Stunt riding in Iraq, downhill skiing in Switzerland, a giant stuffed penguin in New York City, drones over Dublin, a huge sand portrait in England, an unfinished border wall in Texas, green slime in California, a green river in Chicago, and much more
Photos of the Week: Sandy Mask, Silver Man, Siberian Mandalorian
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Police detain Patsy Stevenson as people gathered at a vigil in Clapham Common Bandstand, following the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, England, on March 13, 2021. Read more about Sarah Everard and the female lockdown from Helen Lewis. #
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A worker wearing a protective suit walks past houses and vehicles as he disinfects a village, in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Manila, Philippines, on March 15, 2021. #
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An aerial picture shot with a drone shows the Chicago River as it flows through downtown after it was dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 13, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. The dyeing of the river, a St. Patrick's Day tradition in the city, was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was reported to be canceled this year, but the city approved a last-minute early-morning clandestine dyeing to keep the usual spectators at bay. #
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Staff members walk inside an interactive installation called Ephemeral Solidified Light, during a media preview of the teamLab Reconnect: Art with Rinkan Sauna art and sauna experience, in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, on March 15, 2021. #
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Protesters demonstrate outside the French Senate against the Global Security Law that went before the Senate on March 16, 2021, in Paris, France. Opponents claim the law authorizes the use of cameras, video surveillance, and drones by the police, while also restricting the filming of the police during their operations, alarming journalists and activists who say that civil liberties and press freedom could be compromised. #
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This picture taken on March 13, 2021, shows spectators watching the burning of the Corona Tower, a wooden structure created by the Russian artist Nikolay Polissky during celebrations of Maslenitsa, the eastern Slavic Shrovetide, in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Russia. #
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Ilmira Bagautdinova, a ballet dancer from the Mariinsky Theatre, performs on the frozen Batareynaya Bay to protest the construction of a grain terminal and other infrastructure in the Gulf of Finland, in the Leningrad region of Russia. #
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Activists from the animal-rights group PETA, wearing bikinis and crocodile masks, stand outside a store of the French fashion label Hermes in Melbourne, Australia, on March 16, 2021, to protest against their use of crocodile skins and the recent purchases by Hermes and LVMH of crocodile farms in Australia's Northern Territory. #
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Visitors tour the artist Eduardo Sarabia's piece Passenger during the media-preview day of the Desert X exhibit, in the Coachella Valley near Palm Desert, California, on March 11, 2021. #
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Light catches the security fence around the U.S. Capitol, erected in the wake of the January 6 attack, but now scheduled for removal, in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2021. #
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This picture taken at Tanjung Priok in Jakarta on March 16, 2021, shows construction work taking place at the Jakarta International Stadium, planned to host soccer matches with an expected capacity of 82,000 spectators once completed. #
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Images of New Yorkers lost to the COVID-19 pandemic are projected onto the Brooklyn Bridge on March 14, 2021, in New York City. The city was honoring lives lost to COVID-19 on the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown. #
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A giant sand portrait of Ansha, a 12-year-old from Frat, Ethiopia, made by WaterAid and the artists from Sand In Your Eye, adorns Whitby Beach on March 15, 2021 in Whitby, England. Ahead of World Water Day on March 22, WaterAid created the portrait of a child carrying water next to the rising tide, to highlight the impact that climate change is having on people’s access to water. The 60-meter-wide artwork depicts Ansha from Frat in Ethiopia, who spends hours each day walking toward and collecting dirty water from a river. #
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A woman dressed in the style of a Hindu goddess keeps her face partially covered for a ritual during Maha Shivaratri celebrations on March 12, 2021, in Kaveripattinam, India. #
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Hikers make their way through a tunnel at Pisang Falls near Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia, on March 13, 2021. People have been taking advantage of loosened restrictions across Malaysia as long periods of lockdown begin to ease, allowing them to gather outside and in groups for the first time in months in many parts of the country. #
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Artemi Panarin of the New York Rangers skates into the spotlight during warmups, prior to the start of the game against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 13, 2021. #
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A display by Tourism Ireland entitled Orchestra of Light, featuring a swarm of 500 drones, is animated in the night sky above the Samuel Beckett Bridge on the River Liffey for St. Patrick's Day, as celebrations were canceled for the second year in a row due to the spread of the coronavirus, in Dublin, Ireland, on March 7, 2021. #
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People wear protective masks as they commute during a sandstorm on March 15, 2021, in Beijing, China. China's capital and the northern part of the country were hit with a sandstorm on Monday, sending air-quality indexes to hazardous levels and canceling flights. #
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A man wearing a costume of Din Djarin, the lead character of The Mandalorian, poses in front of a giant replica of his gunship, the Razor Crest, in a park in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk, on March 14, 2021. #
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Junaidi, wearing silver paint, begs for money on the street in Depok, Indonesia, on March 11, 2021. Junaidi was laid off from his job due to the pandemic and decided to become a "silver man." The silver men, called "manusia silver" in Indonesia, are a group of people who have turned to a new form of begging to make ends meet. Using a mixture of screen-printing powder and cooking oil to form a highly toxic, improvised metallic paint, they coat their bodies for dramatic effect and transform themselves into living statues. Manusia silver can earn from $3.50 to $7 every day. Approximately 2.6 million people in the country lost their jobs during the pandemic, according to Statistics Indonesia. #
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A young Iraqi shows off his balancing skills as he performs stunts on a motorbike on the bank of the Shatt Al-Arab River at sunset, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, on March 17, 2021. #
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Sparks fly behind Sergio Perez of Mexico driving the Red Bull Racing RB16B Honda during the second day of F1 Testing at Bahrain International Circuit on March 13, 2021, in Bahrain. #
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A woman looks at hundreds of bouquets of flowers left at a memorial site at the Clapham Common Bandstand, following the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, England, on March 17, 2021. #
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