Hot birds in France, the Festival of the Trays in Portugal, kid “muggers” in Washington State, a giant Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, a sea-lion rescue in California, the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, earthquake damage in California, the World Roller Games in Barcelona, a Melania Trump monument in Slovenia, the Women’s World Cup final in France, bull festivals in Spain, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Toxic Beauty, Giant Boots, Twilight Swimming
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The musician and composer Hero Douglas poses as she records the sounds of nature around Llyn Mymbyr on July 9, 2019, in Capel Curig, Wales. Douglas regularly takes twilight swims in the lakes of Snowdonia and has been using the sounds of nature and the dramatic landscape around her mountain home to inspire her compositions since childhood. #
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Cori Gauff of the U.S. celebrates winning her third-round match against Slovenia's Polona Hercog during Wimbledon at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, on July 5, 2019. #
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A picture taken on July 5, 2019, shows what the conceptual artist Ales "Maxi" Zupevc claims is the first-ever monument of Melania Trump, set in the fields near the town of Sevnica, Slovenia, the U.S. first lady's hometown. #
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A picture taken on July 5, 2019, shows the installation "Everything Is Fine" depicting the half-submerged head of U.S. President Donald Trump by the architect Jacques Rival, displayed in the Moselle river as part of the digital-art festival Constellations de Metz, in Metz, France. #
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Participants dressed in Spider-Man costumes run in a creek during an event in the Jiulongjiang National Forest Park in Chenzhou, Hunan province, China, on July 4, 2019. #
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A bowler from Menheniot/Looe CC bowls during the Cornwall Cricket League Division 2 East match between Bude CC and Menheniot/Looe CC at Crooklets Cricket Ground on July 6, 2019, in Bude, England. #
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Steve Latham, a local resident, uses his leg to measure the amount of offset in the desert floor caused by a magnitude-7.1 earthquake, along California State Route 178 between Ridgecrest and Trona, California, on June 6, 2019. Local residents and out-of-town visitors flocked to the spot to see the earthquake's geological effects on the earth's surface. #
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A stone statue of Fuxi, a cultural hero in Chinese legend and mythology, 70.5 meters tall and 230 meters in length, is seen on Xianshan Mountain on July 7, 2019, in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China. #
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A model presents a creation from the Spanish designer Miguel Marinero's spring/summer 2020 collection during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid on July 10, 2019. #
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Serena Williams talks to her playing partner Andy Murray during a mixed doubles match against Nicole Melichar and Bruno Soares on day nine of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London on July 10, 2019. #
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Master Bernini runs on the track past his rider, Umberto Rispoli, who was unseated before the Race 2 Street Cat Handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong on July 10, 2019. #
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Derrick Halsey, a wildlife-capture specialist known as a "mugger," hands off a kid mountain goat to the Olympic National Park Wildlife Branch chief Patti Happe on July 9, 2019, after airlifting the goat and two others to Hurricane Ridge in the park near Port Angeles, Washington. For the second straight summer, officials are rounding up the sure-footed but non-native mammals from remote, rugged parts of the park so they can be relocated to their natural habitat in the Cascade Mountains. The animals were introduced to the Olympic Peninsula by hunters in the 1920s. #
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A California sea-lion yearling looks out of a crate as volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center prepare to release it back into the wild on a beach at Point Lobos State Reserve in Carmel, California, on July 10, 2019. The Marine Mammal Center has seen a surge of sick and malnourished California sea lions and yearlings washing up on Northern California beaches in the past month. Currently more than 130 of the sea lions are being cared for at the Marine Mammal Center, many of which appear to be suffering from domoic-acid poisoning, caused by harmful algal blooms, also known as "red tides." #
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An aerial view of a large figure of the Mexican artist and painter Frida Kahlo lying in bed, taken on the inaugural day of the exhibition "Los Colores de Frida" ("The Colors of Frida") in her honor, at Zocalo square in Mexico City on July 5, 2019. #
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Participants of Festa dos Tabuleiros ("trays party") gather at Mata Nacional dos Sete Montes moments before the parade in Tomar, Portugal, on July 7, 2019. Every four years since the 16th century, Tomar citizens celebrate the day of the Holy Spirit in a parade with tall crowns known as trays that are adorned with colored paper flowers and bread and transported by girls from surrounding parishes. This year, there were 748 trays and about half a million visitors during the parade. #
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A view of an ash dump site belonging to a Novosibirsk energy plant, nicknamed the local "Maldives," photographed on July 11, 2019. The industrial dump site in Siberia with a turquoise lake resembling a tropical paradise has become a magnet for Instagrammers who risk their health in the toxic water to wow online followers. #
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A volunteer from the Goupil association feeds young birds with tweezers at the Wildlife Hospital in Laroque, France, on July 8, 2019. Since the end of June, a heat wave has hit France and other parts of Europe, and the small team at the Laroque Wildlife Hospital has been receiving and treating hundreds of animals affected by the unprecedented temperatures. #
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