Photos of the Week: Baby Jumping, Rain Vortex, Rickshaw Nap

Alan Taylor
June 7, 2024
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Two rocket launches from the southern United States, flooding rivers in southwestern Germany, commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France, a scene from the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, continued Israeli attacks in Gaza, large-scale calligraphy as artwork in Iraq, a solar-thermal power-generation plant in China, and much more

This photo essay originally misidentified the San Diego Padres pitcher Wandy Peralta.

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A person throws a milkshake in the face of Nigel Farage, the newly appointed leader of Britain's right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party's parliamentary candidate for Clacton, during his election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, England, on June 4, 2024. The thrower, Victoria Thomas Bowen, was later charged with assault. #

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The Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, is seen inside the Jewel Changi Airport, in Singapore, on June 3, 2024. #

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In an aerial view, lava flows from the Sundhnúkur volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula on June 2, 2024, near Grindavik, Iceland. The eruption, located in southwestern Iceland, forced the evacuation of the nearby fishing town as well as guests at the nearby Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. #

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Smoke and flames rise over a destroyed building following Israeli attacks on the Al Bureij Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 3, 2024. #

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Israeli right-wing activists attack Palestinian freelance journalist Saif Kwasmi during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March, in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2024. #

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Israeli firefighters put out flames in a field after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed on the outskirts of Katzrin in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on June 2, 2024. #

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A laborer is silhouetted against the setting sun as he cools off on a hot summer day in Jammu on June 1, 2024. #

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SpaceX's Starship launches on its fourth flight test from the company's Boca Chica launchpad, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, near Brownsville, Texas, on June 6, 2024. #

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An aerial view of the 28th Gay Pride Parade in São Paulo, Brazil, on June 2, 2024 #

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Tourists visit the ecological lotus pond in the city of Huaying, in China's Sichuan province, on May 31, 2024. #

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An aerial view of part of the landscape of the Water Yadan National Geological Park in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, China, on June 4, 2024. #

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Damaged cars sit in a large hole that opened after the the collapse of a bridge in Soledad, near Barranquilla, Colombia, on May 31, 2024. #

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Iraqi calligrapher Nahro Kadeer Rasheed works on the ceiling of a mosque in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, on May 31, 2024. Rasheed has kept his profession as a calligrapher and fine writing artist alive for 30 years, inscribing calligraphy in many of the city's mosques. #

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A view of an array of solar mirrors surrounding a molten salt tower at a thermal-power-generation project in Haixi city, Qinghai province, China, on June 1, 2024 #

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Fisherman harvest brine shrimp in a salt lake in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China, on June 5, 2024. #

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A rose-ringed parakeet perches in a tree in Segmenler Park in Ankara, Turkey, on May 28, 2024. #

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Belarus's Aryna Sabalenka eyes the ball as she plays against Spain's Paula Badosa during their women's singles match on Court Philippe-Chatrier on day seven of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros Complex in Paris on June 1, 2024. #

Bertrand Guay / AFP / Getty

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The San Diego Padres pitcher Wandy Peralta pitches during the ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals, at Kauffman Stadium, in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 1, 2024. #

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The "Colacho," a character that represents the devil, jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during "El Salto del Colacho" ("The Devil's Jump"), a baby-jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, Spain, on June 2, 2024. #

Cesar Manso / AFP / Getty

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Police officers conduct a training exercise in Beihai city in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on June 4, 2024. #

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A man naps on the seat of his rickshaw on a hot summer day in New Delhi on May 31, 2024. #

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A woman carries a rifle while shopping in a bakery, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 4, 2024. #

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The predawn sky is reflected in the calm waters of Penobscot Bay, near Camden, Maine, on June 4, 2024. Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard at 1,527 feet, stands in the distance. #

Robert F. Bukaty / AP

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Sparks and flames fly near low trees as firefighters try to extinguish the Corral Fire in San Joaquin County, California, on June 2, 2024. #

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A U.K. soldier watches fireworks on June 6, 2024, in Arromanches-les-Bains, as part of the D-Day commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy. #

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Volunteers clean up part of a river prior to World Environment Day on June 4, 2024, in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China. #

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The Five-Pavilion Bridge stands in the Slender West Lake scenic zone in the Hanjiang District in central Yangzhou, China. #

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The historic part of Heidelberg is flooded along the rising Neckar river in southwestern Germany on June 3, 2024. #

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Nomads from the Gujjar tribe attempt to prevent a cow carrying luggage from jumping into a river in Chamba, in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, India, on June 2, 2024. #

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Tourists visit Qarhan Salt Lake in Haixi city, Qinghai province, China, on May 31, 2024. #

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A winding road climbs a hill above Yuwan village in Lianyungang city, in China's Jiangsu province, seen on June 1, 2024. #

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An aerial view of new excavators waiting to be loaded onto a ship for export at a port in Yantai, in China's Shandong province, on June 2, 2024 #

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A person carries a bag of recyclable materials amid cows and greater adjutant storks at a dump site in Boragaon, on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, on June 5, 2024. #

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Boeing's Starliner capsule, atop an Atlas V rocket, lifts off from its launchpad at Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 5, 2024. #

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Performers play in traditional costumes during the famous Fake Lion Show at a cultural event at Ngor beach in Dakar, Senegal, on June 5, 2024. #

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