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![A soccer player falls over a low fence during a game.]()
Read moreReal Madrid's French forward Karim Benzema falls over the advertisement boards during the Spanish League soccer match between Real Madrid CF and SD Eibar at the Alfredo di Stefano stadium in Valdebebas on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, on April 3, 2021. #
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![A dancer poses along the shore.]()
Read moreNathan Brook, a soloist with the Australian Ballet, poses for a portrait at Fairy Bower Rock Pool on April 7, 2021, in Sydney, Australia. #
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![A woman walks across a bridge in a snowstorm.]()
Read moreA woman walks across the medieval Charles Bridge during snowfall in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 6, 2021. #
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![A man lies in the sun in Central Park.]()
Read moreA man enjoys the warm weather in the Sheep Meadow in New York City's Central Park on April 5, 2021. #
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![A baseball player stands at the edge of a large expanse of grass, the newly mown outfield.]()
Read moreOzzie Albies of the Atlanta Braves stands for the national anthem before playing against the Washington Nationals in game one of a doubleheader at Nationals Park on April 7, 2021, in Washington, D.C. #
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Read moreEnrique Hernandez of the Boston Red Sox throws during the third inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 7, 2021, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. #
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![A girl works in a wheat field.]()
Read moreA girl harvests wheat in a field on the outskirts of Faridabad, India, on April 4, 2021. #
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![Fire rises from a canister among blossoming trees.]()
Read moreA picture taken on early April 8, 2021, shows a burning candle at the foot of apricot trees in bloom, part of a fight against frost, which can destroy the newly emerging buds, in the Swiss Alps mountains in Saillon near Martigny. The large paraffin candles give off enough heat to create air movement, which prevents a frost pocket from forming. #
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![Dozens of small fires burn along a mountain slope.]()
Read moreCandles burn close to the vines in a vineyard to keep the plants warm near Martigny, Switzerland, on April 8, 2021. #
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![Lava flows from volcanic cones.]()
Read moreLava oozes from a new fissure near Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, on April 5, 2021. #
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![A person skis on a large patch of snow among bare mountains.]()
Read moreA person is seen skiing on April 3, 2021, in Glencoe, Scotland. #
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Read morePeople enjoy a sunny day atop Europe's tallest sand dune, called "Dune du Pilat," in La Teste-de-Buch, near France's Arcachon Bay, on April 3, 2021. #
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Read moreA man's face is illuminated by his mobile phone as he stands on top of a roof at sunset to get a phone signal in Dun Laoghaire harbor at night, in Dublin, Ireland, on April 3, 2021. #
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![A man wearing protective equipment performs with a guitar for a patient.]()
Read moreA health worker from the Portuguese charity hospital in Belem, Para State, Brazil, sings and prays for a COVID-19 patient as part of Easter celebrations, on April 4, 2021. #
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Read moreA COVID-19 patient is cared for in an intensive-care unit at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou on April 6, 2021, in Paris. #
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![A crowd of people push against a group of riot-police officers.]()
Read moreRestaurant owners scuffle with police as tensions rise over COVID-19 restrictions on businesses, in Rome, Italy, on April 6, 2021. #
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![A person walks near a burning car.]()
Read moreA rioter is seen near a burning car at the "peace wall" gate into Lanark Way as protests continue in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on April 7, 2021. A week of violent demonstrations by both by Irish nationalists and pro-British loyalists took place in Northern Ireland amid worries caused by a post-Brexit world. #
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![A seated effigy burns on a city street.]()
Read moreAn effigy representing Judas Iscariot burns as people wearing masks watch during Holy Week in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on April 4, 2021. #
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![Horses run through grass during a race.]()
Read moreHorses run past during a race at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Australia, on April 3, 2021. #
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![A trainer walks with a horse away from a beach.]()
Read moreLisa Jones, a trainer, walks Preliminaires after a trackwork session in Balnarring, Australia, on April 8, 2021. Balnarring Beach is a remote beach on the Mornington Peninsula of Victoria. Regional trainers are known to use the beach as part of preparations for race meets because of its shallow water and sand dunes. #
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![A mature monkey with two young sits high on a tree branch.]()
Read moreFrançois' langurs play and forage in the treetops of a national nature reserve in Tongren, in China's Guizhou province, on April 5, 2021. #
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Read moreA mother Van cat is seen after she gave birth in Van, Turkey, on April 6, 2021. #
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![The masked Easter Bunny appears at a podium.]()
Read moreThe Easter Bunny makes a surprise appearance in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2021. #
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![Two people walk out of a shallow lake near a large building.]()
Read moreActivists leave after swimming in the Hofvijver lake in the Hague, on April 6, 2021, during a demonstration to indicate that science will drown because of underfunding. Professors, students, staff, and administrators of Dutch universities hope to persuade politicians to invest in academic education and research. #
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Read morePeople stand still as a two-minute siren marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day is heard in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 8, 2021. #
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![A turtle swims away from a boat.]()
Read moreAn endangered sea turtle swims as it is lowered off a boat into the Mediterranean. Israel Nature and Parks Authority rangers rescued the turtles, which survived an oil spill and required weeks of cleaning and rehabilitation, off the shore of Michmoret, Israel, on April 7, 2021. #
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![A huge wave splashes near a lighthouse.]()
Read moreHuge waves crash against Roker lighthouse and pier on April 6, 2021, in Sunderland, England. #
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![Traditional buildings sit atop two steep hills, blanketed in snow.]()
Read moreAn aerial view of Laojun Mountain covered by snow in Luoyang, Henan province, China, on April 4, 2021. #
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![Hundreds of people in matching uniforms stand together in large boats, rowing.]()
Read morePeople take part in the 2021 Qintong Boat Festival at Qinhu National Wetland Park on April 8, 2021, in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China. #
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![People walk on stairs near hundreds of stone tombs.]()
Read morePeople visit Cape Collinson Chinese Cemetery to pay respects to their departed loved ones to mark the Ching Ming Festival, also known as tomb-sweeping, near the Chai Wan area of Hong Kong on April 5, 2021. #
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![Hundreds of shipping containers sit in stacks in a port with a freight vessel and cranes in the background.]()
Read moreContainers are unloaded from a ship at a container terminal at the Port of Long Beach/Port of Los Angeles complex in Los Angeles, California, on April 7, 2021. #
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![People work to clean an enormous amount of plastic waste from a lake bed.]()
Read morePeople remove plastic waste from the polluted Uru Uru Lake during a cleaning event in Oruro, Bolivia, on April 7, 2021. #
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![Swirls of pollen float on a blue lake, seen from above.]()
Read morePine pollen floats on Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou, in China's Zhejiang province, on April 1, 2021. #
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![An airplane drops a cloud of retardant over a low hillside.]()
Read moreAn airplane drops fire retardant on the Springs Fire as it burns along a hillside in the Angeles National Forest in Valyermo, California, on April 5, 2021. #
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![A dancer performs in an empty marketplace.]()
Read moreA Syrian Kurdish ballet dancer performs in an empty market during a COVID-19-related lockdown in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on April 7, 2021. #
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