The Corpus Christi festival in Spain, search and rescue operations in Guatemala, ocular exercises in China, the Life Ball in Austria, Trooping the Colour in England, “The Empire Strips Back” in Los Angeles, a Pride parade in Brazil, a rock festival in Germany, a dino-riding traffic cop in Thailand, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Distorted Queen, Toad King, Gladiator
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A volunteer firefighter hugs a dog during the search for victims of Sunday's Fuego volcano eruption in Alotenango, a municipality in Sacatepequez Department, southwest of Guatemala City, on June 6, 2018. #
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Fiordiliso Satanic Verses, an Oriental Shorthair cat, photographed at the Merseyside Cat Club GCCF All Breeds Championship Show at Sutton Leisure Center in St. Helens, England, on June 2, 2018. #
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Thai police sergeant Tanit Bussabong directs traffic, wearing a costume where he appears to ride a dinosaur, outside a school in Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, on June 4, 2018. Bussabong, who has around 20 different outfits including Minnie Mouse and a bear for his traffic duty outside the kindergarten, said his prehistoric uniform is teaching kids road safety and convincing parents to obey traffic laws. #
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The Toad King Museum, or Phraya Khan Khak Museum, in Yasothon, Thailand, photographed on June 6, 2018, on the banks of Thuan River. The five-story structure commemorates a local story about the Toad King, who once battled a sky god and was able to return rain to his people. #
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A Soyuz-FG rocket booster, with the Soyuz MS-09 spaceship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 6, 2018. #
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The Household Division, led by the Coldstream Guards, rehearse Trooping the Colour for the Colonel's Review ahead of the Queen's birthday parade next week, on Horseguards Parade in central London, England, on June 2, 2018. #
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A fan rushes the field during the fifth inning of the game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park on June 6, 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts. #
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The Italian air force aerobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) prepares to spread smoke with the colors of the Italian flag prior to the Moto GP Grand Prix at Mugello race track on June 3, 2018. #
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Guests stand on the runway in front of the Manhattan skyline before the Saint Laurent Men's Spring/Summer 2019 collection during a runway show in Liberty State Park on June 6, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey. #
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Primary students take part in an eye exercise event at Shushan District in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, on June 5, 2018. The eye exercise event was held to improve students' awareness of eye protection and to combat nearsightedness. #
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Remember those giant piles of bicycles in China? Apparently some of them are being crushed for scrap now. Here, bicycles of various bike-sharing services sit, compressed into blocks in a garbage dump in Shanghai, China, on June 4, 2018. #
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A firefighter searches along with other firefighters for their missing colleague in an area affected by the volcanic eruption in Alotenango, Guatemala, on June 5, 2018. #
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People walk past decorations made with flowers and palm leaves during the festive day of Corpus Christi in the village Zahara de la Sierra in the Spanish province of Cadiz on June 3, 2018. #
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A woman stops and photographs "Man Pointing," a 1947 bronze sculpture at a retrospective exhibition of work by Swiss sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on June 7, 2018. #
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Two women look at a distorted sculpture titled "The Queen" by John Humphreys during a press preview of the 250th Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts on June 5, 2018, in London, England. #
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