A deadly second wave of COVID-19 in India, a moose in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a world-record attempt in Bangkok, a totem-pole gift in Washington State, a flowered forest in Belgium, a helicopter flying on Mars, surfing in Australia, and much more
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A model swims in a transparent swimming-pool bridge that crosses between the top floors of two 10-story apartment buildings at Embassy Gardens, next to the new U.S. embassy in southwest London, on April 22, 2021. The 25-meter-long acrylic pool, known as the Sky Pool, will allow residents to swim from one building to the other, 10 stories above the ground. #
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Stella Radford falls in the Women's 3000-meter Steeplechase Final during the Australian Track & Field Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Center on April 18, 2021, in Sydney, Australia. #
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LCR Honda Idemitsu's rider Takaaki Nakagami crashes in the second MotoGP free-practice session of the Portuguese Grand Prix at the Algarve International Circuit in Portimão, Portugal, on April 16, 2021. #
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the Ingenuity helicopter during its second flight, on April 22, 2021. The tiny aircraft successfully flew to a height of about 16 feet (5 meters) above the Martian surface, before setting back down. #
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A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster, loaded with satellites belonging to the British firm OneWeb, is transported to a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region on April 22, 2021. #
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Cemetery workers lay cinder-block rows for new graves at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, on April 21, 2021. After facing criticism for downplaying the virus last year, authorities have put partial lockdowns and other measures in place to try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, as Iran faces what looks like its worst wave of the pandemic yet. #
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People walk through the artwork "The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended Into the Heavens" by Yayoi Kusama, during a press preview of a retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin, Germany, on April 22, 2021. #
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Lummi Nation elder Lucille Spencer prays over a totem pole that is nearly 25 feet long, in view of Mount Baker, shortly after the pole was moved from a carving shed on April 19, 2021, on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Washington. The pole, carved from a 400-year-old red cedar, will be given by the tribe to the administration of President Joe Biden. The pole will make a journey from the reservation past sacred Indigenous sites, before arriving in Washington, D.C., in early June. Organizers say that the totem pole is a reminder to leaders to honor the rights of Indigenous people and their sacred sites. #
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Happy cows run after being released to graze in fields outside, after having spent the winter indoors in the stables at Ny Lundgaard in Tjele, Jutland, Denmark, on April 18, 2021. #
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A Buddhist monk lights a candle along with others in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest flaming image with 330,000 candles during Earth Day celebrations at the Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok on April 22, 2021. #
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Migrant families wait to be escorted by a local church group to a location where they will turn themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States from Mexico, in Roma, Texas, on April 20, 2021. #
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Entertainment workers take part in a demonstration organized by Bauli in Piazza against COVID-19 restrictions and the lack of financial aid to the cultural, entertainment, and events sector, on April 17, 2021, in Rome, Italy. #
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Queen Elizabeth II takes her seat during the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on April 17, 2021, in Windsor, England. #
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A member of the military stands on the grounds of Windsor Castle on the day of the funeral of Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth, who died at the age of 99, in Windsor, England, on April 17, 2021. #
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The Big Merino is seen on April 17, 2021, in Goulburn, Australia. The 50-foot-tall, 100-ton concrete merino-ram structure is home to a gift shop and a wool exhibition. #
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Russian riot police officers block a street during a rally in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, in central St. Petersburg on April 21, 2021. Navalny's team called for demonstrations in more than 100 cities, after the opposition figure's doctors said his health was failing following three weeks on hunger strike. #
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People react after the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, found guilty in the murder of George Floyd, at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 20, 2021. #
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Wearing a mask and a face shield, 10-year-old Jade Chan Puc writes in her workbook during the first day of class at the Valentín Gomez Farias Indigenous Primary School in Montebello, Hecelchakan, Campeche state, Mexico, on April 19, 2021. #
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Javier Anto, 90, reacts in front of his wife, Carmen Panzano, 92, through the window separating the nursing home from the street in Barcelona, Spain, on April 21, 2021. Since the pandemic struck, a glass pane has separated—and united—Javier and Carmen for the first prolonged period apart of their six-decade marriage. #
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A medical staff member holds the hand of a patient infected with COVID-19 lying on a bed in the intensive-care unit of the Clinique Oceane private hospital in Vannes, France, on April 20, 2021. #
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A man pays his respects to a relative who lost their life because of COVID-19 at a crematorium on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on April 22, 2021. With recorded cases crossing 300,000 a day, India now has more than 2 million active cases of COVID-19, the second-highest number in the world after the U.S. A new wave of the pandemic has totally overwhelmed the country's health-care services and has caused crematoria to operate day and night as the number of victims continues to spiral out of control. #
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The Boeoegg, a snowman made of wadding and filled with firecrackers, is burning in a bonfire on the landmark of Devil's Bridge in the Schoellenen Gorge near the Alpine resort of Andermatt, Switzerland April 19, 2021. #
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