Competition in the 2018 Asian Games, a mass wedding in South Korea, tomatoes in flight at “La Tomatina,” a gathering of World War I reenactors in Verdun, the new tallest statue in the world under construction in India, a swarm of bees in New York’s Times Square, hatchling crocodiles in France, memorials for both Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain, and much more
Photos of the Week: Bog Snorkeling, Air Guitar, Canadian Calf
1. A man plays with his son as they are silhouetted against the sky outside the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on August 31, 2018.
2. Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Senator John McCain, lays her head on his casket during a memorial service at the Arizona Capitol on August 29, 2018, in Phoenix.
3. An attendee listens to live music during a free tribute concert to the late Aretha Franklin at Chene Park in Detroit, Michigan, on August 30, 2018.
4. Marc Jaeger, the director of the Planet Exotica zoological and botanical garden, holds West African dwarf crocodile hatchlings recently born in the park, on August 27, 2018, in Royan, in southwestern France.
5. A blackcap is ringed at the Kent coast's Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory in Sandwich, England, on August 28, 2018. The SBBOT is an accredited bird observatory, monitoring and recording species at the Sandwich Bay reserve, including birds, mammals, and insects, notably moths. The information gathered while bird ringing, including age, weight, and sex, is passed on to the British Trust for Ornithology, which helps monitor long-term population and global-migration patterns.
6. A swarm of bees land on a hot-dog cart in Times Square in New York City on August 28, 2018.
7. A farmer dries corn during harvest season in Tancheng in China's eastern Shandong province on August 30, 2018.
8. Revelers play with fireworks during the annual "Corda" festival in the village of Paterna near Valencia, Spain, on August 27, 2018.
9. A Long March-3B rocket carrying twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, Sichuan province, China, on August 25, 2018.
10. Steam rises from the scrum during round three of the Mitre 10 Cup match between Counties Manukau and Taranaki at ECOLight Stadium on August 29, 2018 in Pukekohe, New Zealand.
11. Simona Halep of Romania smashes her racket on the ground during her loss to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia on the first day of the 2018 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on August 27, 2018.
12. Nanami 'Seven Seas' Nagura from Japan won the Air Guitar World Championships final in Oulu, Finland, on August 24, 2018.
13. An actress in costume gives tourists a tour of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago as a worker cleans the chandelier in Santiago, Chile, on August 30, 2018.
14. The August full moon rises behind the Cape of Sounio near the archaeological site of the Temple of Poseidon, south of Athens, on August 26, 2018.
15. A Rohingya boy carries greens for the family to cook in Kutupalong, the largest refugee camp housing the Rohingya, on August 26, 2018, in Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. A year ago, Myanmar's military crackdown on the ethnic Muslim minority forced over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh from violence and torture.
16. A woman walks barefoot in Central Park on August 30, 2018 in New York City.
17. A view of the under-construction Statue of Unity, near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Kevadiya Colony, about 125 mi (200 km) from Ahmadabad, India, on August 25, 2018. The Statue of Unity, a 597-foot (182-meter)-tall monument to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the founding fathers of India, will be inaugurated on October 31 and is slated to be the world's tallest statue.
18. A woman is rescued after being caught in a riptide at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia, on August 30, 2018.
19. Jonas Corten competes in the Aangespannen Day in Gilze, Netherlands, on August 26, 2018. Aangespannen Day is the largest horse and pony carriage-driving or racing event in Brabant.
20. Players from Bourton Rovers compete against each other during the annual Bourton-on-the-Water Football Match played on the River Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, England, on August 27, 2018.
21. A participant makes a leap during the dog-diving competition at the 2018 Dog and Cat (Hund und Katze) pets trade fair at the Leipziger Messe trade-fair halls in Leipzig, Germany, on August 26, 2018.
22. McLaren's Spanish driver Fernando Alonso (in air) crashes over Sauber F1's Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc during the first lap of the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Spa on August 26, 2018.
23. A man rides a scooter with his two Yorkshire Terrier dogs in a street of Marseille, France, on August 27, 2018.
24. A man wears a French uniform and a visored helmet as he takes part in a historic World War I reenactment in a bivouac in Verdun from August 24, 2018, to August 26, 2018, on August 24, 2018.
25. A masked police officer stands guard in front of a court during a protest to demand the release of demonstrators detained during recent protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government, in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 24, 2018.
26. U.S. President Donald Trump sits behind his desk as he announces a bilateral trade agreement with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the White House in Washington, D.C., on, August 27, 2018.
27. A volunteer member of the advance team for President Donald Trump blocks a camera as a photojournalist attempts to take a photo of a protester during a campaign rally at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana, on August 30, 2018.
28. Revelers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual "Tomatina", tomato-fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, Spain, on August 29, 2018. At the annual battle, which has become a major tourist attraction, trucks dumped 160 tons of tomatoes for some 20,000 participants, many from abroad, to throw during the hour-long Wednesday-morning festivities.
29. Pope Francis greets the gathered faithful as he arrives in his Popemobile to lead the Holy Mass at Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland, on August 26, 2018.
30. Couples attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea, on August 27, 2018.
31. Anyi Gomez, 19, a pregnant Venezuelan woman from Monagas State, offers to wash car windows at traffic lights in Boa Vista, Roraima State, Brazil, on August 24, 2018.
32. A competitor takes part in the World Bog Snorkeling Championships in the Waen Rhydd peat bog at Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales, on August 26, 2018.
33. A dog meets his owner after he finished kiteboarding in the Gokceada district in Turkey's northwestern Canakkale province, on August 27, 2018.
34. North Korea's Pak Jin A competes with the ribbon in the women's rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around event during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta on August 28, 2018.
35. A dairy cow cleans her newborn calf on a dairy farm in Saint-Valerien-de-Milton, southeast of Montreal, Quebec, on August 30, 2018.