An immersive Goya exhibit in Madrid, Comic Con 2021 in New York City, a robot block party in Boston, rally racing in Finland, oil-spill cleanup in California, kite flying in Rio de Janeiro, a massive pumpkin in Belgium, a COVID-19 memorial in São Paulo, and much more
Photos of the Week: Muddy Ride, Silent Disco, Podium Pup
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One of several free-range bronze turkeys runs outside Park Farm in Knutsford, England, on October 6, 2021. British poultry farmers are experiencing an unprecedented demand for turkeys this year. According to one turkey farmer, sales are up by 220 percent over last year as people were putting in their Christmas-dinner orders in August. #
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Cellphones light up the seats behind Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Anthony Misiewicz as he throws against the Los Angeles Angels in the seventh inning of a baseball game in Seattle on October 2, 2021. #
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Italian dancer Roberto Bolle (center) and other dancers perform the ballet "Madina" by Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti at the Teatro alla Scala (Scala Theatre) in Milan, on October 1, 2021. #
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A person in a costume featuring a large mask playfully takes a swing at another wearing a coronavirus-themed costume, in front of a group of kids at a bus station, to encourage mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 7, 2021. #
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Tiffany Jackson comforts her son Adrian James, age 2, who tested positive for COVID-19, as he breathes with assistance from a ventilator at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 5, 2021. #
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Jehan, age 13, receives a dose of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 in Pos Simpor, a village and settlement of Orang Asli (indigenous Malaysians) in the district of Gua Musang, Kelantan, Malaysia, on October 5, 2021. #
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People walk through the Kabukicho entertainment district of Tokyo on the first night of the government's lifting of a COVID-19 state of emergency, on October 1, 2021. #
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The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, carrying a crew made up of Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko, and actress Yulia Peresild, blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on October 5, 2021. #
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A woman and a child climb a hill to see the Cumbre Vieja volcano as it continues to erupt in Tacande de Arriba on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, on October 2, 2021. #
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A cleanup crew works on the beach in Newport Beach, California, on October 7, 2021. Normally busy beaches in the area are deserted as California races to clean up a huge oil spill. Up to 130,000 gallons of crude might have leaked into the Pacific Ocean when a pipeline ruptured over the weekend. #
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Competitors take part in stage four of the 35th edition of the Marathon des Sables between Jebel El Mraier and Boulchrhal in the southern Moroccan Sahara, on October 6, 2021. #
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Moto3 rider Sergio García lost control and fell from his bike during the free-practice session of the MotoGP Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas at the Circuit of the Americas on October 1, 2021, in Austin, Texas. #
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Visitors attend the #InGoya event, an immersive exhibition with more than 1,000 images of paintings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya projected on 35 large-format screens at the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, in Madrid, on October 7, 2021. #
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A mud-covered Greg Van Avermaet from Belgium reacts in the finishing area after competing in the 118th edition of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic cycling race, in the Velodrome stadium in Roubaix, France, on October 3, 2021. #
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In this aerial picture taken on October 2, 2021, an immense network of roads in the Mojave Desert, intended for a massive suburban paradise that was never built, is seen in California City, California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles. Envisioned as a family-friendly suburban utopia by a 1950s real-estate developer who wanted to re-create the success of desert cities such as Palm Springs and Las Vegas, the dream was sold to thousands of people. Designs for multiple subdivisions with cul-de-sacs and sprawling infrastructure were drawn, roads built, street signs posted, and water and sewer infrastructure installed, but the large majority of homes were never built. #
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One of Senator Rand Paul's staff members takes photos of her puppy, Jefferson, standing on a podium before a press event where Paul introduced legislation that would end the FDA's mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they are used on humans in clinical trials, on October 7, 2021, in Washington, D.C. #
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