A socially distanced Santa school in London, gold panning in France, heavy-metal music in China, gondoliers in Mexico, Hurricane Laura damage in Louisiana, protests in Kenosha, Red Rocks yoga in Colorado, an acrobatic fairy tale in Prague, Senegal’s first female professional surfer, and much more
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This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken on August 26, 2020, at 4:50 p.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Laura strengthened into "an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane," before making landfall along the Louisiana-Texas border. #
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A woman dances as she visits an outdoor immersive-experience exhibition during the 2020 Beijing International Light Festival at a park in Beijing on August 22, 2020. #
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The French athlete Jean-Baptiste Alaize, who represented France at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, wears his prosthesis during a training session in Antibes, France, on August 24, 2020. #
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The Mexican wrestler Gran Felipe Jr. performs against Sol during a morning lucha-libre fight show on August 22, 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Mexican wrestling industry faces a crisis due to the closure of gyms and wrestling venues during the extended coronavirus lockdown. As a way to revive their activities and industry, wrestlers have created the "Chinampaluchas," a lucha-libre show in a ring built on a chinampa (portion of land in the middle of a lake), broadcasted via social media and with a $1 fee for fans. #
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Khadjou Sambe, 25, Senegal's first female professional surfer, trains off the coast of Ngor, Dakar, Senegal, on August 18, 2020. "I always think to myself, when I wake up in the morning, Khadjou, you've got something to do. You represent something everywhere in the world. You must go straight to the point. Don't give up, whatever people say. Whatever they say, don't listen. Go forward so that everybody can get up and believe they can surf." #
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People atop stand-up paddleboards look on as a barge with a 116-foot container crane aboard moves through Puget Sound from Seattle's Terminal 5 on its way to Tacoma's West Sitcum Terminal on August 26, 2020. #
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Artists perform an acrobatic performance of the literary fairy tale "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen on the rooftop of the Lucerna building in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 25, 2020. #
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People participate in a morning yoga session at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on August 22, 2020. The famed concert locale is featuring physically distanced summer events during the coronavirus pandemic, including weekend yoga and a drive-in movie theater. Normally, there are 2,500 participants, but because of coronavirus restrictions, the event has been capped at 175. #
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Opposition activist Nina Baginskaya, 73, center, struggles with police after they took her flag, during a Belarusian opposition rally at Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, on August 26, 2020. #
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A protester, wearing a gas mask, confronts members of the Federal Protective Service during clashes between the "alt-right" Proud Boy group and Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, on August 22, 2020. #
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A flag flies over a department-of-corrections building ablaze during protests on August 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha police officer a day earlier. #
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The Italian marine biologist Monica Blasi looks up as she swims toward light, off the coast of Filicudi, in the Sicilian Aeolian archipelago, Italy, on August 23, 2020. #
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In this aerial view from a drone, cowboys round up cattle on a pasture next to the Gulf of Mexico to take them to safe ground before the arrival of Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020, in Cameron, Louisiana. Ranch owner Roman Tatriot said he was rounding up about 600 cattle and, with the help of neighbors, expected to get them out before the hurricane arrived. #
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Gondoliers pole trajineras, colorfully painted wooden boats popular with tourists and revelers, as the Nuevo Nativitas dock opens once again amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Xochimilco, Mexico City, on August 21, 2020. Though traffic was light on the first day back after being closed for several months, gondoliers, handicraft sellers, and food and drink vendors said they were happy to be back at work and to have the chance to earn some money. #
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A mural painted by the Mexican urban artist Sergio Morelos, a.k.a. "Applezman," made in tribute to doctors and nurses who are on the front line in the fight against COVID-19, in Mexico City, on August 25, 2020 #
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Kimberly Guilfoyle, the National Chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee and the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., delivers a prerecorded speech to the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention from Washington, D.C., on August 24, 2020. #
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First lady Melania Trump delivers her live address to the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House, as seen from the roof of the West Wing, in Washington, D.C., on August 25, 2020. #
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Villagers observe wildfires from the Casa Grande community in Cordoba, Argentina, on August 25, 2020. Wildfires raging in the Cordoba province are threatening to destroy homes and forcing evacuations in some areas. The cause of the fires, fueled by winds and drought, has not been determined yet, but authorities suspect ranchers of setting fire to clear areas for new crops. #
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Santas concentrate as they attend a socially distanced Santa-school session at Southwark Cathedral in London, England, on August 24, 2020. Britain's much-loved Santa school will train the nation's Santas to socially distance in order to keep the magic of the Christmas grotto alive this year, despite COVID-19 restrictions potentially interfering with the festive season. #
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