A “Tribute in Light” in New York City, lingering power outages in Louisiana, students’ return to school in Indonesia, rice harvesting in Japan, final scenes from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, a Neanderthal in the Netherlands, the Fallas Festival in Valencia, women’s pro wrestling in Japan, and much more
Photos of the Week: Depleted Lake, Wayward Cow, Alligator Reef
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Models showcase designs on the runway at the Jingyi Jin Collection show during the China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2022 Collection at the 751D.Park in Beijing, China, on September 5, 2021. #
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Ninots (cardboard figurines) burn as one installation of the Fallas festival is set ablaze in Valencia, Spain, on September 5, 2021. The Fallas, featuring a parade of floats and giant cardboard sculptures, was canceled in 2020 and was postponed from March to September this year, because of the pandemic. #
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An aerial picture of anchored boats with snorkelers around Alligator Reef Lighthouse off Islamorada, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, on September 7, 2021. #
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French urban climber Alain Robert, also known as "The French Spider-Man," and climbers Martin Banot, Alexis Landot, and Leo Urban scale the TotalEnergies tower in the business district of La Défense in Courbevoie, near Paris, France, on September 7, 2021. #
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The statue of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, on September 8, 2021. The statue was lowered to the ground and cut into pieces, then brought to a secure location, where it will be stored until its final place is determined. The statue, one of the largest monuments to the Confederacy in the U.S., was taken down after years of resistance and a long court battle. #
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A picture taken on September 6, 2021, shows the reconstruction of the face of the oldest Neanderthal, nicknamed Krijn, found in the Netherlands, on display at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. #
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Deputy District Attorney Habib A. Balian holds a latex mask, donned by Robert Durst when police arrested him, as the prosecution begins closing arguments before the jury in Durst's trial for murder, on September 8, 2021, in Inglewood, California. The New York real-estate scion, who also had a fake ID and more than $42,000 in cash when he was arrested, is charged with the killing of his longtime friend Susan Berman in Benedict Canyon just before Christmas Eve 2000. #
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Actor Ben Crawford, dressed as The Phantom of the Opera's titular character, wears a protective face mask under his costume mask, as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, during his fitting in the closed lower lobby of the Majestic Theater in Manhattan, New York City, on September 3, 2021. #
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Bronze medalist Monica Graziana Contrafatto of Team Italy, gold medalist Ambra Sabatini of Team Italy, and silver medalist Martina Caironi of Team Italy celebrate after competing in the women's 100-meter T63 final on day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on September 4, 2021. #
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Mauricio Valencia of Team Colombia competes in the men's shot-put F34 final on day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Valencia modified his canine teeth to resemble fangs, in order to "change the stereotype of Para athletes." #
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A dog is comforted after being scared by a person wearing a dinosaur costume, who was advertising a dinosaur exhibition next to the National Geology Museum in Bucharest, on September 4, 2021. #
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Chris Shivers and his neighbors rope a cow during a rescue on September 2, 2021, in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. "All of our neighbors' cows are mixed up in this bunch, so we're here rescuing them, getting them off the road and out of the water. They've been standing in the water now for several days without anything to eat or drink, so they're under a lot of stress and have seen a lot. The hurricane is a disaster and these cows will probably never be the same," Shivers said when asked why he and his group were herding the cows. Many animals throughout Louisiana were displaced as Hurricane Ida tore through the Southwest. #
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to visit a fire station in Schalksmuehle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on September 5, 2021, during a tour of the flood-hit region. #
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Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gather to back the far-right leader in his dispute with the Supreme Court, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 7, 2021. #
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Houseboats sit in a narrow section of water in a depleted Lake Oroville in Oroville, California, on September 5, 2021. Lake Oroville is currently at 23 percent of its capacity and is suffering from extreme levels of drought. #
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This aerial photograph taken on September 3, 2021, shows trash on the abandoned A601 highway at Juprelle, near Liege, Belgium. The makeshift dump—comprising 90,000 tons of domestic debris stretching a total of five miles (eight kilometers) along the closed motorway north of Liege—is testament to the devastation wreaked by unprecedented floods in mid-June. #
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A man who scavenges recyclable material for a living walks past Marabou storks that are feeding on a mountain of garbage at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 7, 2021. #
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A health-care worker carries a container of CanSino vaccine through a remote rural village on the way to vaccinate residents of Penempatan Telipok during a COVID-19 outreach program on September 5, 2021, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. #
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Students wearing face masks walk home following a class as schools reopen on a trial basis in Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia, after the government extended restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, on September 9, 2021. #
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Police remove a cutout of the Goddess of Democracy from the June 4th Museum, which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as they search the museum after arresting four members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, in Hong Kong, on September 9, 2021. #
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On September 7, 2021, Jeremiah Lewis sits on his neighbor's porch in the Bywater neighborhood, which is still without power more than a week after Hurricane Ida made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana. #
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The Tribute in Light shines into the sky from Lower Manhattan during a test on September 7, 2021, in New York City. Honoring the victims of the September 11, 2001, attack that killed almost 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Tribute in Light is a commemorative public art installation that was first presented six months after 9/11, and then every year since on the anniversary. #
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