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Tottenham Hotspur supporters set off flares as the team bus arrives prior to the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest on March 22, 2026, in London.
A person is pulled through shallow water by two racing bulls, as they bite the tail of one of the bulls.
Willy Kurniawan / Reuters
A jockey competes in Pacu Jawi, a traditional Minangkabau bull race held in harvested paddy fields, in Tanah Datar regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on March 25, 2026.
A hawk snatches a fish from water with one talon.
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A black-collared hawk catches a fish in the Pantanal, a key region along birds’ migratory routes in the Americas, in the municipality of Miranda in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, on March 20, 2026.
Hundreds of Monarch butterflies gather on a forest floor.
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Monarch butterflies gather in the forest of the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Ocampo, Mexico, on March 25, 2026.

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
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