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Photos of the week: An airplane adrift and all eyes at the Met Gala
An airplane finds its way off a runway and into a riverbank in Florida and pushing the boundaries of costume design with the most outlandish creations at the annual Met Gala --photos of the week from across the world.
Updated on: May 11, 2019 1:32 PM IST
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An Aerial view of a Miami Air International Boeing 737-800 that overran the runway at NAS Jacksonville and came to rest in the St Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. (NTSB / Handout via REUTERS)
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A child reaches for a soap bubble during the Global Bubble Parade in Bucharest, Romania. (Vadim Ghirda / AP)
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A multiexposure picture shows Romania’s Simona Halep returning the ball to Australia’s Ashleigh Barty during their WTA Madrid Open round of 8 tennis match at the Caja Magica in Madrid. Spain. (Gabriel Buoys / AFP)
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Melina Avgerinou, caretaker at NGO Arcturos, feeds two brown bear cubs at a bear sanctuary in the village of Nymfaio, near Florina, Greece. (Giorgos Moutafis / REUTERS)
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Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel. (Amir Cohen / REUTERS)
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The sister of 22-year-old Palestinian Emad Naseer, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, reacts with her hand stained with his blood, during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem / REUTERS)
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A boy looks at a damaged house after it was hit by a rocket, fired from Gaza over the border, to the Israeli side in Kiryat Gat, Israel. (Ronen Zvulun / REUTERS)
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Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture as they walk to Insein prison gate after being freed, after receiving a presidential pardon in Yangon, Myanmar. (Ann Wang / REUTERS)
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People stand by caskets at the funeral service for the three children of CEO of clothing brand Bestseller, Anders Holch Povlsen, who were victims of the string of suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka on April 21, at the Aarhus Cathedral in Aarhus, Denmark. (Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix via REUTERS)
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Ezra Miller arrives at the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala in New York City. (Andrew Kelly / REUTERS)
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Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex hold their baby son, who was born on Monday morning, during a photocall in St George’s Hall at Windsor Castle, in Berkshire, England. (Dominic Lipinski / Pool via REUTERS)
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A Brazilian soldier patrols during a ceremony to celebrate the Victory Day marking the Allied Forces’ victory in World War Two in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Ricardo Moraes / REUTERS)
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Workers are seen at the construction site of Panggong bridge over the Han river in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China. (REUTERS)
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Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi speaks to reporters as he leaves the San Raffaele hospital, in Milan, Italy. Berlusconi himself is running for European Parliament elections, the first time he has been allowed to run for public office following a ban imposed after a 2012 tax fraud conviction. (Antonio Calanni / AP)
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Russian military aircraft fly over an Orthodox church in central Moscow during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)
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Stars in the night sky above Shwe Settaw Sanctuary in Magway Region, Myanmar. (Ye Aug Thu / AFP)
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Ahmad Sayed Rahman, a five-year-old Afghan boy who lost his right leg when he was hit by a bullet in the crossfire of a battle, dances with his prosthetic leg at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital for war victims and the disabled, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP)
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A man sits amid the rubble of a building, destroyed during airstrikes by the Syrian regime and their allies near the town of Saraqeb in Syria’s rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib. (Amer Alhamwe / AFP)
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Ten-years-old lion Boby roars in a cage of Tirana’s zoo before its transfer along with two other lions to the Felida Big Cat Center in Netherlands by animal welfare association Four Paws. (Gent Shkullaku / AFP)
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People cross a street in Tokyo’s Ginza district in Japan. (Charly Triballeau / AFP)
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US President Donald Trump presents US golfer Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb / AFP)
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Supporters of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu react as they wait for him during a protest against the re-run of Istanbul mayoral election in Istanbul, Turkey. (Bulent Kilic / AFP)
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A man takes a rest as he waits for iftar, the breaking of the fast, during the holy month of Ramadan at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Willy Kurniawan / REUTERS)
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Inkatha Freedom Party agents are seen near a polling station ahead of South Africa’s parliamentary and provincial elections in the Farm lands near Eshowe, South Africa. (Rogan Ward / REUTERS)
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An Egyptian archaeologist works on the sarcophagi at the newly discovered burial site, the Tomb of Behnui-Ka and Nwi, dating back to circa 2500 B.C. near the Great Pyramids in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany / REUTERS)
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Aerial view showing emergency crews using an amphibious vehicle and heavy machinery as they continue the slow process of picking through the mud looking for bodies, 99 days after the collapse of the Corrego do Feijao dam of mining company Vale in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. (Douglas Magno / AFP)
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Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn is carried in a golden palanquin during his coronation procession in Bangkok, Thailand. (Manan Vatsyayana / AFP)
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Pramac Racing’s Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia falls down during the MotoGP race of the Spanish Grand Prix at the Jerez - Angel Nieto circuit in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. (Gabriel Bouys / AFP)
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Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. (Jeff Chiu / AP)
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