The Knife Angel in England; tree-canopy tours in Ghana; soldiers on patrol in Ukraine; Christmas displays across Europe and the United States; wildfires in Australia; protests in Colombia, Turkey, and Belgium; and much more
Photos of the Week: Foggy Skies, Wayward Boar, Mars Landing
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The Shanghai Ballet performs Swan Lake, billed as the "Greatest Swan Lake in the World." Instead of 16 swans, this production brings 48 swans onstage inside the Bode Museum to promote the ballet's premiere in Berlin, Germany, on November 29, 2018. #
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Aerial view of a skyscraper in thick fog on November 27, 2018, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. China's Meteorological Administration renewed an orange alert for thick fog on Tuesday. #
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Smoke and steam billow from Belchatów Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant, which is operated by PGE Group near Belchatów, Poland, on November 28, 2018. #
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Protesters wearing yellow vests, a symbol of a drivers' protest against higher fuel prices, are driven back by police during clashes in central Brussels, Belgium, on November 30, 2018. #
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A Turkish riot-police officer reacts during clashes with women's-rights activists as they try to march to Taksim Square to protest against gender violence in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 25, 2018, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. #
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Protesters throw stones and paint at riot police as university students and professors march down 80th Street to protest against a financial law proposed by the government in Bogotá, Colombia, on November 28, 2018. #
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A conservator works on one-half of a cast of the Roman Trajan's Column memorial at a press preview of the Cast Courts at the V&A on November 27, 2018, in London, England. #
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This photo, provided by NASA, shows an image from the surface of Mars taken by the spacecraft InSight, using its robotic-arm-mounted instrument-deployment camera, after it landed on the planet on November 26, 2018. The NASA spacecraft designed to drill down into Mars's interior reached the planet Monday after a perilous, supersonic plunge through its red skies, setting off jubilation among scientists who had waited in white-knuckle suspense for confirmation that it had arrived across 100 million miles of space. #
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Burned brush is seen as a blaze moves through Deepwater National Park in Queensland, Australia, on November 28, 2018. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in northeastern Australia as bushfires rage across Queensland state amid a scorching heatwave. #
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Waves break over the shore and onto passing cars as they are driven along a coast road in Carnlough, Northern Ireland, on November 28, 2018. Britain's Met Office issued warnings for high winds as Storm Diana, named by the Portuguese authorities, started to impact the United Kingdom. #
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Ice forms on a Christmas-themed sculpture in the Museum of the History of Permafrost Studies, located beneath the main building of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, on November 26, 2018. #
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Gina, a Honduran immigrant child, keeps warm on November 28, 2018, in a donated hood outside of a tent where her family of five is sleeping at an overflowing sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico, that is sheltering more than 5,000 Central American immigrants. #
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Children dressed as giant pandas look at one of the giant pandas Gong Gong and Shun Shun at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden on November 25, 2018, in Haikou, Hainan province, China. #
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Remotely controlled OriHime-D robots, developed by Ory Lab to promote employment of disabled people, serve customers at a café in Tokyo, Japan, on November 26, 2018. #
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A painted resin statuette of a Playboy bunny from the collection of the late Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner is displayed as part of Julien's Auctions' upcoming sale of Hefner's belongings on November 26, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. Items from the personal collection of the American publishing icon will be sold at auction from November 30 to December 1. Hefner died at the age of 91 on September 27, 2017. #
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The Knife Angel sculpture, by the artist Alfie Bradley and made from more than 100,000 confiscated knives, goes on display outside the Liverpool Cathedral in Liverpool, England, on November 29, 2018. #
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A fairy fountain is illuminated at the "NightGarden" display at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, Florida, on November 29, 2018. The holiday event transforms the 23 acres of gardens into an interactive experience featuring lighting displays, holograms, 3-D–projection mapping, videos, and music. #
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Sparks fly as activists carry torches and flares during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the dispersal of the wave of demonstrations and civil unrest known as Euromaidan on November 29, 2018. Protesters demanded the results of the investigation into crimes committed during the Euromaidan in 2013 and 2014. #
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Ukrainian soldiers pet a puppy as they control an area near the front line with Russia-backed separatists in Shyrokyne, eastern Ukraine, on November 28, 2018. Russia and Ukraine are still reeling from their first overt military confrontation since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, a clash Sunday in the Kerch Strait near Russia-occupied Crimea in which Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian ships, seizing them and their 24 crew members. #
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Rosa Julia Romero, a 4-year-old immigrant girl from Honduras who is part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, wears her mother's shoes as she walks through a temporary shelter after heavy rainfall in Tijuana, Mexico, on November 29, 2018. #
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Central American immigrants look through a border fence as a U.S. Border Patrol agent stands guard near the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on November 25, 2018. #
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Security guards with brooms gently escort a wild boar from a glass-floored sightseeing bridge that it had wandered onto at Gulong Gorge in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, China, on November 29, 2018. #
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Michael Cohen walks out of federal court on November 29, 2018, in New York City. Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. He told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations and other details to be consistent with Trump's "political message." #
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