Flooding in southern France, cliff diving in Ireland, the MTV Video Music Awards in Brooklyn, civilian astronauts’ launch from Florida, an elephant bath in Pakistan, theater reopenings in Indonesia, a protest march in Argentina, scenes from the Met Gala in New York City, and much more
Photos of the Week: Grenadier Guards, Floating Island, Wrapped Arch
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The wrapped Arc de Triomphe, part of an art installation by the late artist Christo, is seen at sunset on September 13, 2021, in Paris, France. His monumental installation envelops the emblematic Parisian monument in 25,000 square meters of blue and silver fabric. #
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Water drips from an ice sculpture depicting a woman walking to collect water, part of a campaign by the environmental and public-health group WaterAid to highlight the threat posed globally by climate change to healthy water supplies, in London, England, on September 15, 2021. #
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Co-chair Billie Eilish attends the 2021 Met Gala, celebrating "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on September 13, 2021. #
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Peruvian Ministry of Health workers accompanied by the former mayor of an Uros island, intercultural manager Rita Subana (center), take part in a program to immunize vulnerable citizens who have not yet received COVID-19 vaccines at the floating islands of Uros, in Lake Titicaca, Peru, on September 12, 2021. #
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Cindy Mae Aquino, an emergency medical responder for the Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, reassures a COVID-19 patient while transporting her in an ambulance on September 13, 2021, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The country is struggling to cope with a huge wave of coronavirus cases fueled by the more infectious Delta variant, recording more than 2 million cases and more than 35,000 deaths. #
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A woman walks through a field of white flags on the Mall near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2021. The project, by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, uses more than 600,000 miniature white flags to symbolize the lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. #
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A visitor wears a protective mask while sitting among empty chairs at a reopened cinema following the easing of coronavirus restrictions in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 16, 2021. #
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Newly graduated police cadets attend a ceremony to take their oath of service in Lanxess Arena, in Cologne, Germany, on September 16, 2021. Approximately 2,750 cadets from the graduating classes of both 2020 and 2019, which have been combined because of the event's cancellation last year due to the pandemic, will be joining the state police force of North Rhine-Westphalia. #
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Hunter Schafer, wearing a stylized brooch on the bridge of her nose and colored contact lenses, arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021, in New York. #
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A sculpture by Danger Dave titled "Damien Hirst Looking for Sharks" is seen on September 13, 2021, in Currumbin, Australia. The Swell Sculpture Festival is an annual exhibition that features 65 large-scale sculptures installed along Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast in Queensland. #
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A girl holds a torch during a procession joined by tens of thousands of people in Budapest, Hungary, on September 11, 2021, the day before the final Mass of the International Eucharistic Congress, which was attended by Pope Francis. #
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A view from the photographer's house of a wildfire in the Sierra Bermeja mountains in Andalusia, Spain, on September 13, 2021. The fires now burning in the resort town of Estepona on the Costa del Sol have devastated more than 18,000 acres and forced 2,000 people from their homes. #
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The Inspiration4 civilian crew, aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 15, 2021. The crew successfully reached orbit for a planned three-day trip. #
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Audience members exit the Richard Rodgers Theater at the end of the first return performance of "Hamilton," as Broadway shows began to reopen to live audiences after being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, in Manhattan, New York City, on September 14, 2021. #
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Fireworks thrown by anti-government protesters explode in front of a line of riot police officers during an anti-government protest in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 13, 2021. #
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Antonio Gibson of the Washington Football Team rushes past Michael Davis and Kyzir White of the Los Angeles Chargers during the first quarter at FedExField on September 12, 2021, in Landover, Maryland. #
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Mercedes's British driver Lewis Hamilton (left) and Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen collide during the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza, on September 12, 2021. #
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A retired Boeing aircraft is placed on a seaside cliff to lure tourists; it will be turned into a villa near Nyang-Nyang beach in Uluwatu Badung Regency, on the Indonesia resort island of Bali, on September 14, 2021. #
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