The world’s fastest shed in Wales, France welcomes a new president, a fiery NASCAR crash at the Kansas Speedway, Gubbio's Race of the Candles in Italy, a portrait of the late singer Chris Cornell on stage in Atlanta, a new eruption of Mount Sinabung, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 5/13–5/19
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A woman looks at cows on the Mare e Sol beach in Coti-Chiavari, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on May 17, 2017. A herd of about thirty wild cattle take up their summer residence on stretch of beach each year. #
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Hand-held candles burn in the background as Pope Francis touches the figure representing Our Lady of Fatima during his visit to the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Fatima shrine, in Fatima on May 12, 2017. Two of the three child shepherds who reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, one century ago, will be declared saints on May 13, 2017 by Pope Francis. #
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Angel Peng, 8, who injured her hand in a scalding accident when she was nine months old, poses for a photograph wearing a 3D-printed prosthetic hand designed and built by engineer Chang Hsien-Liang, in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on April 6, 2017. After losing his own right forearm in a factory accident, Chang tried several artificial limbs but he was never satisfied. The arms he could afford were too basic and the robotic hand he wanted was too expensive. So the 46-year-old engineer set out to design and build his own prosthetic arm using 3D printing technology. Now, Chang wants to help others, and is designing and building a prosthetic hand for Angel Peng. #
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In a photo taken two weeks before his death, singer Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs on stage at Fox Theater on May 3, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. On Thursday, the 52-year-old Cornell was found dead in his hotel room in Detroit, a suicide by hanging, only hours after playing a show. #
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Members of the honor guard hold flags as they wait for the arrival of visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 13, 2017. #
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Sri Lankan military rescuers and fire fighters search for trapped people in the debris of a five-story building under construction that collapsed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 18, 2017. The reason for the collapse was not immediately known. #
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A diver takes wine bottles from an underwater trunk in the Mediterranean sea off Saint-Mandrier, France, on May 15, 2017. The experiment was conducted to determine the effects on the maturing process of Bandol wines when stored under the sea for a period of one year. #
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Joey Logano, driver of the #22 AAA Insurance Ford, Danica Patrick, driver of the #10 Wonder Woman/One Cure Ford, and Aric Almirola, driver of the #43 Smithfield Ford, crash during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 13, 2017 in Kansas City, Kansas. #
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At the 70th Cannes Film Festival, during the Opening ceremony, actress Monica Bellucci, the Mistress of Ceremonies, kisses actor Alex Lutz on stage, on May 17, 2017. #
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In this photo dated May 14, 2017, a horse from the Republican Guard rears up as new French President Emmanuel Macron waves from a military vehicle while riding on the Champs Elysees avenue towards the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. #
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A man carries his dog home in the rain at end of the first day of the 122nd Devon County Show at the Westpoint Arena and Showground in Clyst St Mary near Exeter on May 18, 2017 in Devon, England. Established in 1872 it has grown into one of the Southwest's biggest county shows and is often seen as a curtain raiser for the whole showing season. Although primarily an agricultural livestock and produce showcase, it is also seen as a barometer for the health of the whole agricultural industry in general, which is in a state of uncertainty and flux following the UK's vote to leave the European Union. #
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An Iraqi man tries to put out a car on fire as Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Services (CTS) advance towards Mosul's western Rifai neighborhood during their ongoing offensive against ISIS on May 16, 2017. #
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People wait ahead of the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron for talks on strengthening the EU, a day after the new French president took office on May 15, 2017 at the chancellery in Berlin. #
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Heron-hooded dancers parade down the street toward Asakusa Shrine in the compound of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo prior to the annual Sanja Festival, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo, on May 19, 2017. #
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A small wooden boat used by refugees and migrants is seen burning after being set alight after all people were rescued by rescue crews from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Phoenix vessel on May 18, 2017 in the Lampedusa, Italy. The numbers of refugees and migrants attempting the dangerous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy has risen since the same time last year with more than 43,000 people recorded so far in 2017. Since the start of the year MOAS have rescued and assisted 3,214 people and are currently patrolling and running rescue operations in international waters off the coast of Libya. #
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An aide, left, speaks with Rep. Joe Crowley, D-New York, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member, on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 17, 2017, behind a photograph of President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during a news conference. #
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Luxury supercars are displayed inside the AutoBahn Motors (ABM) building in Singapore on May 18, 2017. The building, which resembles an automobile 'vending machine' houses 60 of the million-dollar supercars owned by ABM owners Gary and Jack Hong, who invented the Automotive Inventory Management System (AIMS). #
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Friends and relatives say their last goodbyes during the funeral mass of slain journalist Javier Valdez, in Culiacan Mexico, on May 16 2017. Valdez, a veteran reporter who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime, was slain Monday in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, the latest in a wave of journalist killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for media workers. #
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A cyclist drives past a flowering rapeseed field not far from the small Bavarian village of Schoengeising, near Munich, during a nice, warm sunny day on May 17, 2017. #
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The Forth Bridge dominates the background as the Flying Scotsman steam train travels through the Fife countryside, during a tourist trip to the Scottish region and a visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 14, 2017. #
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A vehicle that struck pedestrians, killing one, and later crashing, on the sidewalk in Times Square in New York City, U.S., May 18, 2017. The driver, Richard Rojas, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs, was arrested on the scene and and has been charged with murder. #
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A Chinese worker from Wuhan Guangsheng Photovoltaic Company works on a solar panel project on the roof of a 47 story building in a new development on May 15, 2017 in Wuhan, China. China consumes more electricity than any other nation, but it is also the world's biggest producer of solar energy. Capacity in China hit 77 gigawatts in 2016 which helped a 50% jump in solar power growth worldwide. China is now home to two-thirds of the world's solar production, though capacity and consumption remain low relative to its population. Still, the country now buys half of the world's new solar panels Ñ which convert sunlight into energy, and are being installed on rooftops in cities and across sprawling fields in rural areas. Greenpeace estimates that by 2030, renewable energy could replace fossil fuels as China's primary source of power, a significant change in a country considered the world's biggest polluter. China's government has officially committed to development of renewable energies to ease the country's dependence on coal and other fossil fuels, though its strategic investments in the solar panel have created intense global competition. #
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Kevin Nicks from Oxfordshire, drives the world's fastest shed during the Straightliners annual, UK, European and World land speed event at Pendine Sands, Wales, on May 13, 2017. #
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A Brazilian Public-Safety National Force policeman patrols the streets near the Chapadao slums complex during a security operation on an effort to crack down on crime in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 16, 2017. #
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One of the three Ceri, St. Giorgio, is carried into Piazza Grande prior the Alzata of the candles (Ceri) on May 15, 2017 in Gubbio, Italy. Gubbio's Race of the Candles festival dates back to the middle of the 12th century, a festival to express gratitude to Ubaldo, the then bishop of Gubbio, in celebration for victory in war. The Ceraioli who support the heavy Ceri (candles) wear colored shirts to represent their respective saint, yellow for St. Ubaldo, blue for St. Giorgio and black for St. Anthony. #
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A child sleeps on his mother's shoulder after a perilous journey on foot to flee heavy fighting in their neighborhood between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants, at a processing center in west Mosul, Iraq, on May 18, 2017. #
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