Photos of the Week: Pony Run, Corgi Race, Rocket War

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Mourners of Pope Francis gathered at the Vatican, scenes from the the second weekend of Coachella 2025, a humanoid-robot half-marathon in China, a wildfire in Nebraska, a “Big Wheel” Easter race in San Francisco, and much more

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A woman holds a child in her arms as they both look up toward the ornate ceiling of a basilica.

Caretaker Ellie Gifford holds Joseph Mathews in her arms as they look up at the ceiling of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the wake of the the death of Pope Francis, on April 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. #

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People dance outside in traditional Ukrainian clothing.

People in traditional Ukrainian clothes perform folk dances during celebrations of Orthodox Easter at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2025. #

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A woman walks among tulips with an umbrella.

A woman walks among the tulips in Amsterdam on April 16, 2025. #

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A person wearing an unusual rabbit costume races down a road on a curving hill atop a makeshift wheeled platform.

Dozens of contestants attend the "Bring Your Own Big Wheel" Race on Easter Sunday on Potrero Hill in San Francisco on April 20, 2025. #

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Two people in a hippo costume walk past people preparing for a boat race.

A costume portraying a hippopotamus is seen during a pirogue race at the Fesmamas Festival in Markala, Mali, on April 19, 2025. #

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An over-under view of a horse walking through chest-deep water, its legs seen on the sand underwater.

A person leads a horse into the Mediterranean Sea near Hadera, Israel, on April 19, 2025. #

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A person prays while standing in in churning water near a shore.

A church elder prays while standing in the surf during a Good Friday baptism ceremony in Durban, South Africa, on April 18, 2025. #

Rogan Ward / Reuters

Children light candles during a blessing of traditional Easter food baskets on Holy Saturday, in the Holy Ascension Church in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 19, 2025. #

Marko Djurica / Reuters

People wearing white costumes with tall conical hats and masks carry candles in a procession.

Penitents of the Jesus Yacente ("Reclining Christ") brotherhood take part in a procession during Holy Week in the northwestern Spanish city of Zamora on the night of April 17, 2025. #

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Small rockets leave many streaks of light, blasting from an unseen church at lower left, toward a rival church at right.

Fiery streaks of handmade rockets light up the night sky over the village of Vrontados on the Greek island of Chios, as two rival congregations engage in a traditional "rocket war" to celebrate Easter on April 20, 2025. Thousands of fireworks were launched between the Saint Markos and Panagia Erithiani churches, turning the solemn resurrection night into a spectacle of light and sound. #

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People run for cover as a plume of dirt and smoke rises above tents at a camp for displaced people, following an air strike.

People run for cover as a plume of dirt and smoke rises above tents at a camp for displaced Palestinians in northern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, during an Israeli strike, on April 19, 2025. #

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A person appears to call out as they walk through piles of rubble following a missile strike.

Rescuers and civilians work to pull victims from the rubble of a Russian missile strike on a residential building, resulting in at least two deaths and 54 injuries, on April 24, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. #

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The hands and faces of many people are seen through the bars of a tall fence.

Devotees are pictured as large crowds gather to enter the Temple of the Tooth for a public exposition of the sacred Tooth relic of the Buddha in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on April 18, 2025. #

Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP / Getty

People walk on a path past bluebells that cover the forest floor.

People walk through a woodland covered in bluebells in the Chiltern Hills near Berkhamsted, England, on April 20, 2025. #

Toby Melville / Reuters

Donald Trump holds up a collectors card depicting his assassination attempt, at a table surrounded by children.

President Donald Trump holds up a collectors card that depicts him following the July 2024 assassination attempt, during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. #

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A half-dozen corgis wearing numbered jerseys race on a grassy track.

Corgis take part in a race at the Corgi Derby at Musselburgh Race Course in Musselburgh, Scotland, on April 19, 2025. #

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A person dressed as the Easter Bunny pulls an empty cart along a meadow in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, after distributing eggs on April 21, 2025. #

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People stand on a footbridge over water in a park surrounded by illuminated cherry blossom trees.

Cherry blossoms are lit up at Hirosaki Park in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, on April 22, 2025. #

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A miniature replica of the Statue of Liberty stands atop an old bridge support in a river.

A miniature replica of the Statue of Liberty is seen in the Dauphin Narrows stretch of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 2025. #

Carolyn Kaster / AP

A performer sings on stage while standing on a platform above a giant sculpture of a human face with an open mouth.

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 20, 2025, in Indio, California. #

Arturo Holmes / Getty for Coachella

A performer walks across an outdoor stage in front of a crowd.

Bobby Vylan performs during the second weekend of Coachella 2025 on April 20, 2025. #

Timothy Norris / Getty for Coachella

A person, dressed as a humanoid robot, posing for photographs

A vlogger who dressed up to look like a humanoid robot poses at a Shanghai auto show on April 24, 2025. #

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Several human minders trot along behind a humanoid robot as it runs in a race.

A robot and its engineers run in a humanoid-robot half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, 2025. #

Pedro Pardo / AFP / Getty

Two people run on a beach, each leading a small pony.

Ben Wilkes leads Gucci (left) and Diane Livingston leads Vivienne as they run along 90 Mile Beach during the final day of the Great North Gallop on April 21, 2025, in Houhora, New Zealand. Set against the backdrop of Northland's wild beaches and dense forests, the Born to Run Great Northern Gallop is a fundraising 100-kilometer multiday adventure race, where participants run or walk alongside miniature ponies. #

Fiona Goodall / Getty

Smoke rises from a distant fire under a cloudy sky.

A view of the Plum Creek Fire as it burned in north-central Nebraska. The fire reportedly began Monday as a prescribed burn but got out of control, scorching more than 6,000 acres. #

Jessica Pozehl / Brown, Rock County Emergency Management / AP

A shepherd walks with a herd of goats in a snow-covered mountain valley.

A shepherd leads a herd of pashmina goats to grazing grounds during snowfall on the Changthang Plateau in eastern Ladakh in India, on April 19, 2025. #

Mohd Arhaan Archer / AFP / Getty

A crowd waits in a long line inside of a large, ornate basilica.

People line up as they enter St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state on April 24, 2025. #

Emilio Morenatti / AP

A half-dozen mourners are seen sitting on the ground among lit candles.

Catholics mourn Pope Francis on April 24, 2025, at the Esplanade of Tasitolu in Dili, East Timor, where the Pope held a mass in September of last year. #

Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty

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