Skiing in the French Alps, flooding in Michigan, a drive-through burlesque in Las Vegas, disinfecting streets in Buenos Aires, a ballet performance in Mexico, street protests in Chile, social-distancing rings in Turkey, a fawn rescue in Germany, and much more
Photos of the Week: Sydney Fog, House Hat, Crow Pursuit
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Yasmine Protho, a graduating senior, wears a photo of herself on her protective mask amid the coronavirus pandemic. She graduated with only nine other classmates at a time with limited family attending at Chattahoochee County High School on May 15, 2020, in Cusseta, Georgia. #
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Students from Allentown Central Catholic High School in prom dresses maintain social distance as their mothers take pictures of them, after their prom was canceled in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on May 14, 2020. #
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Cardboard cut-outs with portraits of Borussia Mönchengladbach supporters are seen at the Borussia Park football stadium in Mönchengladbach, Germany, on May 19, 2020. #
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Sculptor Luke Perry's model of a winged medical worker, a "thank you" to National Health Service staff, is seen in Lightwoods Park in Bearwood, England, on May 21, 2020. #
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A helper holds a small fawn found on May 19, 2020 in the grass of a meadow near the small Bavarian village of Oberacker near Munich, Germany. Before the farmers' meadows are mown these days, helpers try to find any fawns hiding in the grass. Immediately after the meadows are mowed, the animals are released so that the mothers can find them again. #
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Dexter Griffin, 9, of Foxborough, plants a flag outside of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on May 21, 2020. The Patriots Foundation partnered with the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund to plant 2,552 flags in honor of veterans from Foxborough who have lost their lives defending the country since the Revolutionary War. #
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A drone photo shows an aerial view of Kordonboyu in Izmir, Turkey on May 21, 2020. As part of the precautions taken against the coronavirus pandemic, social-distancing rings were created along the waterfront in Kordonboyu, a place frequented by thousands of people. #
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In the occasionally unfriendly skies of South Portland, Maine, a northern mockingbird pursues a crow after the larger bird entered the smaller bird's nesting territory on May 18, 2020. #
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A woman poses under a Plex'Eat prototype plexiglas bubble created by the designer, Christophe Gernigon, which surrounds diners to protect them from the novel coronavirus during a presentation in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, near Paris, as restaurants in France prepare to reopen post-lockdown, on May 20, 2020. #
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Residents jump off a bridge while swimming, paddle boarding, and kayaking in Barton Creek in Austin, Texas, on May 20, 2020. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that bars, wine tasting rooms, bowling alleys, skating rinks, bingo halls, aquariums, and equestrian events will be allowed to open on May 22, despite a surge in confirmed coronavirus cases in the state. #
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Demonstrators, some wearing protective face masks amid the new coronavirus pandemic, clash with the police during a protest demanding food aid from the government, in a poor neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, on May 18, 2020. #
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Abdurrahman el-Derdiri, a 29-year-old Tunisian wrestler, is seen training in Tunis, Tunisia, on May 15, 2020. To keep fit during the pandemic, he turned his house and balcony into a gym. #
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A medical worker wearing a protective face mask stands among beds at the Jaffestrasse Corona Treatment Center during the coronavirus crisis on May 19, 2020, in Berlin, Germany. The center is a temporary hospital built in Hall 26 of the Berlin Messe trade fair grounds for treating COVID-19 cases, should the capacity of local hospitals be exceeded. So far, Berlin's hospitals have not been overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases and use of the temporary hospital, with its 488-bed capacity, has not been necessary. #
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A coronavirus-themed robot navigated by health officials sprays disinfectant in a residential area, after the government eased a nationwide lockdown, in Chennai, India, on May 20, 2020. #
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Kady Heard performs a burlesque routine during a drive-thru theater performance at the Majestic Repertory Theatre in Las Vegas on May 16, 2020. The theater held interactive performances for people in their cars as they sold masks to raise money, while closed during the coronavirus outbreak. #
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A man wearing a face mask and a cardboard house on his head with text that reads, in Spanish, "stay at home," walks on the seafront in Montevideo, Uruguay, on May 20, 2020. #
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Mountaineers ski to the Vallee Blanche, a glacial valley located in the Mont Blanc massif, from the Aiguille du Midi peak in Chamonix, on May 16, 2020, on the first day of the reopening as France eases lockdown measures. #
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