Images of the Week: River Canyon, Mountain Brook, Cliff Bookstore


A man wearing a traditional costume and mask, covered entirely in burrs
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Burryman Andrew Taylor meets with native residents as he parades by means of Queensferry, Scotland, encased in burrs, on August 8, 2025. The Burryman occasion, held yearly on the day earlier than the Ferry Truthful, encompasses a man wearing a go well with made out of round 11,000 burdock heads, ferns, and flowers. Supported by two attendants, the person makes a seven-mile journey by means of the city. Residents greet him with donations and serve him whisky by means of a straw, a convention relationship again to 1746, believed to convey good luck and strengthen neighborhood spirit.
A low image of a pool player lining up a shot.
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China’s Shasha Liu takes a shot throughout the ladies’s pool 10-ball bronze-medal match in opposition to Germany’s Ina Kaplan, throughout the 2025 World Video games, in Chengdu, China, on August 13, 2025.
A pair of elephants wearing illuminated and decorated coverings
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A adorned elephant on the Buddhist Temple of the Tooth, as a part of celebrations to mark the pageant of Esala Perahera, in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on August 8, 2025
A person stands silhouette in front of the sun.
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A lady watches the sundown, which was shrouded in smoke from distant wildfires, at a park in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, on August 7, 2025.
A nighttime view of a wildfire burning on a mountain across a body of water.
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A wildfire burns on Mount Underwood close to Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, on August 12, 2025.
A man and a boy stand side-by-side in chest-deep floodwater.
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William Gregorio and his son Yamry pose for a portrait the place their ancestral residence used to face, now submerged in seawater amid rising tides, on August 12, 2025, in Pugad Island, Hagonoy, Philippines. Within the Philippines’ coastal communities, water has been rising for years on account of local weather change. However residents say the sharpest surge got here due to large-scale reclamation and different man-made coastal developments, which have altered currents and compelled the tide farther inland. Now even the gentlest tide can unleash deep floods, drowning streets and houses inside minutes.
A diver plunges, falling past a waterfall.
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A competitor takes half within the annual worldwide waterfall-jumping competitors held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on August 9, 2025.
A polar bear sprawled out onto a large pile of ice cubes.
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A polar bear rests on ice cubes that have been dropped at its enclosure throughout a warmth wave, at Prague Zoo, in Prague, Czech Republic, on August 13, 2025.
A pair of gloved hands reaches down to pick up a wild kitten.
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A two-week-old orphaned jaguarundi meows as a biologist cares for it at a wildlife veterinary hospital, in Panama Metropolis, Panama, on August 13, 2025.
A person and their dog, seen silhouetted in front of the full moon
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Yerai Garcia performs together with his canine Greta as a full moon often known as the Sturgeon Moon rises in Arguineguín, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, on August 9, 2025.
A line of six flamingos flies by.
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Flamingos fly at daybreak above a lagoon within the Fuente de Piedra nature reserve, close to Malaga, Spain, on August 9, 2025.
A person holds their dog on a long leash while walking in very shallow seawater.
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A woman and her canine wade right into a shallow sea at excessive tide in Gravelines, France, on August 13, 2025 .
Rows of soldiers in dress uniform walk in unison during a parade.
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Navy forces participate in a Nationwide Day parade rehearsal in Hanoi, on August 13, 2025, forward of Vietnam’s eightieth Nationwide Day, on September 2.
A military vehicle outfitted with an external cage and long spikes
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A Ukrainian army car geared up with cage armor to defend in opposition to Russian FPV drones strikes alongside a highway, on August 11, 2025, in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine.
Long walkways are built onto the side of a steep rock cliff, which is lined with many rows of bookshelves.
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A view of the Cliff Bookstore on the Cotton Sinkhole in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area, China, on August 9, 2025.
Many worshipers in a shrine reach out to touch a tomb.
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Shiite Muslims attain to obtain a blessing from the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, on the imam’s shrine in Iraq’s holy metropolis of Karbala, on August 14, 2025, on the eve of Arbaeen, which commemorates his seventh-century killing.
A worker cleans the face of a large statue of Buddha inside an airport.
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A employee cleans a statue of Buddha contained in the newly constructed Techo Worldwide Airport, in Kandal province, Cambodia, on August 11, 2025.
A person weilds a sword with a long tassel.
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Japan’s Nanoha Kida competes throughout the ladies’s changquanjianshuqiangshu wushu occasion on the 2025 World Video games, in Chengdu, China, on August 9, 2025.
A small humanoid robot wearing boxing gloves performs a kick in front of an audience.
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A Unitree Robotics humanoid robotic demonstrates expertise previous to a boxing match throughout the 2025 World Robotic Convention, in Beijing, China, on August 10, 2025.
Two soccer players vie for the ball during a match in a rain storm.
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Ricardo Monreal of Necaxa battles for possession with Ángel Azuaje of Pumas UNAM throughout the fourth-round match, a part of the Torneo Apertura 2025 Liga MX at Estadio Olímpico Universitario, in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, on August 10, 2025.
Floodwater flows down a wide public staircase during a rain storm.
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Rainwater rushes down a stairway in Kennedy City district throughout heavy rainfall, in Hong Kong, China, on August 14, 2025.
Two people sit side-by-side in a pool of water, seen both above and below the water.
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Buddy and Cheryl Rooney keep cool in a mountain brook at Diana’s Baths, a well-liked swimming gap in North Conway, New Hampshire, on August 12, 2025.
A person holds a hose while standing in a field in front of an oncoming wildfire.
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A lady with a hose tries to battle a fireplace in Santa Baia De Montes, Spain, on August 14, 2025.
A horse runs past emergency vehicles at night as a wildfire burns in the distance.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Search and Rescue evacuates a horse because the Canyon Fireplace burns in Hasley Canyon, California, on August 7, 2025.
A fire burns inside a residence, seen through an open door.
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Fireplace burns in an condominium constructing hit by a Russian drone strike within the city of Bilozerske, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on August 10, 2025.
An overview of people swimming in a river beneath tall, medieval-style buildings
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Folks benefit from the water of the Bourne River beneath hanging homes in Pont-en-Royans, France, on August 7, 2025.
Tourists walk on a footbridge suspended between two tall cliff walls.
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Vacationers stroll throughout the Maling River Canyon in Xingyi Metropolis, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou province, China, on August 10, 2025.
Two dolphins leap out of the water.
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Dolphins leap within the North Sea close to Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, England, on August 11, 2025.

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