Photos of the Week: Rainy Games, Police Pups, Beard Championship

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Luis Acosta / AFP / GettyA view of the Arrancada de raíz (“Uprooted”) installation by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich during the BOG25 International Art Biennial, at Lourdes Park in Bogotá, Colombia, on September 23, 2025Toby Melville / ReutersA heron takes flight during a misty early-autumn sunrise, in Richmond Park, London, England, on September 23, 2025.Zheng Peibo / VCG / GettyA Smart Dragon-3 rocket carrying satellites blasts off from sea on September 24, 2025, near the city of Rizhao, in China’s Shandong province.Tyrone Siu / ReutersWaves from Super Typhoon Ragasa crash onto benches along the shore in Hong Kong, China, on September 23, 2025.Clement Mahoudeau / AFP / GettyDancers perform in the rain before the French Top 14 rugby union match between Rugby Club Toulonnais (of Toulon) and Stade Rochelais (of La Rochelle) at Stade Mayol, in Toulon, France, on September 21, 2025.Charlie Perez / NurPhoto / GettyIn Barcelona, Spain, on September 20, 2025, L’esclat de la Kermesse dels Revenedors, a traditional Catalan correfoc (“fire parade”), lights up the Gothic Quarter with devils, drums, and handheld pyrotechnics.Dan Kitwood / GettyThousands of wading birds take to the air above the mudflats of the Wash, in Snettisham, Norfolk, England, on September 25, 2025. Tens of thousands of wading birds gather from late summer through early winter to feed in the mudflats of the shallow bay. During high tides, the “whirling waders” take to the air in large numbers, offering a dazzling display.Esteban Felix / APChilean police carry puppies, which will be trained as police dogs, during a military parade to honor Army Day and Independence Day in Santiago, Chile, on September 19, 2025.Emilio Morenatti / APParticipants build human towers, known as castells, during the La Mercè celebrations at Sant Jaume Square, in Barcelona, Spain, on September 24, 2025.Matias Delacroix / APA construction worker makes his way along a track-level walkway in the metro tunnel beneath the Panama Canal during a media tour, in Arraiján, west of Panama City, Panama, on September 23, 2025.Sergei Gapon / AFP / GettyA dog wearing a plastic recovery cone sits in the courtyard of a house as the sun sets over Nuuk Fjord, in Nuuk, Greenland, on September 23, 2025.Ali Hashisho / Xinhua / GettyPeople fly kites during a kite festival in the town of Zrarieh, Lebanon, on September 20, 2025.Wang Zheng / VCG / GettyVisitors walk through a field of blooming lavender on September 24, 2025, in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.AFP / GettyRows of solar panels cover fields and hilltops at the Yinchuan Fourth Photovoltaic Power Station in Yinchuan, in China’s northern Ningxia region, on September 24, 2025.Charles Krupa / APA motorcyclist rolls past trees whose leaves are changing color with the advance of autumn, on September 24, 2025, in New London, New Hampshire.Michael Probst / APA stag roars as rutting season begins in a forest of the Taunus region, near Frankfurt, Germany, on September 22, 2025.Oli Scarff / AFP / GettyAndy Dawson poses for a photograph with his giant, 147-pound (66.7 kilogram) marrow, which won the Heaviest Marrow category in the giant-vegetable competition on the first day of the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, at the Newby Hall country house, near Ripon, England, on September 19, 2025.Michaela Stache / AFP / GettyA server carries beer in the Hofbräu tent during the opening of the 190th Oktoberfest, in Munich, Germany, on September 20, 2025.Johann Groder / APA / EXPA / AFP / GettyParticipant Andreas Pelowski from Germany poses during the European Beard Championship in Leogang, Austria, on September 20, 2025.Aditya Aji / AFP / GettyGarut sheep, locally known as Domba Garut, charge toward each other during the annual sheep show of the President Cup 2025, at Pakansari Stadium in Bogor, West Java, on September 21, 2025.Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service / GettyCurtis Evans, of Evanston, carries an American flag through gas that was deployed by federal officers as they cleared protesters from the entrance of the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on September 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during President Ronald Reagan’s term.Ludovic Marin / AFP / GettyThis photograph taken during the inauguration ceremony of the new tour route of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s Gothic tower structures, destroyed by the April 2019 fire, shows the cathedral’s chimeras, in Paris, on September 19, 2025. The tower circuit completes the reopening of the cathedral to the public, following five years of work involving hundreds of artisans and costing nearly 700 million euros.Jan Hetfleisch / Getty for IronmanAn athlete competes in the bicycle leg during the 2025 Ironman Emilia Romagna on September 21, 2025, in Bologna, Italy.Alain Jocard / AFP / GettyServers, dressed in their work outfits, compete in the traditional Course des Cafés, a 4-kilometer race in which competitors carry a tray with water, coffee, and a croissant, in central Paris, France, on September 21, 2025.Dave Thompson / APManchester United’s Amad Diallo, left, challenges for the ball with Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez during the English Premier League soccer match, at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England, on September 20, 2025.Louise Delmotte / APUkraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh wrings out her hair in heavy rain as she competes in the women’s high-jump final at the World Athletics Championships, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 21, 2025.Harry Trump / GettySurfers wade into the water at sunset, on Polzeath Beach in Polzeath, Cornwall, England, on September 22, 2025.Jaime Saldarriaga / AFP / GettyDani Sebastian Agudelo, a rescued miner, kisses a relative near the site where a gold mine collapsed with 23 miners trapped, in Segovia, Antioquia department, Colombia, on September 24, 2025. All 23 miners, who were trapped for more than 24 hours in the collapsed shaft, have been brought out alive, authorities said yesterday.