Alpine sports in Austria and the U.S., the Doomsday Clock advances, a beautiful landscape in Angola, extreme cold in Siberia, competition at the Australian Open, big surf in Hawaii, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Aerobatic Performers, Snow Monsters, a Murmuration
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Revelers dressed as devils walk among fireworks during "Correfocs" (fire runs), traditional celebrations in eastern Spain during which people dress as dancing devils while lighting fireworks among crowds of spectators, to mark the end of the local festivities in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on January 21, 2018. #
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A car drives in a forest on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about negative 32 degrees Celsius (negative 25.6 degrees Fahrenheit), outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on January 23, 2018. #
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People participate in the Women's March on January 20, 2018, in New York City. Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of people marched on what was the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's swearing-in to advocate for women's rights around the world. #
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A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, the presidential candidate for the Honduran Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship for the past election, lies on the street in front of police officers during a demonstration against the contested re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on January 21, 2018. The opposition called for a "national strike" on Saturday to focus on blocking the country's main roads ahead of the start of the president's new term in office on January 27. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds jailed since Hernandez was declared the winner of the November 26 run-off election, but only after a three-week stretch of often-interrupted ballot counting that stoked tensions and sparked accusations of fraud in the Central American country. #
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Surfer Balaram Stack comes out of the barrel during a late-afternoon free surf session at the legendary Banzai Pipeline on the North shore of Oahu, Hawaii, on January 22, 2018. #
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Snow-covered trees cover a slope at Zao Ski Resort in Yamagata, Japan, on January 20, 2018. The naturally-occurring phenomenon, called "snow monsters," attracts visitors when conditions are favorable. #
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Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria plays a backhand in his quarter-final match against Kyle Edmund of Great Britain on day nine of the 2018 Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, on January 23, 2018. #
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A ballkid watches Tennys Sandgren of the U.S. play against South Korea's Hyeon Chung during their men's singles quarter-finals match on day 10 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 24, 2018. #
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Visitors to an art exhibition take photos of an installation titled No Past No Present No Future by Kamin Lertchaiprasert of Thailand on January 25, 2018, in Singapore, during a preview of ART STAGE Singapore 2018 Edition. #
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Zhibek Zholdas of Kazakhstan jumps during the Ladies Qualifying Round of the Putnam Freestyle World Cup at the Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex on January 20, 2018, in Lake Placid, New York. #
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Robert Rosner, chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, on January 25, 2018, following the group's assessment that the world is now "as dangerous as it has been since World War II." #
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An Indian army "Daredevils" motorcycle rider performs during a rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on a foggy winter morning in Kolkata, India, on January 21, 2018. #
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Protesters perform outside a courthouse where the court hears arguments on former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's pending trials, in Lima, Peru, on January 26, 2018. #
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Roman Catholic devotees raise their icons of the baby Jesus as they are blessed with holy water in celebration of Jesus's feast day, on January 21, 2018, in Manila, Philippines. Thousands of devotees troop to churches with their "Santo Nino," or Baby Jesus, some of which are dressed in various costumes as basketball players, firemen, police, and soldiers, for the annual procession and blessing. #
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A local resident takes his dog to an emergency veterinary clinic after the animal was shot by a stray bullet during a security forces operation at the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 25, 2018. #
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Vending machines covered in snow stand in Tokyo, Japan, on January 22, 2018. The Japan Meteorological Agency had issued a heavy snow warning in central Tokyo for the first time in four years. #
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Larger-than-life portraits by Italian photographer Luigi Toscano line a fence bordering United Nations headquarters on January 23, 2018, in New York. The images are part of the exhibition Survivors, Victims and Perpetrators, in conjunction with the Lest We Forget project commemorating Holocaust victims and survivors. The UN exhibition has two parts. One focuses on the 1942 Wannsee Conference, its participants, and Nazi persecution policies leading to deportations of European Jews and their subsequent murders. The other part features Toscano's portraits of Holocaust survivors living in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, Israel, and Russia. At right is Susan Cernyak Spatz, of Vienna, who was ordered into a concentration camp in 1942 and then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Spatz survived a 1945 death march to Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp in Germany. The camp was liberated by the Russian army in 1945. #
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Carnival performers pose before a reception of German carnival societies with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on January 23, 2018. #
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Aerobatic dancers under the direction of Spanish theatrical company La Fura dels Baus perform in The Rise of the Tritons during the opening of Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture, in Valletta, Malta, on January 20, 2018. #
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Joshua Moore riding Et Moi Alors (right) falls and brings down Harmonise and Marc Goldstein in The Horse Comes First Juvenile Hurdle Race at Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, England, on January 20, 2018. #
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People watch while actors dressed as World War II Soviet Red Army soldiers fight against actors dressed as Nazi German troops as they take part in the reenactment of the battle marking the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad during WWII, at the memorial "Sinyavin Heights" some 60 kilometers east of Saint Petersburg, on January 21, 2018. #
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A photo taken on January 22, 2018, shows a bird-shaped murmuration of starlings before they land to sleep near the southern Israeli city of Rahat in the Negev desert. #
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