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Photos of the Week: Fallen Robot, Scooter Waterfall, Sunrise Panorama

Traditional horseback archery in Japan, a humanoid-robot half-marathon in Beijing, a sci-fi festival in England, a golf tournament in Louisiana, and much more

By · April 24, 2026 · 4 min read
This article was originally published by The Atlantic and is republished here under license.
A person smokes what appears to be an enormous blunt in a crowd celebrating a 420 festival.
Cheney Orr / Reuters
A reveler smokes cannabis at the Mile High 420 Festival in Denver on April 20, 2026.
A person is tossed into the air by others using a rug during a festival.
Alex Nicodim / Inquam Photos / Reuters
Young people take part in an initiation ritual where they are tossed into the air by others using a rug, during a spring festival in Brașov, Romania, on April 17, 2026.
Eight performers pose onstage, facing forward, lined up closely front-to-back, each extending their arms at differing angles, holding wands out, making a starburst pattern.
Martin Meissner / AP
Artists perform during the opening of Hannover Messe, the world’s largest industrial-technology trade fair, in Hannover, Germany, on April 19, 2026.
Visitors on a seafront bench watch a performer dressed in a costume based on a 'Doctor Who' villain.
Ian Forsyth / Getty
Davros the Dalek interacts with visitors to Scarborough during the Sci-Fi Scarborough weekend on April 19, 2026, in Scarborough, England.
An archer on horseback, wearing traditional Japanese clothing, shoots an arrow at a target
Takashi Aoyama / Getty
An archer in traditional clothing shoots an arrow at a target while riding a horse during the 42nd Asakusa Yabusame (Horseback Archery) on April 18, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan.
A street food vendor uses a mobile phone while waiting for customers on a scooter that is heavily loaded with clear plastic bags full of snacks.
Nhac Nguyen / AFP / Getty
A street-food vendor uses a cellphone while waiting for customers on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, on April 17, 2026.
Staff members use a stretcher to carry a humanoid robot that crashed after a half-marathon.
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Staff members carry a humanoid robot that crashed after the finish line of the second Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon and Humanoid-Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing, China, on April 19, 2026.
Two people wear white plastic full-face masks which blast yellowish light onto their faces underneath.
Martin Meissner / AP
A woman uses an LED face mask for skin regeneration at the health-and-fitness trade show FIBO in Cologne, Germany, on April 17, 2026.
The sun sets behind a distant cathedral.
Dmitri Lovetsky / AP
The sun sets behind Saint Nicholas Naval Cathedral located on Kronstadt Island in the Gulf of Finland, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 19, 2026.
Water droplets, seen on a budding marigold flower
Narayan Maharjan / NurPhoto / Getty
Water droplets on a pot marigold flower after light rain in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 20, 2026
People take pictures of a giant inflatable octopus clinging to the façade of a building.
Emanuele Cremaschi / Getty
People use their cellphones to take a picture of a giant inflatable octopus clinging to a building facade and extending into the interior—an installation that is part of the “Have a Puffy Summer” pop-up exhibition by Italian luxury-fashion brand Moncler—during Milan Design Week 2026 in Milan, Italy, on April 20, 2026.
Visitors gather around a tall sculpture of a dog made of flowers and greenery.
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Visitors gather around a 5.2-meter-tall “puppy” made of flowers and greenery at the 2026 Shanghai International Flower Show on April 19, 2026, in Shanghai, China.
A visitor walks on a path through a field of purple and white flowers.
Simon Bonny / Matrix Images / Reuters
Visitors view the Chichibu Shibazakura flower festival in Saitama, Japan, on April 17, 2026.
A bee gathers pollen from a rhododendron.
Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty
A bee gathers pollen from a rhododendron at Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City on April 18, 2026.
A pair of storks settle in a nest on a power pole.
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A pair of storks settle into a nest on a power pole near Kamenz, Germany, on April 21, 2026.
A rainbow appears beneath clouds lit by the setting sun over a harbor.
Mariana Suarez / AFP / Getty
A rainbow appears beneath clouds lit by the setting sun in Montevideo, Uruguay, on April 21, 2026.
Plants, mud, and water splash up as a shirtless golfer hits a ball at the edge of a water hazard.
Matthew Hinton / AP
Michael Brennan sends mud and water flying as he tries to hit his ball out of floating debris on the 18th hole, only to have it land back in the water, during the first round of the PGA Zurich Classic golf tournament in Avondale, Louisiana, on April 23, 2026.
A skier in a festive costume leans back, splashing across a pond as a crowd watches.
Alexander Manzyuk / Reuters
A skier in a festive costume attempts to cross a pool of water at the foot of a slope while competing in the annual Gornoluzhnik amateur event marking the end of a ski season at the Bobrovy Log fun park in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on April 19, 2026.
A pair of horses toss their manes while playing.
Michael Probst / AP
Icelandic horses play at a stud farm in Wehrheim, Germany, on April 21, 2026.
People walk past a green glass bottle covered in wind-blown ice.
Matthias Bein / DPA / Getty
A glass bottle is covered in ice, resting on a table on the Brocken near Schierke, Germany, on April 20, 2026.
An aerial view of a packed soccer stadium
Tomas Cuesta / Getty
An aerial view of Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, prior to the Torneo Apertura 2026 Superclásico match between River Plate and Boca Juniors on April 19, 2026, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dozens of people on scooters fill a highway offramp.
Edgar Su / Reuters
Motorists take the ramp off Taipei Bridge, at a location known to locals as the “Scooter Waterfall,” during morning rush hour in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 15, 2026.
A person dressed as Paul Revere rides a horse past a crowd in Boston.
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Brigadier General Richard Reale Jr. of the National Lancers, dressed as the American patriot Paul Revere, reenacts the 1775 Boston-to-Lexington ride to alert colonists of approaching British troops, on April 20, 2026, in Boston.
A bandicoot—a small rodent with a long, thin snout—walks through grass after being released.
James D. Morgan / Getty for Amazon
An eastern barred bandicoot is released at Conservation Hill Reserve on April 21, 2026, in Phillip Island, Australia. Eastern barred bandicoots, bred for survival by conservationists, took their first steps onto Phillip Island, marking a milestone in efforts to restore the species following previous releases of the animals, which failed to thrive.
Two people use a hose to spray water on a stranded whale in waist-deep water.
Jens Büttner / DPA / Getty
Volunteers work to keep a stranded humpback whale hydrated, in the Baltic Sea, off the German island of Poel, on April 21, 2026.
A small caiman rests in water in a zoo enclosure.
Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP / Getty
A Cuvier’s dwarf caiman rests in its enclosure at the Parc zoologique de Paris also known as the Zoo de Vincennes, in Paris, France, on April 17, 2026.
A panoramic sunrise view of a bay during a rainy morning in Rio de Janeiro.
Pablo Porciuncula / AFP / Getty
A sunrise view of Guanabara Bay during a rainy morning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 21, 2026
A single tree stands beside a field of green.
Silas Stein / DPA / Getty
A tree stands in the sunshine beside a field in Sulz am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on April 22, 2026.
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