Pictures of the week: Elephant in a dump, a gosling and the Swimming World Cup
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People enjoy the weather at the beach on Whit Monday in Bloemendaal aan Zee, the Netherlands.
A Greylag gosling in St James’s Park in London.
Symphony 1, an installation by global artist collective Grand Lowlife Orchestra at Marina Bay in Singapore.
The outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, at dawn.
An elephant browses at a dump in Sri Lanka’s eastern district of Ampara.
Ukrainian swimmers Maryna Aleksiiva and Vladyslava Aleksiiva at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup at Principe Felipe Auditory in north Spain.
Buddhist monks pray during an annual celebration of Buddha’s birth and death at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province outside Bangkok, Thailand.
A boy jumps off a platform during a diving competition at Adrenaline Park in Tehran, Iran.
An employee works on a wind turbine tower at a factory in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province.
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