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21 photos from western Japan, after the most powerful typhoon in 25 years passed through yesterday.

Yesterday, the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years tore through the western part of the country with heavy rain and violent winds.
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28 photos from the site of a disaster that destroyed countless irreplaceable artifacts housed in its 200-year-old national museum.

Photos from the scene of a fire that burned through the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying countless artifacts.
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35 photos from the past seven days, covering, well, just about everything. Worth a look & then have a great weekend.

Competition in the 2018 Asian Games, the new tallest statue in the world, under construction in India, memorials for both Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain, and much more.
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24 images from a nearly-1,000-mile-long coastline, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean.

Namibia has nearly a thousand miles of coastline, shaped by the winds and largely unpopulated, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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24 photos of sinkholes big and small from around the world.

The solid ground beneath our feet can, on rare occasions, simply open up without warning, dropping whatever it was supporting into an unpredictably deep hole.
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36 photos of Maine's people, landscape, wildlife, and of course, its ever-changing seasons, by AP staff photographer Robert Bukaty.

Based in Portland, photographer Robert F. Bukaty has been working for the AP since 1993, making thousands of photos of Maine’s people, landscape, wildlife, and of course, its ever-changing seasons.
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35 photos from Houston and Southeast Texas, as residents endured an unprecedented storm that dumped trillions of gallons of rain on them in August of 2017.

A year ago this weekend, Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest tropical cyclones in history, roared into Texas and Louisiana.
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35 photos from the past seven days including lightning, a bear, camels, swamps, umbrellas, glitter, running, dangling, wading, dancing, praying, and playing.

A dance on the beach in England, international competition at the 2018 Asian Games, the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, night patrol in El Salvador, Hurricane Lane seen from orbit, agricultural drones in Japan, and much more.
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21 photos of amazing athletes launching themselves into the air repeatedly, competing to volley and block a ball over a 5-foot-high net, using any body part other than arms or hands.

A sport where athletes launch themselves into the air to volley or block a ball over a five-foot-high net using their feet, legs, heads, backs, chest—anything other than their arms or hands.
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30 photos of the worst flooding to hit the southern Indian state in a century.

India’s southern state of Kerala is suffering its worst flooding in a century, with more than one million people displaced, and more than 400 reported deaths in the past two weeks.
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32 photos from a summer of uncertainty, hyperinflation, rationing, water and power shortages, and frustration that have led hundreds of thousands to leave their country behind.

Hyperinflation, shortages of water, food, power, and medicine, low wages, lack of jobs, and years of a worsening crisis have driven hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to leave their ailing country behind.
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27 images from Czechoslovakia in August of 1968, when the Soviet Union sent tanks and troops to stop the leaders of a Warsaw Pact nation who were trying to enact pro-democratic reforms.

In August of 1968, the Soviet Union sent 2,000 tanks and thousands of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia to seize control and put down its growing pro-democratic government.
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35 photos of an eventful week, from Japan, Peru, China, USA, Australia, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and much more.

Flowers carpet Brussels, a farewell is bid to Aretha Franklin, abandoned share bikes find homes in Germany, a cardboard Viking church collapses in Liverpool, a bridge collapses in Italy, and much more.
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22 images of an incredible career that spanned more than five decades.

A collection of images of the Queen of Soul’s amazing career, spanning the past five decades.
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Photographer Fiona Goodall traveled to one of the smallest countries in the world, one challenged daily by the effects of climate change.

Fiona Goodall, a photographer working with Getty Images, recently visited the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, a country battling rising sea levels with limited resources
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30 photos from the massive power outage that affected more than 50 million people across 8 U.S. states and parts of Canada.

On August 14, 2003, more than 50 million people across eight U.S. states and parts of Canada were left without power for days in the most widespread blackout in North American history.
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