Photos of the Week: Pug Mugshot, Umbrella Sky, Helsinki Summit
Splashing in New York City, deadly protests in Nicaragua, a reunited migrant family in Texas, tornado damage in Iowa, mammoth transport in Austria, and much more.
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HelloRF Zcool / Shutterstock A Photo Trip to China’s Qiandongnan Prefecture
In south central China’s Guizhou province sits Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, home to nearly four million people, beautiful scenery, and colorful festivals.
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Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Afriski: Lesotho's Only Ski Resort
High in the Mountains of Lesotho, sits Afriski, one of only two ski resorts in southern Africa.
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters Photos of the Week: Atomic Art, Moon Pool, Giant Iceberg
The Royal Air Force celebrates its centennial in London, World Cup emotions run high, the Running of the Bulls begins in Spain, Tour de France riders pass through stage six, and much more.
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Kyodo / Reuters Photos: Death Toll Reaches 200 in Devastating Japan Floods
Over the weekend, sustained heavy rainfall hit parts of western and central Japan, causing flash flooding, setting off landslides, and submerging floodplains.
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Giuseppe Bellini / Getty Colors Bloom Across the Great Plain of Castelluccio, Italy
Fields of lentils and poppies carpet this Italian landscape with a colorful quilt of blossoming flowers every year.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images From Ivan Kupala Night
In parts of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia, an ancient pagan rite combined with a traditional Orthodox feast to become Ivan Kupala Night, a festival celebrating the summer solstice.
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Raymond Hennessy / Audubon Photography Awards 2018 Audubon Photography Awards
Some of the best bird photography of the year—a collection of the 2018 winners and runners-up.
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Alain Jocard / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Kansas Lightning, Afghan Pigeons, Sunken Wrecks
Cooling off in New York City, rescue operations in Thailand, migrants crossing the Mediterranean, wildfires in California, a presidential election in Mexico, a rocket explodes in Japan, and much more.
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Sakchai Lalit / AP After 10 Days Trapped in a Cave in Thailand, a Difficult Rescue Lies Ahead
In northern Thailand, hundreds of rescue workers have been searching for a group of 12 boys and their coach lost in a cave. They found them alive after days of being trapped underground, but getting them out won’t be easy.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Photos From the Nationwide “Families Belong Together” Marches
Across the country yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in small towns and big cities to march and voice their opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Wild Horses, Scarlet Sails, Sun God
A firearms course for teachers in Colorado, the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in California, a spider hunts along a Russian river, a dramatic moonrise above a burning moorland in England, and much more.
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Reiko Takahashi / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest
The winning images have been selected from this year’s edition of the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year competition.
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Toni Frissell / Library of Congress The Works of Photographer Toni Frissell
A collection of images by Toni Frissell, a talented photographer who covered fashion, war, celebrity, and ordinary life from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Reuters The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
Gigantic piles of impounded, abandoned, and broken bicycles have become a familiar sight in many Chinese cities, after a rush to build up its new bike-sharing industry vastly overreached.
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