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Photos of the Week: Mermaid Dance, Medieval Village, Alpaca Café

The world’s tallest wind turbine in Germany, scenes from Moscow Fashion Week, a procession of judges in London, yodeling in an underground garage in Austria, and much more

By · October 2, 2026 · 4 min read
This article was originally published by The Atlantic and is republished here under license.
A model wears a fanciful house as a full-head adornment, their face visible through the front door.
Pavel Bednyakov / AP
A model wears a creation inspired by Russian fairy tales on September 29, 2026, during Moscow Fashion Week.
Riot police officers forcefully remove protesting students, with one officer raising a baton, apparently about to strike a student who is wearing a full-head pigeon mask.
Lou Benoist / AFP / Getty
Riot police officers remove protesting students who were blockading the area outside the Le Corbusier secondary school in Aubervilliers, Paris, on October 1, 2026. Since late September, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances including timetables, class sizes, a shortage of teachers, and overheated classrooms during this year’s heat waves. The protests started in the Ile-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide.
People watch as a person yodels in front of them, their face showing the effort.
Denes Erdos / AP
A woman yodels during a public event in an underground garage in Graz, Austria, on September 23, 2026. A group of yodeling fans in Graz moved their practice sessions to an underground parking garage because of its excellent acoustic conditions.
A person stands on a beach during a storm, facing the rough water, with arms wide open.
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Brenda Malloy enjoys a nor’easter storm in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 25, 2026.
A healthcare worker in protective clothing is sprayed with disinfectant by a colleague.
Sebastien Kitsa Musayi / AP
A health-care worker in protective clothing is disinfected by a colleague inside a treatment center for Ebola patients in Beni, North Kivu province, eastern Congo, on September 26, 2026.
A drone view of an orangutan hanging from a tall, bare tree
Victor Fidelis Sentosa / Reuters
A drone view of an orangutan hanging from a tree inside a High Conservation Value concession area of a palm-oil plantation affected by wildfires, before being rescued in Laman Satong village, Ketapang regency, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on September 30, 2026.
A squirrel leaps across a red carpet at the top of a flight of stairs.
Kylie Cooper / Reuters
A squirrel leaps across the red carpet at the National Archives ahead of the arrival of President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2026.
An aerial view of buildings in São Paulo, seen at night
Luis Robayo / AFP / Getty
An aerial view of buildings in São Paulo, Brazil, on September 29, 2026
A drone view of high waves caused by a hurricane battering a small island with houses
Christian Ruano / Reuters
A drone view of high waves caused by Hurricane Polo battering a small island with houses off the coast of San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, on September 26, 2026.
Smoke and flames rise from a building hit by a drone strike.
Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Smoke and flames rise from an administrative building hit by a Russian-jet-powered-drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 28, 2026.
People visit a large outdoor sculpture—a long staircase that swoops and swirls like a rollercoaster.
Michael Sohn / AP
People visit the “Tiger and Turtle—Magic Mountain” walkable roller-coaster sculpture in Duisburg, Germany, on September 27, 2026.
A miniature scene of traffic on a city street, lit up in the dark
Davide Elias / ZUMA Press Wire / Reuters
Visitors view a miniature city scene at the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, on September 30, 2026.
A car passes through a tree-lined street.
Darko Vojinovic / AP
A car passes through a tree-lined street in the village of Belo Blato, Serbia, on September 30, 2026.
Two deer, seen in an apple orchard
Bernd von Jutrczenka / DPA / Getty
Deer pass through an apple orchard in Hüll, in Drochtersen, Germany, on September 28, 2026.
Four cheetah cubs
Petr David Josek / AP
Four newly born cheetah quintuplets rest in their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 25, 2026.
A gaggle of judges wearing wigs and robes
Dan Kitwood / Getty
Judges gather for a service to mark the start of the legal year at Westminster Abbey on October 1, 2026 in London, England. The beginning of the legal year is marked with a procession of judges from Temple Bar to Westminster Abbey, where the Judges Service takes place. The annual tradition dates back to 1897.
A model, wearing a long veil and dress, seen in silhouette, while waiting backstage
Pavel Bednyakov / AP
A model waits backstage ahead of a runway show during Moscow Fashion Week on September 30, 2026.
A performer hangs from wires, appearing to fly beneath the moon.
Fred Lee / Getty
A dancer performs the dance of the goddess scattering flowers to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 25, 2026, in Beijing, China.
Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha, as smoke and confetti fill the air.
Pratik Chorge / AFP / Getty
Devotees carry an idol of the Hindu deity Ganesha for immersion in the Arabian sea, during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai on September 25, 2026.
A sculptor sits on a bench, posing beside a large clay sculpture of the head of Pope Leo XIV.
Ernesto Benavides / AFP / Getty
Rafael Gutierrez, a sculptor who graduated from Peru’s school of fine arts, poses next to the head of a sculpture of Pope Leo XIV during its making at a workshop in the Carabayllo district, on the northern outskirts of Lima, on September 25, 2026.
People in an outdoor restaurant smile as several alpacas walk among them.
Darko Vojinovic / AP
Alpacas roam among the tables in the Alpaca Café, interacting with the guests in the village of Stajicevo, Serbia, on September 30, 2026.
Tourists in traditional Hanbok outfits take photos outside a palace in Seoul.
Philip Fong / AFP / Getty
Foreign tourists in traditional Hanbok outfits visit Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea, on October 1, 2026.
A performer dressed as a mermaid dances underwater, surrounded by fish.
Yang Bo / China News Service / Getty
A performer dressed as a mermaid dances underwater at Nanjing Underwater World on September 29, 2026, in China’s Jiangsu province.
A diver spins in the air, water droplets flying from their hair, during a competition.
Hiro Komae / AP
Malaysia’s Elvis Priestly Clement competes in the men’s 10-meter platform final at the Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, on September 30, 2026.
Two people, seen in silhouette, in front of the full moon
Emrah Gurel / AP
The full moon rises behind people walking in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 26, 2026.
A close view of a massive wind turbine, seen in an aerial photo
Sean Gallup / Getty
An aerial view of the GICON high-altitude wind turbine, standing tall above a field of standard wind turbines on October 1, 2026, near Schipkau, Germany. The turbine, with a nacelle 300 meters aboveground and rotor blades that give it a total height of 365 meters, is the tallest in the world. It is designed to take advantage of stronger wind flows at higher altitude and will deliver twice the power of a conventional wind turbine.
Pope Leo XIV prays in a grotto, beside a tower of candles.
Simone Risoluti / Vatican Media / Getty
Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions in Massabielle on the second day of his apostolic journey to France on September 26, 2026.
A medieval Italian village, perched on a hillside
Sean Gallup / Getty
The medieval village of Apricale stands perched on a hill in Italy’s Liguria region, pictured on September 26, 2026
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