Container ships at the Port of Los Angeles, morning light on mountains in Switzerland, a wearable soft toy in France, drag racing in Tennessee, glacier exploration in Austria, an Ironman triathlon in Spain, a torch ceremony in Greece for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, salmon swimming upstream in northern England, and much more
Photos of the Week: Pony Man, Ancient Sword, Foam Fight
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A salmon is seen leaping up the flowing waters of Stainforth Force waterfall near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales, northern England, on October 21, 2021, during its return to its spawning grounds. #
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Soldiers from the 4th Regiment Royal Artillery carry out exercises in the sea as they take part in a regimental physical-training session on Saltburn beach on October 21, 2021, in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England. #
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Nude Israelis pose for American art photographer Spencer Tunick's mass photo shoot in the desert landscape surrounding Arad, Israel, about 15 kilometers west of the Dead Sea, on October 17, 2021. About 300 participants registered to be part of the photo installation, designed to draw world attention to the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea. #
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Members of the Russian Cycling Federation ride during the men's-team-pursuit qualifying heat 8 at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Roubaix, France, on October 20, 2021 #
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A waiter dressed in an outfit inspired by the Netflix series "Squid Game" holds a card while playing a game to attract customers at a café in Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 19, 2021. #
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Ritmos Urbanos performs onstage during La Gala Mas IN, an event to promote diversity and inclusion in different artistic disciplines, at the Royal Theatre in Madrid, Spain, on October 18, 2021. #
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Actor Jude Law walks with Little Amal on Folkestone Pier in Folkestone, England, on October 19, 2021. The 3.5-meter-tall puppet representing a migrant Syrian girl has nearly completed its 8,000 kilometer journey across Europe, which started in Gaziantep, Turkey, and will finish in Manchester, England, in early November. #
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A man seeking items of value tips himself into a public container for recycling electronics and batteries on October 19, 2021, in Prague, Czech Republic. He later emerged with a few phone chargers and two pairs of broken headphones. #
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Actresses playing the role of priestesses perform during the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Ancient Olympia archaeological site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics, in southern Greece, on October 18, 2021. #
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Dancers perform onstage during the reopening of Le Crazy Horse Paris on October 21, 2021, in Paris, France. After an 18-month closure, the cabaret reopened on October 21. #
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A hot-air balloon floats near a passing flock of birds during the 34th Brazilian hot-air-balloon championships in Torres, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on October 17, 2021. #
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Pilots of the Patrouille Suisse perform in their Northrop F-5E Tiger II fighter jets during a flight demonstration by the Swiss Air Force over the Axalp in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, on October 20, 2021. #
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The Shenzhou-13, carried by a Long March-2F rocket and with three astronauts from China's Manned Space Agency onboard, launches early on October 16, 2021, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert near Jiuquan, China. #
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A protester spits fire during a protest to mark the second anniversary of months of civil uprising against social inequality, in Santiago, Chile, on October 18, 2021. #
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NHRA top-fuel driver Spencer Massey explodes the engine of his dragster during the Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tennessee, on October 17, 2021. Massey was unhurt in the incident. #
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Glaciologist Andrea Fischer, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, explores a natural glacier cavity under the Jamtalferner glacier near Galtuer, Austria, on October 15, 2021. Giant ice caves have appeared in glaciers, accelerating the melting process faster than expected as warmer air rushes through the ice mass until it collapses. #
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First-year students at the University of St. Andrews participate in the annual Raisin Monday shaving-foam fight on the Lower College Lawn in St. Andrews, Scotland, on October 18, 2021. #
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A statue of Harambe, the gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo, faces Arturo Di Modica's "Charging Bull," surrounded by bananas, in New York's Financial District, on October 18, 2021. The gorilla statue and bananas were part of a protest against wealth disparity by the group Sapien.Network, which said that the fruit would later be distributed to local food banks. #
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Boji, a street dog, rides a subway train in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 21, 2021. Boji is a regular Istanbul commuter, using the city's public-transport systems to get around, sometimes traveling as many as 30 kilometers a day using subway trains, ferries, buses, and trams. Since noticing the dog's movements, local officials began tracking his commutes via a microchip and a phone app. Most days, he will pass through at least 29 metro stations and take at least two ferry rides. Boji has learned how and where to get on and off the trains and ferries. #
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Pony man David Brown walks with Torquil, a garron pony, carrying a stag that was shot in Glen Markie on Stronelairg, on the grounds of the Garrogie Estate near Whitebridge, south of Inverness, Scotland, on October 18, 2021. The recreational stag-hunting season in Scotland runs from July 1 until October 20, followed by the hind (female) deer-stalking season. #
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Kyle Schwarber of the Boston Red Sox hits a grand-slam home run against the Houston Astros in the second inning of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park, on October 18, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. #
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Yaakov Sharvit of the Israel Antiquities Authority holds a sword believed to have belonged to a Crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium ago, after it was recovered from the Mediterranean seabed by an amateur diver, in Caesarea, Israel, on October 18, 2021. #
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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Heavyweight Crew team train on the Charles River in preparation for the Head of the Charles Regatta on October 20, 2021, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. #
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Two large container ships are seen moored at Maersk APM Terminals Pacific at the Port of Los Angeles on October 19, 2021. California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an order on October 20 that aims to ease bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that have spilled over into neighborhoods where cargo trucks are clogging residential streets. Last week the White House allowed the ports complex to become a 24-hour operation in an effort to break the logjam and reduce shipping delays. #
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