Rescue and recovery in the Caribbean and Mexico, the Invictus Games in Toronto, the North East Skinny Dip in England, the world’s first drone taxi service in Dubai, surf dogs in California, a massive explosion in Ukraine, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 9/23–9/29
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Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 2nd Class Brandon Larnard, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron, carries an evacuee off an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter following the landfall of Hurricane Maria on the island of Dominica on September 27, 2017. #
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This image released by the Colorado Springs Police Department, taken by a van's dash camera, shows a raccoon on a windshield. On September 20, 2017, Officer Chris Frabbiele was responding to an accident scene in a van used by police to investigate crashes when the raccoon landed on it. Police spokesman Lt. Howard Black says the raccoon hopped off the van after Frabbiele stopped it. #
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Former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton attend the trophy presentation prior to Thursday's foursome matches of the Presidents Cup at Liberty National Golf Club on September 28, 2017, in Jersey City, New Jersey. #
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Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum sits inside a flying taxi in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on September 25, 2017. On Monday, Dubai staged a test flight for what it said would soon be the world’s first drone taxi service. #
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A jaguar ambushes a giant yacare caiman on the shore of the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over 20 minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill on September 26, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal, but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed. #
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Resuscitation mannequins lie arranged in a square prior to a resuscitation course and contest attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, organized by the medical university in Greifswald, Germany, on September 23, 2017. #
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Members of the New England Patriots kneel during the national anthem before a game against the Houston Texans at Gillette Stadium on September 24, 2017, in Foxboro, Massachusetts. #
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A six-week-old male white rhino calf, covered in mud, stands next to his mother, 32-year-old Donsa, at the Singapore Zoo on September 28, 2017. This is the Singapore Zoo's 21st white rhino calf born in captivity. #
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Villagers hold torches made of wine skins during the El Vitor civic procession on September 27, 2017, in Mayorga, Valladolid Province, Spain. Every September 27th, Mayorga villagers commemorate the arrival of Santo Toribio de Mongroviejo's relics to his birthplace. The tradition dates back to 1752 when villagers took to the streets with torches at night to receive the Saint's relics arriving from Latin America. #
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Marine air crewmen inspect a landing site from the rear bay door of an MV-22 Osprey carrying medical personnel as it prepares to land on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on September 22, 2017. #
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Naked bathers enter the water as they take part in the North East Skinny Dip at Druridge Bay on September 25, 2017, in Druridge, England. The popular annual event takes place around the autumn equinox at Druridge Bay as the sun rises. #
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Smoke and flames rise over a warehouse storing ammunition for multiple rocket launcher systems at a military base in the town of Kalynivka, in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, on September 27, 2017. It remains unclear if the destruction of the depot was accidental or an act of sabotage. #
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An aerial view shows the landscape of a military base following recent massive explosions at ammunition depots in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine on September 29, 2017. #
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The ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by a representative of the Phoenix Zoo, dressed in a super raptor costume, prior to a game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Miami Marlins at Chase Field on September 22, 2017, in Phoenix, Arizona. #
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Men use bamboo ladders to open doors to burial chambers cut into a massive boulder of Loko'mata, a traditional Toraja burial site, during an ancient Torajan ritual known as "Ma'nene", near Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on September 11, 2017. #
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A view of a destroyed house in Yabucoa, in the east of Puerto Rico, on September 28, 2017. The U.S. island territory, working without electricity, is struggling to dig out and clean up from its disastrous brush with hurricane Maria, blamed for at least 33 deaths across the Caribbean. #
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Ugandan opposition lawmakers fight with plain-clothed security personnel in the parliament while protesting a proposed age limit amendment bill to change the constitution for the extension of the president's rule, in Kampala, Uganda, on September 27, 2017. #
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Brooke Fiddes, 5, and her brother Carter Fiddes, 9, both from Charlotte, North Carolina, react to the rotor wash of Marine One as President Donald Trump departs the South Lawn of the White House on September 26, 2017, in Washington, D.C. #
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A rescue worker walks down a ladder as the search for people continues amid the rubble of a collapsed apartment complex in the southern neighborhood of Tlalpan, Mexico City, on September 25, 2017. The 7.1 magnitude quake on September 19 left the complex's 500 residents, mostly government employees, without a home after one of the 11 buildings collapsed and the others were damaged. #
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Sona Banu is carried by Nobi Hossain to the shore of the Naf River, as hundreds of Rohingya arrived by boats in the safety of darkness on September 27, 2017, on Shah Porir Dwip Island, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Over 480,000 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Burma's Rakhine state. #
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Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Michael Nicholson makes a putt during the Invictus Games 2017 at St. George's Golf and Country Club on September 26, 2017, in Toronto, Canada. The Invictus Games is an international competition organized for wounded and injured veterans, established by Prince Harry in 2014. #
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A multi-story building, damaged during the September 19 earthquake, in one of Mexico City's most fashionable neighborhoods, photographed on September 28, 2017. More than a week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, a shaken Mexico was torn between trying to get back to normal and keeping up an increasingly hopeless search for survivors. #
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A giant sign in the front yard of a St. Croix homeowner asks U.S. President Donald Trump for "tremendous! huge! best ever!" relief for the U.S. Virgin Islands, as seen from a Navy helicopter passing over St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on September 25, 2017. #
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U.S. Capitol Police remove protesters from the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Proposal on reforming health care on September 25, 2017. #
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