A bull-taming festival in India, icy purification in Tokyo, locusts in Ethiopia, speed skating in the Netherlands, illuminated hats in Switzerland, fashion in Berlin and Paris, an iguana claw in Germany, a coming-of-age ceremony in Tokyo, bushfires in Australia, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Giant Boar, Ice Music, Patagonian Glacier
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An injured horse covered with volcanic ash falls to the ground after being rescued by residents near the erupting Taal Volcano, in Talisay, Batangas, Philippines, on January 16, 2020. #
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A contestant riding a tractor pulls a float featuring a giant boar as the procession takes over the streets of Chernivtsi during the Malanka Fest folk festival that celebrates Old New Year (marked on January 13), in Ukraine. #
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A red-necked wallaby joey is seen during a tour of the Taronga Zoo's Wildlife Hospital on January 14, 2020, in Sydney, Australia. The federal government has granted $1 million to support efforts to help conservation-based zoos like Taronga care for injured and displaced wildlife in the wake of the ongoing bushfire crisis in Australia. #
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Humane Society International Crisis Response Specialist Kelly Donithan looks for injured wildlife in a burned forest on Kangaroo Island on January 15, 2020. On an island famed as Australia's "Galapagos" for its unique and abundant wildlife, rescuers are racing to save rare animals in a bushfire-ravaged landscape. The charred forest floor on Kangaroo Island is littered with corpses of animals incinerated by the blazes that swept through two weeks ago. #
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Women wearing kimonos arrive for a coming-of-age ceremony at the Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo, Japan, on January 13, 2020. Coming of Age Day is a Japanese holiday held every January to celebrate people who have reached 20, the official age of adulthood in Japan. About 1.22 million people nationwide have turned 20 this year according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. #
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Musicians play instruments made of ice during a performance at the Ice Music Festival in an igloo at 2,600 meters above sea level on the Presena Glacier, in Passo Paradiso, Italy, on January 9, 2020. #
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Patrouille Suisse (Swiss patrol) fighter jets and a Swiss International Airlines commercial plane fly over the mountains during a training session of the men's downhill race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, on January 16, 2020, in Wengen. #
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French skyscraper climber Alain Robert, popularly known as the "French Spiderman," starts to climb the Total tower in the west of Paris's business district of La Defense on January 13, 2020, as a symbolic action to support striking workers on the 40th day of a nationwide movement against a French government pension reform. #
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Men from Morocco and Bangladesh react on an overcrowded wooden boat, as aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms approach them in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast, on January 10, 2020. #
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A female turtle named Goody tests out the first prosthetic flipper that will help other sea turtles injured by fishing gear to swim again, in Phuket, Thailand, on January 10, 2020. #
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Serena Williams of the USA bounces the ball in her singles final match against Jessica Pegula of the USA at ASB Tennis Center on January 12, 2020, in Auckland, New Zealand. #
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An iguana shows his claws at the reptile sanctuary and zoo in Rheinberg, Germany, on January 15, 2020. The sanctuary cares for dangerous animals from overwhelmed owners or illegally imported reptiles found at airports. #
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A model prepares backstage before the Walter Van Beirendonck Menswear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 15, 2020, in Paris, France. #
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Men dressed as Chlaeuse—figures that scare away evil spirits—wear illuminated hats and carry round bells and cowbells during the traditional Sylvesterchlausen near the northeastern village of Urnaesch, Switzerland, on January 13, 2020. #
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A security guard wears a mask on the viewing deck of the 78-floor mirrored King Power Mahanakhon tower in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 14, 2020. Thick, unhealthy smog continues to plague much of Bangkok and northern Thailand, with the worst pollution in Lampang province near Chiang Mai. #
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The Netherlands' Jutta Leerdam celebrates with the national flag after winning the women's 1,000-meter race at the European Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in the Thialf stadium in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, on January 12, 2020. #
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A man holds an ice brick after praying in ice-cold water in a ceremony to purify his soul and wish for good health in the new year at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on January 12, 2020. #
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Mark Ingram II of the Baltimore Ravens hugs his daughters before the AFC Divisional Playoff game against the Tennessee Titans at M&T Bank Stadium on January 11, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. #
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An animal volunteer carries a dog he rescued from deserted homes near Taal Volcano. Residents evacuated to safer grounds, leaving some of their pets behind, in Talisay, Batangas province, southern Philippines, on January 15, 2020. #
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A villager tries to control a bull during a bull-taming festival, part of south India's harvest festival of Pongal, on the outskirts of Madurai, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on January 16, 2020. #
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