A cemetery for the nameless in Austria, flooding in Venezuela, a Star Wars parade in Mexico City, low water in the lower Mississippi River, a build-your-own-boat competition in North Carolina, power failures after attacks in Ukraine, a spooky ruined abbey in England, and much more
Photos of the Week: Foam Fight, Pumpkin Regatta, Motor Gliders
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Read moreCelia Xakriaba, from the Xakriaba Indigenous people, an elected candidate for Minas Gerais state deputy, photographed during a seminar of the natives of the land and Indigenous women leaders in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 15, 2022 #
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Read moreWhitby Abbey is illuminated for the grand finale of English Heritage’s Dracula season, marking the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s iconic book, on October 20, 2022, in Whitby, England. #
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Read moreA man lights a cigar at the Altar Mayor, a place of prayer, where people bring candles and flowers for the saints, during an annual religious festival revering the goddess María Lionza, in Quibayo, Venezuela, on October 11, 2022. #
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Read moreSpectators watch as Aerosparx Grob 109B motor gliders launch fireworks while performing aerobatics at the end of the Oeiras Valley Air Show, an aerobatics festival, over Santo Amaro Beach in Oeiras, Portugal, on October 16, 2022. #
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Read moreSpectators watch as an F/A-18 Hornet of the Swiss Air Force performs during the annual live-fire event over the Axalp in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, on October 19, 2022. #
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Read moreSoldiers of the Swiss Special Forces Command are suspended by a cable from a helicopter, during an aviation display event over the Axalp in the Bernese Oberland, on October 19, 2022. #
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Read moreA man steps into a motorcycle taxi that has been modified to cope with flooding in Hagonoy, a town plagued by seasonal monsoons, in Bulacan province, Philippines, on September 23, 2022. Photo released on October 17. #
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Read moreAn Andean condor named Yastay, meaning "God that is protector of the birds" in the Quechua Indigenous language, spreads his wings after being freed by the Andean Condor conservation program where he was born almost three years prior in Sierra Paileman in the Rio Negro province of Argentina, on October 14, 2022. For 30 years the Andean Condor Conservation Program has hatched chicks in captivity, rehabilitated others, and freed them across South America. #
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Read moreA woman warms her dog in Kivsharivka, Ukraine, on October 16, 2022. Residents in Kivsharivka have been living with no gas, electricity, or running water supply for about three weeks. #
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Read moreThe Diamond Lady, a once-majestic riverboat, rests with smaller boats in mud at Riverside Park Marina in Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park, along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 19, 2022. Lack of rain in the Ohio River Valley and along the Upper Mississippi has the Mississippi River south of the confluence of the Ohio River nearing record low levels. This is wreaking havoc at marinas and with barge traffic, driving up shipping prices and threatening crop exports and fertilizer shipments as the soybean and corn harvest gets into full swing. #
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Read moreMembers of a university student group heckle a police officer during a protest held outside a state-run university, demanding the release of student union leaders who are in custody in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on October 18, 2022. The protesting students object to a proposed law that they say will legalize widespread abuses at rehabilitation centers for narcotics abusers, former combatants, and any person the state deemed in need of rehabilitation. #
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Read moreDemonstrators are sprayed with water cannons during clashes with riot police that erupted in a protest on the third anniversary of a social uprising against climbing utility prices, near Baquedano Square in Santiago, Chile, on October 18, 2022. #
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Read moreIbrahim Traoré, recently named as interim president of Burkina Faso, attends a ceremony for the 35th anniversary of the assassination of revolutionary president Thomas Sankaras, in Ouagadougou, on October 15, 2022. Traoré took power in a coup on September 30, 2022—the second coup in Burkina Faso this year. #
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Read moreA first year student at the University of St. Andrews takes part in the annual "Raisin Monday Shaving Foam Fight" at the Lower College Lawn, in St. Andrews, Scotland, on October 17, 2022. #
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Read moreCreator Catherine Pervan describes how she and her daughter made "Pan Solo," a 6-foot-tall replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, made entirely of bread, at One House Bakery in Benicia, California, on October 16, 2022. Catherine and her daughter Hannalee spent more than 100 hours manually creating the life-size dough replica of the frozen "Star Wars" character, as part of a citywide storefront-scarecrow competition. #
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Read moreTennessee Volunteers fans tear down the goalposts after their team defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, on October 15, 2022. #
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Read moreColombian students take part in the world's largest software lesson, setting a new Guinness World Record, in Medellín, Colombia, on October 19, 2022. The class lasted 45 minutes, and 3,119 students took part. #
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Read moreA grave bears the inscription "Unbekannt" ("Unknown") at the Friedhof der Namenlosen, or Cemetery of the Nameless, near Albern Harbour in Vienna, Austria, on October 20, 2022. The cemetery was created for mostly unidentified corpses that once washed up on the banks of the river Danube. Its last funeral took place in 1940, and the cemetery is now taken care of by the Vienna Harbour company and the city of Vienna. #
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