Children and youths bathe in the rain-filled lake at Chandrima Udyan in Dhaka on July 25, 2025. As the city’s natural water bodies disappear due to urbanization, they find fleeting freedom and childhood nostalgia in a rain-soaked morning.
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Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Berlin on Saturday, July 26, 2025, for the city’s annual Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade, turning central Berlin into a vibrant display of color, protest, and celebration in support of LGBTQ+ rights amid growing political tension in Germany. Under the slogan “Never Silent Again,” this year’s event was one of the largest in recent memory, with organizers estimating that several hundred thousand participants and spectators attended. The procession featured more than 80 floats and over 100 walking groups, moving along a seven-kilometer route from Leipziger Straße through Potsdamer Platz and Nollendorfplatz to the Brandenburg Gate, where a large Pride Village hosted closing festivities. First held in 1979 and inspired by the Stonewall uprising in New York, the Berlin CSD has grown into one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ events. This year’s iteration comes at a time of rising concern over anti-queer hate crimes in Germany. A 2024 federal report noted that incidents targeting sexual orientation and gender identity have nearly tenfold increased since 2010, underscoring the continuing need for visibility and activism. Photos from the parade showcased elaborate costumes, messages of resistance, and moments of joy, featuring drag performers, angel-winged dancers, and political slogans that denounced far-right rhetoric.
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July 28, 2025, Tokyo, Japan: Jorgen Watne Frydnes chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee speaks during a press conference at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo. Frydnes talked about the selection of Nihon Hidankyo for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize and answered questions on this year’s Nobel nomination candidates, which include US President Trump.
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July 25, 2025, London, England, United Kingdom: Protesters gather outside Downing Street. Thousands of people used pots, pans and other objects to stage a loud protest in Whitehall against the starvation of Palestinians by Israel.
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July 27, 2025, Epping, England, United Kingdom: Protesters march in support of migrants in Epping. Several anti-migrant protests targeting the Bell Hotel, where migrants are housed, have taken place after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Project Kuiper satellites for Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 2:18 a.m. EDT on July 16, 2025. The mission, dubbed Kuiper Falcon 1, or KF-01, is the first batch that will fly on Falcon 9. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandates Amazon to have at least half of its planned 3,236-satellite constellation in operation by July 30, 2026. If they fail, the FCC could limit the number of satellites they’re allowed to deploy further.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying a Boeing-built O3b mPOWER 7 and 8 satellites owned and operated by a Luxembourg-based satellite telecommunications network provider, SES on July 22, 2025 at 5:12 p.m. EDT.
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July 17, 2025, Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Protestors hold signs, including many that read, “ICE Out of 805”: ver a thousand people gathered for the Good Trouble protest at Stearns Wharf and State St., stretching out along Cabrillo Blvd. in Santa Barbara California on July 17, 2025, calling for ICE out of Santa Barbara, impeachment of President Trump, and other issues.
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Scott Mc Kiernan presents “The Pictures Of the Week” released every Friday afternoon, highlighting the best images from around the world by ZUMA Press contributors, curated by ZUMA Editor-at-large Jim Colton.
Enjoy The Pictures Of the Week 30, showcasing images from July 19-25, 2025 “The best two minutes you’ll spend on the internet today!” thepicturesoftheweek.com #zumapress #photojournalism
ZUMA Photography Credits:
Rizek Abdeljawad, Indranil Aditya, Abdullah Abu Al-Khair, Simon Chapman, Li Dongxu, Mirko Fava, Marco Iacobucci, Syed Mahabubul Kader, Philipp Kresnik, Edoardo Marangon, Alessio Marini, Joel Marklund, Marwan Naamani, Matthias Oesterle, David Parry, Habibur Rahman, Sam Scott-Hunter, Patrick Steiner, Moaz Abu Taha, Remko De Waal, Ben Weller, and Xue Yuge
Thirteen people were injured at 10:47 A.M., when a truck left the road and crashed into the U.S.Department of Labor Shriver Job Corps building off of Jackson Road in Devens, Massachusetts. The truck entered the lobby of the training facility through the wall of the building and broke a gas pipe. The driver and others were taken to hospitals. The truck left the road, crossed an open expanse of grass and crashed through the metal fencing surrounding the building.
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