A weeping Sophora Japonica tree in Versailles, the Zhangye danxia landform in China, a hitchhiking cat in Turkey, continuing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, baseball's National League Championship Series in Washington, D.C., anti-government unrest in Haiti, a flamingo mother and chick in Colombia, an elevated railway in Kenya, chopsticks manufacturing in China, the Los Angeles Comic-Con, and much more.
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Aleix Espargaro of Spain and Aprilia Racing Team Gresini leads the field during the "Minimoto race in Mobi Park" pre-event, during the MotoGP of Japan Press Conference at Twin Ring Motegi on October 17, 2019, in Motegi, Japan. #
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Attendees maneuver a cart shaped like Darth Vader's TIE fighter from Star Wars, at the 2019 Los Angeles Comic-Con at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 12, 2019. #
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The Ardingly College Solar car "Ardingly Solar" from the UK competes in the Adventure class on Day 5 of the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge near Coober Pedy, Australia, on October 17, 2019. Teams from across the globe are competing in the 2019 World Solar Challenge—a 3,000-km solar-powered vehicle race between Darwin and Adelaide. #
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The Radcliffe Women's Heavyweight Crew team trains on the Charles River in preparation for the Head of the Charles Regatta on October 16, 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Harvard women's crew teams compete as Radcliffe Crew to honor all-women's Radcliffe College, which merged athletics departments with Harvard in 1976. #
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Advance space suit engineer, Kristine Davis, looks on during a press conference displaying the next generation of space suits as parts of the Artemis program in Washington, D.C., on October 15, 2019. #
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A team member from the Stanford Solar Car Project of the U.S. looks at the setting moon on the Devils Marbles in Australia on Day 3 of the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge on October 15, 2019. #
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A pro-democracy protester reacts as he moves part of the 4-meter-tall "Statue of Lady Liberty Hong Kong" with his friend on the iconic Lion Rock, in Hong Kong, China, on October 13, 2019. #
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A giraffe walks near pillars supporting elevated tracks that allow movement of animals below the Standard Gauge Railway line linking Nairobi and Naivasha inside Nairobi national park in Nairobi, Kenya, on October 16, 2019. #
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Sheep graze in a field outside a factory that produces a hard and salty cheese called Pecorino Romano, a product which may be hit by U.S. tariffs, in Fiano Romano, outside Rome, Italy, on October 14, 2019. #
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Melted traffic lights are seen after clashes with separatist demonstrators followed a verdict in a trial over a banned independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain, on October 17, 2019. #
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In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, protesters march on the street to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise on October 11, 2019. Thousands have demonstrated in the main cities of Haiti in recent weeks, responding to a call from opposition groups seeking the resignation of the president, a movement that has paralyzed the country. #
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A grieving family member is comforted during the funeral of murdered community leader Josemano "Badou" Victorieux, in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 16, 2019. Funerals for 11 of at least 20 people killed in relation to recent protests were held in six cities, including the capital of Port-au-Prince, where at least two people were injured in a protest that broke out when presidential guards tried to block a road near where hundreds had gathered around the coffins of two victims. #
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A man installs upside-down giant paintings of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, left, and Spanish King Felipe VI, ahead of a protest by Basque pro-independence activists in support of Catalonia's independence movement, following Spain's conviction of Catalan separatist leaders, in Bilbao, Spain, on October 15, 2019. #
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Brendan Gaughan flips in turn 3 as driver Kurt Busch and David Ragan pass underneath during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Talladega Superspeedway, on Oct 14, 2019, in Talladega, Alabama. #
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Washington Nationals' Yan Gomes and Daniel Hudson celebrate after Game 4 of the baseball National League Championship Series in Washington, D.C., on October 15, 2019. The Nationals won 7-4 to win the series 4-0. #
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Two protesters take a selfie as barricades burn in the background during a demonstration called by the local Republic Defense Committees in Barcelona, Spain, on October 16, 2019, after police arrested 51 people across Catalonia overnight following violent protests. #
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Protesters light their mobile devices during a peaceful rally in central Hong Kong's business district, on October 14, 2019. The protests that started in June over a now-shelved extradition bill have since snowballed into an anti-China campaign amid anger over what many view as Beijing's interference in Hong Kong's autonomy, which was granted when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. #
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A lawmaker jumps on furniture as he tries to follow Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam (not pictured), when Lam left the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, China, on October 17, 2019. #
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A cat that was found in the street when he was a kitten and raised by his owners is seen in eastern Tunceli province, Turkey, on October 12, 2019. Hamza Mutlu and Ozge Kubra Mace, nature-lovers living in Artvin, travel around Turkey, hitchhiking with their cat, Azman. #
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This picture taken on October 11, 2019, shows a weeping Sophora Japonica tree, one of the 30 trees deemed "admirable" in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, in Versailles, France. Among the 350,000 trees planted on the Estate of Versailles, 30 have been deemed admirable on account of their beauty, history, or botanical rarity, twenty years after a terrible storm struck in 1999. #
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Farmers gather cotton as Turkish army tanks are seen at a staging area close to the border with Syria in Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, on October 17, 2019. #
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A woman covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of the town of Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, along the border with Turkey in the northeastern Hassakeh province, on October 16, 2019, with smoke from tire fires billowing in the background. The fires were set to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes that are part of operation "Peace Spring." #
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