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Photos of the Week: Horn Cupping, Target Practice, Pumpkin Forest

October 10, 2025
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Hundreds of cars merge from several dozen lanes down to just a few, seen from above, a sea of red brake lights.
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Drivers merge into expressway lanes after passing through the 36-lane Wuzhuang toll station at Chuzhou, in China’s Anhui province, as they make their way back home near the end of an eight-day National Day holiday, on October 7, 2025.
Dozens of people ride on camels in several lines across sand dunes.
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Tourists ride camels at Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring scenic spot during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on October 6, 2025, in Dunhuang, Jiuquan City, Gansu province, China.
A flock of sheep grazes in a steep mountain valley
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A flock of sheep grazes on green grass on October 5, 2025 in Aru, Pahalgam, south of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Pahalgam, known as the “Valley of Shepherds,” is a popular base for treks to Lidderwat and the Kolahoi Glacier.
A visitor raises a beer mug as a large crowd in a beer hall celebrates with sparklers.
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A visitor raises a beer mug as waitresses, waiters, and visitors in the Hacker Pschorr tent celebrate the last day of Oktoberfest with sparklers, on October 5, 2025, in Munich, Germany.
Dozens of people in a crowd hold up their phones to take images of a brightly-lit ornate building in a city.
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Tourists take photos and video of the Hongya Cave building complex at night in Chongqing, China, on October 3, 2025.
A person kneels and takes pictures of many jack-o'-lanterns.
Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
A visitor takes a picture of an installation called Pumpkin Forest, part of “Carved,” a Halloween-themed exhibit at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, California, on October 3, 2025.
A gigantic statue of a prawn rises up behind a suburban house.
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A view of the iconic Ballina Prawn sculpture, seen behind a house in Ballina, Australia, on October 8, 2025.
An image of the full moon behind curved pagoda roof edges
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A double-exposure image of a full moon in the sky in Ji’an, Jiangxi province, China, on October 6, 2025.
A man receives cupping therapy using cow horns, making it appear as if he has many horns poking out of his back and shoulders.
Juni Kriswanto / AFP / Getty
A man receives cupping therapy using cow horns, provided by volunteers in a temporary tent set up to accommodate the families of students who were missing in a collapsed prayer hall at a boarding school, in Surabaya, Indonesia, on October 5, 2025.
A protester in an inflatable frog costume faces off against several federal law enforcement officers.
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A protester in a frog costume stands in front of a line of federal law-enforcement officers outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on October 6, 2025.
A strongman grimaces as he pulls on a cloth handle attached to a weight, using his teeth.
Amr Nabil / AP
Egyptian wrestler Ashraf Mahrous, also known as Kabonga, pulls a heavy weight with his teeth during a training session at his gym in Cairo, Egypt, on July 15, 2025. Photo released on October 7.
A close view of a demonstrator with a small Palestinian flag painted on their face
Alessandra Tarantino / AP
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator takes part in a national general strike called by different unions to protest against the situation in Gaza two days after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, in Rome, on October 3, 2025.
A crowd of people celebrate in a city square Israel, holding up an American flag.
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Israelis celebrate as they react to the news of a Gaza peace deal at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 9, 2025. Overnight, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a cease-fire plan that would see the release of hostages—held in Gaza since their capture on October 7, 2023—in the coming days.
A group of emergency workers, most wearing bright orange vests, celebrate while riding in and on a small truck in Gaza.
Ebrahim Hajjaj / Reuters
Palestinian emergency personnel celebrate, after hearing that Israel and Hamas had agreed on the first phase of a Gaza cease-fire, in Gaza City, on October 9, 2025.
A group mostly made up of children wait for food in Gaza, holding out pots.
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Palestinians wait with their empty pots to receive hot meals distributed by charity organizations in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, as people continue to struggle with hunger in Gaza City, Gaza, on October 9, 2025.
A distant explosion, following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza.
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Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes targeted areas in the Gaza Strip despite the announcement of a cease-fire agreement, as seen from the Israeli city of Sderot, on October 9, 2025.
Several people sit on a barren hillside, looking out over a landscape of rubble and destroyed houses and buildings in Gaza.
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Daily life continues in war-torn Gaza as Palestinians wait for the agreed-on cease-fire to take effect, in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on October 9, 2025.
A sunrise, seen behind a distant lighthouse
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The sun rises over Coquet Island off the coast of Northumberland, England, on October 8, 2025.
Dozens of colorful parakeets perch along a narrow food trough, feeding.
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Sun conures, or sun parakeets, feed at Kakegawa Kachouen bird and flower park in Kakegawa in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka on September 24, 2025. Photo released on October 9.
An archery target featuring a drawing of Russian president Vladimir Putin, pierced by many arrows
Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty
This photograph taken on October 5, 2025, shows an archery target bearing the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Old Fortress in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region, amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A protester kicks at a burning tire in the middle of a street.
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A protester kicks a burning tire amid clashes with Malagasy security forces during a rally calling for constitutional reforms in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on October 7, 2025. President Andry Rajoelina’s appointment of an army general as new prime minister was met with little enthusiasm in Madagascar, and was dismissed by the youth-led movement behind two weeks of protests as a diversion.
A surfer rides a wave at night, the blue water lit from behind in a wave pool.
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Aelan Vaast of French Polynesia performs a layback hack during a private surf-training session at 02 Surftown MUC in Hallbergmoos, Germany, on October 7, 2025. Seven surfers from France and French Polynesia traveled to Munich for some intensive surf-training sessions at the Surftown MUC wave pool.
Tourists ride on several bamboo rafts down a calm river, past strikingly tall hills and rock formations.
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Tourists ride on bamboo rafts, touring the Yulong River on October 3, 2025, in Yangshuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
Two farmers gather tea leaves among rows of bushes at a hillside tea plantation.
Yu Xiangquan / VCG / Getty
Farmers pick tea leaves at a plantation during harvest season on October 8, 2025, in Zhaoping County, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
Tourists slowly guide themselves along the face of a tall cliff, attached to cables and ropes, walking on narrow planks and footholds.
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Tourists challenge themselves on a “Via Ferrata” route, or protected climbing route, at Taping Peak in Yueqing, Zhejiang province, China, on October 4, 2025.
A small bird perches between two cattails, grasping a stalk with each foot.
Chi Shiyong / VCG / Getty
A bearded reedling perches between two reeds at Longfeng Wetland Nature Reserve on October 5, 2025, in Heilongjiang province, China.
A Ukrainian serviceman launches a fixed-wing reconnaissance drone at night.
Vasilisa Stepanenko / AP
A Ukrainian serviceman with the Safari Unit of the Liut Brigade launches a reconnaissance drone at the frontline in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on September 6, 2025. Photo released on October 7.
A surfer carries their board, walking on a beach at sunset.
Gregory Bull / AP
A surfer comes out of the water as the sun sets behind Ocean Beach’s dog beach, in San Diego, California, on October 7, 2025.

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