Photos of the Week: Wheelbarrow Race, Count Binface, Orange Skies (2024)

Spiral bookshelves are seen in a bookshop in Guangzhou, China, on April 23, 2024. #

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Phish performs during night one of their four-night run at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 18, 2024. #

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A visitor inspects the Dobsina ice cave as workers dig drainage ditches for the rapidly-melting ice and the water coming from it, near the village of Dobsina, Slovakia, on April 19, 2024. The unique ice cave has recently been under the scrutiny of experts who are investigating whether the cave is threatened by climate warming and whether the ice is disappearing from the underground as fast as, for example, the Arctic glaciers. According to the geologists, the difference between ice gain and loss is alarming. #

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An aerial view of a man standing in Lake Tuz, Turkey's second largest lake, at sunset, in Ankara, Turkey, on April 22, 2024. #

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A couple sits on Tourkovounia hill, as southerly winds carry waves of Saharan dust, in Athens, Greece, on April 23, 2024. Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara covered Athens and other Greek cities on April 23, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, officials said. #

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Germany's "Friends of Cannabis" meet for a "smoke-in", by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on 4/20—April 20, 2024. #

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Police officers react as supporters of the opposition hurl Molotov co*cktails at the mayor's office, accusing him of corruption, in Tirana, Albania, on April 19, 2024. #

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Ukrainian soldiers from the assault brigade fire a 120mm mortar while supporting operations on April 19, 2024, in Ukraine. #

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People hold up flares during a funeral ceremony for serviceman Pavlo Petrychenko on April 19, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Petrychenko, 31, died in the Donetsk Oblast during a combat mission. #

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This photograph taken near Saint-Emilion, France, on April 23, 2024, shows workers lighting anti-frost candles installed in a vineyard to keep temperatures above freezing and prevent damage to the vines. #

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Police intervene and arrest more than 100 students at New York University, where students continued their demonstration on campus in solidarity with the students at Columbia University, and to oppose Israel's attacks on Gaza, in New York City on April 22, 2024. Pro-Palestinian protesters have launched a wave of protests on campus condemning Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has displaced over 75% of the coastal enclave's estimated 2.3 million people, and resulted in over 34,000 deaths, according to Gaza health officials. #

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A student is arrested during a pro-Palestine demonstration at the the University of Texas at Austin on April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. #

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Locals carry out search and rescue efforts after an Israeli attack on Ridwan family house trapped many Palestinians under rubble in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah, Gaza, on April 20, 2024. #

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People rush toward humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip on April 23, 2024. #

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Kites fly over the beach during the 37th International Berck-sur-Mer Kite Festival, in the resort of Berck-sur-Mer, France, on April 21, 2024. #

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A performer attends the Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2024 Parade in Tokyo, Japan, on April 21, 2024, to show support for members of the LGBT community. #

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An activist with a painted face symbolizing the number of days spent in captivity attends the Free Azov rally in support of the captured defenders of Mariupol on April 21, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Participants came out to remind others about the Ukrainian soldiers who have been held in Russian captivity for more than two years. #

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A junior Red Rebel accompanies the funeral bier in the procession on April 20, 2024, in Bath, England. Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion Red Rebels took to the streets in a mass procession to mark a massive decline of the natural world in the lead up to Earth Day, and citing the UK as one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. #

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A visitor dressed as the Earl of Lemongrab from the show Adventure Time attends on day two of the Scarborough Sci Fi weekend on April 21, 2024, in Scarborough, England. #

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London mayoral candidate Count Binface poses for members of the media in Westminster, London, on April 25, 2024. #

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Artist Murat Cetin uses recycled industrial materials to create imaginative sculptures in Düzce, Turkey, photographed on April 18, 2024. #

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A man is silhouetted against the setting sun as he balances on a line at a beach in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 19, 2024. #

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Boys on horses ride through through Ambelia refugee camp as a storm approaches on April 20, 2024, in Adré, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad. The total number of refugees, including those from previous conflicts, now stands at 1.2 million. Aid agencies, already struggling with acute supply shortages, have warned that the life-saving programs in Chad, will "grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding." Chad is now home to one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. #

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An aerial view of Polish highlanders walking with their sheep during the Redyk, a celebration to start the sheep grazing season in Ludźmierz, Poland, on April 21, 2024. #

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A girl competes during a hobby-horsing competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 21, 2024. #

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Marc Rebillet performs at the DoLaB at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 21, 2024, in Indio, California. #

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Ryan Trimmer and Chris Phillips participate in the Pinner Wheelbarrow Race, as part of a St. George's Day celebration in northwest London, England, on April 21, 2024. The race has been held for the past 61 years and involves teams of two taking turns pushing each other in a wheelbarrow through the streets of Pinner while drinking beer. #

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A hotel building in Hualien, Taiwan, which had been previously damaged in the April 3 earthquake, tilts further to one side after a series of earthquakes overnight, seen on April 23, 2024. Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into April 23 that left buildings swaying and some tilting, with the government saying they were aftershocks from the deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago. #

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Goats look for edible items in a canal piled up with plastic waste, photographed on the eve of Earth Day in New Delhi, India, on April 21, 2024. #

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An aerial view of teams conducting an operation to open a mountain highway that has been closed for about four months due to avalanche danger, in the Bahcesaray district of Van, Turkey, on April 19, 2024. #

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People walk in a tulip field in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 23, 2024. #

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Incoming Columbine High School freshmen Ava Kyle (left) and Ellie Fairweather, both of Littleton, Colorado, place flowers atop the Columbine Memorial in Clement Park on the 25th anniversary of the school shooting on April 20, 2024, in Littleton, Colorado. Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the school shooting where two students killed twelve of their classmates, one teacher and injured many more on April 20, 1999. #

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The exterior of a building, covered with Boston ivy, seen in Shanghai, China, on April 23, 2024 #

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This photograph taken in Paris on April 23, 2024, shows April's full moonset, also known as the Pink Moon, seen behind the Eiffel Tower. #

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Mount Ruang volcano erupts in Sitaro, North Sulawesi, on April 19, 2024. The remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky on April 19, after nearly half a dozen eruptions earlier this week forced thousands to evacuate when molten rocks rained down on their villages. #

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