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The pictures of the week: A raccoon hangs

2022-01-29T07:40:57.078Z


Raccoons are also a plague here, and as an invasive species they have long since conquered large cities as a habitat. This little guy was very fortunate in his misfortune. pictures of the week.


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sound and screen

The Sound Dome in Budapest offers both: an acoustic and a visual spectacle.

It was designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

If you sit in the middle, the visitors are surrounded by both the screen and the sound.



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Photo: Bernadett Szabo / REUTERS

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After the coup

A burned poster shows Burkina Faso's President Marc Christian Kabore.

During a mutiny, Kabore was arrested by soldiers.

They are demanding the sacking of some top army chiefs and better equipment.

Photo: Olympia de Maismont / AFP

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The disaster in the Mediterranean

A wooden boat carrying refugees is attached to two Coast Guard ships.

According to reports from the Italian Coast Guard, several hundred people were rescued from an overcrowded wooden boat off the coast of Lampedusa.

Several people died during the crossing.

Photo: Pau De La Calle / AP / dpa

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Stunned

People lay flowers and candles along the way in front of a building of the University of Heidelberg.

An 18-year-old student shot and killed a 23-year-old in a lecture hall and injured three other people.

He then killed himself outside the building - he still had more than a hundred rounds of ammunition in his backpack.

Photo: Uwe Anspach / dpa

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big gesture

You can't just wear sweatpants anymore.

Fashion is coming back and with it the big fashion shows, like here in Paris, where a model for the spring collection shows off a sweeping dress by Lebanese designer Elie Saab.

Photo: Christophe Archambault / AFP

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alms for monkeys

On several islands outside the city of Marshall in Liberia, monkeys live with a peculiar past: In the 1970s, a virus testing laboratory operated in Liberia, in which hundreds of chimpanzees were used as laboratory animals.

The laboratory was closed during the civil war, which lasted until 2003.

The remaining monkeys were released on six islands.

However, because there is not enough food and drinking water on these islands, volunteers have been taking care of the animals ever since.

Photo: John Wessels / AFP

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Raccoon Alert

The fact that he only has three legs doesn't stop Marvin the raccoon from enjoying his life with Mathilde Laininger in Berlin.

The vet cares for a total of four raccoons in her home, which can no longer be released into the wild.

Roommate raccoon Fritzi is a little social media star with an Instagram account.


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Photo: Stefanie Loos / AFP

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New towels, please!

Even in Australia it rains sometimes.

These helpers dry the court at the Australian Open match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Jannik Sinner.

Tsitsipas was able to win the match in the end.

Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

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ice marathon

This runner's field of view appears to be a bit icy.

During one of the coldest marathons in the world near the village of Oymyakon in the Russian republic of Yakutia, temperatures dropped to minus 53 degrees.

65 athletes competed.

Photo: Ivan Nikiforov / AP

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All night

Finally.

Again.

Celebrate.

At the weekend, young people in Glasgow, Scotland, queued up to get into the clubs.

Since the corona rules were relaxed, there are no longer any visitor restrictions in discotheques.

Photo:Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

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On the border

A Ukrainian woman and her twin daughters are hoping for asylum in the US after crossing the border into Mexico.

Photo: Go Nakamura / REUTERS

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environment threatened

Off the Peruvian coast, a ship is trying to clean the water of spilled oil.

A week and a half ago, when a tanker was being unloaded, about 6,000 barrels of oil spilled.

High waves after the eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano in Tonga caused the accident, said the energy company Repsol.

An investigation is being carried out against employees of the company.

Photo: Cristian Olea/EPA

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Surprised by the snow

A woman in Athens walks cautiously down a slippery staircase.

A rare snowstorm raged in the Greek capital, causing traffic chaos.

Turkey and Greece were caught by an unexpected onset of winter.

Photo: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

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shame

A journalist stands outside Number 10 Downing Street with a newspaper in hand.

The cover photo shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson answering to Parliament for a party during lockdown.

Many MPs called for his resignation.

Photo: Andy Rain / EPA-EFE

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Never again

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe commemorates the victims of National Socialism in Berlin.

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On this day in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where more than a million men, women, and children were murdered.

Photo: Abdulhamid Hosbas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

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Homeless

Tropical storm "Ana" destroyed their houses, flooded fields and devastated bridges: Victims of the cyclone in Madagascar seek shelter in a high school in the capital Antananarivo.

48 people died in the floods in Madagascar, 77 victims were reported throughout Southeast Africa by Friday.

Photo: Henitsoa Rafalia/EPA

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Real Lessons

Also in Louisville, Kentucky, the omicron wave led to massive outages, especially in schools.

Here a teacher hugs one of her students when she is finally allowed to come back to face-to-face classes.

Photo: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

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Frosty prospects

Iced clothing hangs in front of a Turkish apartment building in Ankara province.

The village of Bezirhane is 2550 meters above sea level - the onset of winter feels correspondingly hard there.

Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Delivered?

Stella Moris, wife of Julian Assange, addresses reporters and supporters of her husband.

The Wikileaks founder is trying to prevent his extradition to the United States in court.

Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

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Just look up

Could be a monobloc that the man is sitting on, the most common chair in the world with over a billion copies.

He's really everywhere.

In this case, it appears to be serving as a relaxation chair for an Argentinian to enjoy the sun in the flat surf.

Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP

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lost herds

The dead bodies are clearly visible from the air: in northern Kenya, in Marsabit County, tens of thousands of sheep and goats have died after heavy rain and unusually low temperatures.

This is a catastrophe for many farmers, because the herds are their livelihood.

Photo: Baz Ratner / REUTERS

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to show the flag

Ukrainians hold a 500-meter ribbon in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Some speakers called for Ukraine's accession to the European Union.

Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Life in the Blizzard

The humanitarian situation is still very bad in parts of Syria: the picture shows life during the snowstorm in Afrin in the north of the country.

Many tents collapse under the snow.

Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images

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Tragic Heroes

A group of firefighters in Baltimore.

During an operation on Monday, three of their colleagues died trying to put out a fire in a terraced house - the building collapsed.

Photo: Julio Cortez/AP

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Submerged in plastic

Only a bridge leads people through the vast amounts of rubbish: on a street in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, there is not a piece of ground to be seen that is not covered with rubbish.

Photo: Kazi Salahuddin Razu / NurPhoto / Getty Images

Source: spiegel

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