Photos of the week: Skating through adversity and life as art

A skateboarder who flips tricks without legs and the fantastic art installations of Yayoi Kusama --photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Oct 06, 2018 10:02 AM IST

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Venezuelan migrant and rap singer, Alfonso Mendoza aka ‘Alca’, 25, practices with his skateboard in a park in Barranquilla, Colombia. Alca, who arrived in Colombia nine months ago due to the crisis in his country, was born without legs and changed the wheelchair for a skateboard. (Raul Arboleda / AFP)

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Pro independence demonstrators throw paint at Catalan police officers during clashes in Barcelona, Spain. (Daniel Cole / AP)

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Cooling towers collapse during a controlled demolition at Huadian Shiliquan power plant in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, China. (REUTERS)

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A Victoria Miro gallery staff member poses for a picture next to Yayoi Kusama’s installation, Infinity Mirrored Room-My Heart Is Dancing Into The Universe, in London, England. (Peter Nicholls / REUTERS)

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Athletes participate in the Ironman 70.3 race in Cascais, Portugal. (Rafael Marchante / REUTERS)

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A model presents a creation by designer Clare Waight Keller as part of her Spring/Summer 2019 women’s ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Givenchy during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France. (Gonzalo Fuentes / REUTERS)

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A waterspout is formed during a storm in the Mediterranean Sea. (Alkis Konstantinidis / REUTERS)

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Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo leaves after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar. (Ann Wang / REUTERS)

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A Palestinian boy covers his face with a plastic bag to protect himself from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza, on a beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Salem / REUTERS)

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An employee talks on a phone at an office building in Seoul, South Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS)

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Japan’s new minister in charge of local economic revitalisation Satsuki Katayama leaves a photo session with other ministers at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan. (Issei Kato / REUTERS)

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A migrant, part of a group intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, stands in a queue after arriving on a rescue boat at the port of Motril, southern Spain. (Juan Medina / REUTERS)

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Parrots are perched on a treetop at sunset in Pasadena, California. (Mario Anzuoni / REUTERS)

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A museum employee looks at Gunther von Hagens “The Tennis Player” at the Body Worlds museum exhibition at the London Pavillion in London, England. (Peter Nicholls / REUTERS)

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Zoo staff gather as a female elephant named Noor Jahan eats cake on the occasion of her 14th birthday celebrations at the Zoological Garden in Karachi, Pakistan. (Akhtar Somroo / REUTERS)

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US President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota. (Leah Millis / REUTERS)

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Inmates sit on the floor of Saint Dimas chapel as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency personnel with a K9 dog look for contraband among inmates at the Manila City Jail. (Noel Celis / AFP)

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A woman walks against the strong winds after Typhoon Trami hit the city of Kagoshima on Kyushu island, Japan. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP)

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Surfer ride waves, in Unstad, northern Norway, on the first day of the Lofoten Masters 2018. (Olivier Morin / AFP)

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A fallow deer roars during the rutting season in the zoological garden in Hannover, northern Germany. (Juan Stratenschulte / dpa / AFP)

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Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria serves during his men’s singles second round match against Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing. (Fred Dufour / AFP)

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A long time exposure shows visitors sitting on a carousel at the Theresienwiese fairground of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (Christof Stache / AFP)

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Russian dancers Margarita Rudina and Alexey Nasadovich of Saint Petersburg perform during their spectacle “Les étoiles des nuits blanches” at The Toursky Theatre in Marseille, southern France. (Christophe Simon / AFP)

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A milkmaid poses with a French breed Brune cow (French Brown), during the third day of the ‘Sommet de l’Élevage 2018’ Trade Fair in Cournon-d’Auvergne, near Clermont Ferrand in central France. (Thierry Zoccolan / AFP)

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A clownfish swims through anemones in the Egyptian Red Sea marine reserve of Ras Mohamed. (Emily Irving-Swift / AFP)

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People attend a ceremony to dedicate a memorial garden for victims, on the anniversary of the mass shooting a year earlier, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (John Locher / AP)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Diyanet President Ali Eras cover their faces during a prayer on occasion of the opening of the new mosque in Cologne, Germany. (Martin Meissner / AP)

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Palestinian members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad group, wear clothes to represent shrouds while marching to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement’s newly elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally along the streets of Gaza. (Adel Hana / AP)

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Circuit Court Judges gather at Westminster Abbey ahead of the annual service to mark the start of the legal year, in London, England. (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)

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A boy stands in front of a stranded ship after a deadly tsunami struck the area in Donggala, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images)