Continued flooding from Hurricane Florence, colorful festivals in India, a water landing in Micronesia, fall colors in Wales, preserving a Communist monument in Bulgaria, spiderwebs cover a Greek shoreline, emotional confirmation hearings in Washington, D.C., a wedding in Yosemite National Park, Anak Krakatau erupts in Indonesia, and much more
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Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on September 27, 2018. #
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Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, arrives for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 27, 2018. #
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Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, after being sentenced to a three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault on September 25, 2018. #
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A man from El Salvador sits in the back of a border-patrol vehicle after being apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, on September 26, 2018. #
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Dancers of the María Pagés dance company perform Una oda al tiempo ("An ode to the time") at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville on September 21, 2018, during the XX Biennale of Flamenco. #
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The surfer Anker Olsen Frantzen, 17, of Norway rides a wave under a rainbow during a free-surf session on September 26, 2018, in Flakstad, northern Norway, on the eve of the Lofoten Masters 2018, the most northern surf contest in the world. #
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A couple gets married at Taft Point in California's Yosemite National Park on September 27, 2018. The viewpoint overlooks Yosemite Valley, including El Capitan, a popular vertical ascent for rock climbers across the globe. #
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Ramona Stan, 41, is comforted by a neighbor as she leaves the El Gallinero shantytown to relocate to a new apartment in Madrid, Spain, on September 26, 2018. The Stan family was one of the last Roma families left in El Gallinero, on the outskirts of Madrid. After years of living in ramshackle huts in precarious conditions, the Roma camp was dismantled this week, and its remaining inhabitants relocated to public-housing flats or temporary shelters. #
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Experts from Europa Nostra, an NGO for the protection and celebration of Europe's cultural and natural heritage, inspect the crumbling oval skeleton of the House of the Bulgarian Communist Party on Mount Buzludzha in central Bulgaria on September 27, 2018. #
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The wind catches Pope Francis's pellegrina as he addresses the crowd at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience on September 26, 2018. #
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Models present creations by the A.W.A.K.E. fashion brand as part of its spring/summer 2019 women's ready-to-wear show during Paris Fashion Week on September 25, 2018. #
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Laborers work near a giant sculpture of a man wearing a gas mask that will be used to decorate an "open air" themed pandal ("temporary platform") for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja in Kolkata, India, on September 28, 2018. According to organizers, the theme of the pandal seeks to create awareness for the importance of clean, unpolluted air to the devotees of Goddess Durga. #
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A Nepali masked dancer performs the Lakhe dance, which symbolizes unity, victory, and power, during the fifth day of the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu on September 25, 2018. The eight-day festival celebrates Indra, the king of gods and the god of rains. During this festival, Kumari, the living goddess, is taken around parts of the capital city in a religious procession. #
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Ethnic Miao women in traditional costumes take part in a tug-of-war to celebrate a local festival at a village in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on September 27, 2018. #
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Indian devotees carry a statue of the elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha for immersion in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai on September 23, 2018. During the 11-day Ganesh festival, Hindu devotees bring home idols of Lord Ganesha and offer prayers in temporary temples to invoke his blessings for wisdom and prosperity, culminating with the immersion of the idols in bodies of water, including the ocean, on the last day. #
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Horses fight in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on September 25, 2018. The horse-fighting event is held to celebrate the harvest. #
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Trainee noncommissioned officers and members of the Underwater Offense, a special-operation unit of the Turkish navy, are seen during military training in the Beykoz district of Istanbul, Turkey, on September 18, 2018. #
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U.S. Navy sailors from Underwater Construction Team 2 assist local authorities in shuttling the passengers and crew of an Air Niugini flight to shore after their plane crashed into a lagoon on its approach to Chuuk International Airport in Micronesia on September 28, 2018. All of the passengers and crew survived the plane's crash landing. #
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A United States Marines V-22 Osprey helicopter carrying members of the press following President Donald Trump is seen as Trump traveled from New Jersey to Manhattan on September 23, 2018. #
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An Indian artist works on a statue of the Hindu goddess Durga ahead of the forthcoming Dushhera-Vijaya Dashami festival at a workshop in Chennai on September 25, 2018. #
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Tents put up by primary-school students and their parents sit in a playground before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China, on September 21, 2018. As the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion, a school in Shijiangzhuang held parent-child activities, including putting up tents and watching outdoor movies, for its students. #
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An antique car sits inundated by floodwaters from the Waccamaw River, caused by Hurricane Florence, in Bucksport, South Carolina, on September 26, 2018. Nearly two weeks after Florence made landfall in North Carolina, river flooding continues in northeastern South Carolina. #
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