Cliff diving in Beirut, “swan upping” in London, protests against Puerto Rico’s governor, underwater violin in Malta, Wimbledon finals in London, a newborn walrus in Florida, a projected rocket in Washington, D.C., flooding in Louisiana, cattle in New Zealand, the Winegrowers Festival in Switzerland, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Crocodile Kiss, Glacier Blanket, Bear Cemetery
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Balazs Kerulo, chief engineer of LIFT aircraft, demonstrates a "Hexa" personal drone craft during an event in Lago Vista, Texas, on June 3, 2019. Picture released by Reuters on July 12, 2019. #
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In this July 14, 2019 photo, Mexican bodybuilder Carlos Suarez is coated with spray tanner as he prepares to perform an exhibition routine at the Pan Am Games, during national bodybuilding championships in Mexico City. #
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Actors perform during the general rehearsal of the Fete des Vignerons (Winegrowers Festival), a traditional festival which takes place approximately every 25 years in Vevey, Switzerland, on July 16, 2019. Organized by the local brotherhood of winegrowers in Vevey since 1797, this edition will run from July 18 to August 11, 2019. #
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Ona Carbonell of Spain competes in the solo free preliminary round on day four of the Gwangju 2019 FINA World Championships at Yeomju Gymnasium on July 15, 2019, in Gwangju, South Korea. #
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Water recedes from around a fish camp following Hurricane Barry on July 14, 2019, in Wilkerson Bayou, Louisiana. The storm, which made landfall on July 13 as a category-one hurricane near Morgan City, caused far less damage than had been predicted. Wilkerson Bayou is a small village near Myrtle Grove, made up of fish camps and accessible only by boat. #
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Seen from the air, a large section of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods sits in darkness during a partial blackout, on July 13, 2019, in New York City. City and Con Edison officials claimed over 60,000 customers were impacted by the power loss, disrupting traffic signals, subway service, and Manhattan's busy theater district for several hours. #
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The image of a 363-foot Saturn V rocket is projected on the east face of the Washington Monument, in Washington, D.C., on July 16, 2019, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. #
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Ron King (right), a veterinarian with the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority, and Ibex expert Jonathan Tichon prepare a Nubian Ibex to be lifted out of a pond in Israel's Negev desert, near Moshav Paran, on July 13, 2019. Israeli Nature and Parks Authority in collaboration with the Arava rescue unit rescued 3 endangered Nubian ibex that were trapped in a seasonal pond in a steep canyon. #
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Danish musician Robert Karlsson plays the violin underwater in a glass water tank during "AquaSonic," a submerged musical performance, at the Malta International Arts Festival in Valletta, Malta, on July 13, 2019. #
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Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates winning the Wimbledon final against Switzerland's Roger Federer at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England, on July 14, 2019. #
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Thousands of people attend the procession of the Virgen del Carmen, the patron saint of fishermen, on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, on July 16, 2019. Every year, local residents carry the statue of the Virgin from its chapel to a small beach in the fishing harbor. Once at the beach, the fishermen put the statue on board a decorated boat and it sails along the coast. #
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (right) speaks as she and (from left) Representatives Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib hold a press conference, to address remarks made by President Trump earlier in the day, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 2019. Trump stepped up his attacks on the four progressive Democratic congresswomen, saying if they're not happy in the United States "they can leave." #
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A girl wearing a dress featuring the Puerto Rican flag stands by police blocking the road leading to the La Fortaleza governor's mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 18, 2019. Protesters are demanding Governor Ricardo Rossello resign after the leak of online chats that show him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his constituents. #
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David Barber, the Queen's Swan Marker, holds a cygnet as officials record and examine cygnets and swans during the annual census of the Queen's swans, known as "Swan Upping," along the River Thames in London on July 15, 2019. #
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Juan Cerdas, whose hobby is feeding wild crocodiles, kisses a large crocodile in the Tarcoles River, a river with one of the highest crocodile populations in the world, in Tarcoles, province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on July 16, 2019. #
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The bodies of rescued bears are buried in a bear cemetery at a rescue center in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, photographed on on July 15, 2019. Founded by Jill Robinson in 1998, the Animals Asia Foundation center has rescued more than 200 bears, with 58 bears still living today. It is illegal to hunt Asiatic black bears or Moon bears in the wild in China; however, the animals are still trapped or killed for their gall bladders and other body parts. #
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Parts of the Gurschengletscher glacier are covered with tarps near the peak of Mount Gemsstock in Andermatt, Switzerland, on July 5, 2019. The insulating blankets ease the rate of melting, in hopes of slowing the glacier's retreat. #
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A cliff diver jumps from a platform on the landmark Raouche sea rock off the coast of the Lebanese capital of Beirut on July 14, 2019, during the women's 2019 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. #
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