Photos of the Week: Mud Race, Met Gala, New Pope

A newborn child rests on the chest of a person playing a traditional stringed instrument.

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Bruno Menager, head of the pediatric department, plays citole for a newborn baby during a music therapy session at the Notre-Dame de la Misericodre hospital in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on May 6, 2025.

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An Order of the Sunrise follower attends an annual ceremony known as the "Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator," at the group's lakeside temple in Planaltina, Brazil, on May 1, 2025.

Janelle Monae wears a costume featuring a hat with an unusal eyepiece.

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Janelle Monáe arrives for the 2025 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025, in New York City. This year’s gala was themed "Tailored for You," aligning with the Costume Institute's exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

People descend down a wide spiral staircase.

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Visitors walk down the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museums, during a press tour at the Vatican on May 2, 2025.

Dozens of human schools are arranged on the wall of an ossuary.

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Rows of human skulls and bones are pictured at the ossuary, a side chapel of the church of San Bernardino alle Ossa, whose walls are almost entirely covered in human skulls and bones from the patients of the nearby ancient Ospedale del Brolo, seen on May 3, 2025, in Milan, Italy.

Hundreds of people stand together, holding their phones up to take photographs of an illuminated tower.

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Tourists take photos of the illuminated Chaoran Tower on the first day of the May Day holiday in Jinan, Shandong province, China, on May 1, 2025.

More than a dozen large video screens stand across a broad beach in Rio de Janeiro, showing Lady Gaga in performance.

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Displays show Lady Gaga performing at an open concert on Copacabana beach as seen from Leme fort, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 3, 2025.

Thousands of ceramic red flowers are arranged in a flowing pattern.

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A display of 30,000 ceramic poppies, taken from the artwork Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, is seen before its opening on May 6 at the Tower of London, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, on May 5, 2025.

A flock of flamingos wades in a shallow lake.

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Flamingos gather in Lake Mogan in the Gölbaşı district of Ankara, Turkey, on May 4, 2025.

An elevated view of a parade, featuring a float depicting an anglerfish made out of balloons

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An aerial view of an anglerfish made out of balloons during “An Aquatic World” balloon parade in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 4, 2025.

Several small pigs run a race across a track covered in sawdust.

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Swifty Swine Racing Pigs compete prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Würth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on May 4, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Golden snub-nosed monkeys sit in their enclosure after quarantine during the first presentation at the Beauval Zoopark in Saint-Aignan, France, on May 7, 2025.

A woman sits on the ground beside a cow embracing its muzzle.

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Matthias Rier’s daughter plays with a cow that has just arrived in an alpine pasture after wintering at low altitude on May 3, 2025, in Alpe of Siusi, Castelrotto, Italy. Matthias Rier is the third in lineage of the Rier family; together with his wife and their children, he runs a herd of alpine cows for milk production on the Seiser Alm.

A person wears a frightening devil costume during a festival.

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Revelers take part in the Devils and Congos Festival in Portobelo, Panama, on May 3, 2025.

A person wearing a costume detonates a gunpowder charge in a street during a festival.

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A man detonates gunpowder from a rifle as part of the May 5 commemoration at Peñón de Los Baños, in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 5, 2025.

Several soldiers in camouflage gear hold weapons while being lifted in a netted container.

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Special forces team members perform an evacuation demonstration during Turkey's Teknofest event in Lefkosia, on May 3, 2025.

Several young students crouch down beneath their desks in a classroom during a drill.

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Children take shelter under their desk inside a classroom at Vidya Bal Bhawan Sr. Sec. School on May 7, 2025, in New Delhi, India. India's Ministry of Home Affairs ordered nationwide civil-defense mock drills on May 7 across more than 240 districts to test and enhance emergency preparedness in light of rising security concerns after the recent Pahalgam terror attack.

An aerial view of the ruins of a centuries-old abbey

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An aerial view of the River Wharfe and Bolton Priory on the Bolton Abbey Estate, at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near Skipton, England, on May 6, 2025

Several cars navigate a twisty switchback road up a steep hillside.

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A car and a motorbike navigate a twisty road at Pir Chinasi, a tourist attraction in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 4, 2025.

A person plays a violin, seen in silhouette in front of a building lit up by a sunset.

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A street musician plays a violin outside the Sant'Angelo castle as the sun sets in Rome, on May 4, 2025.

Children and adults run in a race, with some runners, dressed as characters from Star Wars.

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Runners dressed as characters from Star Wars participate in the Star Wars Run event in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on May 4, 2025.

Several competitors climb up a tall pole while gathering buns that have been attached to the pole.

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People take part in a bun-scrambling competition during the Bun Festival on Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong, China, on May 6, 2025.

Several firefighters install a temporary chimney on a roof.

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Firefighters install a temporary chimney, used to communicate the choosing of a new Pope, on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on May 2, 2025, in Vatican City.

Newly-elected Pope Leo XIV raises his hands, greeting a crowd from a balcony.

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Prevost is the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff.

Nine fighter jets fly in formation, releasing green, white and red smoke.

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The Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Air Force’s aerobatic team, flies in formation during an air show on May 4, 2025, in Catania, Italy.

A swimmer lifts a leg out of the water during a competition.

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Karina Magrupova of Team Kazakhstan competes in the women's solo free final during the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2025 in Markham, Ontario, on May 2, 2025.

A humpback whale breaches while feeding on fish.

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A humpback whale, dolphins, and sea birds feed on a school of fish off the Channel Islands in California, on May 1, 2025.

A woman in costume, covered in mud, crawls across a muddy plain.

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A competitor takes part in the annual Maldon Mud Race on May 4, 2025, in Maldon, England. Originating in 1973, the mud race consists of a 500-meter dash across the River Blackwater at low tide, often in fancy dress.