Watercolor - (08/08/2020)
A sprinkler system in a corn field in Ensisheim, Eastern France, not only supplies the plants with water, but also conjures up a rainbow.
Photo: SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
Pig melt (07.08.2020)
On one of the hottest days of the year, the animal rights organization Peta in London put ice sculptures of farm animals in the blazing sun. A poster under the melting animals reads: "Meat = heat. Animal husbandry is causing climate change. Over the next four days, record temperatures of up to 36 degrees will prevail in Great Britain.
Photo: Alastair Grant / AP
Colorful protest (08/06/2020)
With dresses and suits in rainbow colors, Polish opposition politicians made a mark against the re-elected head of state when President Andrzej Duda was sworn in. With their colorful choice of clothes they protested against the negative attitude of the national-conservative politician towards people of the LGBT community.
Some MPs, including members of the left-wing Razem party, also wore rainbow-colored masks. The parliamentarians of the ruling law and justice party (PiS) supported Duda with singing and applause.
Photo: WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP
Beaten and lost (08/05/2020)
Cricket does not play a major role in the German sports landscape. So-called tests between two nations offer plenty of spectacle. Here Ireland's Harry Tector flies past the ball despite great efforts, England's Batsman (in German: Schlagman) Adil Rashid starts the run. In the end, Ireland won.
Photo: MIKE HEWITT / AFP
Protected memory (08/08/2020)
Every year at the Gai Jatra funeral in Nepal, those who have died in the past twelve months are commemorated. The children dress up in colorful cow headdresses and wander through the city. This year, however, like here in Kathmandu, with mouth-nose protection.
Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP
Fresh for the festival (08/03/2020)
Two boys cool off in the shower of a swimming pool in Gaza City. The festivities for the highest Islamic festival, the Eid ul-Adha festival, end there on Monday.
Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
The whole range (02.08.2020)
A worker goes wild on a street in Ayodhya, India, with many different colors. There is also a lot going on in the supposed birthplace of Rama - Hindus can worship him here as a god in a new temple. Construction had been preceded by a long controversy. Muslims had also claimed the place.
Photo: AP
Galloping (01.08.2020)
The horses of Mongolia usually live outside all year round and look for their own food. Here a breeder from the Western Ujimqin banner shows his animals. The region belongs to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Mongolia's traditionally nomadic people are estimated to hold around three million horses. The Mongolian horse is one of the small horses and resists temperature fluctuations from 30 degrees in summer to minus 40 degrees in winter.
Photo: Peng Yuan / Xinhua / imago images
Daughter Cool (07/31/2020)
Two Muslim girls run after the prayer through the million-dollar city of Lagos in Nigeria - and attract some attention with their silk clothing and sunglasses. Muslims worldwide are currently celebrating the Feast of Sacrifice, the highest festival in Islam.
Photo: Sunday Alamba / AP
Precious Dress (07/30/2020)
Every Muslim should go on a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. More than two million people did this last year. But 2020 is different: Because of the corona virus, only a few thousand believers were allowed to come. The Hajj started on Tuesday and continues until Sunday. The high point of the ritual is to walk around the Kaaba, the most important sanctuary in Islam. The picture shows how the temple gets its dress: the kiswa, a brocaded cloak embroidered with gold, adorned with verses from the Koran.
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Not without a mask (07/29/2020)
A man with his mouth and nose guard walks past a dog in front of a closed wholesale market in Calcutta, India. In the state of West Bengal, a lockdown was ordered for a day this week. India is the third most affected country by the corona virus in the world.
Photo: RUPAK DE CHOWDHURI / REUTERS
Adebar (07/28/2020)
According to the legend, Adebar - as a stork is called in fables - announces the offspring when he settles on a house roof. But storks themselves are hatching more and more young. The population of animals has recovered nationwide. According to the conservation organization Nabu, storks are no longer in danger of extinction. This specimen is looking for prey in Riedlingen-Zell in Baden-Württemberg.
Photo:
Thomas Warnack / dpa
Everything for the cat? (07/27/2020)
Ukrainian soldiers play with a kitten in a trench in the Luhansk region. After more than 20 attempts, a ceasefire applies to the contested area. According to military reports from Kiev, pro-Russian separatists still fired shots. The rebels, however, pledged to abide by the agreement to end the fighting completely.
Photo: Iryna Rybakova / Ukrainian Defense Ministry / REUTERS
The nozzle goes to him (07/26/2020)
Completely detached - on a flyboard you can take off spectacularly up to nine meters high and seem to float above the water. Pressurized water that is pumped up from the hose of a jet ski makes it possible. Flyboarding is not as difficult as it looks; talented beginners often get along well after an hour. This photo shows a Belarusian soldier from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who showed his skills on Saturday at the Firefighters' Day in Minsk - and could also wave flags on the flyboard.
Photo: TATYANA ZENKOVICH / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Jump into the unknown (07/25/2020)
A woman jumps from a bridge into the water in Cadiz, a city in southern Spain. In fact, the situation in Spain is currently like a disturbance into the unknown: the country is one of the countries that have been hardest hit by the corona pandemic, in recent weeks the number of infections has risen again in some regions of the country and the season of the Spanish second League ended in farce after half a soccer team tested positive for the virus.
Photo: Emilio Morenatti / AP
Plush Guardian (07/24/2020)
It looks cute, but the situation is serious: Mexico has reported a record increase in coronavirus infections. There were more than 8,400 cases in one day, more than ever before. However, restaurants have recently been allowed to reopen, including this one in Mexico City. In order to guarantee the distance between the guests, the operators came up with a special measure: teddy bears at each table.
Photo: EDGARD GARRIDO / REUTERS
Heaven and Hell (07/23/2020)
In the northern Syrian province of Idlib, two fighters guard a post on the "National Liberation Front". The rebels are part of the alliance that is fighting Turkish government support against the government troops of Bashar al-Assad in the civil war. The Milky Way in the night sky is visible thanks to a long exposure.
Photo:
OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP
Sunbathing under smoke (22.07.2020)
In the municipality of Porto de Son in northwestern Spain, holidaymakers lie on the beach. The smoke of a nearby forest fire pulls over the water. It is an almost apocalyptic picture that a photographer took. As if to say: the world is on fire and we are resting.
Photo: Lavandeira Jr / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Mirrored (07/21/2020)
A building that almost disappears in the landscape and even appears invisible from certain points of view - it would not have been easy for this tourist to take a good picture of it. The artwork "Mirage Gstaad" is in the Bernese Oberland, designed by the Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken. The outer walls are provided with mirrors down to the floor.
Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP
Warrior of Light (07/20/2020)
A gentleman enjoys the summer sun in Washington Square Park in New York. Tanning is work.
Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS
Sink Gods (07/19/2020)
Every year in India, Hindus celebrate a ten-day festival in honor of Ganesha, a deity often depicted with an elephant head. This year it will be time again at the end of August, which is already giving many craftsmen - regardless of the crisis, Corona - secure orders. Every year the celebrations include the ritual of submerging a statue of Ganesha or the like in the water. In Mumbai alone, 150,000 sunk portraits were counted last year.
Photo: Francis Mascarenhas / REUTERS
Protection from the melt (07/18/2020)
Visit to the ice cave covered with special tarpaulin in the Rhone glacier above Gletsch near the Furka pass. This is to protect the oldest glacier in the Alps from melting.
Photo: Urs Flueeler / dpa
A rose for the wise (07/17/2020)
A woman leaves a rose in front of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The name of the building comes from the Greek expression for "Holy Wisdom". Last week, the Turkish administrative court ruled that the UNESCO World Heritage Site would become a mosque again. In a week, on July 24th, the former church, which has been a museum for 86 years, is to be opened for Islamic prayer.
Photo: SEDAT SUNA / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
House at (16.07.2020)
People drive in a boat past a house near Lake Poyang, which is sagged by water. In central China's Jiangxi Province, heavy rains in the Yangtze River area have caused flooding. Millions of people have been evacuated, at least 141 have died or are still missing.
Photo: STR / AFP
Shopping experience (15.07.2020)
Passers-by on London's Oxford Street walk past pictures by US photographer David LaChapelle. The gaudy works create intense shopping moments by means of electronic screens.
Photo: TOBY MELVILLE / REUTERS
Greetings to the neighboring country (07/14/2020)
Brussels Manneken Pis is dressed up for special occasions. On the occasion of the French national holiday, Belgium's most famous fountain figure wears beret and baguette.
Photo: Zheng Huansong / Xinhua / imago images
Foam bat (07/13/2020)
A man rides his bike through thick sea foam that a heavy storm blew ashore in Cape Town. It was the third cold front in a short time that struck South Africa. The storm caused severe damage, waves piled up to ten meters high, trees were uprooted, and floods occurred.
Photo: NIC BOTHMA / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Hairy affair (07/12/2020)
How do you manage to keep the appropriate distance from the hairdresser? This salon in Bangkok apparently developed its very own technology for this - and uses this machine to turn curls on a customer.
Photo:
MLADEN ANTONOV / AFP
Suspended state (07/11/2020)
A Palestinian shows what he can do with parkour. This is a sporty way to move around in urban spaces - whether balancing, jumping, rolling or doing other gymnastics. Here he shows a remarkable air number on the beach in Gaza City.
Photo: MOHAMMED SALEM / REUTERS
Imposter (07/10/2020)
A Palestinian drives his donkey cart through Gaza - he has loaded many, apparently empty boxes.
Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
To the owl (07/09/2020)
The Tibetan monk Lama Lobsang Topgyal is feeding an owl. He had rescued the animal on a morning walk about two weeks ago, and a predator is said to have killed the young bird's mother.
Photo: SANJAY BAID / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Between all chairs (07/08/2020)
The IG Metall union has installed 2,000 empty folding seats in front of the Hamburg Airbus plant in Finkenwerder - to protest the planned cut of more than 2,000 jobs at the aircraft manufacturer's location. Airbus is badly hit by the aviation crisis: Airlines that are hardly allowed to fly do not buy new aircraft. The coal mine could end up paying the workforce as so often. Many of the seats have photos of employees of the factory, some of them self-painted pictures of children who have drawn their parents. There is fate behind every place, that is to say.
Photo: MORRIS MAC MATZEN / AFP
Drain (07.07.2020)
The Yellow River in China in the flood season: To prevent flooding, water is drained at the Xiaolangdi Dam as a preventive measure. The size of the water can be seen in a direct size comparison with the people watching the spectacle.
Photo: dpa