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Bursting firecrackers, a human tower, and more

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Boys play on old mattresses in Cape Town, South Africa.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Esa Alexander)

A worker delivers voting machines to a polling station in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman waits for a train in Rio de Janeiro.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman uses a flashlight during a power outage caused by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Marco Bello)

A soldier patrols a railway station in Kupiansk Vuzlovyi, Ukraine.
(Image credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Tire fires set by protesters burn near Ramallah, West Bank.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

A man walks amidst bursting firecrackers during a festival in Takua Pa, Thailand.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Jorge Silva)

An opera actor is reflected in a backstage mirror in Ampang, Malaysia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain)

A human tower forms during a festival in Tarragona, Spain.
(Image credit: JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Leeds United's Illan Meslier on the ground during a soccer match in Leeds, Britain.
(Image credit: Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith)

The aftermath of a riot and stampede that followed a soccer match in Malang, Indonesia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan)

Boats piled in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers.
(Image credit: RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.