15 amazing photos you missed this week

In the midst of the ever-changing news cycle, it’s easy to get lost in fantastic images flying under the radar. Fortunately, we’ve got you covered.

We highlight exceptional photos from around the world over the past week. Check them out below.

At the top: People watch as lava flows from the eruption of a volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Wednesday, March 24th. Iceland’s latest volcanic eruption is quickly attracting crowds of people hoping to get closer to the gentle lava flows. The eruption in Geldingadalur, near Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is not seen as a threat to nearby cities and slow flows make people approach without too much risk.


HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS

Stefany Stuber, 40, a Korean American who talks to her 7-year-old daughter Olivia Metzler about recent attacks on Asian Americans, looks at her phone while her daughter brushes her teeth in Philadelphia on May 23 March.


OZAN ​​KOSE / AFP via Getty Images

Turkish riot police detain protesters during a rally in support of Bogazici University students – detained while protesting the appointment of a university rector appointed by the Turkish president – in front of the Istanbul courthouse on March 26.


Clodagh Kilcoyne / REUTERS

A member of the Red Rebellion Brigade of the Extinction protests against fracking in government buildings in Dublin on 23 March.


Gene J. Puskar / AP

In the photo this Friday, March 19, a plane lands at Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida. On March 21, more than 1.5 million people passed through security checkpoints at U.S. airports, the largest number since the pandemic hardened the United States more than a year ago. However, passenger traffic remains well below 2019 levels.


AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS

Ultra-Orthodox Jews profile themselves as they participate in the “Mayim Shelanu” ceremony in which water is collected from a natural source for the preparation of matza, the traditional unleavened bread that is eaten during the upcoming Jewish Easter holidays, while Israel begins emerging from coronavirus closures near Jerusalem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on March 25.


JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP via Getty Images

On March 25, lava flow from Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano to La Brena farm in the village of Patrocinio, San Vicente Pacaya, about 60 kilometers south of Guatemala City.


OLIVIER MORIN / AFP via Getty Images

French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri, 36, sets after setting a new world record for ice diving, swimming 120 meters (394 feet) with a three-minute breath, wearing a wetsuit but no fins or gloves, on a lake in Heinola, Finland, on March 25th. Eight separate holes were made 20 meters away in the layer of frozen ice that covered the lake with a safety pattern. The temperature of the air was 6 degrees Celsius, that of the water 2.


Suez Canal Authority via AP

This photo published by the Suez Canal Authority on Thursday, March 25, shows a backhoe trying to excavate the keel of the Ever done, a Panama-flagged cargo ship minted across the Suez Canal and blocking the traffic on the vital waterway. An operation is underway to try to free the ship, which endangered world navigation as at least another 150 ships were idling, waiting for the obstruction to clear.


JURE MAKOVEC / AFP via Getty Images

Norwegian Daniel Andre Tande falls during the individual competition of the Flying Hill Ski Jumping World Cup in Planica, Slovenia, on March 25th.


Butch Dill / AP

Neighbors studied the damage to homes after a tornado struck south of Birmingham, Alabama, and caused damage to several homes on Thursday, March 25th. Authorities reported significant damage caused by the tornado south of Birmingham as heavy storms passed through the state. The governor issued an emergency statement as meteorologists warned there would likely be more torpedoes on the way.


CARL DE SOUZA / AFP via Getty Images

The sun rises in front of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro on March 24. Christ the Redeemer celebrates his 90th birthday in October and is in the process of being restored to make sure he looks his best for the public and for visiting tourists.


LUKAS COCH / POOL / AFP via Getty Images

A photo shows flood damage in the Windsor area of ​​Greater Sydney on March 24th.


INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP via Getty Images

A girl reacts as a health worker takes her nasal swab sample for rapid COVID-19 coronavirus antigen testing, as ordered by civic authorities in Bombay on March 22nd.


Charlie Riedel / AP

A woman is silhouetted by the setting sun as she crosses a street on the first day of spring on Saturday, March 20 in San Antonio, Texas.

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