Stephen Purvis kisses his prize onion after it won the title of Heaviest Onion at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Ripon, northern England
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Men on stilts wait to compete in the Golden Stilt tournament in Namur, Belgium
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Photographer Jade Hoksbergen captures a tiny candy crab perched on coral in the Philippines’ Tañon Strait
(Image credit: Jade Hoksbergen / Ocean Photographer of the Year)
A performer jumps over another during the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany
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Bike riders line up for the start of the Normandy Beach Race in Ouistreham, France
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A group of Palestinians look out at the rubble of a bombed building in Gaza
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A man stands in water as he partakes in a ritual during the Mahalaya festival in Mumbai, India
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US’ Bryce Deadmon and Kenya’s George Mutinda wait to be passed the baton during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo
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Residents shovel mud from their property after Super Typhoon Ragasa caused a barrier lake to burst its banks in Hualien, Taiwan
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The Internacional soccer team celebrates after scoring a goal in Porto Alegre, Brazil
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A sinkhole opens up in the middle of a street in Bangkok, Thailand
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Magellanic penguins waddle toward the ocean after being released following rehabilitation in Punta del Este, Uruguay
(Image credit: Matilde Campodonico / AP)
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