Photos of the Week: Wienermobile Race, Beehive Therapy, Everest Queue

A rare tornado touchdown in Chile, a dinosaur exhibition in Shanghai, a hummingbird clinic in Mexico, a “Dogs and Fun” fair in Germany, an aerial ferry bridge in France, and much more

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May 30, 2025 - 08:12
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Photos of the Week: Wienermobile Race, Beehive Therapy, Everest Queue
Several young spelling bee contestants sit on chairs on a stage, with one appearing to be asleep.
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Vikyath Tanamala, 10, of Leesburg, Virginia, closes his eyes during the preliminaries of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, on May 27, 2025. Two hundred and forty-three spellers ages 8 to 14, from all over the globe, compete from May 27 to May 30 during the 100th anniversary of the bee.
Competitors tumble head over foot during a race down a steep grassy hill.
Cameron Smith / Getty
Contestants in a women’s downhill race chase a wheel of cheese down Cooper’s Hill on May 26, 2025, in Brockworth, England. Every year competitors and spectators from around the world gather for the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling competition that sees participants fling themselves down a steep hill in pursuit of a rolling seven-pound Double Gloucester cheese.
A gymnast flips in the air above a balance beam.
Matthias Hangst / Getty
Maya Ståhl of Team Sweden performs on the Balance Beam during day one of the 2025 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships on May 26, 2025, in Leipzig, Germany.
A runner jumps and poses in front of the Pyramids of Giza.
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Runners pose in front of pyramids as they participate in the One Run race on May 24, 2025, near the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.
A woman wearing a cowboy hat dances in front of a bonfire.
Guillermo Arias / AFP / Getty
A woman performs the traditional Calabaceado dance in front of the monumental fire during the “XLIII Fiesta en la Mision” celebration in La Misión town, northern Ensenada, Baja California state, Mexico, on May 24, 2025.
A worker uses a broom to clean a mirrored floor, seen reflected in multiple mirrors.
Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP / Getty
An employee cleans mirrored floors at the Mahanakhon SkyVerse digital art exhibition at King Power Mahanakhon in Bangkok on May 26, 2025.
A person stands among many pipes, soaking wet, drenched by dripping water.
Asif Hassan / AFP / Getty
A worker cleans the lines of a cooling tower at an ice factory on a hot summer day in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 29, 2025.
Three people sit in a convertible car that has been transformed into a swimming pool.
Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty
Attendees sit inside a Citroën 2CV car modified into a swimming pool during the 30th national rally of the Citroën 2CV Clubs de France association in Agde, France, on May 29, 2025.
Three wienermobiles are seen driving down a racetrack.
Michael Conroy / AP
Several Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles head into the first turn as they compete in the Wienie 500, following the practice session for the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23, 2025.
Two performers wrapped in long flowing red cloth, hang from wires above an audience.
Jorge SIlva TPX / Jorge Silva / Reuters
Dancers from the Cia K dance company perform an aerial circus act while suspended from a zip line during the Virada Cultural event in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, on May 25, 2025.
An elevated view of a suspended segment of bridge deck, carrying passengers across a river on cables.
Christophe Archambault / AFP / Getty
Commuters stand on a nacelle suspended from the metal deck of an aerial ferry bridge to cross the Charente river in Rochefort, France, on May 22, 2025. Rochefort’s aerial ferry bridge was inaugurated in 1900, allowing people to cross the river without disturbing maritime navigation to and from the city's dockyard. It was used as the main crossing way over the Charente river until 1967, and since 1994 has carried pedestrians and cyclists, as the viaduct of the Charente estuary opened nearby in 1991.
An aerial view of many tall residential buildings
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An aerial view of high-rise buildings in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, on May 24, 2025
Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest.
Kunga Sherpa / AP
Mountaineers form a queue as they approach the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, on May 18, 2025.
An aerial view of a burning wildfire
Alberta Wildfire / Reuters
Smoke rises from the Edith Lake wildfire (SWF076), which forced the evacuation of the nearby town of Swan Hills, Alberta, Canada, seen in an aerial photograph on May 25, 2025.
A person pushes a scooter through churning floodwater.
Punit Paranjpe / AFP / Getty
A man pushes his bike through a flooded street after heavy rain in Mumbai on May 26, 2025.
A dog closes its eyes as it splashes into a pool.
Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty
A dog jumps into a pool at the “Dogs and Fun” fair at the Westfalenhallen congress center in Dortmund, Germany, on May 23, 2025.
A young bear cub walks on planks in a zoo enclosure.
Jeff Pachoud / AFP / Getty
A young female Malay bear cub plays in the enclosure she shares with her mother, Tally, at the Saint-Martin-la-Plaine zoological park in France, on May 27, 2025.
A puffin, seen in profile
Harry Trump / Getty
An Atlantic Puffin is seen on Wales’s Skomer Island on May 22, 2025.
A person uses an eyedropper to feed a flying hummingbird.
Raquel Cunha / Reuters
Cecilia Antonio feeds a hummingbird at Catia Lattouf’s apartment, where Lattouf holds a makeshift clinic to care for hummingbirds in Mexico City, on May 20, 2025.
People walk through an open marketplace, with a large dinosaur statue looming behind them.
Wang Gang / Oriental Image / Reuters
A dinosaur installation on Nanjing Road draws people in Shanghai, on May 26, 2025.
A profile view of Jennifer Lopez, wearing a curved clear, face shield, while performing on stage
Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
Jennifer Lopez performs during the 2025 American Music Awards, in Las Vegas, on May 26, 2025.
Several people ride an escalator into the bottom of a flying-saucer-shaped structure.
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A flying-saucer-shaped structure stands at the entrance to Alibaba Jiangsu headquarters in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on May 25, 2025.
Farmers transport wheat straw loaded on a heavily-loaded tractor.
Fida Hussain / AFP / Getty
Farmers transport wheat straw heavily loaded on tractor along a road in Jacobabad, Sindh province, Pakistan, on May 29, 2025.
A person lies in a bin of green plastic balls
Sean Gallup / Getty
A participant lies in a bin of green plastic balls at the 2025 Re:publica digital-society festival on May 26, 2025, in Berlin.
Demonstrators clash with riot police in a street.
Antonio Masiello / Getty
Demonstrators clash with Italian police during a protest against a new security decree, in Via del Tritone, in Rome, on May 26, 2025.
An aerial view showing storm-damaged houses
Javier Torres / AFP / Getty
This aerial view shows wind damage following the passage of a tornado in the city of Puerto Varas, Region de los Lagos, Chile, on May 26, 2025. An unusual tornado rated as category EF-1 on the Fujita scale hit the city, leaving eight people injured and some 150 homes affected, authorities said.
Three women sit in chairs, each wearing a ventilator mask over their nose, connected to long hoses that apparently are attached to beehives.
Umit Bektas / Reuters
Senay Ilhan and Ulku Ozman breathe in air from beehives, using ventilators, in hopes of recovering from ailments at a facility owned by the beekeeper Huseyin Ceylan in Karaburun, in Turkey’s Aegean-coastal province of İzmir, on May 22, 2025.
Camels stand next to wind turbines in a vast desert area.
Abdel Majid Bziouat / AFP / Getty
Camels roam next to wind turbines that will supply power to a desalination plant under construction in Dakhla in the disputed Western Sahara, mostly controlled by Morocco, on May 26, 2025.
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