{
  "id": 13131538,
  "title": "Photos of the Week: Sleep Competition, Foggy Landscape, Virtual Taekwondo",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/photos-of-the-week-sleep-competition-foggy-landscape-virtual-taekwondo",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-09T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Atlantic",
    "slug": "the-atlantic",
    "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/photos-of-the-week-sleep-competition-foggy-landscape-virtual-taekwondo/688933/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A visitor gazes into a mirror at the \"Inverse Reverse Perverse\" installation by Cerith Wyn Evans during a media preview at Tate Britain in London. In Nagoya, Japan, Japan's Mirano Kita competes fiercely in the women's individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics final at the 2026 Asian Games. China's Zheng Qinwen celebrates her victory over Marie Bouzkova in a third-round women's singles match at the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing.\n\nIn Bushy Park, London, a stag bellows during the rutting season. A woman in Quito, Ecuador, gently blesses a pet dog with holy water at Plaza de San Francisco. A girl carries her rabbit for a similar ceremony at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Santiago, Chile.\n\nA dyed dog with multiple colors sits on a street corner in central Paris. In Kyiv, Ukraine, a Russian jet-powered drone crashes into a bridge. Servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces navigate roads blocked by anti-drone nets near the front line.\n\nPedestrians and cars traverse Broadway in Manhattan, New York City. From a high-rise in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a woman peers out at the Petronas Twin Towers. At Hada Hachimangu Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan, participants discharge traditional handheld tezutsu fireworks during an annual festival.\n\nIn Barcelona, Spain, a person walks past trash cans set ablaze by protesters following clashes with police during a demonstration over the housing crisis. Waitstaff don sparklers at the Oktoberfest closing party in Munich, Germany. Iran's Amirsina Bakhtiari faces Uzbekistan's Jasurbek Jaysunov in the mixed individual virtual taekwondo round of 16 at the 2026 Asian Games in Toyohashi, Japan.",
  "summary": "Oktoberfest’s closing party in Munich, rally racing in Italy, traditional handheld fireworks in Japan, a pet-blessing ceremony in Chile, and much more",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}