Sunrise surfing in Australia, an eruption in Indonesia, whaling in the Faroe Islands, sky diving in New York, flooding along the Mississippi River, a horse rescue in tornado-hit Kansas, protests in Kashmir, an appearance by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in Washington, corgi racing in California, high diving in China, and much more
Photos of the Week: Cheese Rolling, Spelling Champs, Atlantic Puffin
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Members of the U.S. Army's Golden Knights parachute team perform during the Bethpage Air Show as part of a Memorial Day event at Jones Beach on Long Island, New York, on May 25, 2019. #
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A security guard with unusual body armor, featuring curved spikes, four head-mounted flashlights, two pairs of sunglasses, and a ready gas mask, keeps watch during the swearing-in ceremony of Malawian President-elect Arthur Peter Mutharika at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, Malawi, on May 28, 2019, after a contentious election marred by allegations of fraud and vote-rigging. #
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A girl holds on to a man on a scooter as they wait to cross concertina wire laid on a road in Srinagar by Indian police during a strike called by Kashmiri separatists against the killing of Zakir Rashid Bhat, also known as Zakir Musa, the leader of an al-Qaeda–affiliated militant group in Kashmir, on May 25, 2019. #
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Artem Silchenko of Russia competes in the first round of the men's 27-meter high diving on day one of the FINA High Diving World Cup at Zhaoqing High Diving Training Center in Zhaoqing, China, on May 25, 2019. #
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The eight co-champions of the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee, (from left) Shruthika Padhy, 13, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Erin Howard, 14, of Huntsville, Alabama; Rishik Gandhasri, 13, of San Jose, California; Christopher Serrao, 13, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey; Saketh Sundar, 13, of Clarksville, Maryland; Sohum Sukhatankar, 13, of Dallas, Texas; Rohan Raja, 13, of Irving, Texas; and Abhijay Kodali, 12, of Flower Mound, Texas, hold the trophy in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on May 31, 2019. #
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Dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Collage Dance Collective rehearse during a media preview for the REACH, an expansion project at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2019. #
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Chewbacca is seen in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon during the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge media preview at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, on May 29, 2019. #
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The eventual winner, Max McDougall (front left), chases the cheese during the first race of the annual spring bank-holiday cheese-rolling event at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester, England, on May 27, 2019. Traditionally held for villagers of Brockworth, today the event attracts people from around the world. #
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The volunteer John Barbutto replaces broken flags at the Garden of Flags at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2019. For the tenth year and organized by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, more than 700 volunteers planted 37,297 flags, each representing a service member from Massachusetts who has died in the line of duty since the Revolutionary War. #
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The Handmaid's Tale–themed protesters march through the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 25, 2019, to protest the proposed heartbeat bill that would ban abortion after 6 weeks in the state. #
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A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on the hood of an armored Indian police vehicle as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 31, 2019. #
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Family and neighbors work together, with support from first responders, to free a horse from a pool of water and mud in dense trees in Linwood, Kansas, on May 29, 2019. The owner, Javier Campos, suspects that the tornado picked the horse up and carried it nearly three football fields away from his destroyed horse barn. The Midwest has seen extensive severe weather this spring, with widespread flooding and multiple tornadoes. #
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Floodwater from the Mississippi River cuts off the roadway from Missouri to Illinois at the states' border in St. Mary, Missouri, on May 30, 2019. The middle section of the country has been experiencing major flooding since mid-March, especially along the Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi Rivers. Towns along the Mississippi River have been experiencing the longest stretch of major flooding from the river in nearly a century. #
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High-school students show victory signs during a stress-relief activity before the upcoming 2019 National College Entrance Exam, or Gaokao, in Chongqing, China, on May 28, 2019. #
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Fishermen and volunteers pull ashore pilot whales that they killed during a hunt, as blood turns the sea red, in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands, on May 29, 2019. As local fishermen spot pods of pilot whales passing the shores of the Danish territory of the Faroe Islands during their migration, a convoy of boats drives the whales toward authorized fjords to harvest the catch. Pilot whaling is subject to Faroese legislation, which sets the framework for the catching, killing methods, and permitted equipment. #
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Explosions at a target are seen during a live-fire Han Kuang military exercise that simulates China's People's Liberation Army invading the island in Pingtung, Taiwan, on May 30, 2019. #
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A plume of ash is released as the Mount Agung volcano erupts, seen from the Kubu subdistrict in Karangasem Regency on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on May 31, 2019. #
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