Whale Sharks as Good Luck Charms
Fishermen in Cenderawasih Bay in West Papua, Indonesia, have long believed that whale sharks bring good luck.
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Franck Fife / AFP / Getty Scenes From the 2017 Silk Way Rally
For the past two weeks, rally racers from 35 countries drove 5,965 miles (9,600 kilometers) from Moscow, Russia, to Xi'an, China.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: 7/15–7/21
Highland games in Scotland, a diving jaguar in France, wildfires in California and western Canada, a wax Donald Trump, and much more.
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Adam Pretty / Getty Scenes From the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Hundreds of athletes from 186 nations are gathered in Budapest, Hungary to compete in 75 events across six disciplines in the 17th FINA World Championships.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters A Walk in the Woods: A Photo Appreciation of Trees
A collection of images of unusual, intriguing, and beautiful trees and forests around the world.
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Stevo Vasiljevic / Reuters Wildfires Across Southern Europe
Recent high temperatures and dry, windy conditions in Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, France, and Portugal have resulted in thousands of small wildfires and a few large large blazes.
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Cate Gillon / Getty Swan Upping on the River Thames
The annual Swan Upping began today in London, England—a five-day census counting swans and young cygnets belonging to the Queen.
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Romina Amato / Red Bull via Getty Photos of the Week: 7/8–7/14
Beer yoga in Australia, utter destruction in Mosul, Iraq, the Running of the Bulls in Spain, wildfires in California, and much more.
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Ann Pacheco / Audubon Photography Awards 2017 Audubon Photography Awards
Spectacular wildlife photography: the winners and runners-up from the 2017 Audubon Photography Awards competition.
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Susana Vera / Reuters Photos of the Week: 7/1–7/7
The pagan Ivana Kupala night celebrated in Ukraine, the Wife-Carrying World Championship in Finland, G20 meetings and protests in Germany, and much more.
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Martyn Aim / Corbis via Getty Mosul in Ruins
Eight months of warfare have taken an enormous toll on Iraq’s second city and its citizens.
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Ian Gavan / Getty Robots at Work and Play
Recent images of robotic technology around the world.
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Library of Congress; The Crowley Company Celebrating the Fourth of July in 1941, in Vale, Oregon
Photographer Russell Lee, while working for the FSA/OWI visited the small town of Vale, Oregon, on the Fourth of July in 1941.
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Matjaz Krivic / Getty Beauty and Color: Scenes From Ethiopia
Ethiopia is home to more than 100 million people and is composed of wildly varying landscapes and an incredible diversity of ethnic and religious groups.
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This September, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will take its final measurements and images as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere at 77,000 miles per hour, burning up high above the cloud tops.
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