Cuddly foxes in Shanghai, the enthronement ceremony of Japan’s new emperor, a memorial for U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Kansas sunset, wildfires in California, protests in Bolivia and Chile, a guitar-shaped hotel in Florida, a sky deck 100 floors above Manhattan, Parliament Hill in Ontario, a bee preservationist in California, and much more
Photos of the Week: Angry Boy, Big Bird, Great Wall
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Gymnast Simone Biles performs a flip before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch, prior to Game Two of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on October 23, 2019. #
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A performer dressed as an astronaut holds the torch during the opening ceremony of the 7th International Military Sports Council Military World Games at the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on October 18, 2019. #
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A sculpture by Slovakian artist Viktor Freso titled "Angry Boy" is pictured before sunrise at Sculpture By The Sea at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on October 25, 2019. #
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Mark Belio, dressed as Sesame Street's Big Bird, sits with Biff the Samoyed, dressed as Oscar the Grouch, at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in Manhattan on October 20, 2019. #
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An opposition protester speaks to National Guard soldiers blocking the way to the headquarters of the state electric company in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 24, 2019. Demonstrators mobilized in support of the inhabitants of the western state of Zulia, which suffers daily power outages that sometimes last more than 20 hours. #
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Bee preservationist Michael J. Thiele smells bees in a nest habitat in Sebastopol, California. Thiele estimates that he has "midwifed" billions of bees by building traditional nest habitats that attract bees from within the local watershed through swarming, which increases the bee population exponentially. Picture taken September 6, 2019, and released October 24, 2019. #
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Steve Platt, a supervisor at the Lakeland Parks and Recreation Department, reaches for a swan during the 39th annual swan roundup on Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida, October 22, 2019. The city's parks and recreation department catches all the swans to administer health examinations before they are released back into the lake. #
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A 6-week-old river otter reacts at the Animal Welfare Unit of the Zoo in Cali, Colombia, on October 22, 2019. The baby otter was found abandoned and brought to the Cali Zoo. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, river otters are in danger of extinction due to mining, agriculture, river pollution, and housing construction in their habitat. #
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A view from the Cairo Tower in the center of the Egyptian capital, showing the Pyramids of Giza in the distance, beyond more modern buildings in Cairo and Giza, on October 23, 2019. #
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Members of the media walk around on the "Edge" sky deck, advertised as the Western Hemisphere's highest outdoor observation deck, during a press preview of the 100th and 101st floors of the Hudson Yards development in New York City on October 24, 2019. #
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A guitar-shaped hotel is seen at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on October 24, 2019. The Guitar Hotel's grand opening is the latest step in the Seminole Hard Rock empire, which includes naming rights for the Miami-area stadium where the 2020 Super Bowl will be played. #
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Demonstrators take cover as they are sprayed by security forces with a water cannon during a protest against Chile's state economic model in Santiago on October 22, 2019. #
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A photographer takes photos amid a shower of embers as wind and flames rip through the area during the Kincade fire, near Geyserville, California, on October 24, 2019. #
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An aerial view of harvesters, stubble choppers, and soil preparation machines working in a sorghum field on Nen River farm in Nenjiang, Heilongjiang province, China, on October 17, 2019. #
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The flag-draped casket of late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings is carried through National Statuary Hall during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019. #
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An injured woman shouts as she is lifted by protesters to a waiting ambulance, after at least three people were struck by a truck that was unable to brake on a hill and plowed into protesters heading home from a demonstration in Petion-Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 20, 2019. Anger over corruption, inflation and scarcity of basic goods, including fuel, has led to more than a month of demonstrations that have paralyzed the country as protesters demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse. #
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U.S. Senator and Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during the "Bernie's Back" rally at Queensbridge Park in the Queens Borough of New York City on October 19, 2019. #
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