Hurricane Florence reaches the Carolinas, Vostok 2018 military exercises in Siberia, multiple house fires in suburban Massachusetts, pedal-car racing in England, ballet in the streets of Mexico City, a dinosaur in North Korea, a pilgrimage to catch fish on Spain’s Gran Canaria, scenes from New York Fashion Week, and much more
Photos of the Week: Robotic Arms, Sheepdog Trials, Giant Carrot
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A veterinarian holds an endangered marmoset for vaccination at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, on September 13, 2018. The marmoset was brought to the zoo after being rescued from a smuggler. #
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A helicopter flies by the Tribute in Light in the sky above Lower Manhattan, as seen from across the Hudson River, on the 17th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, in Jersey City, New Jersey. #
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Men atop horses take part in the Our Lady of Nazareth traditional cavalcade in Morro Vermelho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on September 7, 2018. Thousands of residents of the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte and tourists attend the annual cavalcade, which dates back more than 300 years and represents the fight between Christians and Moors, celebrating the victory of Christians. #
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Volunteers wearing horse masks and a unicorn mask rehearse as they prepare to take part in the filming of a redux version of the Dunkirk scene from the 2007 Oscar winning film Atonement, which was filmed on the same stretch of beach in Redcar, England, on September 11, 2018. The making of the short version is part of the buildup to the 2018 Festival of Thrift, which will be held on September 22 and 23 at Kirkleatham, near Redcar. #
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Thousands of people march in an annual pilgrimage to El Charco de La Aldea de San Nicolas, where they will wait for a signal to run into a saltwater lake and try to catch fish with their hands or old baskets, on the Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria, on September 11, 2018. #
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A visitor looks at an artwork titled The Massacre of the Innocents by the Russian contemporary artists Igor and Ekaterina Pestov during their retrospective exhibition at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg on September 13, 2018. #
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Lando Griffin, aka the Suited Racer, sits in the Yajun front row during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery II at Spring Studios in New York City on September 10, 2018. #
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Mhd Yamen Saraiji, a senior assistant professor at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, demonstrates a remotely operated wearable system of his project "Fusion: Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication" in Yokohama, Japan, on August 30, 2018. #
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A Russian police officer detains a teenager during a rally protesting retirement-age hikes in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 9, 2018. A government plan to increase the age for collecting state pensions brought protests across Russia's 11 time zones on Sunday even though the opposition leader who called for them was in jail. Nearly 300 people were reported arrested. #
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Women embrace through the border fence during the Interfaith Service for Justice and Mercy at the Border to demand that the U.S. government end the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on September 7, 2018. #
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A North Korean photographer climbs a ladder before women wearing traditional Korean dresses and waving plastic flowers from a roadside during an international march for peace, prosperity, and the reunification of Korea at the Three Charters monument on the outskirts of Pyongyang on September 11, 2018. #
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Ian Neale from Newport poses for a media call with his enormous carrot, which won after judging took place for the giant-vegetable competition on the first day of the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show held at the Great Yorkshire Showground on September 14, 2018, in Harrogate, England. #
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The classical ballet company Ardentia performs in the streets of Mexico City in an effort to highlight the city's fine arts in public spaces in Mexico on September 8, 2018. #
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Orthodox Christian pilgrims hold candles inside a minibus on the eve of the Elevation of the Cross holiday at Krastova Gora ("Holy Cross Forest"), Bulgaria, on September 13, 2018. #
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Children react after competing in a pedal-car race as motoring enthusiasts attend the Goodwood Revival, a three-day classic-car-racing festival celebrating the mid-20th century heyday of the sport, at Goodwood in southern Britain on September 9, 2018. #
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In this September 8, 2018 photo, Candelaria Cabrera poses for a photo with her Huracan soccer-club teammates in Chabaz, Argentina. Printed on the back of her jersey and on her red shorts is the number 4. But it's her long, copper-colored hair tied in a ponytail that distinguishes her from the rest of the players. Candelaria is the only girl playing in a children's soccer league in the southern part of Santa Fe province, but a regional regulation that prohibits mixed-gender teams in children's categories threatens to take her off the field. #
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An aerial photo shows a boat carrying migrants stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before they were rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Salvamento Maritimo sea search-and-rescue agency on September 8, 2018. While the overall number of migrants reaching Europe by sea is down from its peak, in 2015, Spain has seen a steady increase in arrivals this year and has overtaken Italy as the preferred destination for people desperate to reach the continent. More than 33,000 migrants have arrived in Spain by sea and land so far this year, and 329 have died in the attempt, according to the International Organization for Migration. #
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A competitor keeps low to the ground under instruction from his handler during the International Sheepdog Trials on September 9, 2018, in Dromore, Northern Ireland. Sixty handlers and their dogs from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales compete against one another on a 90-acre course on the Gill Hall Estate following national trials in each of the home nations to determine the best of the best. #
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Miss Kitty, a 4-year old short-haired cat, looks out from her new enclosure at the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2018. Miss Kitty is one of 26 cats and dogs that arrived in Washington from Norfolk Animal Care and Control in Norfolk, Virginia, in advance of Hurricane Florence. #
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The volunteer Amber Hersel from the Civilian Crisis Response Team helps rescue the 7-year-old Keiyana Cromartie and her family from their flooded home on September 14, 2018, in James City, Virginia. #
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Firefighters battle a house fire on Herrick Road in North Andover, Massachusetts, one of multiple emergency crews responding to a series of gas explosions and fires triggered by a problem with a gas line that feeds homes in several communities north of Boston, on September 13, 2018. #
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People salvage construction material at a demolition site with precariously tilting rubble after government bulldozers knocked down a mall said to be illegal for having been built on a river bed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on September 13, 2018. #
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A Russian honor guard prepares to take part in a parade prior to military exercises on the Tsugol training ground during Vostok 2018 in eastern Siberia, Russia, on September 13, 2018. The week-long Vostok 2018 maneuvers involve nearly 300,000 Russian troops along with 1,000 Russian aircraft and 36,000 tanks and other combat vehicles. #
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Bianca Burton (center left) and Erin Schultheis walk around Pepperdine University's annual display of flags honoring the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on September 10, 2018, in Malibu, California. #
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Lane Pittman of Jacksonville, Florida, stands in the wind and rain along Ocean Boulevard during Hurricane Florence in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on September 14, 2018. #
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