Photos of the Week: Sound Battle, Stork Center, Gorilla Puppet

The Monastery of Holy Trinity is pictured on a rock high above the city of Meteora, Greece, seen on April 8, 2025. #

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Karl Geiger makes an attempt during Red Bull Target Jumping at Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane, Poland, on April 5, 2025. The event is similar to traditional ski jumping, but the winners are not those who jump the farthest, but those who manage to land on a designated target. #

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A parachutist delivering the match ball hangs after his parachute line was caught on the roof of the stadium during landing, prior to the Investec Champions Cup Round of 16 match at Stadium de Toulouse on April 6, 2025, in Toulouse, France. #

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This photo taken on April 5, 2025, shows a herd of Père David's deer walking beneath solar panels at a nature reserve in Yancheng, in China's Jiangsu province. #

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A herd of Père David's deer graze and spar at a nature reserve in Yancheng, China, on April 5, 2025. #

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Devotees pull a wooden chariot carrying an idol of the Hindu deity Bhairav during the Bisket Jatra festival to mark the Nepali New Year, in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on April 10, 2025. #

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Dancers in costume attend a photo call at Inverleith park to promote Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, which runs until April 12 at the Festival Theatre, on April 9, 2025, in Edinburgh, Scotland. #

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A woman swings on the High Swing Berlin at Alexanderplatz on a sunny spring evening, in Berlin, Germany, on April 10, 2025. #

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A stork nests at the LIPU Stork Center in Racconigi, near Cuneo, Italy, on April 3, 2025. #

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Racing pigeons wait for collection at Whiteleas, in South Shields, England, on April 4, 2025. #

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An attendee has a rest on day two of the Grand National Festival horse-race meeting at Aintree Racecourse, in Liverpool, England, on April 4, 2025. #

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A scene at the "Buccellati: Naturalia" exposition during Milan Design Week 2025, in Milan, Italy, on April 7, 2025. #

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People interact with an installation called "Making the Invisible Visible," by Google, as part of the Fuorisalone 2025 event, on the eve of Milan Design Week, in Milan, Italy, on April 7, 2025. #

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Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers runs to the dugout after losing to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on April 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C. #

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People enjoy the beach at sunset in Playa Caracol, Chame, Panama, on April 6, 2025. #

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An aerial view of islands grouped in Qiandao Lake, or Thousand-Island Lake, seen on April 8, 2025, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China #

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Carole Smith walks through her flooded home on April 5, 2025, in Frankfort, Kentucky. #

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Two churches are flooded by the rising Kentucky River in Lockport, Kentucky, on April 8, 2025. #

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A member of the Kurdish internal security forces holds a cat as security forces conducted an operation in al-Roj camp, Syria, on April 6, 2025. #

Orhan Qereman / Reuters

Puppeteers crouch next to a life-size gorilla puppet, part of the Herds public-art and climate-action project, seen during an event in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on April 9, 2025. A wildebeest, a gorilla, and a giraffe were among a group of life-size puppets set to begin a 12,400-mile trek across the globe from Kinshasa, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change. The animals are part of the Herds project and aim to have crossed around 10 countries from central Africa to the Arctic by August. #

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A damaged Buddha statue is pictured in Inn Wa, on the outskirts of Mandalay, on April 6, 2025, following the devastating March 28 earthquake. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake on March 28 flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing more than 3,400 people and making thousands more homeless. #

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People walk amid tents set up next to the rubble of destroyed buildings at the Jabalia refugee camp for displaced Palestinians, in the northern Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2025. #

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A man assists two women as residents wade through murky floodwaters following heavy rains in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa on April 6, 2025. Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital, Kinshasa, have killed about 30 people while wreaking havoc in the central African megacity, an official told AFP on April 6, 2025. #

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Protesters carry signs, flags, and a large balloon with an image of President Donald Trump during one of the nationwide "Hands Off" protests, in downtown Los Angeles, on April 5, 2025. #

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President Donald Trump reads an article in the New York Post about China's reaction to his tariffs, as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, on April 5, 2025. #

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During a stunt organized by the group Everyone Hates Elon, a person smashes a Tesla car, donated anonymously and destined for scrap, as part of a campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s political involvement in the U.S. government, in London, England, on April 10, 2025. #

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A participant ignites a tree-trunk cannon to create an explosion during the Kuluwung Festival, a two-day traditional sound battle held annually between two villages on opposite sides of a river in Sukasirna, West Java, Indonesia, on April 5, 2025. #

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A woman enjoys the sun along the Seine river during lunchtime in Paris, France, on April 4, 2025. #

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