Photos of the Week: Beer Toss, Pike Battle, Sea Pods (2024)

People view an installation of projections and lights called "Dark Spectrum," located in old tram tunnels, as part of the annual Vivid Sydney festival in Sydney, Australia, on May 24, 2024. #

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English Civil War Society reenactors re-create the 17th-century Battle for Wimborne, on May 26, 2024, in Wimborne Minster, England. More than 600 society members took part in the reenactment, which culminated in two large battles between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. #

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A female eastern bluebird holds a clump of sticks and pine needles she is using to pad a nesting box in Freeport, Maine, on May 28, 2024. #

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Seagulls living in the Lake Van Basin feed by hunting migrating pearl mullets in Van, Turkey, on May 26, 2024. #

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U.S. surfer Caroline Marks competes during the Shiseido Tahiti pro in Teahupoʻo, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on May 25, 2024. Teahupoʻo will host the surfing events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. #

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Roman Cervenka of Czechia holds the trophy and has beer thrown on him by his teammates during the IHF Ice Hockey World Championship gold-medal celebrations at Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 27, 2024. #

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Real Madrid's Dzanan Musa reacts after scoring a basket during the EuroLeague Final Four match between Real Madrid and Olympiacos Piraeus at Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany, on May 24, 2024. #

Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

Midshipmen toss their caps into the air as they celebrate during the commissioning and graduation ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 24, 2024. #

Michael McCoy / Reuters

Honor-guard members attend a welcome ceremony for Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, on May 28, 2024. #

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Angus Young of the band AC/DC performs at RCF Arena in Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy, on May 25, 2024. #

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An ABC (atomic, biological, and chemical) specialist soldier of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, hangs from a crane before demonstrating the chemical decontamination of a vehicle while participating in the Quadriga military exercises involving German, French, Dutch, and Lithuanian troops on May 29, 2024, near Pabrade, Lithuania. #

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A Ukrainian serviceman tests a backpack fitted with anti-drone technology during a presentation of radio-electronic warfare and radio-electronic intelligence systems of the Ukrainian company Kvertus, in the Lviv region, on May 28, 2024. #

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Eric Teo Lopez of the Fitchburg ROTC program works to replace damaged flags as he stands in a field of some 37,000 American flags as part of a Memorial Day Flag Garden at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Boston Common on May 25, 2024. Each flag represents a Massachusetts service member who gave their life defending the country, from the Revolutionary War until today. #

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People sunbathe in Central Park, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, during Memorial Day weekend on May 26, 2024. #

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A child cools himself off in front of the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany, on May 26, 2024. #

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A tour boat passes near an iceberg that drifted south on the Labrador Sea from Greenland in Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland, Canada, on May 27, 2024. #

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A volcano spews lava in Grindavik, Iceland, on May 29, 2024. A series of earthquakes before the eruption Wednesday triggered the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. The eruption began in the early afternoon north of Grindavik, a coastal town of 3,800 people that was also evacuated. #

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The Queensferry Crossing road bridge over the Forth Estuary, seen in bright sunlight between thundery downpours, on May 29, 2024, in South Queensferry, Scotland. #

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An aerial view of the Sea Pod Eco floating bungalows off Puerto Lindo, Colon province, Panama, on May 25, 2024 #

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A buffalo cools off in the Kızılırmak Delta in Samsun, Turkey, on May 18, 2024. #

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An aerial view of a heart-shaped lake in Rodgau, near Frankfurt, Germany, seen on May 24, 2024 #

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An adult periodical cicada is silhouetted by a distant building light, shortly after shedding its nymphal skin, on May 18, 2024, in Charleston, Illinois. #

Carolyn Kaster / AP

On May 26, 2024, Sergii Polituchyi, a Ukrainian publisher and businessman, shows a Reuters journalist one of the craters next to his printing house, left by a recent Russian missile strike, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. #

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

Palestinians eat food prepared by a charity kitchen near houses destroyed in the Israeli military offensive, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 30, 2024. #

Ramadan Abed / Reuters

Humanitarian-aid supplies are air-dropped into the city of Khan Younis, Gaza, on May 28, 2024. #

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This picture, taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip, shows destruction in the Palestinian territory beyond a field of sunflowers, on May 29, 2024. #

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A tourist visits Luyang Lake Wetland Park in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on May 26, 2024. #

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Employees inspect submarine cables at Qingdao Hanhe Cable Co. in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on May 28, 2024. #

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A woman holding a mask dances Diablada during the festival of Señor del Gran Poder ("Lord of the Great Power") parade in La Paz, Bolivia, on May 25, 2024. The parade, which has been held in La Paz since 1930, mixes Catholicism, local traditions, and folklore from the Andean region. #

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Chinese actor Wang Chuanjun plays around for photographers during a photocall for the film "She's Got No Name" at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 25, 2024. #

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A boy stands atop a train as it makes its way through the Kamlapur Railway Station, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 24, 2024. #

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People dressed as armored warriors compete in a horse race during a traditional summer event in the f*ckushima Prefecture city of Minamisoma, northeastern Japan, on May 26, 2024. #

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Twelve-year-old Bruhat Soma, of Tampa, Florida, reacts after winning the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on May 30, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. Soma spelled 29 words correctly in a tiebreaker spell-off to win the competition. The competition began with 245 spellers from around the world. #

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Laura Phillipp of Germany celebrates winning the women's race at Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau on May 26, 2024, in Kraichgau, Germany. #

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Leonie Hanne poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the animated film "La Plus Precieuse des Marchandises" ("The Most Precious of Cargoes") in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, on May 24, 2024. #

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