A giant glowing puppet in Australia, a cat rescued in Colombia, lava flows in Hawaii, Ramadan observed in India, devastation in Damascus, a balanced taxi in New York City, biking into the river in Germany, bats in India, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Jedi Academy, Small Moon, Royal Wedding
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Actress Meghan Markle walks down the aisle in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, on May 19, 2018, during her wedding to Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. #
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Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle ride a horse-drawn carriage along the Long Walk, after their wedding ceremony at St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England, on May 19, 2018. #
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Brown bear cubs Gianni, left, and Sam, play in an area of Rome's Bioparco on May 24, 2018. The two 18-month old cubs, exploited for photo opportunities in a hotel of northern Albania, were taken to Italy after having been recovered by some animals rights associations. #
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Cast member Jeff Goldblum conducts an interview near a model dinosaur during a promotion of the forthcoming film "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom," in London, England, on May 24, 2018. #
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A boy looks at a six-meter-tall luminescent puppet, operated by a total of ten performers, during a preview of Vivid Sydney, promoted as the world’s largest festival of light, music, and ideas, in Sydney, Australia, on May 23, 2018. #
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A guest poses on the red carpet ahead of the screening of the film "The Wild Pear Tree" (Ahlat Agaci) at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 18, 2018. #
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Visitors admire artist Luke Jerram's installation "Museum of the Moon" at Liverpool Cathedral, part of the "Changing Tides" creative program curated for the Three Festivals Tall Ships Regatta and Bordeaux Wine Festival on May 24, 2018, in Liverpool, England. The installation is a 23-foot replica of the moon which uses detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface and includes a sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award-winning composer Dan Jones. #
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The NASA / German Research Center for Geosciences GRACE Follow-On spacecraft launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 22, 2018. The mission will measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself. #
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One of nine cameras that had been set up by photographer Bill Ingalls to capture the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on May 22, 2018. It was not the heat of the rocket thrusters that melted the Canon DSLR and its lens, but the flames of a brush fire that was sparked by the launch. The camera had been set up about a quarter of a mile away, and other cameras that were closer came through just fine. The fried camera kept working until its toasty end, and the memory card remained intact. #
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After a rollover accident, driver Nelson Rowe is rescued from his burning car by fellow racer Callum Grant and a spectator during the Formula Ford race at Cadwell Park in Louth, England, on May 20, 2018. Rowe was unhurt and walked unaided to the ambulance. #
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Professional racing driver Danica Patrick stands beside her custom-built LEGO life-size model, made up of 14,819 bricks, built over nearly 200 hours by a team of nine designers and Master Builders, in Times Square, New York, on May 22, 2018. #
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A member of the Colombian civil defense rescues a cat from a house, after the Colombian government ordered the evacuation of residents living along the Cauca River, as construction problems in a hydroelectric dam caused fears of massive flooding in Valdivia, Colombia, on May 19, 2018. #
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Cha Huilan, a 40-year old Lisu woman, and her daughter, leave Lazimi village by a cable strung across the Nu River in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province, China, on March 24, 2018. #
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A steam plume rises and lava glows as it enters the Pacific Ocean at dawn, after flowing to the water from a Kilauea volcano fissure, on Hawaii's Big Island on May 22, 2018, near Pahoa, Hawaii. #
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Firefighters spray foam on the wreckage of a plane, after it went off the runway at Toncontin International Airport and collapsed over a busy boulevard in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on May 22, 2018. At least six U.S. passengers were injured. #
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Indian Muslim men perform the tarawih special prayer during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan inside the Jama Masjid in the old quarters of New Delhi on May 23, 2018. #
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A man pushes his bicycle through a devastated street in the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Syria's capital of Damascus on May 22, 2018. Earlier in the week the government seized the Yarmuk Palestinian camp and adjacent neighborhoods of Tadamun and Hajar al-Aswad from ISIS members, putting Damascus fully under its control for the first time since 2012. #
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Artwork by sculptor Donald Lipski. A statue of a Dalmatian balances a real taxi cab on its nose outside of the Hassenfeld Children's Hospital in New York City on May 23, 2018. #
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Bicyclists ride into the Main River during an organized protest action in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 25, 2018. The cyclists were seeking support for an eight-point set of measures to make Frankfurt more bicycle-friendly and less dangerous. #
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A university student fires a hand-made mortar in support of the people of Monimbo, a neighborhood in Masaya, a city some 35 km from Managua, Nicaragua, on May 22, 2018. Masaya, once a cradle of the Sandinista movement, is now a hotbed of resistance to President Daniel Ortega. Initially triggered by now-aborted reforms to the near-bankrupt social security system, unrest in Nicaragua has broadened into a rejection of Ortega, his wife, and vice president Rosario Murillo, who are seen as autocratic. #
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Young people perform during a training session at the "Jedi Academy Cham" in Loibling near Cham, Germany, on May 19, 2018. The Jedi Academy is the only registered lightsaber show fight school in Germany. #
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A bat flies between trees in Guwahati, India, on May 23, 2018. A deadly virus carried by fruit bats has killed at least five people in southern India and more than 90 people are in quarantine, a top health official said on May 22. #
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