Highland games in Scotland, a diving jaguar in France, wildfires in California and western Canada, virtual reality in Japan, a rally race through China, a wax Donald Trump, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 7/15–7/21
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Elvis the pug attends PugFest Manchester, a festival celebrating pugs and pug cross dogs, held at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, on July 16, 2017. #
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Space suits of NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut commander Sergey Ryazansky are tested at an assembling department of the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on July 17, 2017. The Soyuz MS-05 launch is scheduled for July 28, 2017. #
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Wrestlers compete in the Inveraray highland games on July 18, 2017, in Inverarary, Scotland. The Games celebrate Scottish culture and heritage with track-and-field events, piping, highland dancing competitions, and heavy events including the world championships for tossing the caber. #
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A woman carries her child as she watches Mount Sinabung spewing thick volcanic ash, as seen from Karo on July 21, 2017. Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years. After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since. #
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A jaguar hunts a fish as it swims in its enclosure at Pessac Zoo on the outskirts of Bordeaux on July 20, 2017. Two jaguars—Mato and Catalina, 1 and 2 years old respectively—are on display at the zoo for the first time in Europe and have an enclosure which includes a pool of some 100 cubic meters where members of the public can observe their predatory aquatic abilities. #
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Karma Scott, 19, does leg lifts at a fitness station on the boardwalk in Long Beach, New York, on July 19, 2017. Temperatures in the 90s drew hundreds of people seeking relief from the warmth to the ocean, where stiff breezes cooled them off. #
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President Donald Trump examines U.S.-made products from all 50 states, including a Marucci baseball bat, in the Blue Room of the White House during a "Made in America" product showcase event in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2017. #
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A truck set ablaze by opposition activists blocking an avenue during a protest burns in Caracas on July 18, 2017. The Venezuelan opposition called for a 24-hour national civic strike next Thursday to pressure President Nicolás Maduro to withdraw the call to a National Constituent Assembly after achieving a massive vote of rejection in a symbolic plebiscite. #
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Seven year old Ben MacDonald submerges himself in Lego bricks during Bricklive at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center on July 20, 2017, in Glasgow, Scotland. #
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Riders pass through Sisteron during the 19th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 222.5 kilometers (138.3 miles) with start in Embrun and finish in Salon-de-Provence, France, on July 21, 2017. #
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74-year-old Khim Hang has taken a young cow under her wing, believing him to be the reincarnation of her husband Tol Khut, a farmer who died unexpectedly just over a year ago in Kratié province, Cambodia. She is not the only one to hold this belief—her seven children and her neighbors do as well. Inside their wooden stilted house, the calf is fed, washed, and put to bed with a long fluffy pillow propped up along his back. He lies in bed from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m., the family says, with the TV frequently on in the background to keep him entertained—just as Tol Khut would have liked. Hang says the new family addition is here to stay, adding that her children have been instructed to look after him if she dies earlier than he does, and to give him a human funeral ceremony upon his death. Photographed on July 18, 2017. #
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Medical workers and police treat a woman who has overdosed on heroin, the second case in a matter of minutes, on July 14, 2017, in Warren, Ohio. According to recent statistics, at least 4,149 Ohioans died from drug overdoses in 2016, a 36 percent leap from just the previous year that makes Ohio the leader in the nation's overdose deaths. #
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Fire retardant covers a window of a house in Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada, on July 18, 2017. Residents of the town were forced to evacuate 11 days ago and can now return to their homes. #
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A federal police officer peers out from inside the hangar of the attorney general's office at the Mexico City airport, as former Veracruz State Governor Javier Duarte is processed inside after arriving from Guatemala on July 17, 2017. Duarte, who resigned as governor in 2016, agreed to extradition to his home country to face charges of embezzlement and ties to organized crime. #
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A young Indian man dressed as the Hindu god Brahma looks on prior to participating in a religious rally to celebrate the Gajan festival in Kolkata on April 13, 2015. #
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Tatra's Czech truck driver Aleš Loprais and his Czech co-drivers Khalid Alkendi and Petr Čapka compete during stage nine of the Silk Way Rally 2017 between Ürümqi and Hami, China, on July 17, 2017. #
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Tourists view the mirror man statue by artist Rob Mulholland in Loch Earn on July 17, 2017, in St Fillans, Scotland. The three-meter-tall sculpture made from mirrored tiles spends winters out of the water due to the inclement weather, returning again in the summer months. #
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Journalists look at 8K video images projected on a 3.4-meter-high and 2.6-meter-deep dome-type widescreen as they experience a new virtual reality motion ride system, during a press preview in Tokyo on July 18, 2017. Japanese visual engineers have developed a new virtual reality system that makes riders feel as if they were flying in a glass ball space vehicle, without having to wear headgear like other VR systems. #
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People hold onto windows to avoid a bull named Trompetero during the Toro de Cuerda ("Bull on a Rope") festival in Grazalema, Spain, on July 17, 2017. Three bulls restrained by a rope are allowed to run through the streets of the village during the annual festival. #
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NATO paratroopers drop out of a U.S. Air Force Hercules during the Swift Response 17 joint airborne military exercise near the village of Bezmer, Bulgaria, on July 18, 2017. #
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The hand of a life-sized wax statue of U.S. President Donald Trump is seen during an unveiling ceremony of the wax statue of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump at Madrid's wax museum in Madrid, Spain, on July 20, 2017. #
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A buffalo receives a bath in between races in a rice-paddy field during the annual rice-planting festival in Chonburi, Thailand, on July 16, 2017. Languidly plowing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand's buffaloes don't usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand showed off their fastest bovines in a unique, muddy speed test. #
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Melted lawn chairs sit outside a residence leveled by the Detwiler fire near Mariposa, California, on July 19, 2017. A surging wildfire raced through California mountains and foothills west of Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, forcing thousands to flee tiny, Gold Rush-era towns. #
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Palestinian boys stand next to Hamas militants as they take part in a military show against Israel's newly installed security measures at the entrance to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 20, 2017. #
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Artist Catalin Badarau is obscured by one of his works during an interview with the Associated Press in Bucharest, Romania, on July 19, 2017. An art exhibition showcasing 11 sculptures that aims to remind visitors about the horrors that took place from 1949 to 1951 at southern Romania's Pitești Prison, where communists tortured and killed political prisoners in a gruesome reeducation program, went on display on July 21, 2017. #
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