Photos of the week: Wienermobile Race, Beehive Therapy, Everest Queue
Several young spelling bee contestants sat on a chair on the stage, one of whom seemed to be asleep.
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Vikyath Tanamala, 10, closed her eyes in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminaries at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
The competitor fell down his head in a steep grassy mountain match.
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Participants in the women's downhill race in Brockworth, England chased the cheese wheels at Cooper's Hill on May 26, 2025. Every year, competitors and audiences from around the world compete in Cooper’s Mountain Cheese Rolling Competitions that allow participants to escape along steep hills in pursuit of rolling seven-pound double gloucester cheese.
A gymnast flips in the air on the balance beam.
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Maya Ståhl of the Swedish team performed on the first day of the 2025 European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Leipzig, Germany on May 26, 2025.
A runner jumps and poses in front of the pyramids in Giza.
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Runners were placed in front of the pyramid when they competed in a race near the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt on May 24, 2025.
A woman wearing a cowboy hat dancing in front of a bonfire.
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A woman performs a traditional Calabakod dance in front of a huge fire during the celebration of the "Xliiiii festa en la Mision" in the town of La Misión in northern Baja, Mexico on May 24, 2025.
Workers use brooms to clean the mirrors, which are reflected in multiple mirrors.
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An employee cleaned the mirrored floor at the Mahanakhon Skyvers Digital Art Exhibition held in King Power Mahanakhon in Bangkok on May 26, 2025.
A man stands in many pipes, soaked in dripping water.
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A worker cleaned the lines of a cooling tower of an ice factory on a hot summer in Karachi, Pakistan on May 29, 2025.
The three were sitting in a convertible car that had been transformed into a swimming pool.
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Participants were modified to a swimming pool at the 30th national rally held at the De France Association, the Citroen 2CV club in Agde, France on May 29, 2025.
Three Wienermobiles were seen driving along the track.
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After racing the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Racing on May 23, 2025, several Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles competed in the Wienie 500 and entered the Wienie 500.
Two performers were wrapped in long red cloth and hung from the wires above the audience.
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The dancers of CIA K Dance Company suspended an air circus during a Virada cultural event in downtown São Paulo, Brazil on May 25, 2025.
Elevated views of the suspended section of the bridge deck bring passengers to a river on the cables.
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The commuter stood on May 22, 2025, hanging on the metal deck of the Air Ferry Bridge, across the Charente River in Rochefort, France, and crossed on May 22, 2025. The Rochefort's air ferry bridge was unveiled in 1900, allowing people to cross rivers without disturbing sea navigation and created from the downtown Dockyard. It was used as the main way of traversing the Charente River until 1967, and since 1994, with the viaduct at the mouth of the Charente River opening nearby in 1991, it was manned pedestrians and cyclists.
Aerial view of many high-rise residential buildings
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May 24, 2025
The climbers formed a queue as they approached the top of Mount Everest.
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Climbers formed a queue when approaching the top of Mount Everest in Nepal on May 18, 2025.
Aerial view of burning wildfires
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Smoke rose from the Edith Lake wildfire (SWF076), which forced the evacuation of Swan Mountain in Alberta, Canada, and was seen in an aerial photo on May 25, 2025.
A person pushes the scooter toward the flood.
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A man pushed his bicycle through a flooded street after heavy rains in Mumbai on May 26, 2025.
The dog closed his eyes as it splashed into the pool.
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A dog jumped into the pool at the "Dogs and Fun" expo held at the Westfalenhallen Congress Center in Dortmund, Germany on May 23, 2025.
A young bear cub walking on wooden boards in a zoo wall.
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A young female Malay bear cub plays in a fence shared with mother Tally at the Saint-Martin-La-Plaine Zoological Park in France on May 27, 2025.
Puffin, seen in the section
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On May 22, 2025, an Atlantic puffin was seen on Skomer Island in Wales.
A person feeds a flying hummingbird with an eye stud.
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Cecilia Antonio fed a hummingbird in Catia Lattouf's apartment, where Lattouf held a temporary clinic in Mexico City on May 20, 2025 to take care of the hummingbirds.
People walked through an open market with a large dinosaur statue behind it.
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On May 26, 2025, the dinosaur device on Nanjing Road attracted people from Shanghai.
Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lopez performed at the 2025 American Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 26, 2025.
Several people rode the escalator to the bottom of the flying ring structure.
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On May 25, 2025, at the entrance of Alibaba's Jiangsu headquarters in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, there is a flying structure.
Farmers transport wheatgrass on tractors filled with weight.
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Farmers transported large quantities of wheat on a road in Jacobbad, Sindh province, Pakistan on May 29, 2025.
A man lying in a green plastic ball
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Participants are located in 2025: Green plastic balls on 26 May 2025: Public Digital Society Festival in Berlin.
Demonstrators clashed with riot police on a street.
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Demonstrators clashed with Italian police while protesting against a new security decree in Rome on May 26, 2025.
Aerial view showing houses suffering from storms
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This aerial view shows wind damage after passing through the tornado in the city of Vallas, Chile on May 26, 2025.
Three women sat in a chair, each wearing a ventilator mask, connected to long hoses that were obviously connected to beehives.
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Senay Ilhan and Ulku Ozman use ventilators to breathe from beehives in hopes of recovering from a facility owned by beekeeper Huseyin Ceylan in Karaburun, which was on May 22, 2025 in Turkey's Aegean-Coastal province in Turkey.
Camels stand next to wind turbines in a vast desert area.
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Camels roam around the wind turbines next to the desalination plant under construction in Dakhla, mostly controlled by Morocco, on May 26, 2025.