The world last week in pictures

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Farmers from Tamil Nadu demonstrating in New Delhi, India. The region is hit by a severe drought. (Cathal McNaughton)

Sunset at the Empty Sky Memorial in New Jersey, USA. (Julio Cortez)

The wine cellar at Chateau de Beychevelle in France. (Georges Gobet)

A young man gets a full spa-treatment in Mosul, Iraq. (Sohaib Salem)

A moping Josh Perkins after his basketball team Gonzaga faced defeat at North Carolina. The score was 71-65. (Mark Humphrey)

A North Korean team of farmers in Sinuiju. The great wall of China in the back. (Damir Sagolj)

Crystal Warner and Sharnia Jones playing in the flood waters of Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia. Never mind the hidden nope ropes. (Patrick Hamilton)

A Syrian father and his daughter trying to find shelter after an air strike over Hamouriyah. (Abdulmonam Eassa)

A Hong Kong-tram gets lifted back on track after it fell over. (Anthony Wallace)

A girl sleeping (not dead) behind a closed down shop in Lucknow, India. (Cathal McNaughton)

A worker brushing up the Calderon theater in Madrid. (Susana Vera)

Colorful buildings in a poor neighbourhood in Pachuca, Mexico. (Yuri Cortez)

Melogranoblu designers created this installation for a convention in Milan, Italy. (Antoni Calanni)

The Dalai Lama fails to entertain this young monk in Bomdila, India. (Anuwar Hazarika)

Australian F1-driver Daniel Ricciardo testing his car in Shanghai, China. (Johannes Eisele)

A policeman struggling with his rain gear at the same F1-track (Johannes Eisele)

Afghan police destroying some opium poppies in Surkh-Rôd. (Noorullah Shirzada)

Chinese children competing in a chess tournament in Shenyang. (AFP)

Montgomery, Alabama being metal. (Albert Cesare)

Brexit general Nigel Farage meaning business with his socks in Strasbourg, France. (Jean-Francois Badias)

Preparing for the Ramnavani festival in Bengaluru, India. (Abishek Chinnappa)

Vålerenga player Abdi Ibrahim is frustrated after a 4-3 loss to Haugesund in the Norwegian football leagie. (Jan Kåre Ness)

New Japan Airline employees gathered up in a hangar in Japan. (Toru Hanai)

Woopsie. Bishop Claudio Stagni needed help getting back up during a mass in Capri, Italy. (Allessandro Garufalo)

South Korean soldiers practising for war with American troops in Pohang, South Korea. (Kim Hong Ji)

Somalian children waiting for a meal in Mogadishu. They are mostly refugees from the southern part of the country due to severe drought. (Mohamed Abdiwahab)

Dude walking past a mural in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Manan Vatsyayana)

Palestinian fisherman doing their best to avenge Steve Irwin. (Mohamed Abed)

Cosplayers at a comic-con in Dubai. (Kamran Jebreili)

Monarch butterfly hanging out in a zoo i Mexico City. (Edgard Garrido)

Lowzenza

Wth are nope ropes?

9 years ago |

msa011

That Harley Quinn from Dubai tho

DigitalWaffle

Why murder the manta raya? Senseless murder. I hate most humans :(

oberkrom

Nort Korea Bes Korea

CatsAndBeardsAreTwoOfMyFavoriteHairyThings

A girl sleeping (not dead) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

roxy12

(not dead)

butdontcallmeshirley

Citing the photographers?!? Steal their intellectual property like a normal person!!

minerobin

Is thought i saw the sleeping girls nipple but i was tricked

princeaizen

#10 "Bring me the knife" "I want the knife"

dajustifier

Please rephrase the Southern Korean/US please. Donny Tiny Hands might see it and attack 1 of last allies.

Jamesuuu

Fucking hate Nige, him and his stupid fucking socks.

erischilde

A) the protesters in India are going to start a hipster hair trend b) smoke bomb doughnuts!

testingmyban

I read it as "The world's last week" and I said "Yep, I feel ya"

saberquest

"A Nort Korean"

FunInTheFLsun

Looks the the house from Beetlejuice

ChloeBear2005

But those are manta rays

panicoliveira

Great compilation, @OP. Only one little mistake, the #12 is Pachuca, no Pachua.

Alright, sorry, will edit

flatearthscientologist

Is that jay z in the first picture

hofbrauhauss

Nigel thornberry decided he's had enough of adventure and dared to face politicians instead. Some consider a fate worse than death.

rangerman475

Hope whoever took the picture of the sleeping girl had permission lol

ChinaMike808

Question on S. Korean/US troop practice; what is in the water behind them? Looks like 'alien inner-tubes' attacking!

Some sort of grenades

LetMeGoogleThatShtForYou

That's not the Great wall of China in Sinuiju. that's part of the thousand leagues wall 千里長城

Oh ok, sorry. Will edit

AnoManoWanoBanana

Sad to see they are keeping the mantas... I'm a tree hugger for fish

So a fish hugger?

ardivian

What? No Sout Korea?

trollingworld

I was at dubai comic con yesterday

Ringshadow

I'm just so tickled Dubai has a comic con and I don't know why.

Dude we like comics too..

I'm sure, but like, it just never occurred to me and I don't know why. Rock on.

That we are normal? Hehe thanks man. We did rock

akom

Ok, WTF is going on in the background of #25? I feel like it's something simple but my brain just isn't processing it.

DonaldTrumpInfo

Smoke grenades fired from the armored vehicles you see behind the soldiers to cover their landing on the beach.

stevekosh

Smoke grenades from the landing craft. https://youtu.be/RmNopnKNTtY?t=93

Guess time stamp doesn't work with the imgur video pop out, go to 1:30 in the video

abeardedblacksmith

What does a goofy haircut have to do with a drought?

johnnydarkko

JohnnyDeformed

It represents a field of dead crops. It seems like promoting awareness, not protesting.

Kewra

Cutting 1/2 hair and moustache is a sign of shame from ancient times.

WhyAmIForcedToHaveFun

You're probably kidding, but just want to let you know that most of them live on less than a dollar a day, for themselves and their families

No, I get that they're very poor and the region is in a drought. That's rough. But how is cutting your hair and "demonstrating" gonna help?

SeanTabasco

And who are they protesting against?

TwoVhsCopiesOfGoodfellas

Companies like monsanto, have the monopoly on seeds in india, many have committed suicide because they can't afford seeds to grow crops.

tobasko

Exactly what I was thinking.

Promoting awareness more likely.

I gather they want the government to provide more aid

Rugbyistheonlytruesport

What are the brown things out of focus behind the SK troops?

Kaalivanukas

Looks like airburst or some kinda smoke munitions. Pretty sure they aren't chutes.

Thats what I was thinking, just wasn't sure what purpose they would serve

I now have "SK army smoke donut" in my search history, but they are apparently airburst IR smoke grenades for armoured vehicles

Hahaha alright thanks boss

Coolhandluke39

"We didn't do shit!" Manta rays probably. Since Steve Irwin was killed by a Sting ray.

Sheari

Also I personally don't find the "avenge Steve Irwin" jokes funny because harming/killing rays is the OPPOSITE of what he would want :/

I know I'm sorry, I'm not that funny

They're so harmless, but I'm not sure these are mantas... might be eagle rays? Either way, beautiful, curious creatures...

thelittletrainthatcanteven

How do you know what a dead man wants? Even the nicest people can demand their pound of flesh.

Caspooky

Indeed, the guy trying to convince the world to care for animals and nature surely would want that pesky animal 'defending itself' to die!

Truly, a man who dedicated his life to teaching the public about the importance of wildlife would want to see wildlife harmed in his name!

Dyslexicbirch

As an aussie whos town went through that flood .. thats fucking gross there was raw sewage in that water

515XIX

Yeah.. Where I am in the Northern Rivers, the Tweed River still looks like it's full of shit a week later..

im from lismore that water was fucked

I feel so sorry for you guys down there. Tweed escaped with next to no damage. Can't say the same for just the other side of the river 1/?

here though, I have friends & coworkers who had water through their houses & businesses which has fucked them over, it's horrible. 2/3

It's good to see the community here banding together to help out one another because the state & federal gov't have been quiet about it all.

Yeah the pm came here cleaned a already clean wall for 5 seconds for the press and says where not cat c so no money

Yeah. I was talking to one of the guys from our federal MP's office today, he said the gov't doesn't even wanna help North Queensland wtf..

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